Archive for 2008
How to find out your server uptime
Using Uptime utility from Microsoft you can get your server uptime (i.e time since the last reboot) which can come in handy particularly when you are trying to troubleshoot a server’s unexpected reboot and failures. Uptime.exe can be used to display the current uptime of the local or remote system. Optionally, it can also scan [...]
Find out the available RIDs on your DC
In a previous post we discussed the FSMO Roles and we know that one of the FSMO Roles is RID Master. What a RID Master does and whats its significant, let’s recap. RID Master – Each object must have a globally unique number (GUID). The RID master makes sure each domain controller issues unique numbers [...]
How to rename a Windows Server 2008 domain
Previously you have been able to use RENDOM utility provided by Microsoft to rename your Window 2000 and Windows Server 2003 domains. However in Windows Server 2008 domain you don’t have to separately install Rendom utility. It gets installed as part of “Active Directory Domain Services” role when you promote a server to the DC [...]
Prevent users from joining workstations to domain (at their will)
Every domain has a default setting for ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota value 10. This means that any user can add up to 10 machines to a domain. You can modify this object in directory by using ADSIedit tool to prevent this behavior. Warning: Using ADSIedit can have adverse effects on your Active Directoy environment, if not handled with [...]
Find out where and why an Account Lockout happened
Where Account Lockouts save us from brute force password attacks and help us standardize our environment for password policies, sometimes it can be painful to troubleshoot and find out why and where it happened. Microsoft does provide us with the ‘Account Lockout Management Tools’ suite which can be very handy to diagnose the root cause [...]