Adding a Windows Server 2019 domain controller is not complicated, but deciding whether to move this integral infrastructure component to a new version of Windows Server or put it in the cloud is ...

Many organizations still have pockets of resistance in the form of outdated, legacy setups that are often in key areas of the on-premises infrastructure, such as domain controllers. With the recent ...

I set up a small server 2003 domain with 5 machines. One PC is a domain controller and the remaining 4 are windows XP machines. I set up DNS on the domain controller. The computer name of the domain ...

The Extended Security Update (ESU) for Windows Server 2012 R2 ended with the monthly update on October 13, 2026. The task of ...

Microsoft is investigating LSASS memory leaks (caused by Windows Server updates released during the November Patch Tuesday) that might lead to freezes and restarts on some domain controllers. LSASS ...

A recent security update for a Windows NTLM Relay Attack has been confirmed to be a previously unfixed vector for the PetitPotam attack. Microsoft is investigating a known issue causing authentication ...

It’s back to the future – remember the Windows NT Backup Domain Controller (BDC)? It could log you on, but you couldn’t make any changes to it. The 2008 version of the BDC goes by the new name of Read ...

Installing this month's Windows Server security update has knocked some enterprise domain controllers into continuous reboot cycles, Microsoft confirmed in a release health dashboard entry. The ...

Extend the 180-day Windows Server evaluation with slmgr -rearm, what happens when it expires, and why a domain controller can ...

Had a power cut today, which took out one of my ESXi hosts on which a Server 2019 domain controller VM was running. It started up on the second ESXi server but now it's not working properly. For ...

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 ...