joe’s commandments for DS Admins

joe Richards has a blog post on his advice for DS Admins.

Not 10 this time but 8  commandments:

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1. Do not share your credentials with anyone. Period.

2. Be scared when using the ID, you can do a lot of damage with it.

3. Have second and third thoughts before changing things.

4. When in GUI applications, if you don’t mean to change things, use CANCEL, not OK to exit dialogs.

5. You can do a lot from your normal userid, prefer to use it over the Domain Admin ID.

6. Try to solve issues without logging interactively into Domain Controllers.

7.  If you aren’t sure about something, don’t do it.

8. Ask questions. I much rather hear “I don’t know” than someone try to guess.

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