An Active Directory domain (AD domain) is a collection of objects within a Microsoft Active Directory network. An object can be a single user or a group, or it can be a hardware component, such as a ...

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 ...

Ok. I want to have two AD DC's for the same domain at two different locations. Unfortunately for the purposes of our network design there is NAT running between these two sites. I have read several ...

A domain controller is a server that processes authentication requests from users and computers within a computer domain. Domain controllers are most commonly used in Windows Active Directory (AD) ...

For example, if a client happens to be in an Active Directory site that doesn’t actually have a domain controller, an SRV record can be created that points such a client to the nearest domain ...