Changing the Display Names of Active Directory Users
By default, when a new user is created in Active Directory, the Full Name and Display Name attribute is generated using the FirstName LastName format. You can change this behavior …
The Core of Active Directory
The data that is stored in Active Directory is physically stored in just a few files. The information is mainly stored in a file called ntds.dit, but there are also …
Installing Windows Server 2012
In this tutorial, we are going to go through the steps to install Windows Server 2012. Microsoft continues to improve the installation process. If you have installed Windows Server 2008/2008 …
DNS May Fail to Resolve Top-Level Domain
If your Windows 2008 Server is running DNS Server Services and uses root hints to resolve Internet host name, it may fail to resolve queries for host names in certain …
Locating Inactive Computer Accounts in AD
When it comes to computer accounts, unfortunately, they seem to linger around even when computers are removed from the domain and retired. Over time, the number of computer accounts in …
Preventing Users from Joining the Domain
By default, when a Windows domain is created, authenticated users are granted the ability to join up to ten computers to the domain. While this may be very convenient from …
The DHCP Process: Negotiating a Lease
The process of obtaining an IP address from a DHCP server is fairly simple and straightforward. This basic process, while taken for granted by many network administrators, is key in …
What are Root Hints?
Root hints are DNS data stored in a DNS server. The root hints provide a list of preliminary resource records that can be used by the DNS service to locate …
What is an SOA Record in DNS?
The SOA record, or Start of Authority, specifies authoritative information about a DNS zone, including the primary name server, the email of the domain administrator, the domain serial number, and …
Best Practices When Running WINS On Your Network
There are still many organizations that maintain the Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) running on their network. This is generally because the WINS infrastructure has been in place since the …
TCP/IP Port Numbers
In computer networking, a port is a communications socket/endpoint in a computer’s operating system. A port is associated with an IP address of the host, as well as the type …
ASP Conditional Statements
Having the ability to perform different actions based on certain conditions is a critical component of any programming language. One of the ways that you can have your program execute …