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Prosecutor's Office Puts Server System on Trial and Cuts Support Costs by at Least 30%: The Rockingham County Attorney's office prosecutes criminal cases in the county, including cyber infractions, yet the domain controller they were using for day-to-day business was, if not a crime, at least erratic and unpredictable. This was no way to run a department focused on legal matters. The group needed a...; Tags: Domain Controller, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office, Attorney, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-06
IT Services Provider Improves Deployment and Management With New Solution: To stay competitive, Lufthansa Systems needs to be ready to offer the newest technology to its customers. The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner team looks for solutions that it can easily deploy and manage in its own environment before offering them to customers. In November 2007, Lufthansa Systems began implementing the...; Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Domain Controller, Lufthansa, Microsoft Corp., Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware; Case studies 2008-02-01
Regional Government Boosts the Security of Directory and Authentication Services: Vastra Gotalandsregionen (VGR) is a 24,000-square-kilometer area in Sweden. The region's government consists of 37 separate entities that include hospitals as well as departments that promote culture and tourism. In the past, seven separate IT departments supported the entities. Over the last year, however, VGR consolidated its IT groups into...; Tags: Domain Controller, Authentication Service, Authentication, Government, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Workstations, Vertical Industries, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software; Case studies 2008-01-01
Manufacturer Boosts Branch Office Security and Performance With domain controllers: The HELLER Group, a leading producer of metal-cutting machine tools, employs approximately 2,300 people in 20 locations around the world. To minimize security risks posed by unsecured domain controllers, only nine branch offices had domain controllers to manage access to IT resources. Consequently, many employees had to log on to...; Tags: Security, Performance, Domain Controller, Microsoft Office; Case studies 2008-01-01
Microsoft readies new 'Centro' mid-market server test build: Microsoft readies new 'Centro' mid-market server test buildI'll be buying Windows Small Business Server 2008.I'm saving my money until Microsoft releases WSBS08 during 2008.Certain small businessesmay do better with a mid-market server if the small business restrictions are taken away (i.e. only one domain controller, limit to database size, no...; Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, server, Microsoft Windows, domain controller, small business, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-06-20

RPC DNS exploit can compromise your whole company: Companies that havent applied the workarounds for the Microsoft DNS server flaw yet need to make it their top priority. This is NOT something that can wait for a planned weekly or monthly outage; the workarounds need to be applied immediately because of whats at stake. There is...; Tags: Servers, Security, News, Microsoft, Infrastructure, Desktop; Blog posts 2007-04-18
Simplify Active Directory administration by mastering these essential tools: Core Active Directory administration focuses on key tasks that are performed routinely with Active Directory directory service, such as creating computer accounts or joining computers to a domain. Master the tools you can use to manage Active Directory as well as specific techniques for managing computers, domain controllers, and organizational...; Tags: Domain Controller, Administration, Tool, Computer, Chapter Coverage, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software; Book chapters 2006-10-04
Rescuing a failed domain controller: Disaster recovery in action: When a Windows Server 2003 domain controller went belly up, network manager Louis Nel discovered firsthand that disasters don't happen in predictable ways. The situation was complicated by a series of failures (restoring AD from backup failed; transferring the FSMO roles from the server failed; seizing the roles resulted in...; Tags: Domain Controller, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware; Download resources 2006-06-12
Exchange System Manager and domain controller Selection: Exchange System Manager itself can be considered a client of many other different services, for it has to obtain different types of information from different sources. For example, Exchange System Manager uses the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) to display information about mailbox resources as well as Windows Management Instrumentation...; Tags: Domain Controller, Information, TechGenix; White papers 2006-02-21
Active Directory Replication Over Firewalls: Firewalls present two difficulties when deploying a distributed Active Directory (AD) directory service architecture - initially promoting a server to a domain controller, and replicating traffic between domain controllers. Active Directory relies on Remote Procedure Call (RPC) for replication between domain controllers. (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [SMTP] can be used...; Tags: Firewall, Domain Controller, Replication, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-01-31
