Entra ID Part 1
This type of bottleneck occurs when a system component limits overall performance, such as CPU, memory, disk, or network.
What is a performance bottleneck?
This AD DS-specific counter tracks the number of LDAP searches per second.
What is NTDS\LDAP Searches/sec?
This type of AD snapshot allows administrators to view historical states of the directory without restoring backups.
What is an Active Directory snapshot?
This tool connects on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID for identity synchronization.
What is Entra Connect?
This Entra Connect feature monitors synchronization health and alerts administrators to issues.
What is Entra Connect Health?
A high percentage of processor time spent in this state may indicate a CPU bottleneck.
What is privileged mode?
This type of bottleneck may occur when insufficient RAM causes excessive paging to disk.
What is a memory bottleneck?
This ntdsutil command mounts a snapshot so it can be accessed via LDAP.
What is activate instance ntds?
Entra Connect requires this version of Windows Server or later to be installed on the sync server.
What is Windows Server 2016?
During installation, this wizard guides administrators through configuration of sync options and identity models.
What is the Entra Connect installation wizard?
This hardware bottleneck can occur when disk I/O is consistently high and queue lengths exceed thresholds.
What is a disk bottleneck?
This Performance Monitor feature allows you to create custom data collector sets for long-term analysis.
What is Data Collector Sets?
This service must be running to access a mounted AD snapshot via LDAP.
What is the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)?
This synchronization mode uses default settings and is ideal for simple, single-forest environments.
What is Express synchronization?
This protocol is used by Entra Connect to securely transmit identity data to Microsoft Entra ID.
What is HTTPS?
This Windows Server tool provides real-time and historical performance data using counters and graphs.
What is Performance Monitor?
This file is the primary database that stores all Active Directory data, including users, groups, and policies.
What is ntds.dit??
This ntdsutil command is used to compact the AD database offline.
What is semantic database analysis?
This synchronization mode allows granular control over attribute filtering, OU selection, and source forests.
What is Customized synchronization?
This PowerShell cmdlet can be used to manually trigger a directory synchronization cycle.
What is Start-ADSyncSyncCycle?
This counter in Performance Monitor tracks the percentage of time the processor is busy.
What is Processor\% Processor Time?
This command-line tool is used to manage and maintain the Active Directory database.
What is ntdsutil.exe??
This AD database maintenance task helps reduce fragmentation and reclaim space.
What is offline defragmentation?
This account type must be created or selected during Entra Connect setup to perform directory synchronization.
What is an Entra Connect service account?
This dashboard in the Azure portal provides insights into sync errors, alerts, and performance metrics.
What is the Entra Connect Health dashboard?