I've got two DCs both running Windows Server 2008 R2. My domain and forest functional levels are set to Windows 2000 native (I believe... I'd need to log in to verify, but I think this is right). I'm ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...

First I would like to talk about my AD infrastructure. There are 2 domains in a single forest. first contosoholding.com was created and then contoso.domain was created. Step 0 : Create Enterprise / ...

If I were searching for groups in a single domain, this would be a very simple chore. However, I wanted to find groups that matched the pattern in all domains within the forest. Technically, I could ...

Spotting Active Directory problems isn't necessarily simple, but it can help avoid a catastrophe. These tales of AD disasters come from real-life situations and should serve as instruction -- and ...

There are several tools included in Windows Server to manage Active Directory in all its aspects. In this article, you’ll learn the uses for and the ins and outs of the Active Directory Domains And ...

In the first part, I talked about OU design as it relates to group policy-based security. In this article, I want to continue the discussion by talking about planning your Active Directory’s domain ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...