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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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What is the difference between www.domain-name.com and domain-name.com ? How to redirect between the two

I recently purchased a hosting plan from one of the service providers. They offered a free domain-name to me and I gladly purchased it. Now I logged into their control panel and put all my files there and then my site became online and is working…
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How to set group policy in windows server 2008 domain?

I need to apply group policy to several computers in a Windows Server 2008 domain. After running gpmc.msc, we can see Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controller Policy Can you tell me their difference? Which policy is effective? technet…
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Domain Controller not able to do external DNS resolution

We have two DC's on our internal network (one old and one new) we are trying to migrate to the new DC but the only thing stopping us is external DNS resolution does not work with the new DC unless under the DNS mmc we set it to forward to our old…
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Domain resolving problem

I have registered a new domain. I want to use it with my server. I have a static IP for my server. Using my registrar control panel I have added an A record for my domain.com with value IP of my server. When I look it up with using…
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How to access machines inside a network via ssh from over the internet

This is probably a really basic question for most of you guys out there. But i'm quite new to networking with linux etc. Heres the scenario: I have 3 webservers inside a network. lets say they have the following host names and ip address: server1 =…
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How to create a small (Single Machine) domain

I am trying to install Virtual Machine Manager so I can test out the Lab Mananger portion of VS2010. The Virtual Machine Manager Requires a Domain to install to. Is there an easy way to setup a domain that will satisfy this requirement? It would…
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Corporate Windows Domain: How to restrict selection of Wallpapers

All my users workstations are part of our corporate domain. Currently we have a group policy that forces the company wallpaper through to all workstations. This is working fine. However, we have a number of users who have asked if we can provide…
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DNS Server linking to subdirectory

I'm fairly new to DNS server software. Currently I'm not using virtual hosts, but I am using dynamic sub-directories for my Users. Sometime in the future I would like my Users to be able to use their own domain name. Is it possible to configure a…
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How do I create a new domain with existing AD records?

I have a domain (aaa.bbb.com) consisting of two active directory servers (also DNS servers). I have used VMWare vSphere Converter to p2v the primary AD server. This VM is now running in "host-only" mode in VMWare. I would like to bring the VM fully…
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messed up confused dns records!

I'm totally new to this, please help. While trying to redirect the mail from my server to gmail using MX records, I think I've messed up, and I'm way confused about that. First: I can set DNS records both in DomainCentral (registrar) and in cPanel…
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DNS has stopped working on my Win server 2008 box - how can I troubleshoot?

I have a single site hosted with IIS on a dedicated Windows Server 2008 box. Recently, the domain name has stopped resolving and is returned as "unreachable" by ping - the server itself is fine, and the site still accessible by IP address. What…
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Naked domain map + Gmail MX Records

I want to map a naked domain (i.e., example.com instead of www.example.com) to my EC2 server. I also have gmail setup on my example.com domain. A few weeks ago I attempted to map this together using CNAME to map to my EC2 URL. My email stopped…
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Configuring a domain to point to a subdirectory of another domain

I have a client who has their main domain (x.com) through Network Solutions. They also have registered y.com and y.org, but this time through Media Temple (no hosting on either domain). What they're asking me to do is make http://y.{com,org} use the…
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Change the document root of a parked domain?

I have run into a problem which is that my web host doesn't appear offer addon domains. I currently have a domain name pointing to my name servers. I went into cPanel to add an addon domain that points to a sub-directory, but all that is available…
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Apache subdomain not working: uses real domain

Let's say I have domain.com and sub.domain.com. Domain.com's root should be /var/www/domain_com/ and sub.domain.com's root should be /var/www/domain_com/sub/. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/domain_com: ServerName…
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