Domain Controller Health Check

Be sure to check the examples section below and i ll show you the output of a normal domain controller and one that has issues.

Domain controller health check. I ve just written a small article on the common steps that i perform when doing health checks on domain controllers. Type the following command to get the status of all the critical services. Before you get too deep and would like to follow along make sure you have the following prerequisites met.

Let s dive right in. In this function we focused on dcdiag and. Also you can use group policy management console gpmc which was enhanced to provide a report for the overall health state of the group policy.

If you want to check the health of a remote domain controller run the dcdiag utility by specifying your remote domain controller name administrator username and password as shown below. In this tutorial i ll show you how to use the dcdiag command line utility to perform a domain controller health check. Get service name ntds adws dns dncache kdc w32time netlogon dhcpserver dhcp computername dc1 now we have an image of the health status of domain controller in my enviroment quick and simple.

I get asked over and over about what i do when i m performing a health check on. By default kcc runs in the background every 15 minutes to check if a new connection has been established between dcs. You should see the tests result in the following screen.

Active directory health checks for domain controllers. This command forces the kcc knowledge consistency checker on targeted domain controller s to immediately recalculate its inbound replication topology. Below you can find another great and useful powershell function for checking dc health dcdiag repadmin remotely.

In this article you re going to learn how to build active directory health checks using powershell and a few other tools. I ll also show you how to use dcdiag to test dns. Adminprep is not up right now so i ll post the health check stuff here.