One of the critical aspects of any administrator's job is his or her ability to recover from an unexpected failure – be it intentional or accidental. Active Directory disaster recovery has many facets ...

Wow, I so don't know what I am doing. But here's the issue. I have two W2K8 AD controllers we'll call HW1 and VM2. HW1 is a physical box. VM2 is a virtual server on Hyper-V. At some point, and we're ...

Why: "Knowing many AD terms is one thing, but being able to work within AD is another." Active Directory may be one of the most established technologies in the Microsoft enterprise stack, but that ...

As the size of a network increases, replication becomes a more pressing issue. Constantly Updated — The download contains the latest and most accurate details. Boost Your Knowledge — This eight-page ...

Move past basic Active Directory concepts into the operational skills administrators need every day. Learn how PowerShell, Group Policy, replication and sites affect real AD management and ...

I was in the process of setting up DFS replication , and after I typed the name of the group, I got an error windows that said: "The AD schema on domain controller ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...