In the first part of this series, I talked about how you could recover your server after a system volume failure. In this article, I want to turn my attention to some special procedures used for ...

Microsoft is investigating LSASS memory leaks (caused by Windows Server updates released during the November Patch Tuesday) that might lead to freezes and restarts on some domain controllers. LSASS ...

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused some Windows Server 2025 domain controllers to become unreachable after a restart and triggered app or service failures. Microsoft has fixed a known ...

I have my DHCP server (on Sonicwall) configured to give out the domain controller/DNS server ip as primary DNS, for secondary DNS I have set to give out 1.1.1.1, for tertiary 8.8.4.4 Does this comply ...

Password replication for read-only domain controllers in Windows Server 2008 Your email has been sent The read-only domain controller is easy to set up, but you need to perform a few more steps to ...

I just created our first Server 2012 R2 domain controller. It's a domain controller plus DNS server. When I run the DNS BPA one of the things it reports back is that I need to have the loopback ...

When you log in to a Windows 11/10 domain-joined machine and try to connect to the already mapped drive or multiple client workstations are unable to correctly ...

Although domain controllers can be configured to obtain an IP address from DHCP, it’s best practice to configure a static IP address so that it can be reliably discovered across the network. You may ...

Picking up the pieces after a failed domain controller demotion Your email has been sent DCPROMO is supposed to make the task of demoting a domain controller easy. So what do you do if DCPROMO fails?

If the hardware behind your domain controllers has become outdated, here's a step-by-step guide to performing a hardware refresh. Although most of the resources on my network are virtual, I have a ...

If you use Windows Server Systems in your small business, one of your computers acts as a domain controller (DC). However, it can be difficult to know which computer is the domain controller, ...