What is Active Directory Operations Master Roles?

In this post I will tell you about the Operations Master Roles in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). If you are a System Administrator working with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) it is important that you understand the 5 Operation Master Roles in Active Directory. When you work with multiple domain controllers or maybe even a multidomain Active Directory installation it is important that you know how the 5 master roles in AD works. The 5 roles can be put into 2 categories: Forestwide, and Domainwide. The forest-wide roles only exist…

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Active Directory – Protect an OU from accidental deletion

In this post I will tell you how to protect an Active Directory OU from accidental deletion. It is very easy and simple and I think it is a very good thing to do on all your main OU. You have to ask yourself how often do you delete an OU from you active directory that you have not just created. Alomost never right? So why not protect it from accidental deletion? If you want to delete it some day all you have to do is to clear the check box…

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