I've got a rather bizarre (to me at least) problem at the moment with one of the NT4 domains I run. It *appears* to have gotten worse since the network was upgraded to 100Mb/sec Cisco switches - they ...

Setting up a Domain Controller (DC) in a Windows server is crucial in managing a secure and centralized network. A Domain Controller handles authentication, enforces security policies, and enables ...

We're having a funky problem with Citrix/NT4 and I wanted to see if anyone else has run into this.<BR><BR>When a user tries to connect to a Citrix application they ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...

How Windows Clients Find Domain Controllers Any discussion of DNS and Active Directory must come quickly to a discussion of the AD “signposts” known as the SRV (service locator) records. SRV is just ...

Earlier this month we discussed how special DNS resource records called SRV (service locator) records help Windows systems find domain controllers so they can authenticate to the domain. Interestingly ...