Today I’m serving you the Top 10 Must Have Windows System Administrator Tools every system administrator should know about. Most of them are freeware but some are paid. Feel free to expand this list in the comments. Here we go in no particulair order. The good ‘ol sysinternals suite, every Windows admin knows about this excellent toolkit.
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One of the biggest challenges in Active Directory Domain Controller upgrades are the application member servers, specifically the ones that make use of Active Directory authentication (Ldap). We all know the legacy applications within the organization, they’re still running after ten or more years, nobody knows something about it, there isn’t any documentation left but
Recently I performed an in-place Windows Server 2012 domain controller upgrade to 2012 R2. An in-place upgrade will keep the existing documents and settings on the server. Windows Server 2012 R2 is considered an incremental upgrade as it adds features to the operating system rather than make major changes to the operating system. In this blog
Once in a while someone at your company asks you if you can deliver a list of users who are member of administration groups within your Active Directory environment. We want to restrict admin access to a minimum so it’s good to know who are the lucky ones and who are slipped through. 😉
Now with the extended support date for Windows Server 2003 in mind (14-07-2015) it’s good to look at how to finally get rid of those old domain controllers. I came across a nice Technet article about how to monitor LDAP, kerberos and NTLM traffic to your domain controllers to find out which applications and servers
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