I just created our first Server 2012 R2 domain controller. It's a domain controller plus DNS server. When I run the DNS BPA one of the things it reports back is that I need to have the loopback ...

If the hardware behind your domain controllers has become outdated, here's a step-by-step guide to performing a hardware refresh. Although most of the resources on my network are virtual, I have a ...

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 ...

(The workstation knows what domain it’s in, and it also knows where its preferred DNS server is.) Of course, the problem with this scheme is that the domain controller address returned by DNS might or ...

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 ...