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Published inJul 2022
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ISBN-139781803242507
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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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Upgrading SYSVOL replication from FRS to DFSR

Since Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory features SYSVOL. This shared folder is replicated between all domain controllers in an Active Directory domain and contains commonly accessed files such as GPOs, logon scripts, and logoff scripts, and can hold any file an Active Directory admin wants it to hold.

In legacy Active Directory environments, SYSVOL replication uses FRS. This should be migrated to DFSR.

Getting ready

The deprecation of FRS may or may not be a problem in your Active Directory environment.

If your Active Directory environment has ever featured Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2003 R2-based domain controllers, you have some work to do. Your domain controllers rely on FRS to replicate the contents of the SYSVOL shares between them, even when these domain controllers have long been decommissioned and/or replaced with Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and/or Windows Server...

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Active Directory Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

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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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