To try and make my question a little more clear here is an example of a Windows 2000 native-mode forest that I'm referring to.<BR><BR>View image: http://www.cowtech ...

@gusgizmo You're absolutely right. Unfortunately this is a case where the client has only 1 server in their domain, so there is no member server host to roll the services out to. The DC should always ...

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 ...

One of the most helpful native tools for troubleshooting problems with domain controllers is DCDiag. In this article, I will show you the basics of using this helpful tool. DCDiag was introduced early ...

I’ve been working with some companies on their “business continuity” plans (that’s what we call disaster recovery these days), and I’ve run across some interesting problems and misconceptions ...

Picking up the pieces after a failed domain controller demotion Your email has been sent DCPROMO is supposed to make the task of demoting a domain controller easy. So what do you do if DCPROMO fails?

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 ...