Consider this scenario: You’re running Windows 2000. You sit down at a domain controller within an Active Directory site and create a new user account. In another building, the new user logs on to a ...

Setting up a Domain Controller (DC) in a Windows server is crucial in managing a secure and centralized network. A Domain Controller handles authentication, enforces security policies, and enables ...

Normally, when an update is made to a domain controller, the updates are replicated to every other domain controller in the domain. If there were ten domain controllers in the alternate facility, then ...

It looks like Azure Active Directory Domain Services is another product to actually run Active Directory, including Group Policy, etc in Azure. I haven't looked into this because we have had an ...

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure Active Directory Domain Services is commercially available. Microsoft charges hourly rates for organizations using Azure AD Domain Services, depending on ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...

Step-By-Step: Learn how to transfer and seize FSMO roles in Active Directory Your email has been sent Know the placement of server roles within the forest and domain and how to go about moving those ...