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 ...

The other DC's on the domain appear to be fine (netdom can verify the trust to pdce.domain.com) but if I run netdom verify on the pdce itself it fails. The reason I am looking into this is that the ...

Long story short I changed the Default Domain GPO (stupid I know) so that only Administrators had the Manage auditing and security log right under Computer Configuration > Security Settings > Local ...

In the scenario where users cannot be added on a Windows Server because the Add User or Group button is grayed out in User Rights Assignment in Domain Controller Local Security Policy settings, this ...