In a previous article I mentioned how to create users and computers in active directory, the first stage of testing the PST Importer (and ESA). The next step is to go to Exchange and create mailboxes to the users that we just created and for further comfortable management, add access permissions to them where needed.
In my last article, I discussed how the SysAdmin may become a SysBroker (or SysSherpa depending on your preferred semantics) that acts as a guide or liaison between the wants and needs of a business and the offerings of “$n as a Service” providers.
When you configure the first Domain Controller for your organization using the Active Directory Installation Wizard (or dcpromo for short), it is configured with all five FSMO roles by default. Here I will cover how you can view and transfer the specific FSMO roles of various Domain Controllers in your domain. As this is a short how-to article, I won’t go into the specific details of when you would need to transfer roles, but in short you may want to take a certain domain controller down for maintenance one day and may find it necessary to transfer some, or all of these roles.
To start with you will obviously require more than one Domain Controller in your Windows domain. In my case I have a “Primary” and “Secondary” domain controller called “NOOBS-DC1″ and “NOOBS-DC2″.
Have you heard about a major shift taking place in the IT world? According to the Corporate Executive Board, within five years from 2010 IT departments will have shrunk by 75% . The majority of those workers will be either shifted to IT units within individual departments or to external cloud/service providers.
