In "Mastering Active Directory Domains," I explained the importance of good domain naming and discussed the concept of nesting domains. In this article, I'll discuss two more Active Directory ...

Have a client who has always had 2 domain controllers in SITEA. Today we installed a domain controller in SITEB as they had only a nas device for local storage and also were on a workgroup. All domain ...

One of the highlights for me of NetPro’s annual Directory Experts Conference is the report on the survey of attendees that the company releases after the event. It was slow coming out this year – the ...

• Active Directory is a mature technology that has been around for nearly 20 years and has undergone some evolution but still maintains its basic structure. • While the built-in Active Directory tools ...

Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

It’s called “site coverage.” When domain controller X registers its SRV records in DNS, it checks to see if any poor, neglected Active Directory sites don’t have any domain controllers in the same ...

Paramount Defenses, the world’s #1 cyber security company in mission-critical privileged access assessment and Active Directory security, founded by an ex-Microsoft cyber security expert, today ...

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 ...

Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

i have a single DAG with 3 members (2xCAS, 2xMB, and a remote multi-role). i have previously patched from cu4 to cu10 without any problems but that is without the remote multi-role server. now, i have ...