Another key difference between NT and Active Directory is the process by which a server becomes a domain controller. In NT, once a server is a PDC or a BDC, only reinstalling Windows can downgrade ...

Active Directory mistake: Moving domain controller objects into a child OU of the domain controller is unsupported how-to May 19, 2008 4 mins Operating Systems Small and Medium Business Windows ...

It looks like Azure Active Directory Domain Services is another product to actually run Active Directory, including Group Policy, etc in Azure.

Secura digital security advisors and researchers, have discovered a highly critical vulnerability with Active Directory domain controllers. Rated as a 10 of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring ...

Summary Microsoft must have been listening to the complaints about Active Directory limitations because Windows Server 2008 allows multiple password policies within a domain, read-only domain ...

Earlier this week I saw a situation in which someone with a small, single-domain controller network performed a restoration of their domain controller. This restoration effectively reverted the ...

Know the placement of server roles within the forest and domain and how to go about moving those roles to other domain controllers, either by transferring them or seizing them.

Ransomware hackers are hitting up Active Directory domain controllers to boost privileges within compromised networks, warns Microsoft. See Also: Gartner Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident ...

We are having a problem with a server - the only Active Directory controller for our small network - intermittently shutting down for no apparent reason.

This can cause the SYSVOL folder on this server to become out of sync with other domain controllers. Active Directory Domain Services was unable to establish a connection with the global catalog.