One of the most helpful native tools for troubleshooting problems with domain controllers is DCDiag. In this article, I will show you the basics of using this helpful tool. DCDiag was introduced early ...

I have a client that I recently acquired from another entity. Today I tried to join a new PC to the domain and it would not take. I checked DNS and made certain the client has the domain controller as ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

I second Afidel here, you do get the right to run two windows server VM's on a piece of physical hardware per license, and the Hyper-V role doesn't count against that. So doing a P2V into Hyper-V of ...