This week (maybe tonight), I will be promoting a Windows 2000 member server to a domain controller for the first time. There are already two domain controllers in the domain. After promoting the new ...

If when you attempt to promote a Windows Server to a Domain Controller (DC), after you submit the Prerequisites and while Windows is performing the final verification ...

Even if someone runs off with your remote office's domain controller, with Windows Server 2008 you don't need to worry about sensitive data being compromised. Russell Smith is a technology consultant ...

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?

We are having a problem with a server – the only Active Directory controller for our small network – intermittently shutting down for no apparent reason. The company that provided the hardware thinks ...