The Active Directory Maximum Limits and Scalability topic has been recently updated to reflect improvements in Windows Server 2012 to the number of RIDs that can be allocated over the lifetime of a domain. Another update was made to the section about maximum number of objects to reflect garbage collection...

"All my love's in vain." - "Love in Vain" , Robert Johnson (1911-1938) Hey folks, We know if you read this blog you love to find answers to all your Active Directory questions in our documentation on Microsoft.com. But before you can do that, you have to be able find it. As many of you know, that...

We recently published TechNet topics about Adprep.exe for Windows Server 2012. Adprep has many changes for this release: Adprep runs automatically as needed as part of AD DS installation. For example, if you are installing AD DS on a server that runs Windows Server 2012 in a forest where all existing...

Some users have run into this problem in Windows Server 2012 when they try to install a domain controller using Server Manager. They start the Add Server Roles Wizard in Server Manager and run through the steps to install Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and when they get to this page, they click...

A couple years back, we posted on TechNet Wiki an older article that was originally published on the TechNet Library by Steve Riley, when he worked at Microsoft. The article is Active Directory Replication over Firewalls . Since publishing it on TechNet Wiki, this article has been updated many times...

We want to make people aware of guidelines we have published for installing Active Directory on Windows Azure Virtual Network at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj156090.aspx . This topic covers the differences between installing AD on Windows Azure versus a traditional AD deployment on premises...

We recently published Capacity Planning for Active Directory Domain Services on TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj651019.aspx . This is a a detailed and comprehensive set of guidelines to help optimize computing resources for DCs, including considerations for virtual environments...