In order to join ESXi hosts to the domain Likewise agents are used to join to the Active Directory domain and for user authentication requests. In order to troubleshoot Active Directory integration you will need to enable logging of the agent as by default they do not generate a log file. This can be performed … More Enabling logging for Likewise agents in ESXi
I was recently joining ESXi (5.5.0, 1892794) hosts to a domain to which the task would fail with the status ‘Errors in Active Directory operations’. On further investigation of the Likewise agent log on the impacted ESXi host, the following was being written to the log file: ERROR:[SMBSocketReaderMain() /build/mts/release/bora-1471401/likewise/esxi-esxi/src/linux/lwio/server/rdr/socket.c:660] Error when handling SMB socket … More Unable to join ESXi host to the domain – Error when handling SMB socket
I recently enabled strict replication consistency on my domain controllers in order to follow best practices, where this is not enabled there can be a risk that lingering objects could be replicated to a domain controller. This can occur when a domain controller in your Active Directory environment is disconnected from the replication topology for an extended period … More Enable strict replication consistency on domain controllers within Active Directory domain
As part of running the best practice analyser for Active Directory, I wanted to protect all organizational units from accidental deletion, this is achievable by using both the Get-ADOrganizationalUnit and Set-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlets. First of all I wanted to see which organizational units were not protected from accidental deletion, we can do this by invoking the Get-ADOrganizationalUnit … More Enable protection from accidental deletion on all organizational units in Active Directory domain
As part of my Puppet Master server installation I wanted to enable Active Directory authentication based on the membership of security group to restrict access to the console rather than using the default local console authentication mechanism. Firstly, you are required to disable the console authentication by running the following with elevated root privelages: sudo … More Enabling Active Directory authentication for Puppet Console Authentication
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