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 ...

The Active Directory Administrative Center can be manually installed on a member server that has Windows Server 2008 R2, but it cannot be installed on any domain controllers or member computers ...

With the Active Directory Domains And Trusts branch selected, you can connect to a domain controller, view or change the domain operations masters, and raise the forest functional level.

The current domain functional level The domain FSMO roles, which are spread between two domain controllers The default location of new users created in the domain So, we have information about the ...

How to join Fedora Linux Desktop to an Active Directory domain Your email has been sent Recently, I covered how to connect Ubuntu Desktop to an Active Directory domain. The domain controller I ...

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.

Once the new domain controller is up and running, be sure to allow plenty of time for the Active Directory database to fully replicate before attempting to replace another domain controller.

Danielle: This type of slowdown is often a common problem when applications need to look up information in the directory to function. Lookup performance depends on a lot of factors: the position of ...

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.

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...