Category: Active Directory

Recently I have been working with a friend on his Exchange 2013 Hybrid configuration. After the Hybrid configuration is setup and configured its becomes easy to start migrating and moving on-premise mailboxes to the cloud...

Recently i came across a group policy processing failure when a user tries to do a gpupdate /force, it works for the User Policy and fails for the computer policy with an error that group policy failed processing. As a result...

Aging and Scavenging is very crucial and important for Active Directory Integrated zone, it should be carefully planned and configured. We recently faced a problem when a System Admin reported to me having two DNS records having...

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a key core windows management technology. It provides a consistent approach to carry day to day management operations with programming or scripting languages. I recently started...

I passed by this experience after the deletion of a DHCP superscope where the Superscope reverts back after the DHCP server is rebooted or after the restart of the DHCP service. To properly remove a DHCP Superscope, you can...

Error Reported in Event Viewer or DNS Best Practices Analyzer. “The Active Directory integrated DNS zone _msdcs.domain.com was not found” This error might appear in environments and domains that were already built...

  Event ID: 1058 Source: Group Policy “The Processing of Group Policy failed. Windows attempted to read the file \domainsysvoldomainpolicies{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}gpt.ini from a domain controller and was...