For those of you planning to extend your AD DS or AD LDS schema, you will need to find a unique object identifier (OID) for each new schema class and attribute. The process by which you can acquire the OIDs is described by Microsoft here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms677619(v=vs.85).aspx In summary, Microsoft suggests two methods for obtaining an… Read More »
Quest Software make it hard to love them sometimes. When they made Quest Quick Connect Express for Active Directory available at no cost it was a real boon for anyone wanting to synchronise objects from AD to AD (or AD LDS instances). In particular it offered a great free method of achieving GAL Sync between… Read More »
Here’s a quick tip on how to find out what ports your AD LDS instances are listening on. On the machine running the instance(s), open a command prompt with Administrator privileges and type the following: dsdbutil “li i” q The syntax used above runs the dsdbutil.exe utility with the “List Instances” option. The output… Read More »
In my last post, I provided a small batch file to support scheduled IFM dumps of an AD LDS instance. Afterwards, I realised that batch files are sooo last century and decided to have a crack at the Powershell version. I’m no Bwandon, but the script below seems to do the trick. # # Name: Create_IFM_Dump.ps1 #… Read More »
Microsoft Technet describes how to back up an AD LDS instance using either Windows Server Backup or Dsdbutil.exe. Interestingly, the Dsdbutil method leverages the Install From Media (IFM) feature to perform the backup. Here’s a small batch file that you can use to schedule the backup using the Task Scheduler. @echo off rd /s c:\backup\adlds\Instance1\ /q %windir%\system32\dsdbutil.exe… Read More »
I really like the snapshot feature of Windows Server 2008 AD and have been using it quite a bit recently. This week I had my first foray into snapshotting with AD LDS. Everything is pretty much the same as for AD, the only obvious difference being that you can create the snapshots using either dsdbutil… Read More »