Migrating Active Directory Certificate Service (ACDS) from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2019

CA server name is not the same as the FQDN of the server hosting the CA. Default common name naming scheme in ADCS is <Domain Name>-<CAHostname>-C . For example, Contoso-w2k12r2-CA…

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Migrate Symantec Endpoint Manager 14.2 from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2019 seamlessly without breaking client communications

Way back in 2015 and 2016, I successfully migration all applications and servers from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2. Since DCSA approved deployment of Windows Server…

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AD and Disaster Recoveryhttps://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/wiki/ms/activedirectorydisasterrecovery What does DCDIAG do...? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/askds/what-does-dcdiag-actually-do How Active Directory Authentication Works? http://www.rebeladmin.com/2018/06/active-directory-authentication-works/ AD DS security is key for any environment as it is foundation of identity protection.…

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