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  First we will see what is USN? Microsoft says.. Every domain controller maintains a USN that is specific to that domain controller. Whenever a change is made to Active Directory from that DC, the USN is incremented by 1. So if a DC has a USN of 1000 at 11:00 a.m., and 1005 at…

Read More What is an Update Sequence Number aka USN and how to check it on the DC

Before you do the configuration on the IBM IMM console make sure you configure proper relay on your exchange server for the server’s IMM management IP address. Once done follow the below steps. 1) Once you login to the server IMM console go to IMM Control > System Settings page. Here you can mention the Server name, Contact as…

Read More How to configure email Alerts on IMM – IBM Servers

Let’s see how to add a virtual machine to to a Hyper-V cluster for a high availability. So in-order to achieve this you need to make sure that the VM’s files are pointed to a cluster shared volume.  So in case if your VM is not position in a CSV you need to move that…

Read More How to add Virtual Machine to a Hyper-V failover cluster for high availability

Flexible Single Master Operation in short FSMO. If you are a system admin you will be well aware of this abbreviation as it’s a core topic of Active Directory Domain Services. There are 5 FSMO roles a) Schema master b) Domain naming master c) Infrastructure master e) RID master f) PDC Emulator. As you know there…

Read More Moving FSMO roles to different Domain controllers – The easiest way