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Active Directory

2020

How to Add a Public Domain UPN Suffix to Domain Users in Active Directory
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Active Directory Get-ADForest Microsoft Microsoft 365
A User Principal Name (UPN) is an attribute that is an internet communication standard for user accounts. A UPN consists of a UPN prefix (the user account name) and a UPN suffix (a DNS domain name).
How to check the size of the Active Directory Database
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Active Directory Active Directory Database Microsoft Microsoft Windows
The size of the active directory database on a domain controller is the size of the NTDS.dit file. This size may vary between domain controllers in the same domain, due to non-replicated changes, differences with non-replicated data, and white-space from purge objects.

2019

How to change the attribute ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota
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Active Directory ADSIEDIT Get-ADObject Microsoft
By default, In the Microsoft Active Directory, members of the authenticated user group can join up to 10 computer accounts in the domain. This value is defined in the attribute ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota on the domain-DNS object for a domain.
How to Collect Information from Domain Controllers
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Active Directory dcdiag.exe Get-ADDomain Get-ADDomainController
Recently I have needed to collect information from domain controllers to generate a pre-migration report. To perform this task, I used different tools available on Windows Server. Today, in this post, I will show you how to collect information from domain controllers using a PowerShell script and command-line tools such as DCDIAG and NLTEST.