Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2008 provides a number of enhancements over previous versions, including these: Auditing —AD DS auditing has been enhanced significantly in ...

Domains primarily define the scope for replication, which is a major reason why multi-domain forests exist. Active Directory is made up of many types of objects: users, computers, groups ...

Related reading: Migrate your active directory, don’t split it. If your company wants to spin off one of its departments into a separate business, and needs to divvy up its single-domain Active ...

A Domain Controller, on the other hand, is a server that hosts an Active directory and manages network authentication. Essentially, AD is the system, and the DC is the server that runs it, making ...

From there, you can configure Active Directory domain controllers with the PDC emulator role in a domain to use this list of servers explicitly for their time. Read this TechNet article to learn ...