Author Archives: karthick s

Force DFS Replication/Force DFSR Members to Replicate on windows server 2008 and 2012

Force sysvol replication on windows server 2008/2012, FRS has been replaced by DFSR Replication engine for replicating the SYSVOL folders from Windows Server 2008 & wundows server 2012 and file replication performance has been improved with many new features, Microsoft manage to fix most of the bottlenecks, improved command line support, Content Freshness, handling unexpected… Read More »

Command to find Duplicate SPN

Find Duplicate SPN: A Service Principal Name (SPN) is a concept from Kerberos. To find a particular service offered by a particular host within the domain. General Syntax of SPNs is service class/fqdn@REALM , There are also User Principal Names which identify users, in form of user@Domain Kerberos requires that the SPN be unique and there should be a single SPN configured… Read More »

Windows 10 for Free

Free Windows 10 Upgrade Finally Microsoft followed their competitor’s footsteps, free update to new windows versions, yes Microsoft Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, consumers no need to pay to get the new windows, seems like an Apple iOS and Google Android As per the… Read More »

Active Directory on Cloud

Active Directory on Cloud (Azure Active Directory) May be a year back I couldn’t think Active Directory on Cloud, technology is always changing and now we have Azure Active Directory or Azure AD/ AAD, is a cloud-based identity and access management service hosted in Microsoft Azure datacentres We can’t ignore the fact that this can… Read More »