File and Print Serving With Linux on IBM eServer i5: This paper introduces options for migrating a Microsoft Windows-based file and print serving workload to a Linux-based Samba server on the IBM eServer i5. To explain the migration options, this paper presents the following three scenarios from the migration implementation perspective - replacement of Windows NT-based services of file and...; Tags: Domain Controller, IBM eServer, Samba, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software; White papers 2005-11-21
FreeNetEnumerator (exe): FreeNetEnumerator is a tool to enumerate computers in a domain. Depending on enumeration parameters the tool can work in different ways. It can enumerate all computers (if 'All Computers' is selected), all SQL servers only (if 'Microsoft SQL Servers' is selected ), all primary domain controllers only (if 'Primary domain...; Tags: Primary Domain Controller, Microsoft SQL Server, Domain Controller, Computer, FreeNetEnumerator, Productivity; Software downloads 2005-11-01
Automating a Quicker Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC Reboot: Microsoft's official advice is that a person is not supposed to install Exchange on a Domain Controller. The fact remains, however, that there are a lot of Exchange DCs in use out there. Ultimately, whether the person install Exchange on a DC, or not, depends on many factors (like what...; Tags: Domain Controller, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Person, TechGenix, Exchange, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-10-14
Linux in a Windows World: Using NT Domains for Linux Authentication: If the existing network uses an NT domain or an Active Directory domain, the user may want to tap into the existing domain controller for Linux authentication. For instance, he or she might want a Linux POP server to use the existing Windows domain accounts. Doing so presents certain challenges,...; Tags: Domain Controller, Microsoft Windows NT Domain, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software; Book chapters 2005-01-28
Implementing Server Security on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 (Part 2) - Hardening Member Servers and Hardening domain controllers - Level 200: This webcast addresses implementing security on many different types of servers found in a Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 environment and practical information on how to harden domain controllers. We will provide recommendations and practical information about how to harden servers in general and how to harden member...; Tags: Servers, domain controller, Webcast, Microsoft Windows 2000, server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., security; Webcasts 2004-10-02
Best Practice Guide for Securing Windows Server Active Directory Installations: This paper assists IT professionals who participate in security planning for an Active Directory service deployment and who are running a secure Active Directory operation. The paper discusses the elements of a comprehensive plan for Active Directory security by providing best practice recommendations for protecting domain controllers from potential attacks...; Tags: Directory services, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, security, directory service, domain controller, Microsoft Corp.; White papers 2003-10-10
Active Directory in Networks Segmented by Firewalls: Active Directory domain controllers are increasingly being deployed on networks segmented by firewalls. Three common scenarios are (1.) domain controllers separated from clients in a DMZ, (2.) domain controllers in a DMZ separated from other domain controllers on the network, and (3.) networks divided into segments, each containing clients and...; Tags: Firewall, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Network, Domain Controller; White papers 2002-08-01
Active Directory Disaster Recovery for Windows 2000: Domain Controller requires more care and attention to detail than the equivalent operation in Windows NT 4.0. Domain Controllers can assume numerous roles within an Active Directory infrastructure: global catalogs, operations masters, and simple domain controllers. This paper describes the steps you use to recover the Active Directory database after...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Domain Controller, Disaster Recovery, QTEST, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Directory Services, Microsoft Windows 2000, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems; White papers 2001-04-08
Designing and Configuring Site Topology: This Support WebCast will discuss the design and configuration of a site topology. It will also talk about planning the site design, domain controller placement, and site links. The session will also review the advantages that a site topology provides to help optimize replication and client authentication.; Tags: Domain Controller, Site Topology; Webcasts
Upgrading Windows 2000 Domains to Win. Server 2003: The goal of this Support WebCast session is to provide a framework for administrators to follow when they upgrade Windows 2000 domain controllers to Windows Server 2003. The topics that will be covered include the pre- and post-upgrade checks, the introduction of Windows Server 2003 schema upgrades with ADPREP and...; Tags: Inetix Group Corp., Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server, Domain Controller, Domain, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Webcasts