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 ...

Microsoft moved Windows 2000 to extended support in June, pushing the elderly Windows NT operating system one step closer to the software graveyard. While more than a few organizations are still ...

Earlier this week I saw a situation in which someone with a small, single-domain controller network performed a restoration of their domain controller. This restoration effectively reverted the Active ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

Domain controllers that are hosting Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles are critical to Active Directory health. Active Directory is designed so that if a domain controller that is hosting ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...

If the hardware behind your domain controllers has become outdated, here's a step-by-step guide to performing a hardware refresh. Although most of the resources on my network are virtual, I have a ...

A recent report from Microsoft reinforces warnings about the critical role Active Directory (AD) domain controllers play in large-scale ransomware attacks, aligning with U.S. government advisories on ...