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A collection of computers or other networked resources.

A collection of computers or other networked resources within an organisation. A domain is identified by a domain name. Domains can be divided into hierarchical sub-domains.

A Microsoft domain is such a collection, often managed by the Active Directory product. The centralized authority for a Microsoft domain is one or more Domain Controllers. These Domain Controllers are responsible for authentication and other security services within the domain.

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Windows Server 2008 R2: Local account users can log into server without using ".\"

We have a small, standard Windows domain, two DCs with a couple of member servers. On our 2008 R2 member servers, local admin accounts can log into the machines WITHOUT having to put the ".\" in front of the account name. Also, when the user types…
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How can a user re-lock an excel file when he isn't here today?

There are a dozen questions already about Microsoft Office files being locked from editing, but not this exact question. So I hope it won't get marked as a duplicate. I went into Computer Management this morning and connected to a server so I could…
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Same Letsencrypt for mailserver and domain

I would like to know if it is possible and maybe recommendable to use only one (Letsencrypt) certiticate for encrypting traffic to a mailserver and to a website. I have a domain example.com and issued Letsencrypt certbot successfully to fetch a…
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SQL Server service: the service did not start due to a logon failure (Error 1069)

I am administering a database server running SQL Server 2016. The MSSQLSERVER service has been running under a domain account (with a password that does not expire) for a long time now with no problems. Recently, the MSSQLSERVER service stopped and…
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Redirect cnamed domain?

My client is owning a domain that has this DNS configuration : domain.com @ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx www CNAME domain.com static CNAME domain.com I am managing the server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. This server has WHM installed. Since it is pointing to my…
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Cannot join domain from new machine - the network path was not found

I have a standalone domain controller that was recently compromised. I've isolated it and cleaned it up, but I need to set about replacing it. I've built a replacement, however when I try and join the domain, I'm getting 'The network path was not…
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Conditional Forwarder or DNS Stub Zone to Non-Authoritative DNS Zone

How could I go about forwarding DNS lookups to a non-authorative zone, in a sort of 'next hop' scenario? The setups is as follows: One ADDS Domain (contosob.local) which contains two DNS servers, these servers need to be able to lookup records for…
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Setting the new domain as a domain pointer alias to the main domain

I don't have enough information about DNS and domains. I have a domain on my host and I want to add my new domain to point to the server. I find out that it can be done with domain pointers. I set the new domain in directadmin panel and from DNS…
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Should I manage SRV records for my Windows Server DC manually?

I have Microsoft AD Domain with multiple geographical sites. All sites are interconnected by VPN. All sites have 2 Domain Controllers running Windows Server 2012 R2. I was reviewing the automated _ldap and _kerberos SRV records for each site in the…
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Are there special aliases that a mail provider would not want normal users to obtain

Lets say, I would like to register a custom domain for email sending/receiving at Amazon AWS for a bunch of trusted users that can choose to send/receive mail with any valid mail address. Are there still some special mail addresses that I (as the…
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Our website is being blocked and we don't know why

I hope this question has never been asked before. Our website is being blocked by certain routers or ISPs (we can't tell). We are hosted in Singapore (AWS) and we use Cloudflare to host our DNS. Our website is http://www.nibble.id. On our office…
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IIS website - can ping server IP but cant reach it by domain name

I have an A record pointing to my server via its' public IP. It is set with the following host/value pair: @, 47.91.42.224 I can reach my server with this IP as it's the primary way I connect to it. In my IIS site I have 2…
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Kerberos ticket issues for AD domain rejoined computers using Ansible

We have Windows domain spread across multiple sites and we are using Ansible for orchestrating Windows rebuild process. During the rebuild, we observe some Kerberos related issues that we suspect may be to the way our workflow works Rebuild…
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Proper way to manage privileged admin groups for two trusted Active Directory forests?

The scenario is: There are two domains (DomA and DomB) with a trust relationship. The relationship is forest wide with the exception that DomA can access resources in DomB, but users in DomB should not have access to DomA. In Domain A, there are…
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Best Practice: What domain admin credentials to use when adding/joining computer to network domain?

Environment: 1 Win2008R2 Network Server (also domain controller) 13 or so Workstations. Traditionally we've always used the server administrator credentials to join a workstation to a business domain network or 13 workstations. However we're now…
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