Tag: active directory

Configure Domain Controller Time Syncronization with External Source

~ brandon

Clock

The PDC Emulator in your domain is the only system you should need to run this on. The rest of the systems should sync with this DC. I’ve included the commands below that you can run against your secondary DCs just to make sure they know what they should be doing. This is a rare thing to have to do … but I ended up having to do it today because the time source configured on our domain (long ago) stopped serving up time. WARNING: To much time skew between your current time and the updated time could cause serious headaches for your clients. WARNING!

On your PDC Emulator from an elevated command prompt:

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Bulk Migrate User Home Directory in Active Directory

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This summer I’m decommissioning an old file server that is no longer under warranty, and we have plans for it along with the iSCSI SAN it’s connected to. Slight problem though – even though I’ve configured our user shares to replicate around using DFS, for years the user creation script that was used for creating accounts hard coded the user home directory to this file server. With thousands of accounts – I’m not about to go and do all this by hand.

Enter Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell (free). Sure I could have used other tools – but I’ve got this one and I like it. Anyway, here’s the script I wrote to do this. Note:  It is likely not perfect, maybe not the most efficient way to handle this (definitely a bit slow), but it works and was ran against a few thousand user accounts.
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