Recently, I was setting up a Veeam SureBackup job for a client and received an error when running the application group for the domain controllers, which will be the cornerstone of all the other SureBackup jobs. The job would run…
Now that a Platform Services Controller installed, and vCenter Server installed; it's time to configure single sign-on sources for our SSO domain. SSO, or Single Sign On, was introduced in vSphere 5.1 and provides a more secure way of authenticating…
*disclaimer* Veeam is a sponsor of this blog - but has not requested, or had any part in this entry. Working for a consulting firm, I work with many different backup solutions. In this particular case, the client uses…
I come across a lot of virtual environments (and physical) that don't have NTP (Time Servers) setup properly. If you've ever worked in Active Directory, you know how important synchronized time can be - let alone with so many other…
Every so often, it's good practice to change passwords. I think that everyone it IT is aware of that. One of the most overlooked passwords is the local Administrator's password on every machine on the network. Sure, your user's are…
AdminSDHolder is a container inside active directory that maintains a master list of permissions for objects that are members of privileged groups in active directory. Below are some of the groups: Administrators Domain Admins Enterprise Admins Schema Admins Domain Controllers…
With Windows Server 2008, there is the option to promote a member server to a RDOC, or Read Only Domain Controller. Just as the name suggests, it is a domain controller that is non-writable; read-only copy. The purpose of a…