After long delay of being absent, I managed to fetch some time in order to pen down an article and share my thoughts about on of the features of Active Directory which has been always in total darkness for me. ‘List Object Mode’.

Scavenging feature in DNS is one of the tricky features of DNS console. Although it is quite easy to understand the concepts and configuration of scavenging feature, I have seen many cases where stale records are not being scavenged due to a misconfiguration. 

The word channel is easy to explain. Channel is a way of communicating with people or getting something done. Considering that communication can be a public process, a question will pop up that how can I secure my communication? That’s where the word secure comes into play. A combination of these two words will result in a concept which is absolutely crucial in Active Directory environment and that’s Secure Channel. The term “Secure Channel” can be defined as a way which authenticates the requestor and also provide confidentiality and integrity of data sent across the way.

There are some specific concepts in active directory which may put your environment in trouble if you do not attend to fix them as soon as you notice. One of them is lingering objects. Defining the meaning of Lingering Objects (LO) is not difficult. Basically, if an object in your active directory partitions exist in one or more domain controllers and not exist in the rest of the domain controllers in the same partition. So you may ask yourself how that is possible to have an object in a DC and not having the same object in another DC? So what is the responsibility of replication? Wasn’t it designed in order to have a synchronized AD database in your environment? We are going to cover your questions as well.