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 ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face ...

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.

Locate a domain controller (Active Directory Sites and Services | Sites | sitename | Servers | DCname), move to the Details pane, then right-click on NTDS Settings and select Properties.

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.

Another key difference between NT and Active Directory is the process by which a server becomes a domain controller. In NT, once a server is a PDC or a BDC, only reinstalling Windows can downgrade ...

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.

Jack Wallen shows you how to join Fedora Desktop to an Active Directory domain controller.

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.