https://blog.thinkbox.dev/tags/active-directory/ Recent content in Active Directory on ThinkBox Hugo -- gohugo.io en Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:21:18 -0400 https://blog.thinkbox.dev/posts/0008-transferring-and-seizing-fsmo-roles/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:21:18 -0400 https://blog.thinkbox.dev/posts/0008-transferring-and-seizing-fsmo-roles/ Introduction Within a Active Directory environment there are 5 Flexible single master operation (FSMO) roles that are present, they can either all be on a single domain controller or can be distributed between multiple. There are 2 FSMO roles that are forest wide and 3 that are domain wide. This post will describe the steps taken in order to either transfer a FSMO role to another server, or seize a FSMO role. https://blog.thinkbox.dev/posts/0002-setting-up-ad-from-scratch/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:48:26 -0400 https://blog.thinkbox.dev/posts/0002-setting-up-ad-from-scratch/ Introduction This blog post will show step by step how to setup a basic Active Directory network. The network will consist of four computers, two servers and two clients. There will be a Domain Controller, a DHCP server, a central management station, and of course a desktop for the clients. This can all be seen in the diagram below. The purpose of the central management desktop for the administrator to easily manage multiple servers at once.