Today I’m going to show you how to rename a Domain Controller. Before we can rename the DC, we must prepare the server first. You can use this checklist as a guide to make sure your server is ready or copy and paste this link into your browser http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816631(WS.10).aspx. The actual command to rename it [...]
Directory services are integral to any business. They allow you to have a central authentication platform and provide you with an interface to enforce software policies and various other configurations. In many cases businesses are forced to use the sometimes costly Microsoft Active Directory for their directory services and domain controllers because they are unaware [...]
A very common issue which occurs when troubleshooting server related issues is DNS. There are many reasons for this, however the primary reason is the delay in propagation of DNS records. Often times a web application or site will require DNS records to function properly, but these changes either cannot be made prior to testing or do not propagate fast enough due to the nature of DNS servers.
Someone may have just given you the task to change a password for an Exchange user, and now you’re here; I’m not talking about changing your password, I mean change another user’s password as an administrator. Maybe you’ve never done any administration with Exchange, and the task just kind of fell into your lap. You [...]
SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 allows administrators to easily manage updates for computers in a production environment. During SCE installation, you can specify whether or not SCE will create a group object on your domain’s active directory domain controllers for SCE managed computers; by default, the installation wizard creates an SCE managed computers group object in active [...]
What is a stub zone? Stub zones are a way for different DNS servers from different domains to communicate DNS information to each other. Technically speaking, a stub zone is a copy of a zone that contains only those resource records necessary to identify the authoritative DNS servers for that zone. When someone wants a resource [...]
Having a platform of centralized authentication is important in an enterprise environment. It allows all of your enterprise applications to authenticate against a centralized database of users, rather than each application’s own database of users. When dealing with a large number of applications, it can be hard to memorize and keep track of each application’s [...]
