#domain-controller

Fixed: Advice on Active Directory design for multihomed servers #dev #computers #answer

Advice on Active Directory design for multihomed servers

I’ve been tasked by a customer to come up with a working Active Directory design for a scenario with the following requirements (simplified, they are actually a lot worse):

There is a subnet for client systems.

There is a subnet for server systems.

The two networks are not connected.

Each server should have two network cards, one on the…

Solution: Use Google Apps/Cloud Services as a Domain Controller Replacement #fix #development #dev

Use Google Apps/Cloud Services as a Domain Controller Replacement

This is a Canonical Question about Cloud Services replacing Active Directory.

Is it possible to use Google Apps or another Cloud Service as a replacement for a Windows Domain Controller (replacing my whole AD infrastructure)?

Specifically, I want to remove our dependence on a local Windows Server; currently it acts as a Domain…

Resolved: Renaming a windows 2003 domain? #programming #solution #it

Renaming a windows 2003 domain?

we currently have an office server running on Windows 2003. The server hosts e-mail (exchange) and active directory. Also we have two client pc’s which get their internet connection and their profiles through the server.

The server is currently running at a specific domain. xxx.companyname.nl. Our companyname has changed and we would like to change the domain to…

Answer: "Peaky" CPU Usage on Domain Controllers #dev #development #programming

"Peaky" CPU Usage on Domain Controllers

We have two Windows Server 2008 SP2 (sadly not 2008 R2) Domain Controllers in a small 150 client domain that are exhibiting very “peaky” CPU usage. The Domain Controllers both exhibit the same behavior and are hosted on vSphere 5.5.0, 1331820. Every two or three seconds the CPU usage jumps up to 80-100% and then quickly drops, remains low for a second or…

Solution: Need for another Domain Controller #it #answer #development

Need for another Domain Controller

I have two domain controllers (Windows 2003) in one site where most of the department I support resides. There is another building (at another site) where my department resides as well, but they have no DC.

This probably a classic question of whether to install an additional DC when a company is spread out over multiple sites.

We’ve been experiencing various…

Solution: Number of Domain Controllers needed? #fix #development #dev

Number of Domain Controllers needed?

In the process of migrating 7 school site network from Server 2003/XP to Server 2012/7 and wanted to get some feedback on how many domain controllers would be optimal.

Currently we have 4 DCs. All 7 sites are connected by a 10 GB fibre link, so we are completely centralized (all servers are at the main office) We support roughly 1800 PCs/3000 users. We…

Fix: Unable to dcpromo new 2008 Server in 2000 domain #development #fix #solution

Unable to dcpromo new 2008 Server in 2000 domain

I’m trying to replace an old Windows 2000 domain controller with a new Windows 2008 Server. I have the Active Directory Domain Services role installed on the new server and joined it to the domain. The next step is to promote the new server to be a domain controller in the existing domain. After that is done I can the take old server offline.

I’ve…

How-to: Sharing Domain name between domain controller and webserver #computers #solution #programming

Sharing Domain name between domain controller and webserver

In our network the name of the network domain is also the domain of the organisation’s website (say, example.com). Externally people can enter example.com to visit our website but internally this points to one of the several domain controllers, some of which do not even run a webserver. So, the result of this is that links to http://exa…