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Practical IT guides, cheatsheets, and references from Jeremiah Ellington, drawn from more than 20 years of IT work in public sector and higher education.
Topic
Domain controllers, DNS, replication, and planned changes to on-premises Active Directory.
Active Directory
A ten-phase checklist for adding new Windows Server domain controllers to an existing Active Directory domain, moving the FSMO roles, and retiring the old DCs safely.
Active Directory
How Group Policy works in a single Active Directory domain: local and domain policy, processing order, filtering, the Central Store, backup and restore, troubleshooting, and the change-control habits that keep a policy change from becoming an outage.