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Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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Configuring diagnostic logging

This recipe shows how to configure diagnostic logging to provide additional information when troubleshooting Active Directory problems.

Getting ready

To configure diagnostic logging on a domain controller, sign in to it using an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group.

How to do it…

Perform these steps to configure diagnostic logging:

  1. Press Start.
  2. Search for Registry Editor and click its search result, or run regedit.exe. The Registry Editor window appears.
  3. In the location bar at the top of the Registry Editor window, type HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics.
  4. In the main pane, select the area that you want to enable diagnostic logging for.
  5. Right-click the name of the logging area and select Modify… from the menu. The Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value pop-up window appears:

Figure 11.11 – Configuring diagnostic logging for 16 LDAP Interface Events...

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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