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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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How Does ADMT Use SQL? Can I point it to an existing instance?

I'm using ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) to move users from a child domain into a parent domain. Since one of the requirements is to use a SQL Server I'd like to point it to one that already exists within that forest. However, that SQL…
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Single Domain Computer Loses Internet Connection Everyday

A single domain computer loses internet connection everyday at 2:00pm. I've checked the logs and resolved group policy errors as the issue was highly correlated to when group policy errors occurred. I've since resolved Group Policy update errors. I…
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"The user's password must be changed before logging on the first time" when using a file server

I'm very new to network administration so please bear with me. I recently set up a new Dell server for a company, running Windows Server 2016, to act as a file server. We are also running Active Directory for the first time from this server. I…
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How to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com with Nginx?

I want to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com on my Nginx server. But me configuration does not work and displays the error message in the internet browser : The page is not redirected correctly I added this line to do the redirection : return…
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Domain configuration for load balancing

Im setting up load balancing for my website and came across thispost about stackoverflow's infrastructure https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/ It seems like I will need 2 load balancing servers in case…
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angry ip scanner reports differnet hostname and computer name on a domain?

did a quick sweep of a network this morning and i am getting different hostname to computername in the list. this is a domain with a DC in there. it has active directory integrated dns. if you use nslookup to find names there are no issues, but if…
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Replace explicit `virtual_alias_domains` by domains in `virtual_alias_maps`

I have a working Postfix config with some local mailboxes, some local aliases and a handful of purely virtual alias domains. Because I find it tedious to add all to virtual_alias_domains I'm asking: How to define them by simply using them in…
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How to assign different IP address for mail server and file hosting

I have a simple question. We had managed a site with their mails. Now they have shifted their mail server to different agent company. But domain and file are still with my company. When they configured the mails are sending and receiving correctly.…
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IP address limit

I currently work in a company running a domain on 192.168.150.# dynamic Ip assignment. We seem to be running out of private Ip address allocations. What is the limit? How could we work around this? The scenario we have a main site wireless network…
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How to require computer authentication when accessing windows domain network shares

I have a network containing a mixed collection of Windows domain and workgroup computers. Currently, the workgroup computers can access file/folder shares hosted on domain computers if the user provides valid domain credentials when connecting. I…
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How to force RDP to accept my stored credentials, when my computer is under a domain?

So i've setup TERMSRV/* in the Group Policy Editor, but RDP will still not allow me to use saved credentials because the computer is under a domain. I found this by reading the description in the policy editor: "If the client is domain-joined, by…
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Avoiding security groups in Windows domain with automated filesystem security

As far as I understand, best practices recommend that security groups are used with a Windows domain to assign permissions over files and folders. That is, you should create groups in Active Directory, populate them with users, and then assign…
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Is .shared a reserved pseudo-TLD domain?

I am running a Fedora server on LAN. Each time it turns on, the screen tells me that I can connect to it via IP or my-fedora-server.shared . I know .local is a pseudo-TLD, but I could not find any information about .shared. Each time I google, it…
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whois: query by person's name?

Is it possible to know all of the domains registered by some individual or company using the free whois services on the internet? A sort of "Reverese Whois"?
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multiple SSL cert on same apache host results in wrong cert presented

I have configured an Ubuntu host with Apache 2.4 and multiple domains (a.com and a default of no domain name specified, just an IP). The httpd.conf file contains entries for a default web site (no matching website name in the URL), and one entry…
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