The Tips and Tricks Guide to Active Directory Troubleshooting 1 Q.1: What do the FSMO roles do? A: In general, all domain controllers in an Active Directory domain are created equal. That is, they all have the ability to both read from and write to the Active Directory database and are essentially interchangeable.
Active Directory is foundation of identity management of each and every technology in cooperate/enterprise environment. SCCM (ConfigMgr) engineers and desktop support engineers should have basic idea of Active Directory. Otherwise, it would very difficult for them to troubleshoot on the issue. Veeam is always here to support IT Pros community. In this free eBook about Active Directory under the hood. Active Directory basics Under the hood of Active DirectorySander Berkouwer MVP on Directory Services. I’ve done two posts on learning How to learn SCCM and how to learn Desktop support skills. Active Directory basics skills are very much required for all Windows Support engineers. Veeam also provides FREE tool for Active Directory recovery, download the tool from here. I’ll try to cover the Active Directory recovery tool in a future post.
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Ways to Integrate Active Directory with Meraki
Most issues can be resolved by verifying that the configurations match on the AD server and/or Meraki dashboard. Following the configuration steps again for integrating AD can be the best way to ensure configurations are correct on both sides. Listed below are the ways which AD can be integrated with Meraki devices and a comprehensive configuration guide for the same.
MR - Sign-On splash page with MR access points
MR access points support the use of sign-on splash page for authenticating clients. This splash page can be integrated with an AD server to ensure that only clients with valid user credentials are allowed to access network resources.
- To configure: Integrating Active Directory with Sign-On Splash Page for MR Access Points
- To limit which users can get through authentication: Scoping Active Directory per SSID
MX - Applying group policies using AD groups
Meraki policies for bandwidth limits, traffic shaping and firewall rules, security filtering and content filtering settings can be applied to certain AD groups when the server is integrated with an MX security appliance.
- To configure: Configuring Active Directory with MX Security Appliance
MX - Applying group policies using AD groups over MPLS
Meraki group policies can be applied to certain AD groups. This MPLS method can be helpful when the AD server is located upstream or across an MPLS link and AD based content filtering is required.
- To configure: Integrating MX Group Policies with MPLS
MX - Authenticating client VPN users using AD
You can authenticate users connecting to client VPN on MX security appliances using AD credentials.
- To configure: Integrating with Client VPN
Windows Active Directory Pdf
SM - System Manager installation using AD GPO
Administrators can push software out to a large number of devices using Active Directory Group Policy Objects
Active Directory Administration Guide Pdf
- To configure: Systems Manager Installation using Active Directory GPO