Gaming: Mass Effect Play Through

Mass Effect, released in 2007 is a third-person adventure/action shooter video game created by the legendary software house Bioware. It tells the story of Commander Shepherd, the first human SPECTRE who is sent on a mission by the Citadel Council to track down Saren, a rogue Turian SPECTRE who had led attacks on various outposts in Citadel space.

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Tech Note: Tombstone Active Directory Domain Controllers

I have a number of test platforms which I use, and last week I started one which had been offline for a number of months. It consists of two Hyper-V Virtual Machines, each running Windows Server 2012 R2. These servers are configured as ADDC in the same domain and the last time I used them all was working as expected. However, upon firing them up I noticed a few errors with Active Directory Replication, the problem? My Active Directory Domain Controllers were tombstoned.

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