Ars Technica

Domain name required for DNS and domain controller?

I set up a small server 2003 domain with 5 machines. One PC is a domain controller and the remaining 4 are windows XP machines.<BR><BR>I set up DNS on the domain controller. The computer name of the ...
Ars Technica

ADS multiple domain controllers + DNS - How do you do it?

For the life of me, I can't remember how to do this. 4x domain controllers 2x DNS servers For reasons beyond my control, DC's are not to be used as DNS servers (but DNS can be installed, because part ...
Network World

Back to the Future with Read-Only Domain Controllers

It’s back to the future – remember the Windows NT Backup Domain Controller (BDC)? It could log you on, but you couldn’t make any changes to it. The 2008 version of the BDC goes by the new name of Read ...
Redmond Magazine

Hyper-V and the Cloneable Domain Controller

Sounds funny, but believe it or not, it's real. Since its release in Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V supports cloning of Domain Controller VMs. Cloning may seem an incredibly naughty task for a domain ...