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DFS NameSpace Issues - Migrating From FSR To DFSR Following AD Upgrade

I recently assisted a friend who had an issue with DFS Namespaces following an Active Directory Upgrade from 2008R2 to 2012R2. They were faced with not being able to access the NameSpace following the demotion of the last 2008R2 controller and promotion of the final 2012R2 controller. Upon opening the DFS NameSpace management console, the following error was displayed when selecting the required NameSpace - “The namespace cannot be queried. Element not found.”

Tuesday, October 6, 2020 | 3 minutes Read
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Exporting and Importing Active Directory OU Structures

Recently I needed to build out some test Active Directory Forests that resemble production in order to complete some testing. One of the forests contained a significant amount of OU’s that I had no intention of manually recreating. To run the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet, you need to provide the OU name and the Path where you want to create it. However, Get-ADOrganizationalUnit doesn’t provide the path, so you need to determine it from the DistinguishedName.

Thursday, July 2, 2020 | 2 minutes Read
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Home Lab - Equipment and Software: Part 1

Thanks for coming back! If you missed the first post in my Home Lab series you can find it here. In this post I will begin drilling into the equipment and software that makes up my Home Lab and my reasoning for these choices. I’m going to skip the original Raspberry Pi, there are enough blogs covering the use cases for them and begin at the first significant device; my MacBook Pro (late 2013). I wanted something mobile to start with so I could take it to work, use it on commutes to other offices etc. The MacBook came with an Intel i7 2.3Ghz Quad core chip, 16GB of memory and a 512GB SSD. This wasn’t going to be able to run everything, but its enough to run what I need when I’m away from home.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020 | 3 minutes Read