I've got a rather bizarre (to me at least) problem at the moment with one of the NT4 domains I run. It *appears* to have gotten worse since the network was upgraded to 100Mb/sec Cisco switches - they ...

I need to stand up a domain controller as a prerequisite for another piece of software (so there is no real desire to have AD set up other than to get this other software up and running). If I was ...

The most common reason for domain join failures is incorrect DNS configuration. For your computer to find the domain controller, its network settings must point to a DNS server that can resolve your ...

How Windows Clients Find Domain Controllers Any discussion of DNS and Active Directory must come quickly to a discussion of the AD “signposts” known as the SRV (service locator) records. SRV is just ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...

Earlier this month we discussed how special DNS resource records called SRV (service locator) records help Windows systems find domain controllers so they can authenticate to the domain. Interestingly ...