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 ...

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 ...

When you log in to a Windows 11/10 domain-joined machine and try to connect to the already mapped drive or multiple client workstations are unable to correctly ...

If the hardware behind your domain controllers has become outdated, here's a step-by-step guide to performing a hardware refresh.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 ...

(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 ...

You shouldn’t change domain controller network settings, but here’s how to do it if you must Your email has been sent Active Directory domain controllers (DCs) are probably the most change-averse ...

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 ...

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

Adding a new site to our domain with 2 new domain controllers and having issues. Both DCs joined ok but the KCC is throwing a fit and will not auto-create the NTDS links. I keep getting this ...

Microsoft is reinforcing warnings about the critical role Active Directory (AD) domain controllers play in large-scale ransomware attacks, aligning with U.S. government advisories on the persistent ...