So, you think you know how password policies work in Active Directory? Well, you might ... or you might not. Find out how to manage Active Directory password policies in Windows Server 2008 and ...

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 ...

Whenever people talk about “migrating to the latest version of Windows”, I always like to clarify whether they are talking about moving their application servers to the latest version, and/or their ...

All servers must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 All DCs must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 Adprep to prepare both the forest and domain Raise the functional level of the forest and domains to ...

Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s directory service. It runs on Windows Server and helps administrators manage permissions and access to network resources. To backup and restore Active Directory in ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 all editions Windows Server 2003, all editions Windows Server 2008, Enterprise and Datacenter editions Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise and Datacenter editions Answer and ...

Windows Server admins should establish one authoritative time source for their organization. Rick Vanover explains how to configure the authoritative time source. Time management is one of the more ...

The R2 update for Windows Server 2003 was mostly about bug-fixes plus the odd feature tweak, but that's not the case with Windows Server 2008 R2. Expected around October, WS 2008 R2 is a far more ...

Auditing capability in Microsoft Windows Server has always been a somewhat unsophisticated affair: either filling up event logs so quickly that they truncate or spiralling out of control. Extraneous ...

Some things in life, like death and taxes, are guaranteed. There are other things in life that you think are guaranteed, or at least you think you know how they work -- such as Active Directory ...