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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 upgrade on a domain joined machine

Say I have a machine running Vista Business edition and I want to in-place upgrade it to Windows 7 Pro (wich is a supported upgrade path), will that machine still be domain-joined after the upgrade or do I need to re-join the domain again?
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Unable to remove 2003 DC from domain environment

I'm testing the upgrade of our a domain environment from 2003 to 2012; Our environment consists of one DC (currently 2003 but will be upgraded to 2012 with this exercise). I've transferred all FSMO roles, tested machine login, everything works.…
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How to make two domains to access a server and use two different homepage?

I have a Digitalocean server with ubuntu linux, nginx 1.4.6 (running on port 80), varnish 3.0.5 (running on port 8080, together) I have two domains, say siteA.com and siteB.com. In default.conf of nginx I configured so that the front door (80) use…
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Group Policy to disable Printer Preferences

Can someone please advise on how we can disable users being able to open Printer Preferences on network printers that they have added to their computers? We have deployed around 100 new printers with predefined agreed settings (such as duplex…
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What happens if I am unable to ping my domain name

Let me describe my situation. I have five DCs in our network; mix of 2008 R2 and 2012. Among them one is unavailable at the moment and it might take some time to resolve this issue. Other four DCs are online and is reachable from all workstations.…
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How to set a specific Domain controller for a user or client machine to logon-authenticate with?

How to set a specific Domain controller for a user or client machine to logon-authenticate with using the GPO (Group Policy Object) or Registry. I am looking to setup a Specific Domain Controller for 2 classrooms. The classrooms have about 14 people…
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Necessary to delete computer account from AD before rejoining to the domain?

What is actually stored within the computer account in AD? There always seems to be issues that crop up once and awhile where leaving and rejoining the domain seems to fix them. Up to this point i've been removing from the domain, deleting the…
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Is it okay (or even recommended for performance) to point mobile subdomain A record to different IP?

Is it okay or recommended for performance/load balancing to point the A Record for your mobile subdomain to a separate server, with its own IP address?
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how to move mail aliases to other domain

I have just done the following move, through the virtualmin (4.18) interface: moved domain abc.de to old.abc.de moved domain new.abc.de to abc.de The problem that now occurs: all the mail aliases, including mailing lists that existed on the…
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offsite dns while having a local domain controller per organization branch

Is it possible with a reliable wan to have the centralized dns offsite and the domain controller for an organization hosted locally?
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I recently changed my hosting and now I can only send emails and not receive using GMail

I have a domain name (emmasteed.co.uk) that I have hosted with UK Reg and I recently moved my hosting to GoDaddy. I have an email that I have used for a few years now: emma@emmasteed.co.uk. When I changed my hosting I set up this email address again…
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Created a CNAME record, but I'm forced to use the FQDN of the alias

I created a CNAME record so that internal users could connect to our intranet, but it wont work unless I put in the entire FQDN. Here's how it's set up, example A 1.1.1.1 alias CNAME example Example is the domain name of the device…
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Postfix on server bouncing emails sent to same domain emails, external domains working

My @example.com email is hosted with Google Apps. I am able to send & receive email to all 4 accounts I have created for @example.com. I also own www.example.com. The issue is not being able to send emails to ones ending with the same domain,…
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Installing SCVMM from a domain controller

I'm trying to install SCVMM on a Windows Server 2012 R2, this server is not the domain controller. I have another Windows Server 2012 R2 that is the domain controller. I have read that it is not recommended to install SCVMM on a domain controller,…
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Domain is forcing HTTPS automatically when accessing by HTTP

I have a project based on Nginx + Node.js. When I'm trying to access it by my domain, it automatically redirects from HTTP to HTTPS and I get a 404 because my deployment is not ready for SSL. When it tries to get in through HTTPS, the request…
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