A domain tree consists of a root-level domain and child domains, each of which can contain other child domains. Parallel directory trees are called forests. The trees within a forest have nothing in ...

What’s New in Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services Windows Server 2008 System Requirements Installing Windows Server 2008 Active Directory has ...

In "Mastering Active Directory Domains," I explained the importance of good domain naming and discussed the concept of nesting domains. In this article, I'll discuss two more Active Directory ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...

As companies move more and more applications and services to the cloud, it becomes increasingly important to authenticate users in a way that allows their identities to be recognized both on-premises ...

How do Active Directory domains relate to DNS subdomains? I've gotten myself confused. We're expanding out from the corporate office to new facilities. The first thing that comes to mind is to create ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...