Hardware dies, it always has and it always will eventually.  And if you ever had a Windows 2000/2003 domain controller die on you, you’ve no doubt gone through the painless but time consuming process of removing a failed DC.  I wrote an article on it a few years ago and while you might be planning to migrate your DCs to 2008, or already ...

As with each edition of Windows Server, the 2008 release also includes some new additions.  In order to take advantage of some of these new features you need to upgrade your Active Directory Forest and Domain functional levels.  You can read about the Windows 2000/2003 domain and forest functional levels as a refresher if you like, but ...

One of the nice things with RODCs is the ability to control cached credentials.  You can also pre-populate passwords for specific users, like a branch office user, in case the branch office connection goes down but this can be a security concern if that server gets stolen.  Server 2008 has a nice way of handling this so you can sleep ...

The next video in our Server Core series is going to cover making our demo server into a RODC or Read-Only Domain Controller.  One pre-requisite for a RODC is an existing Windows 2008 based DC in the domain.  You also need to run adprep /rodcprep before you can add the RODC.  Other than that it is pretty straight-forward but without ...