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