But migrating your Windows Server 2003 Active Directory DCs to Windows Server 2012 R2 -- the most recent and, hence, recommended target platform to replace the decommissioned servers -- doesn't have ...

Microsoft first introduced the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) as a way to migrate from Windows NT to Window 2000. Since shipping Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has made some changes to the ...

At the recent Directory Experts Conference, which NetPro put on in Reston, Va., at the end of March, some attendees had some remarkable things to say in the survey that was carried out at the show.

Security concerns are accelerating current migrations to Windows Server 2003, a new joint ENTmag.com and Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine survey finds. Deployments of Active Directory and ...

As promised in the last issue, we’ll take a look today at the upcoming Windows Server 2003 to see what’s new. First, though, I’ve been surprised to see some writers, pundits and analysts dismiss this ...

As has been widely published in the technology press, Microsoft has announced it will terminate support for Windows NT by 2005, forcing all the small- and mid-sized businesses currently running ...

Learning how to work with directory services is a long journey that involves trusts, policies and organizational understanding, along with the tools that make the operating system hum. The new 70-294 ...

Danielle: This type of slowdown is often a common problem when applications need to look up information in the directory to function. Lookup performance depends on a lot of factors: the position of ...

You can not really have a backup DHCP server but what you can do is create scopes on each server that hand out half the IP ranges on your respective subnets. That way, should one go down, you still ...

In any large software project the end result comes up many features short of the wish list. If you're lucky the product catches up to the wish list by the next version, and that is what seems to be ...

Of the many remediation efforts IT organizations must undergo when migrating off Windows Server 2003, the decommissioning of antiquated Active Directory domain controllers to implement the more robust ...