This is one of the very common question I get from starters, students, admins who follow my blog. They says, the follow my step-by-step guides to install domain controller on the production or demo setup and at the end they can’t connect the computers to the domain. I’m sure if you are already working on domain infrastructure, you also face same experience in your job some times.
So I…
Microsoft released Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 2 for the public. I am sure most of you already got the news. In this article I am going to demonstrate how we can install AD in Windows server 2016 TP2.
You can download windows 2016 TP2 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-technical-previewit
You can deploy it using .iso or .vhd file. If you notice…
Few of the blog readers asked me on few occasions if they can change the AD domain name to the different domain name. Answer is yes you can, but you need to aware of the issues it can occur as well. Otherwise you will be end up in a mess with non-functioning infrastructure. Idea of this post is to demonstrate how to rename AD and also to point out some issues you may face with a domain…
SRV record is a DNS (Domain Name System) record used to identify the computers, servers which hosts specific servers. It also used to locate domain controllers for Active directory environment.
This is very critical in a multiple site environment. In my last 2 articles I have explained about the multiple sites in a directory service environment. If you not read it yet you can find them in…