I am in the process of duplicating our production environment in a lab for testing. The guy that orginally set this up is no longer here, so I need a little help from the Active Directory and DNS ...

So I'm contemplating standing up a new AD to replace what's currently here. It appears best practice is either to name the AD as a subdomain of your external company name (something like ...

If you run DNS on domain controllers, you have the opportunity to use something called Active Directory Integrated zones, or ADI zones. In classical DNS, the zone information is stored in text files ...

But more than the synergy of putting two roles together in one machine when those roles typically require frequent communications between them, running DNS on the same system as Active Directory ...

On the initial page of the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard, select the radio button for Add a domain controller to an existing domain. Because this server is already a member of ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Samba's open source alternative to Microsoft's domain controller is a good start, but not ready for prime time Samba 4.0 is a milestone release that brings Active Directory functionality to the open ...

Of the many remediation efforts IT organizations must undergo when migrating off Windows Server 2003, the decommissioning of antiquated Active Directory domain controllers to implement the more robust ...