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 ...

Why Click on "Promote This Server to a Domain Controller" in Active Directory Setup? After installing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on Windows Server 2019, the server needs to function as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Azure Active Directory Domain Services has full support for Kerberos, NTLM and Group Policy, it is pretty much a stand-in replacement for a domain controller.

In fact, I grew up with my Active Directory practice of preferring to address all situations through dcpromo. This includes removing a failed domain controller, moving roles around and ...

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

However, having a dead domain controller listed as active in Active Directory could cause problems down the road, especially if the crashed domain controller serves as an operations master.

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 ...