When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right ...

It is important to make sure you have a reliable backup of your domain controller. Without a backup, it is not possible to restore. This article will describe how to restore the System State on a ...

One of the most overlooked and most important passwords in a Windows network is the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password on a domain controller. This is a powerful password that's the key ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

There's a lot that is good and lot that is bad about directory services. They have brought a level of consistency, logic, and organization to network administration and programming that was impossible ...

Press and hold Shift + F8 while you restart the server. Click on Directory Services Repair Mode (DSRM) and log in with your DSRM account. The 0xc00002e2 BSOD Error in ...

Q: A company's network administrator needs to perform an offline defragmentation of a domain controller's directory database file. Which of the following modes does a domain controller need to be ...

Whenever people talk about “migrating to the latest version of Windows”, I always like to clarify whether they are talking about moving their application servers to the latest version, and/or their ...

I can boot into DS Restore mode but the dicks who set this server up never recorded the DS Admin login info and obvious guesses aren't working.<BR><BR>I can also boot this box to BartPE with ...

When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right ...