Active Directory Administrative Center provides network administrators with an enhanced Active Directory data management experience and a rich graphical user interface (GUI). Administrators can use Active Directory Administrative Center to perform common...

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is a server management tool that can help you implement best practices in the configuration of your Active Directory environment. AD DS BPA scans the AD DS server role as it is installed...

Although some versions of Active Directory Users and Computers (dsa.msc) may expose a schema option to add Managed Service Accounts (msDS-ManagedServiceAccount). You should not use this option. This option is exposed because it is a schema option, but...

Accidental deletion of Active Directory objects is a common occurrence for users of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS). In Windows Server 2008 Active Directory domains, you could recover...

I was reminded of the infamous forward link 5171 today. We had quite a time figuring out all the circumstances in which people were getting this message with the following words "This condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem" and then displayed...

Installing from Media is not new, but Windows Server 2008 does have a new way to create the "seed" media using a new ntdsutil ifm command. For a technet topic that explains the steps to create the media, see Installing AD DS from Media . You can see...

With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta, we are proud to announce the Active Directory Module for Window PowerShell. The Active Directory module is a command line scripting language that network administrators can use to manage their Active Directory...

When you want to virtualize a domain controller there are some things that you should not do. For example, you shouldn't make copies of vhds that belong to domain controllers and then start those vhds in virtual machines. Why? Well, you can cause replication...

We have published guidelines for planning and deploying read-only domain controllers (RODCs). There is a Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Branch Office Guide available on TechNet ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd734758(WS.10).aspx ) and...