Active Directory How-Tos

How do I back up AD? Seize an Operations Manager role? Recover a Domain Controller? Manage SYSVOL?

There's a guide for that...

Active Directory Product Operations Guide

• Process: Back up Active Directory
• Process: Non-authoritative Restore of Active Directory
• Process: Authoritative Restore for Active Directory Objects
• Process: Recovering a Domain Controller Through Reinstallation
• Process: Installing a Domain Controller for an Existing Domain
• Process: Removing Active Directory
• Process: Rename a Domain Controller
• Process: Manage the Active Directory Database
• Process: Managing the SYSVOL
• Process: Manage the Windows Time Service
• Task: Configuring a Time Source for the Forest
• Task: Configuring a Reliable Time Source on a Computer Other than the PDC Emulator
• Task: Configuring a Client to Request Time from a Specific Time Source
• Task: Optimizing the Polling Interval
• Task: Disabling the Windows Time Service
• Process: Managing Trusts
• Process: Managing Sites
• Task: Adding a New Site
• Task: Adding a Subnet to the Network
• Task: Linking Sites for Replication
• Task: Changing Site Link Properties
• Task: Moving a Domain Controller to a Different Site
• Task: Removing a Site
• Process: Manage Antivirus Software on Domain Controllers
• Process: Add a Global Catalog
• Process: Removing the Global Catalog from a Domain Controller
• Process: Identify Global Catalog Servers in a Site
• Process: Move an Operations Master Role
• Process: Reduce the Workload on the PDC Emulator
• Process: Transferring a Role Holder
• Process: Seize an Operations Master Role
• Process: Choose a Standby Operations Master

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Good list Sean, I also like O'Reilly's AD cookbook for this sort of thing.   I seem to star a lot of your entries in Google Reader, this is becoming one of my favorite AD blogs.  Keep up the good work. Thanks Mike

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Thanks Mike- You can't go wrong with a good O'Reilly book!  I actually post the AD articles that I find useful to reference myself.  I'm glad someone else finds them to be valuable! :) -Sean

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