Blog Archives

Six FSMO roles?

If you have browsed through Rich and his brother’s blog that I mentioned last week, you probably have come across one of his postings, http://cbfive.com/blog/post/2009/10/16/The-Six-FSMO-Roles.aspx.
Rich’s point there is that while there are five common FSMO roles in Active Directory -Â PDCe, Schema, Infrastructure, Domain Naming and RID Master - he one day had a candidate […]

Read More..>>

What is replicated between two domains?

Okay, this is a quickie. This (slightly modified) question came up in the AD newsgroups:
“What is replicated between two domains (both intrasite and intersite)?”
Ha - I like this kind of questions. “Nothing and all” I would answer :-) The real answer lies in between. In fact, it actually depends on what relation these two domains […]

Read More..>>

What is PDC chaining?

Imagine you’re in a multi-site environment that has several DCs in all sites across the nation. Imagine further you have a user John who calls you monday morning. You’re setting in the headquarters. “Dude”, he asks, “can you reset my password? My weekend’s been so hard. They sent me to this branch office where they […]

Read More..>>

« Previous PageNext Page »