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How to check tombstone lifetime value in your Forest

How to check tombstone lifetime value in your domain/forest Tombstone lifetime value different from OS to OS, for windows server 2000/2003 it’s 60 days, In Windows Server 2003 SP1, default tombstone lifetime (TSL) value has increased from 60 days to 180 days, again in Windows Server 2003 R2 TSL value has been decreased to 60… Read More »

Microsoft Cloud Services

Microsoft entered in to Cloud computing with different services (like Office365, Windows Azure, Windows Intune and Microsoft Dynamics CRM) to compete with Google apps, amazon cloud, Microsoft Cloud Services are designed for targeted market and customers to fulfill their needs, let’s see how Microsoft cloud can be used in real time Office365Through office365, Microsoft able… Read More »

Replication failed with “The destination server is currently rejecting replication requests” Error

Also receive error “The source server is currently rejecting replication requests. This operation will not continue” in windows server 2008/2003 and Active Directory replication stopped working, possibly the inbound and outbound replication been disabled on the domain controllerUse the below repadmin command to check the inbound and outbound connection object status repadmin /options DC name… Read More »

Cloud Reliability

Is Cloud reliable? All most every tech magazines have an article on Cloud Computing and it’s been frequently used word in IT, yes Cloud is the emerging technology in IT world seeking to change the concept of personal computing and taking it to a new level of computing and it is a talk of the… Read More »

Issue managing IE configuration through GPO

List of trusted sites went empty recently, yes the Trusted Sites list got empty, it says: “No sites are in this zone” how to resolve this issue We had an issue like some one edited the default domain policy to update the trusted site list and we have lost entire IE configuration (Like trusted site… Read More »

DNS Lookup Tool with GUI

Free Nslookup Tool for Windows with GUI interface It’s a normal Windows Nslookup tool, command line windows Nslookup tool been converted to user friendly GUI tool, this tool used to check the DNS entry and it has many customized features Features of DNS Lookup Tool • You can check the different record types (A, MX,… Read More »

Exchange Recipient Types

Exchange recipients are used to send and receive exchange mail, Active directory object or resources that send and receive messages are called Exchange recipient (like User object and Group object in Active Directory) in Exchange 2010 environment different types of Exchange recipient available and each recipient type is represented by a unique featuresMost command recipient… Read More »

Active Directory Ports

It’s been frequently asked question, list of ports used by Active Directory or list of Active Directory Ports for Active Directory replication and Active Directory authentication, this ports can be used to configure the FirewallActive Directory replication– There is no defined port for Active Directory replication, Active Directory replication remote procedure calls (RPC) occur dynamically… Read More »

Group Policy slow link detection on windows server 2008

Group Policy slow link detection process change on windows server 2008You can see my earlier article on Group Policy slow link detection Group Policy Processing over Slow Links in windows 2003(part1) Group Policy Processing over Slow Links(Part2) In windows server 2003, Group Policy slow link detection uses the ICMP ping to detect the network bandwidth.… Read More »