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 ...

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 ...

Windows Server 2008 includes a handful of important upgrades to your Active Directory domain infrastructure. The most useful are these: Read-Only Domain Controllers: RODCs are a new type of domain ...

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 ...

Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec. 12. A proof-of-concept tool has been published that leverages two ...

Secure member servers and domain controllers. For some companies, ... These tools can enable access to the domain controllers and change the Active Directory database. 2.

When a server is promoted as a domain controller, the Active Directory database will be created and saved to the default C:\Windows\NTDS folder on the DC.

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.

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 ...