Today, did the Windows Patches on our Domain Controller.I rebooted, and now I cannot log into it at all. Not as the Domain admin, not as any other account ...

A Domain Controller (DC) in Windows Server is a server that responds to security authentication requests within a Windows domain. It plays a crucial role in managing network security and user access.

Say you had a peer-to-peer network, and then later you decided to try Win2K's AD. The computer joins the domain....you've still got a local account on the ...

Technically you cannot log into the computer, which is part of the domain. However, you may ask your IT admin if a policy gives an exception to some of the accounts to log in without it.

password on your domain controllers. This password is unique to each DC, and you use it to log on to a DC that you’ve rebooted into DSRM to take its copy of Active Directory ...

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 ...