If you're moving this to a new box, pretty easy. Setup the new box. DCPROMO it and let replication occur. Setup DNS and WINS on the new box. Authorize the DHCP server. Then after hours you just ...

So we have DC1, DC2, and DC3. DC1 and DC2 are both 2003 32-bit Standard (all 2003 and 2008R2 versions are standard). DC3 is a Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain controller that's been running in the domain ...

Windows 2000 Active Directory deployments can take much longer than expected. Just ask Eric Kornau, CIO at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. “We have to teach Windows 2000 in our ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...