Modifying the Behavior of Inter-Site Replication
There are situations for many Active Directory administrators who want to be able to replicate changes between Active Directory sites almost instantly but are frustrated because of the minimum limit …
The Infrastructure Master
The Infrastructure Master is one of the five Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles found in an Active Directory (AD) forest. There is only one Domain Controller (DC) in each …
DNS Conditional Forwarding in Server 2008
Conditional forwarding was a new feature of DNS in Windows Server 2003. It is also available and improved for Windows Server 2008. Conditional forwarding can be used to speed up …
Restoring the Default Domain GPOs
If you have reached this article, you probably have made changes to the Default Domain and/or Default Domain Controller group policy object and know you want to restore them back …
Metadata Cleanup for Active Directory 2000/2003
This article describes how to remove data in Active Directory due to an unsuccessful domain controller (DC) demotion via DCPROMO or simply because you have a DC that failed and …
Configuring DNS Forwarders in Server 2008 R2
A DNS forwarder is a Domain Name System (DNS) server, typically on an internal network that is used to forward DNS queries to DNS servers outside that network, for queries …
Understanding GlobalNames Zone in Windows Server
Many Microsoft-based networks deploy a WINS infrastructure in their environment. WINS is an alternative name resolution protocol to DNS, and in many cases a supplement to DNS as well. It …
The Physical Structure of Active Directory
If you have ever wondered where is active directory information stored, continue to read as this article will try to shed light on this topic. Microsoft Windows Active Directory includes …
Enabling IP Forwarding on Windows Server 200x
Normally, when you want to configure a Windows System for Routing/IP Forwarding, you would configure the Routing and Remote Access Service on a Windows Server Edition. However, there may some …
Unauthorizing DHCP Servers
There may be instances that you may see the old DHCP servers still listed when you view DHCP Authorized servers using the DHCP Admin console. While this should not cause …
DNS Creates Reverse Lookup Zones by Default
If you have ever installed the DNS Server Service on a Windows Server, you may have noticed that three reverse lookup zones are automatically created. In addition, you may find …
Adding the DNS Role to Server 2012
Domain Name System, or DNS, is a system that is used in TCP/IP networks for mapping friendly host names to IP addresses. These names can be those of existing computers …