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 ...

Yet another "Sam can't make up his mind" thread! We have about 200 users, almost all of whom are in the same metropolitan area. All domain controllers will be on WAN links of decent bandwidth. The ...

I'm bringing 2 new 2008 R2 DCs online. When I add them, I want to enable the firewall from the beginning. The Domain Controllers OU has a GPO that disables the Windows Firewall. Presumably, I could ...