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 ...

I'm exploring replacing a NT4 server which is the domain controller and file server for a small network of 6 client machines. However, I've never used samba before, or anything else to do it.<BR>The ...

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 ...

Read-only domain controllers (RODCs), a new feature of Active Directory Domain Services, represent a fundamental change in how you'll use DCs. Here's what you need to know to implement them in your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If when you attempt to promote a Windows Server to a Domain Controller (DC), after you submit the Prerequisites and while Windows is performing the final verification ...

Although domain controllers can be configured to obtain an IP address from DHCP, it’s best practice to configure a static IP address so that it can be reliably discovered across the network. You may ...

Microsoft rolls out new Kerberos protections to block RC4 encryption, with enforcement mode becoming mandatory for domain ...