In a previous post, I’ve put a snippet using powershell to be able to list domain controllers forest-wide. Here’s a variation if you have some legacy Powershell 2.0, etc. The algorithm takes advantage of the ADSI inteface and the AD Searcher object instead of relying on some built-in powershell cmdlets. […]
When you see Error 1753: no more endpoints in AD Replication, the common mistake is to think about firewall or TCP/IP connectivity issues. The message “Error 1753: There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper” does not mean that you cannot connect at all. It is quite the […]
In basic AD Powershell, when creating Organizational Units (OU), you are often referred to the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet, which is fine if you must create one OU or multiple unrelated OUs, but recursive OU creation with Powershell can be verbose. If you must create multiple OUs which are child, child of […]
Why bother with Windows Server backup in large environments? Even in big companies, having a backup of your Active Directory forest can be challenging: do you know what you must backup? do you know if the backup infrastructure and software allows you to backup what you need do you know […]
