In "Mastering Active Directory Domains," I explained the importance of good domain naming and discussed the concept of nesting domains. In this article, I'll discuss two more Active Directory ...

Learning how to work with directory services is a long journey that involves trusts, policies and organizational understanding, along with the tools that make the operating system hum. The new 70-294 ...

Have a client who has always had 2 domain controllers in SITEA. Today we installed a domain controller in SITEB as they had only a nas device for local storage and also were on a workgroup. All domain ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article, both in the July print issue and online, erroneously described how to connect an on-premise instance of Windows Server Active Directory to Windows ...

One of the highlights for me of NetPro’s annual Directory Experts Conference is the report on the survey of attendees that the company releases after the event. It was slow coming out this year – the ...

I have a domain that has 23 different sites. For the most part they are all connected to each other via MPLS. Most sites have just one DC but there are 3 sites that have multiple domain controllers ...

Active Directory design is a science, and it’s far too complex to cover all the nuances within the confines of one article. But I wanted to share with you 10 quick tips that will help make your AD ...

An efficient Active Directory topology is a must if you're planning to deploy Exchange 2007. Unlike its predecessors, the latest version of Exchange doesn't use Routing Groups to handle messaging ...

It’s called “site coverage.” When domain controller X registers its SRV records in DNS, it checks to see if any poor, neglected Active Directory sites don’t have any domain controllers in the same ...