Page 45 of the DSE Microsoft 365 & Identity knowledge center, with source-backed guidance and practical next steps.
Clear guidance for Microsoft 365, Entra identity, account protection, collaboration, endpoint policy, and lifecycle changes.
Microsoft states: “This article provides a solution to an issue where domain controller promotion stops responding when short credentials are used in an environment that has NetBIOS over TCPIP disabled.”
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Microsoft states: “This article describes how to restore Internet Information Services (IIS) and clean up Active Directory when you uninstall Active Directory Federation Services 2.0.”
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Microsoft states: “This issue occurs when you specify a grandchild organizational unit (OU) as the base distinguished name (base DN) in the Adamsync configuration file.”
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Microsoft states: “This article addresses the error code 0x40 encountered during domain join operations.”
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Microsoft states: “This article provides a workaround for an issue where the IsmServ service doesn’t start correctly when a domain controller starts.”
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Microsoft states: “This article provides the steps to change the Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 service communications certificate.”
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Microsoft states: “The article discusses how to disable DNS updates in Windows.”
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Microsoft states: “This article lists the causes of the issue where DNS records don’t show in a DNS zone.”
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Microsoft states: “This article discusses how to set up Domain Name System (DNS) scavenging and gives an example of setting scavenging up on a pre-existing zone.”
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Microsoft states: “This article resolves the event ID 4013 logged in the DNS event log of domain controllers that are hosting the DNS server role after Windows starts.”
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