Usually, a domain join is a simple process that connects a Windows client or Windows Server machine to the Active Directory domain-- unless the domain join fails. Then things get complicated. Domain ...
Looking for some pointing in the right direction as a mostly Linux admin. Big picture what I'm trying to do is take about 50 Windows client PCs that aren't part of a domain, join them to a domain, and ...
Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...
Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Windows Server 2008 includes a handful of ...
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 ...
Earlier this week I saw a situation in which someone with a small, single-domain controller network performed a restoration of their domain controller. This restoration effectively reverted the Active ...
Windows Server admins should establish one authoritative time source for their organization. Rick Vanover explains how to configure the authoritative time source. We may earn from vendors via ...
Microsoft is urging customers to apply patches issued in November for two Active Directory domain controller bugs, following publication of a proof-of-concept tool that leverages these bugs, which ...
Usually, a domain join is a simple process that connects a Windows client or Windows Server machine to the Active Directory domain-- unless the domain join fails. Then things get complicated. Domain ...