Active Directory – Adrian Costea's blog

Steps to check if Domain Controller was properly promoted

Many times after we promote a server to a domain controller, we want to know if it was promoted correctly.

In almost every environment we need service accounts. You know, those accounts that we use to run our services in

The need for certificates it’s expending beyond our domain joined Windows computers to those that are running in a Workgroup

Most of us have been promoting domain controllers here and there and the majority of deployments are successful, especially if

I have been talking about building an Enterprise PKI and a three tier PKI for companies and small businesses out

I have never taught that I will ever use the IFM (Install From Media) option when promoting a Domain Controller

It is all about security now, and no matter how restrictive we configure our firewall rules and filters, we still

I have been talking about Enterprise PKI and how to build a multi-tier PKI infrastructure, but never talked in depth about

When building either an Enterprise Certification Authority or a Standalone Certification Authority we have to provide some information during the

As you probably know, in a domain environment there is a domain controller that is special compared to the others.