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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 2012 R2 Essentials .local to .com easy change? Probably hard or not possible though

After installing Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials with a .local suffix, now I read that .local is a big no no... and need to change it from SERVER.MYDOMAIN.local to SERVER.MYDOMAIN.com. Sarching high and low and Youtube, apparently it can be done,…
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Test Domain Using Existing DNS

Server A, Domain Controller with DNS Server and Exchange 2010 (domainA) Server B, New Server going to add AD DS role for new test domain and Exchange 2013. I want this to be a new domain but i want to use the DNS from Server A.... How do I go about…
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Active Directory 2008 multiple local user accounts

I have installed a new Active Directory 2008 Domain controller into my environment. We are currently running the 2008 AD server as a secondary. The primary AD server is a 2003 Domain Controller. We are working on phasing this server out as soon as…
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User with saved Windows profile not able to login remotely

When we set up computers, we always connect it to our company domain after we add the user into our Active Directory. So the next time we reboot the system we can login with the user credentials since we haved joined it to the domain. Usually, once…
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How to bind webmin to one specific domain/vhost?

I'm running a Virtual Private server with three specific domains. Let's say example1.com, example2.com, example3.com. I installed webmin on this VPS to peform some easy tasks and just to manage some actions in a friendly GUI (Bootstrap 3 Webmin…
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Why are there many domain names resolving to IP like 8.8.8.8 and many other?

I have been wondering why are there many domain names assigning public address that already owned by other (apart from shared hosting/ip), for example hundreds or thousands domain names assigned (or resolving) public dns (e.g. 8.8.8.8) as their IP…
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Trying to deploy Adobe Reader XI via GPO on Server 2012 R2 and Windows 7

this is what I did: Downloaded .exe from Adobe-ftp successfully extracted with "AdbeRdr11010_de_DE.exe" -nos_ne 'slipstreamed' the .msp into the .msi with klaus-hartnegg's tool made a .mst with Adobe Customization Wizard moved the whole folder to…
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Multihomed VM workgroup attached to domain clients, resolution issues

hopefully someone here can help me out with this nightmare: I have a corporate network with ADDS, let's make believe this is a 192.168.10.x network. I have a server that runs 3 VMs (one APP server, one SQL server and one web server) that are not…
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Domain password replication

We have an interesting situation. We have two domains, one, called Smith(not really, but you get the idea) which is our main office based domain against which users are authenticated on login. Another domain is hosted, and has a couple of servers…
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SQL Server Integrated Security without a Domain

This question potentially sits somewhere between ServerFault and DBA Admins but the Domain element of this as led me to put it here. We have been developing an SOA product and are thinking about different deployment scenarios for our managed servers…
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401: Unauthorized when connecting to Reporting Services

Ok, so here's the layout: We have our AppServer and our Database Server. Our AppServer is trying to connect to our Database Server which has Sql Reporting Services on it. However they are different machines with different domains. We have an Program…
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Domain controllers won't replicate

I recently removed a secondary domain controller (forcefully) and created a new one as secondary for the same domain. The problem is, is that the new secondary can see the primary and itself, but the primary can't see the new secondary. Dcdiag on…
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WIndows SBS 2011 Standard - Connect Windows 8.1 Machines

I manage a Windows SBS 2011 Standard Server. Recently had to connect 3 Windows 8.1 machines....but I am not having any luck. I have followed everything I have read online. The updates are completely up-to-date on both the server and the machines.…
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Duplicated domain admin user profile?

Our domain admin logon on PCs or Servers used to have only one profile located on c:\users\administrator Somehow, now we got a duplicated profile called c:\users\administrator.domain Does anyone know why? Win 7 sp1 Win 2008 R2 Win 2012 R2
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Priority of DNS servers

I actually have 2 DNS providers and 3 DNS server. The first and is from CloudFlare - primary, and the third is from BuddyNS - this one should be used only for backup. Backup: the server should be only when are primary server unavailable. Is this…
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