IT admin may lock down the DMZ from an external perspective but fail to put that level of security on access to the DMZ from an internal perspective as you’ll have to access, manage and monitor these ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused some Windows Server 2025 domain controllers to become unreachable after a restart and triggered app or service failures. Microsoft has fixed a known ...

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 ...

We have a 2003 R2 DC that I want to virtualize as the lease on the hardware is expiring. It's a DC, GC, FSMO master, DNS, DHCP and TS License Server. I want/need to keep the same name and IP on the ...

How Windows Clients Find Domain Controllers Any discussion of DNS and Active Directory must come quickly to a discussion of the AD “signposts” known as the SRV (service locator) records. SRV is just ...

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 ...

How to deploy Samba on Linux as an Active Directory Domain Controller Your email has been sent Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s way of making it possible to create and apply policies to machines ...

For many organizations, maintaining branch offices generates significant operational costs and administrative challenges. Two scenarios exist when dealing with branch offices because of the high costs ...

Update March 22: Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix this known issue. The March 2024 Windows Server updates are causing some domain controllers to crash and restart, ...

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