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Active Administrator 8.6.2 - User Guide

Active Administrator Overview User Provisioning Certificates Security & Delegation  Active Directory Health
Switching to Active Directory Health Using the Active Directory Health landing page Installing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents Using the Active Directory Health Analyzer agent configuration utility Excluding domain controllers Managing the Remediation Library Analyzing Active Directory health Analyzing Azure Active Directory Managing Active Directory Health Analyzer alerts Managing alert notifications Pushing alerts to System Center Operations Manager and SNMP managers Managing monitored domain controllers Managing data collectors Active Directory Health Templates Managing Active Directory Health Analyzer agents Using the Troubleshooter Recovering Active Directory Health data
Auditing & Alerting Group Policy Active Directory Recovery Active Directory Infrastructure DC Management DNS Management Configuration
Using the Configuration landing page Managing tasks Defining role-based access Setting email server options Configuring SCOM and SNMP Settings Setting notification options Setting Active Template options Setting agent installation options Setting recovery options Setting GPO history options Setting certificate configuration Setting service monitoring policy Managing archive databases Migrating data to another database Setting a preferred domain controller Setting up workstation logon auditing Managing configuration settings Setting user options Managing the Active Directory server
Diagnostic Console Alerts Appendix
Domain controller alerts
Active Directory Certificate Services service is not running Active Directory Domain Services is not running Active Directory Web Services service is not running Consecutive replication failures DC cache hits DC DIT disk space DC DIT log file disk space DC LDAP load DC LDAP response too slow DC Memory Usage DC properties dropped DC RID pool low DC SMB connections DC SYSVOL disk space DC time sync lost Detected NO_CLIENT_SITE record DFS Replication service not running DFS service is not running DFSR conflict area disk space DFSR conflict files generated DFSR RDC not enabled DFSR sharing violation DFSR staged file age DFSR staging area disk space DFSR USN records accepted DFSRS CPU load DFSRS unresponsive DFSRS virtual memory DFSRS working set DNS Client Service is not running Domain controller CPU load Domain controller page faults Domain controller unresponsive File Replication Service is not running File replication (NTFRS) staging space free in kilobytes GC response too slow Group policy object inconsistent Hard disk drive Intersite Messaging Service is not running Invalid primary DNS domain controller address Invalid secondary DNS domain controller address KDC service is not running LSASS CPU load LSASS virtual memory LSASS working set Missing SRV DNS record for either the primary or secondary DNS server NETLOGON not shared NetLogon service is not running Orphaned group policy objects exist Physical memory Power supply Primary DNS resolver is not responding Secondary DNS resolver is not responding Security Accounts Manager Service is not running SRV record is not registered in DNS SYSVOL not shared W32Time service is not running Workstation Service is not running
Domain alerts Site alerts Forest alerts Azure Active Directory Connect alerts
Event Definitions PowerShell cmdlets

Viewing Active Template delegations

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Viewing Active Template delegations

For more information on Active Templates, see Managing Active Templates.

To view Active Template delegations
1
Click Security & Delegation | Security.
2
Select a domain controller, if necessary.
* 
NOTE: Use the icons to manage the selected managed domain controller. See Managing domain controllers.
3
Click Active Template Permissions.
4
Select a container or object to view delegations in the Active Template Permissions area.
5
Use the Delegations menu to manage Active Template permissions.
 

Table 13. Delegations menu

Option

Description

New Delegation

Create a new delegation. See Adding a delegation link.

You also can right-click an object in the tree and choose Add Delegation.

NOTE: Delegation in the Configuration partition in the tree is disabled by default. To enable delegation in the Configuration partition, you must enable it in User Settings. See Setting general user options.

Edit Delegation

Edit the selected delegation.

Copy Delegation

Copy the selected delegation to create a new delegation.

Remove Delegation

Remove the selected delegation.

View Account Properties

Open the properties for the selected account.

View Container Properties

Open the properties for the container for the selected account.

Resetting passwords

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Security & Delegation > Managing security > Resetting passwords

Resetting passwords

You can reset the password on a user account. When resetting the password, you can choose to unlock the account. You also can unlock the account without resetting the password by selecting More | Unlock.

To reset the password on a user accounts
1
Click Security & Delegation | Security.
2
Select a domain controller, if necessary.
* 
NOTE: Use the icons to manage the selected managed domain controller. See Managing domain controllers.
3
Drill down to locate the user account.
4
Select the user account, and click More | Reset Password.
5
Type the new password.
6
By default, the user must change their password at the next logon.
7
To unlock the account, select the check box.
8
Click OK.

Resetting computers

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Security & Delegation > Managing security > Resetting computers

Resetting computers

You can reset the account password on computers locally. The change is written to the computer account object on the domain controller that resides in the same domain. Active Directory replication is initiated so that other domain controllers receive the change.

To reset the password on a computer
1
Click Security & Delegation | Security.
2
Select a domain controller, if necessary.
3
Drill down to locate the computers.
4
Select one or more computers, and click More | Reset Computer.
5
Click Yes to reset the computers.

Moving Active Directory objects

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Security & Delegation > Managing security > Moving Active Directory objects

Moving Active Directory objects

You can move a selected Active Directory® object to another container.

To move Active Directory objects
1
Click Security & Delegation | Security.
2
Select a domain controller, if necessary.
* 
NOTE: Use the icons to manage the selected managed domain controller. See Managing domain controllers.
3
Select objects.
4
Select More | Move.
5
Select the container.
6
Click OK.
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