Just upgraded an NT4 domain to Windows 2000 AD. The two new domain controllers are 1u racks and don't have tape drives, the hard drives are hardware raid 1. We have several file servers that are Raid ...

What you will learn in this tip: When Microsoft created Windows Server 2008, the company did away with NTBackup and provided a new data backup application called Windows Server Backup. Windows Server ...

I believe so if the network type is a mixed node (2k & NT) and you don't try and Raise Domain Functional Level. I've just recently been reading my 2k3 AD book but I got lots on my mind with work so it ...

DCPROMO is supposed to make the task of demoting a domain controller easy. So what do you do if DCPROMO fails? Take a deep breath and read this Daily Drill Down by Brien Posey, who shows you how ...

Data Domain plans to announce this week a disk-based backup and recovery appliance that is faster and has more capacity than the company’s virtual tape library offerings. The new gear consists of the ...

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 of it ...