I need to stand up a domain controller as a prerequisite for another piece of software (so there is no real desire to have AD set up other than to get this other software up and running). If I was ...

Although domain controllers can be configured to obtain an IP address from DHCP, it’s best practice to configure a static IP address so that it can be reliably discovered across the network. You may ...

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 ...

We have about 24 offices and we have domain controllers for almost every office. The offices are connected by a 10Mbit mesh network and almost all have backup VPN connections. I'm more of a ...

This post provides the most suitable solutions to the issue whereby Group Policies are not applying as well as not replicating between Domain Controllers in a typical Windows Server environment. If ...