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AD disaster recovery plan: Questions to ponder

March 15, 2023
AD disaster recovery plan: Questions to ponder With the help of a DR plan, an organization can zero in on what's most important, rank its risks and assets, create a plan for keeping its data safe, and figure out how to resume normal operations as soon as possible. To help admins, we've prepared a guide that helps them to automate AD…
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AD Domain ServicesOperations & Troubleshooting

Understanding Active Directory Tombstone Objects

March 16, 2022
When you delete an object from the Active Directory (AD) database, it’s marked as a tombstone object instead of being fully removed. Administrators can change the default tombstone lifetime value by using the ADSI Edit tool. Check out a more detailed explanation in our article here 👇 https://www.windows-active-directory.com/active-directory-tombstones.html For more such articles on managing…
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GPO FundamentalsGroup Policy & Endpoint Policy

How to backup a GPO | How to Active Directory

August 11, 2021
In this video, we discuss how to backup and restore a GPO (group policy object) on a server 2012 R2 domain controller using GPMC (Group Policy Management Console). Check out a more detailed explanation in our article here 👇 https://www.windows-active-directory.com/active-directory-group-policy-backup.html For more such articles on Windows Server Management, visit our website…
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AD Domain ServicesOperations & Troubleshooting

Active Directory Recycle Bin 

May 17, 2021
What is Active Directory Recycle Bin?  The Active Directory Recycle Bin feature allows administrators to restore deleted AD objects. In Active Directory, objects such as users, computers, groups, or organizational units may be unintentionally removed. Administrators may find it difficult to correct such mistakes. Therefore, for administrators to easily retrieve deleted objects, Microsoft…
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AD Domain ServicesOperations & Troubleshooting

Understanding Active Directory Tombstone

May 17, 2021
What are Tombstones in Active Directory? When you delete an object from the Active Directory (AD) database, it’s marked as a tombstone object instead of being fully removed. By default, each tombstone object remains in the database for 180 days. Once this tombstone’s lifetime value is exceeded, the tombstone object is automatically deleted by the garbage collection process.
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GPO FundamentalsGroup Policy & Endpoint Policy

Group Policy Backup

February 4, 2021
What you will learn: Group policies are critical pieces of instructions in an Active Directory environment used to configure a variety of advanced settings that can be applied to objects in the network. A set of Group Policy configurations are bundled as Group Policy Objects (GPO) which can then be applied to objects. IT administrators take weeks and months to create GPOs that are customized to…
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