In "Mastering Active Directory Domains," I explained the importance of good domain naming and discussed the concept of nesting domains. In this article, I'll discuss two more Active Directory ...

Learning how to work with directory services is a long journey that involves trusts, policies and organizational understanding, along with the tools that make the operating system hum. The new 70-294 ...

One of the highlights for me of NetPro’s annual Directory Experts Conference is the report on the survey of attendees that the company releases after the event. It was slow coming out this year – the ...

Have a client who has always had 2 domain controllers in SITEA. Today we installed a domain controller in SITEB as they had only a nas device for local storage and also were on a workgroup. All domain ...

The more insidious of these orphaned objects are extra sites and site links. As businesses grow, new sites are commonly also added into Active Directory Sites and Services. The problem with these ...

It’s called “site coverage.” When domain controller X registers its SRV records in DNS, it checks to see if any poor, neglected Active Directory sites don’t have any domain controllers in the same ...

I have a domain that has 23 different sites. For the most part they are all connected to each other via MPLS. Most sites have just one DC but there are 3 sites that have multiple domain controllers ...

An efficient Active Directory topology is a must if you're planning to deploy Exchange 2007. Unlike its predecessors, the latest version of Exchange doesn't use Routing Groups to handle messaging ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — The Active Directory toolbox available to IT executives will get a little deeper next week. NetPro Computing Inc. will launch its DirectoryInsight tool, which provides change and ...