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Quik Pick Express, a California-based trucking company, provides a variety of services, including container drayage, warehousing services, container shipping, transloading, and much more. The company services seven locations in the state of California, with its IT infrastructure network being critical for its business. After a thorough evaluation, Quik Pick Express’ IT team chose OpManager, an all-inclusive network monitoring solution, to monitor its business-critical IT infrastructure network.

How do you begin working with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)? If you have read the previous parts of this blog series, you will know that Active Directory (AD) is a vast subject. In this series, we have chosen topics to help familiarize you with theoretical AD concepts and equip you to work with AD. This blog offers practical AD exercises to help you get started. Understanding the life cycle of all AD objects, from creation and modification to deletion, is necessary.

In late November 2013, the highly anticipated Expo 2020 Dubai was announced by World Expo. Expos over the years have showcased the world’s greatest innovations, initiated the dialogue for a more progressive future, and encouraged people to embrace the evolving technology-driven shift in society. Expo 2020 Dubai started on October 1, 2021 with over 192 countries participating, hosting a whopping 5,610 official events on its site in the first month.

If you own an enterprise, then you know the value of a healthy network and how seriously detrimental a network outage is to your business. But network issues are inevitable. The heavy dependence on networks to meet the ever-changing client and internal usage requirements takes a heavy toll on the network. This makes networks vulnerable to common problems such as unplanned, sudden downtime, high resource utilization, and hardware malfunctioning.

Did you know that March 31 is World Backup Day? Who knew data backup was important enough to get its own day? I didn’t until recently, which may be the case for you as well, but that’s okay. It is never too late to learn about the importance of security practices like backing up data and establishing a routine that includes said practices.

For readers who have returned to this blog after understanding the basics of Active Directory (AD) in part 1 of this series, welcome back! For all new readers: Hello! Get ready to jump into the world of AD. It would be good to take a quick peek at what was covered in part 1 before you continue. Be sure to read through part 1 as it will be your guide to: Part 2 of this series aims to introduce the interrelation of AD with the Domain Name System (DNS).

As economies gradually open up, it is becoming clearer that the hybrid work model is here to stay for increasingly more organizations. This has increased the need for cross-departmental collaboration between IT and the facilities team. During pre-pandemic times, IT teams in several organizations relied on the facilities team to maintain the upkeep of workplace assets such as printers, projectors, and monitors.

Network downtime opens the gates to productivity loss and customer attrition and can affect business growth moderately or even severely. Usually, the reasons behind a network outage are the following: Errors in network endpoints: Things like a network bottleneck or a spike in temperature can interrupt a client’s network operations and then snowball into an outage. Operational slip-ups: According to research done by Uptime Institute, 70% of data center and service downtime is due to human error.

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is the traditional, on-premises domain service offered by Microsoft. It is the core component and a server role in Active Directory (AD), the specialized, proprietary directory service in Windows operating system environments. Consider an enterprise or a complex business set up with many connected network resources. In order to ensure the effective management of these resources, IT administrators use AD and its components, including AD DS.

Businesses now scale exponentially and so do their networks. Managing a hybrid IT environment that comprises wired, wireless, and virtual networks can be a challenging task for network administrators. However, continuous monitoring of these devices for fault and performance is crucial. Network discovery is key to successful monitoring solutions.