RODC Password Replication Policy

The Password Replication Policy (PRP) indicates which user credentials will be cached on the Read Only Domain Controller (RODC) based on Windows Server 2008 o Windows 2008 R2. This is necessary when we have delegations in our company and we want to put an RODC in the delegations with the functions that we are interested in and also allows users to authenticate in these DCs and the authentication process is faster since no traffic is generated by the WAN with this type of traffic.

New Windows 2008 R2: Offline domain join

Otra de las novedades que trae Windows 2008 R2, es la posibilidad de unirnos a un dominio sin conexión, This is, no tenemos por qué tener conectividad entre el equipo y el controlador de dominio para poder unirnos y no tener que generar tráfico entre ambos equipos. Esto es ideal para cuando desplegamos equipos en grandes cantidades o los mandamos a nuestras delegaciones preparados para ser arrancados (generados a partir de imágenes), para no tener que unirles en dominio desde ahí y mediante AIK unirles al dominio mediante un archivo de respuesta (For example).

Enabling the Recycle Bin in Windows Active Directory 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 brings an improvement at the Active Directory level, Finally it will let us recover a deleted element without losing its settings, has introduced the Recycle Bin or 'Recycle Bin Feature' feature. In this document, We'll see how to enable it, since by default it is not enabled or activated if we come from an Active Directory prior to Windows 2008 R2.