Monthly Archives: September 2011

Create Exchange Connector (inter-forest)


I have demonstrated how to built inter-forest trust relationship and migration of user and computer account in previous posts.  This post shows how to create an exchange connector from exchange 2003 sp 2 (assume one server has all the roles) … Continue reading

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Inter-forest Migration prerequisites and preparations


Inter-forest Migration from win2003 to win 2008 R2 forest using ADMT. Prerequisites: Create a user in the source domain with membership of “Domain Admins” & “Enterprise Admins” that would be used throughout the migration. Eg. ent-exchadmin Communication between the old … Continue reading

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Enable AD Recycle-bin for win2008 R2


Following power-shell command to enable Active Directory Recycle Bin feature. Note: process is irreversible. Enable-ADOptionalFeature –Identity ‘CN=Recycle Bin Feature,CN=Optional Features,CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration, DC=yourdomain,DC=local’ –Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet –Target ‘yourdomain.local’

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