Active Directory

You can block or redirect a website using settings on your firewall or router. But did you know that you can block or redirect websites using Active Directory Domain Services (DNS) as well? Just use these steps. … [Read more...] about Use Active Directory Domain Services to Block Website

If you work IT in a Microsoft Active Directory environment, you may have experienced problems where a user's account keeps getting locked out. Here's a tutorial showing everything you need to know about how to track the computer that is locking any AD account. … [Read more...] about How to Find Computer Locking Active Directory Account

We had quite an issue with replication in our Active Director environment this past week. We suddenly were hit with tons of events in the event log with event ID 1694 where it said: Replication Error 8203 "The attribute syntax specified to the directory service is invalid." … [Read more...] about Active Directory: Fix Replication Error 8203

The Active Directory Schema Snap-In is not an option in MMC by default. If it's missing from the Add/Remove Snap-In screen, perform these steps. … [Read more...] about How to Add Active Directory Schema Snap-In

The lowest you can set your Microsoft Active Directory environment replication interval is 15 minutes. But what if you want your AD environment to replicate instantly instead of waiting 15 minutes? You can accomplish this using these steps. … [Read more...] about How to Make Active Directory Replicate Instantly

You can add a printer to Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services to make it available to everyone, or remove it if you don't want it available. Just use these steps. … [Read more...] about How to Add or Delete Printers in Active Directory