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Alert tuning automatically resolves alerts according to the configured rule conditions, reducing the alerts that require triage. Microsoft recommends checking whether existing tuning rules match as expected and, when a rule has no matches, considering whether it is still needed or can be removed.
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Microsoft recommends periodically verifying that the server setup process installs Defender for Identity sensors on new domain controllers, AD CS servers, and AD FS servers.
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A restored domain controller that lacks the DNS Server role must have DNS installed and configured. The step is repeated for each restored controller that is not operating as a DNS server after restore.
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Microsoft recommends bare-metal recovery backup preparation for forest recovery. A BMR backup can be restored to different hardware or a different operating-system instance.
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Full-server recovery is needed when restoring to different hardware or a different operating-system instance. Bare-metal recovery is a supported backup-and-restore method for that scenario.
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DFSR-replicated SYSVOL can be restored authoritatively with msDFSR-Options or wbadmin -authsysvol. Microsoft describes wbadmin as simpler for same-hardware system-state restore and the attribute method as necessary for bare-metal restore.
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The forest-recovery sequence includes adding the global catalog role to a domain controller. Microsoft documents both the standard add operation and a repadmin-based method.
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Raising available RID pools prevents a restored domain from reallocating a RID used after the backup point. The domain-wide RID space is maintained in the RID Manager object’s rIDAvailablePool attribute.
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Microsoft provides a PowerShell procedure that invalidates the current RID pool on one domain controller. Directory-Services-SAM event 16654 in the System log verifies completion on Windows Server 2012; Microsoft notes that earlier Windows versions do not log this event.
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Microsoft documents wbadmin.exe procedures for nonauthoritative AD DS restore. The procedure distinguishes nonauthoritative AD restore from an authoritative SYSVOL restore that can be performed alongside it.
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