Although domain controllers can be configured to obtain an IP address from DHCP, it’s best practice to configure a static IP address so that it can be reliably discovered across the network. You may ...

Anyone know of a good article to ensure that all servers/domain controllers/computers clocks are all sync'd up. Right now I have added a line in their logon script to sync computers up with the domain ...

If the hardware behind your domain controllers has become outdated, here's a step-by-step guide to performing a hardware refresh. Although most of the resources on my network are virtual, I have a ...

I have a home network with an Active Directory domain that I have been running on a server for the last 20-ish years. (On the same server, not the smartest.) That was when I was an MCSE and doing a ...

Password replication for read-only domain controllers in Windows Server 2008 Your email has been sent The read-only domain controller is easy to set up, but you need to perform a few more steps to ...

It’s back to the future – remember the Windows NT Backup Domain Controller (BDC)? It could log you on, but you couldn’t make any changes to it. The 2008 version of the BDC goes by the new name of Read ...

This post provides the most suitable solutions to the issue whereby Group Policies are not applying as well as not replicating between Domain Controllers in a typical Windows Server environment. If ...

Picking up the pieces after a failed domain controller demotion Your email has been sent DCPROMO is supposed to make the task of demoting a domain controller easy. So what do you do if DCPROMO fails?