Installing this month's Windows Server security update has knocked some enterprise domain controllers into continuous reboot cycles.

In the first part of this series, I talked about how you could recover your server after a system volume failure. In this article, I want to turn my attention to some special procedures used for ...

I second Afidel here, you do get the right to run two windows server VM's on a piece of physical hardware per license, and the Hyper-V role doesn't count against that. So doing a P2V into Hyper-V of ...

Q: A company's IT team is planning the placement of domain controllers for their multi-site domain. The team needs to know what is recommended. Which of the following should be considered when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Password replication for read-only domain controllers in Windows Server 2008 Your email has been sent The read-only domain controller is easy to set up, but you need to perform a few more steps to ...

There’s a particular kind of dread when someone says, “Everything important is on that server.” They then point to a single aging Windows box humming in a closet, which contains Active Directory, file ...