Windows Domains – Adrian Costea's blog

Domain Controller promotion fails with “Access is denied”

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

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

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.

You’ve migrated your domain to the latest version, but did you really? I’m asking this question because I’ve seen a

Most companies nowadays have, or they prepare having multiple Active Directory forests in their environment, and as you know, forests

It happens. Not so often, but it happens when you just can’t remember your domain/enterprise administrator password anymore. This is

As you probably know, when you promote the first domain controller in a forest, is granted five Operations Master or Flexible

Just when you think everything is going well, disaster happens, and one or more of your domain controllers gets offline.