On the Windows Server 2012 R2 Start Screen, type Active Directory Domains and Trusts. The Search Charm will open displaying Active Directory Domains and Trusts in the results (see Figure 5).

Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s directory service. It runs on Windows Server and helps administrators manage permissions and access to network resources. To backup and restore 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 Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory domain, without FGPPs implemented, has the following characteristics for passwords affecting domain users: ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes an Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell. This new feature enables you to perform Active Directory administrative tasks by using Windows PowerShell.

If Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is not responding or is slow to load on Windows Server or Windows 11/10 client machines, see this post.

You can access it by going to your Windows 2003 Server, and selecting the Active Directory Migration Tool command from the Administrative Tools menu. When ADMT console opens, you may be surprised ...

In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover Active Directory support for IPv6. This is the fourth technical blog post on configuring IPv6 in a Windows networking environment. My previous posts ...

Windows Server admins should establish one authoritative time source for their organization. Rick Vanover explains how to configure the authoritative time source. Time management is one of the ...

Microsoft has released a new public preview of Azure Active Directory Connect, a tool for connecting Windows Server AD to Azure AD. It will replace DirSync and the standalone Azure AD Sync tools.