Category Archives: Active Directory

Active Directory: Export and import a group policies

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powershell has some command lets to deal with with group policies. The command lets can be found in the GroupPolicy module.
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ActiveDirectory: Determine the kms activation server by DNS

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to determine the KMS, the server to activate Windows installations, you can query the DNS by nslookup.
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Windows: Set Machine certificate as Remote Desktop Certificate

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if a Windows computer is member of a domain and the certificate autoenrollment is in place then you can use the machine certificate provided by the active directory as the RDP TLS certificate.
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Windows: Active directory from command line

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this post contains command line example for querying the Active Directory using the ds* command family. The ds* commands are part of the Remote Administration Tools (RSAT)
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Samba: Join an additional Domain Controller to Samba Active Directory

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These steps describes to join an additional Domain Controller to your previously builted Active Directory. Also first ensure you have a timeserver running in your network. If not I described to install and configure ntp for Linux in this post. ntpd can run on the same machine as samba.
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