Adding a computer to Active Directory is straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is join the workstation to your Windows domain and reboot it once or twice. You can use Active Directory ...

I have just set up 10.3 Server as a domain controller. I just set up the DNS server and everything. I open up Directory Access to try and have the machine join the domain and can't get it for the life ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

Microsoft is bringing a little more clarity to how Windows 10 will be used with traditional premises-based Active Directory, as well as with its Azure Active Directory service. While Active Directory ...

Here at work, we are primarily a Windows shop. However, we do have Linux servers for certain tasks (web server, ftp server, Asterisk phone systems at each company site). One of the things that has ...

Introduced in Windows Server 2012 R2, Workplace Join lets otherwise incapable mobile devices participate in an Active Directory domain, but doesn't provide comprehensive security. One of the major ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Windows Server 2008 includes a handful of ...

The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable. You may use your printer for various reasons. However, you can use it only when your computer detects it correctly. When your computer ...

VMware has long given its customers the ability to add hosts to an Active Directory (AD) forest, but is doing so a good idea? Like anything else in the world of IT, there can be pros and cons ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...