Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's centralized directory service for Windows networks. It acts as a backbone for authentication, authorization, and management of users, devices, and resources within ...

Last time, we discussed some key differences between Active Directory and the NT 4 domain model as it pertains to server roles. In addition to these differences, it's also important to understand the ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

First I would like to talk about my AD infrastructure. There are 2 domains in a single forest. first contosoholding.com was created and then contoso.domain was created. Step 0 : Create Enterprise / ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Windows Server 2008 includes a handful of ...

We have a Windows 2000 domain (in-place upgrade from NT4). When we brought up a new clean installed W2K domain controller, we transferred all the FSMO roles to it, and brought the other domain ...