JDmailNY
join:2007-12-02
Pearl River, NY
| [2K3] Win2003 AD commands or Utilities To Use for Routines
Windows 2003 Active Directory Utilities To Maintain Health
What utilities or commands can I use
to maintain the health of Active Directory 03.
For example I have deleted users from AD
What Utility or command should follow
as a best practice.
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Leathal
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Toronto, ON
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July 25th, @02:47PM
| said by JDmailNY  :Windows 2003 Active Directory Utilities To Maintain Health What utilities or commands can I use to maintain the health of Active Directory 03. For example I have deleted users from AD What Utility or command should follow as a best practice. Thanks Uhm sounds like you don't know how to use Windows 2003 Server so I would suggest you ask your boss to hire someone who knows what they are doing otherwise if you touch the wrong thing which is possible in your case it could take out the entire network.
There aren't commands.
The other option is to get a good shelf help book or called Microsoft PSS and pay them to do what you aren't able to do.
Leathal |
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said by JDmailNY :For example I have deleted users from AD... The first thing to do is find out about the backups. If the system has a backup then maybe you can delete it also. If not, start making backups.
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craig70130
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I take it the user deletions were intentional and you are just looking for tools to monitor the health of AD.
I'm sure there are such things but I've never used them.
AD pretty much takes care of itself - just keep an eye on the event logs and read up and learn to use the DCDiag utility. That's all that you really need to do. |
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JDmailNY
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Pearl River, NY
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said by Leathal :said by JDmailNY :Windows 2003 Active Directory Utilities To Maintain Health What utilities or commands can I use to maintain the health of Active Directory 03. For example I have deleted users from AD What Utility or command should follow as a best practice. Thanks Uhm sounds like you don't know how to use Windows 2003 Server so I would suggest you ask your boss to hire someone who knows what they are doing otherwise if you touch the wrong thing which is possible in your case it could take out the entire network. There aren't commands. The other option is to get a good shelf help book or called Microsoft PSS and pay them to do what you aren't able to do. Leathal Uhm sounds like your a Jack ---SS.
Or you would have answered the question with a real constructive answer. |
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JDmailNY
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Pearl River, NY
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said by craig70130 :I take it the user deletions were intentional and you are just looking for tools to monitor the health of AD. I'm sure there are such things but I've never used them. AD pretty much takes care of itself - just keep an eye on the event logs and read up and learn to use the DCDiag utility. That's all that you really need to do. Thank You That was constructive |
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craig70130
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| Your welcome.
Basically I keep an eye on the Directory Service, DNS Server and File Replication Service event logs.
Every so often, I do a dcdiag /a /f:log.txt from a command prompt and check the content of the .txt file. If all the tests show passed, I'm confident AD is happy. |
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JDmailNY
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Pearl River, NY | Once again that was great infor.
Should I force replication |
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craig70130
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New Orleans, LA | You shouldn't have to force replication. If your domain controllers aren't replicating, you have a problem somewhere that needs to be identified and resolved. |
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Leathal
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said by JDmailNY :said by Leathal :said by JDmailNY :Windows 2003 Active Directory Utilities To Maintain Health What utilities or commands can I use to maintain the health of Active Directory 03. For example I have deleted users from AD What Utility or command should follow as a best practice. Thanks Uhm sounds like you don't know how to use Windows 2003 Server so I would suggest you ask your boss to hire someone who knows what they are doing otherwise if you touch the wrong thing which is possible in your case it could take out the entire network. There aren't commands. The other option is to get a good shelf help book or called Microsoft PSS and pay them to do what you aren't able to do. Leathal Uhm sounds like your a Jack ---SS. Or you would have answered the question with a real constructive answer. No actually having people get onto a forum who know nothing about the OS they are dealing expecting others to hold their hand every step of the way is disturbing.
And I did offer you two constructive answers which will help you better understand how to operate and manage a windows network before you end up doing more harm than good.
Leathal |
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craig70130
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New Orleans, LA | Dude, you often post questions many of us consider simple and basic for someone doing what you are doing and usually without trying to do any research on your own.
I'd think about that before throwing stones at others. |
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JDmailNY
join:2007-12-02
Pearl River, NY
| [If I had the time to research - I already would have.]
The reason why I posted questions is to get answers.
Please note - No one is under any requirments to answer anyones question. Anytime I have given answers I always leave out my own personal feelings. |
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rotbau
join:2000-08-24
Minneapolis, MN
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If you have multiple DC's you can also use Replmon from the Windows support tools to make sure AD replication is working across your DC's. Other than that, like others said basically keep an eye on your event logs and run dcdiag occasionally.
There isn't anything like DSrepair like there was for NDS.
regards,
rotbau |
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JDmailNY
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Pearl River, NY | That was good information.
Thanks alot. |
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