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Published inJul 2022
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Sander Berkouwer
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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Determining whether a virtual domain controller has a VM-GenerationID

One of the requirements for Active Directory Virtualization Safeguards and domain controller cloning is the ability of the hypervisor platform to provide the VM-GenerationID to the virtual domain controller.

How to do it...

To determine whether a virtual domain controller has the VM-GenerationID, perform these steps:

  1. Sign in to the virtual domain controller.
  2. Press Start.
  3. Search for Device Manager and click its corresponding search result, or run devmgmt.msc. The Device Manager window appears.
  4. In the taskbar of Device Manager, open the View menu and select Show hidden devices.
  5. In the main pane of Device Manager, expand System devices.
  6. Search for the Microsoft Hyper-V Generation Counter system device. The existence of such a device means the virtual domain controller has a VM-GenerationID.
  7. Close Device Manager.

How it works...

When the hypervisor platform supports the VM-GenerationID feature, it will create a device to place the value of the VM-GenerationID in the virtual memory of the virtual domain controller.

To determine whether a virtual domain controller has a VM-GenerationID, look for this system device.

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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.
Read more about Sander Berkouwer