Month: June 2017

Keep a backup copy of your event logs in case something happens to your SEIM.

The first thing we will tackle are the issues raised by the Microsoft Best Practice Analyser. A lot of these issues are more generic to Windows devices so what we will do is create a new “Default Domain Policy” which…

Before we get too far in to configuring Active Directory, we should sort out the backups so that we can restore the environment in the event of corruption, compromise or even our own mis-configuration. You have a choice of backup…

So far, we have the domain & forest set up. I’ve already configured an OMS workspace, and added the VMs to it. We’ve cranked up the auditing via GPO after setting all the time correctly, now lets get some alerts…

When we set up our domain controllers, we installed the DNS role. DNS is key to how Active Directory works. It is possible to move DNS on to dedicated servers, however it’s common place to leave DNS on the Domain…

First of all, I would like to point you at my GitHub repository. The GPOs I create as part of this blog will be backed up and uploaded to the following repository: https://github.com/1800Zeta/ActiveDirectory Feel free to download from here and…

In Active Directory, time is extremely important. Active Directory is a multi-master system with each writable domain controller able to make changes to the directory. There are however 5 Operations Master roles that are responsible for performing tasks that are not…

Deploying Group Policy Central Store for a consistent editing experience.

Your first choice will be how you want to provision your domain controllers. Your choices include purchasing physical servers, using a hypervisor such as VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V, or going cloud and using Azure or AWS. As discussed in…