There’s an interesting DNS registration behavior that occurs on domain controllers.  I’m not sure that it only occurs on domain controllers but I...

Dashes for Numbers 1.  Let’s start by verifying that everything is okay. 1a.  Here’s the original output from netlogon.dns found at %systemroot%system32config. 1b. ...

A request came up in a newsgroup for a script which would automate the creation of a primary zone on one DNS server,...

Among the many interviews that I have been part of, there is one request that I always make that seems to plague candidates:...

<<I realized that though it shows through in the traces, I erred in the post.  Specifically, I included Windows 2000 in the list...

Some time ago I had a request to create local user accounts on laptops and to provide those user accounts with administrative access...

The protection and management of built-in administrative groups in Active Directory helps to provide us confidence and security in the stability and ownership...

The nature of Microsoft’s directory service clients provides for inherent fault-tolerance in the event of a failure.  There are often questions about how,...

It was my first AD environment that I owned and I was much more excited than I was wise.  I made lots and...