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demoted Domain Controller still present in SCOM

24. February 201424. February 2014 Burkard JoshActive Directory, SCOMTagged Active Directory, SCOM

If you demote a Domain Controller, SCOM will generate a lot of alerts. By design, there is no automatically undiscovery for the Rules and Monitores fo...

recover deleted Bitlocker Recovery Informations

17. July 201317. July 2013 Burkard JoshActive DirectoryTagged Active Directory, BitLocker, PowerShell

Today I had a request from a first-level-admin which need the Bitlocker Recovery Password for a already deleted computer object. Here is what I came u...

Clone your Active Directory in 18 minutes using VMware

10. October 201110. October 2011 Burkard JoshActive Directory, VMwareTagged Active Directory, VMware

Anyone out there who runs a successful Microsoft Windows Active Directory, knows that it is pre-eminently useful to have a test environment that very ...

unwilling Server

3. August 20113. August 2011 Burkard JoshActive DirectoryTagged Active Directory, curious

I’m working now for over 15 years in information technology, but i got never before a server response which is so straight and funny too: The se...

Notify AD user with mail when password expires

3. July 20114. July 2011 Burkard JoshActive Directory, Windows 2008 R2Tagged Active Directory, VBScript

In my environment, i have a lot of users, which never comes to the office, but need remote access to the company network. for this they have an AD use...