When plan for AD infrastructure design main concerns are to maintain the hierarchy and reduce the complexity. We can’t expect businesses to be same for years, as business grows we will also need to apply changes to the infrastructure design. For example company may move to a different business name, may be acquired by another company or else merge with another company. Any of the above…
In an active directory domain environment by default any authenticated user from domain, can add workstations to domain up to 10 times. But there are situations where you may need to increase this limit or completely disable this limit.
For ex- Let’s assume an employer bring his laptop in to office and plug it in to company network. Unless its control via NPS (network policy server) or…
It is important to keep the domain environments running with its latest versions. It allow organizations to use new features, enhancements available on new directory services. Typically when we upgrade from old DC to new version, we add a new server or servers to the same network and then add it to the existing forest, domain. Then promote it as DC and move roles to the new system. Later on we…
Few of the blog readers asked me on few occasions if they can change the AD domain name to the different domain name. Answer is yes you can, but you need to aware of the issues it can occur as well. Otherwise you will be end up in a mess with non-functioning infrastructure. Idea of this post is to demonstrate how to rename AD and also to point out some issues you may face with a domain…
