Windows Server
Windows Server
I just recently migrated my data to another machine (to use as a file server) since it has a Sans Digital NAS attached to it. Normally working with files across the network (I now map a shared drive to the share on the server) is perfectly acceptable – however, there are some operations better left on the remote machine, for instance: extracting or compressing [rar/zip] archives. Ideally, I’d prefer to have a solution where I can (in this case) right click on an item on my machine and run a command on the remote machine, and with...
Remember: If only some of your Domain Controllers are Global Catalogs make sure that the domain controller that holds your Infrastructure FSMO role1 is not a Global Catalog. The reason for this is that a global catalog that holds the infrastructure master role will stop looking for and removing phantom objects in your directory since it will have no phantom objects (we all know global catalogs hold partial information on every object in the directory) because it knows about every object in the directory if even a little. However, if all your domain controllers are global catalogs, then it...
With the advent of Active Directory, the old school Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account names are almost a thing of the past, not that anyone got the memo. Most people still authenticate to their domain using their SAM account name, which is usually DOMAIN\username; with DOMAIN being the NETBIOS name for the AD domain. While this is still (as previously mentioned) widely used and acceptable, in my opinion there is a more appealing method for having users log into their accounts on Active Directory networks, and that is using the User Principal Name (or UPN) suffix. A UPN...