This Windows Server 2008 system is also the domain controller, DNS, and DHCP server for my local network (Small Business Server 2008). When I visit acmewidgets.com from inside my network, it goes out ...

Here are some tips and tricks for creating redundant Azure AD Connect server that can help keep business running if the primary server fails. Organizations often use Azure AD Connect to maintain the ...

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 ...

Domain Name System (DNS) servers translate human readable host or domain names to numeric IP addresses. Drexel IT Networking manages domain name servers used by the university. At start-up time, most ...

In Windows Server, a child domain is a subdomain under a parent domain, inheriting policies and trust relationships. For example, if the parent domain is example.com, a child domain might be ...

Currently, our Child Domain Domain controllers host the Root Domains DNS zone as a secondary zone. I have considered removing the secondary DNS zones for the root domain from the Child Domain DCs and ...

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