Tag: Forest

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Upgrade Your Active Directory and Domain Controllers the Safe Way

Introduction There are several good guides on the internet about upgrading your Active Directory Forest, Domains and Domain Controllers to Windows Server 2012 R2. I’d like to give you my strategy on this subject. It’s not wrong to add new Domain Controllers to your 2003/2008 domain, transfer the FSMO roles and demote the 2003/2008 DC’s,

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How To Monitor LDAP, Kerberos and NTLM Traffic To Your Domain Controllers

Now with the extended support date for Windows Server 2003 in mind (14-07-2015) it’s good to look at how to finally get rid of those old domain controllers.  I came across a nice Technet article about how to monitor LDAP, kerberos and NTLM traffic to your domain controllers to find out which applications and servers

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