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In the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA), the following warning may popup:
Title: All OUs in this domain should be protected from accidental deletion
Severity: Warning
Problem: Some organizational units (OUs) in this domain are not protected from accidental deletion.
Impact: If all OUs in your Active Directory domains are not protected from accidental deletion, your Active Directory environment can experience disruptions that might be caused by accidental bulk deletion of objects.
In IT world, there are two types of errors you have to cope with: the ones you can trust, and the ones you shouldn’t.
Sometimes it’s very obvious that the returning error code is not correct. However, when you try to map a network drive using net use, and you get the following error, you wouldn’t suspect anything else than a mistyped password:
System Error 1326 has occurred
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.… Read the rest
In the installation process of Windows 2008 R2 as a VM in HyperV, the following error may suddenly come up:
“(Load driver) A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
In the case that a Windows 2008 R2 node was previously active in another cluster, you may experience a problem when adding that node to the new cluster. The following error could occur:
The computer “servername.domain” is joined to a cluster.… Read the rest
In some scenarios it may be useful to adjust the date and time settings on a domain system. Especially when testing a particular millennium bug, or something like that :)
By default on a Windows domain, the time is synchronized every now and then; mostly within minutes.… Read the rest