Troubleshooting System Center Configuration Manager

Active Directory

Active Directory plays a major part in the successful operation of our Configuration Manager sites, so it is important that we know where the touch points are and how these can affect the smooth running of Configuration Manager. We are not going to dive deep into Active Directory as the borders can get blurry as to where we need to troubleshoot, but let us look at a few of the clear relationships with your Active Directory.

Schema extension

We will first take a brief look at the Active Directory schema extension for Configuration Manager. The purpose of this is to allow Configuration Manager to have information about many Configuration Manager features and components available from contacting their Active Directory, which is a known ...