Optimizing Exchange and Active Directory Backup and Recovery
To optimize backup and recovery of Exchange and Active Directory environments, organizations can leverage a growing number of advanced tools that overcome the challenges of traditional approaches. These new tools give businesses a more simplified and streamlined process that reduces their backup windows, provides continuous protection and delivers efficient granular recovery of the critical business information.
Active Directory comes to Linux with Samba 4
Enterprise networks now have an alternative choice to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) servers, with the open source Samba project aiming for feature parity with the forthcoming release of version 4, according to Canberra-based Samba developer Andrew Bartlett.
Windows tip: Re-using domain controller names
You have five domain controllers named SEA-DC1 thru SEA-DC5. The physical hardware for SEA-DC3 is getting kind of old, so you do the following:
Windows tip: Tracking changes to active directory
Do you have trouble sleeping at night, worrying that one of your admins or delegated users might change some aspect of your Active Directory environment?
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Active Directory comes to Linux with Samba 4
Windows tip: Tracking changes to active directory
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Nesting Organizational Units Too Deeply
Windows tip: Re-using domain controller names
Optimizing Exchange and Active Directory Backup and Recovery