Policy commands

There are times when you want to update the policy, and then don’t want to wait for the policy to take affect on the computer. Also sometimes you are not sure what policy is being applied to the computer or user. These two commands will help you save a lot of time. gpupdate – This will refresh the policy on the current computer. I usually use it with a /force /sync switch. It will...

Active Directory Roles

Here’s the command to view what role or roles each domain controller in your active directory domain has. netdom query fsmo I’m not going to do a write up on how to change these roles, since Microsoft has an excellent article that talks about it...