Liju Varghese

Windows Server 2003: Restore and Reanimation of Tombstoned Group Membership Links

by Liju Varghese

The Issue Performing an authoritative restore on a Windows Server 2003 domain controller of a group results in the reanimation of tombstoned group membership links. The Impact If an Organizational Unit containing Users and Groups was deleted, the authoritative restore of the OU will result in users being re-added to groups they were removed from. [...]

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Windows System State Recovery: What’s up with that Authoritative Restore checkbox?

by Liju Varghese

On a domain controller running Windows Server 2008 R2, when performing a system state restore in Directory Services Restore Mode using Windows Server Backup, at the Select Location for System State Recovery step you have to decide whether or not to select the following option: Perform an authoritative restore of Active Directory files. This recovery [...]

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Setting Up Security Event Log Subscriptions with Windows Server 2003/2008

by Liju Varghese

This article aims at making it easier to set up a Source-Initiated Subscription with Windows Server 2003/2008 so that events of interest from the Security event log of several domain controllers can be forwarded to an administrative workstation. For the purpose of this article, we’ve selected the event IDs 5136, 5137 and 566.  These security [...]

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