Active Directory Backup & Recovery

Azure Active Directory vs. Active Directory Domain Services

I'll start by saying that today's Identity technologies can be very confusing. There are many Services (in the cloud era everything is a service), protocols, solutions, SDKs, technologies and products aiming to solve the Identity problem. I'll start by comparing the basic two which might be the most confusing as…

What are good and bad Active Directory snapshots

In this post I would like to explain a little bit more about Active Directory snapshots, and how you can or can't use them. 'First of all, let's make one thing very clear: VM Snapshots of Domain Controllers are not supported! Let me say that again if you have a…

What’s Active Directory Forest Recovery?

Now before we talk about Active Directory Forest Recovery, let's try to take a look at what are the different recovery scenarios, and when will I need each? (Note: if you're here just for the title scroll to the bottom of the post). The first and the easiest one is…

So why does Active Directory Disaster Recovery matter?

• Mickey Bresman

Well – sounds kind of straight forward, right? If my AD is down no-one can logon to their PCs, access network resources, launch apps etc’. but still some CIOs look at AD as just another service in the organization. I’ll try to break down why Active Directory Disaster Recovery is…