What is the best practice when it comes to backup up a server that is a domain controller and a file server for a small office with 20 workstations. Should I even run a file server on a domain ...

Read-Only Domain Controller. Lost in the noise over the release of the beta 3 build of Windows Server 2008 was this gem: the read-only domain controller, or RODC. Created especially for branch ...

But the cloneable domain controller is a special Hyper-V-only benefit, and it starts with a special PowerShell cmdlet, New-ADDCCloneConfig.

I need to stand up a domain controller as a prerequisite for another piece of software (so there is no real desire to have AD set up other than to get this other software up and running). If I was ...

Microsoft: Windows domain controller restarts caused by LSASS crashes Microsoft shared info on a now-fixed known issue leading to Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) crashes and ...

Even if someone runs off with your remote office's domain controller, with Windows Server 2008 you don't need to worry about sensitive data being compromised. Russell Smith is a technology consultant ...

Security researchers have devised a way to block the recently disclosed PetitPotam attack vector that allows hackers to take control of a Windows domain controller easily. An new version of the ...

Each domain has a central set of usernames, passwords, configuration data and account permissions that's managed through a server called an Active Directory domain controller.