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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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Unable to run gpupdate after changing domains

I recently moved a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine from one domain to another. Everything appears fine on the surface. It attached to the new domain and I can remote to and log into it using an account on the new domain. There are forward and…
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Another unknown domain added A record of my IP

I have a domain on GoDaddy and a VPS on DigitalOcean (Ubuntu 14.04 with nginx if that helps). Today I noticed that an unknown domain has added A record pointing to my IP Address on DigitalOcean. All the content of my website is now showing on that…
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Server 2008 R2 permissions not working

First of all: i posted this yesterday but put in the wrong email so I can't access it again. I am configuring a 2008 R2 server for learning experience. The problem I'm having is the following: Current situation: I created 5 Users, put the users in a…
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Cannot join client to domain (non virtual, DNS issue)

I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 and have a Windows 7 Professional Laptop (non virtual, all physical) that I cannot join to the domain I created. I am trying to join the Windows 7 client to my domain but getting the DNS error about not being able…
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Windows Disk Image (sysprep) with multiple domain accounts

I have not a simple problem. I would like to make personalized sysprep (Windows disk image) for more than 50 windows domain account. Suppose I have more than 50 computers with the same parameters, but uploading the image and log on to the domain…
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How to remove any remnants of NT from your windows domain?

Even though our domain has been renamed to company.com there still seems to be remnants of COMPANY_NT in different places. For instance, in remote desktop the domain still displays as "COMPANY_NT" and the username would show as…
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POSTFIX only receive email if server hostname is included in email address

I have this situation: postix/sasl/dovecot I recently added dovecot and sasl and i can only receive email to postfix if i use this email format: user@serverhostname.domain.com If i use desired format: user@domain.com there is bounce back to…
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Which policy hides all desktop items?

New accounts on my Windows Server 2012 look like this when logging in for the first time: As you can see, the desktop is empty. It is not, there are in fact files on the desktop, but they are not shown here. Somebody enabled a policy that hides…
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Server 2012 Essentials not seeing PC after upgrade to Windows 10

I have Server 2012 Essentials R2 configured with a regular old domain, and several Windows 8.1 machines joined to this domain. I created a Windows 10 install USB using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool and proceeded to upgrade my Windows 8.1…
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AD DC for domain could not be contacted

We are using samba4 on Debian 8 as a AD DC and isc-dhcp on another Debian 8 machine as a DHCP router. The problem is that if I set dhcp ip on a windows client I can't join the domain. If I add the AD DC ip on the windows client preferred DNS I can…
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How to redirect domain to new server?

I've got a domain registered with a hosting company who I no longer wish to use. I'm happy for them to keep managing my domain, but I want my domain to point to my new (better) server which i've just bought and set up. I know my new server's IP…
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Why outlook asks user name, password and domain?

After updating computer where exchange server runs, some users on domain now have a problem. They say, outlook keeps asking for user name, password and domain. I make some of them to try their passwords but they say it does not work. I have been…
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Cygwin nested groups

I've got cygwin(latest release) running on a 2012 Windows server and having problems with adding domain grups. I succesfully dealt with domain users adding them to /etc/passwd as needed. For domain groups however, I created a local group and mapped…
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Runas Domain Account Still Asks for Password

I'm using a Win7 computer that isn't joined to the domain. I want to be able to run a program, such as IE, under the domain user. c:\> runas /noprofile /netonly /user:MyDomain\MyUser iexplore.exe It asks for my password and starts up IE just fine.…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials unable to install using .com, etc. domain suffix

So if I want to install having a .com domain suffix instead of default .local, I can apparently reinstall using a cfg.ini answer file? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2830511 I know I don't want to use my public .com domain (I own). Would it…
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