Many organizations still have pockets of resistance in the form of outdated, legacy setups that are often in key areas of the on-premises infrastructure, such as domain controllers. With the recent ...

Upgrading an Active Directory forest to run on Windows Server 2025 isn't overly difficult, but the process requires preparation. In its latest Windows Server release, Microsoft introduced several ...

Microsoft is investigating LSASS memory leaks (caused by Windows Server updates released during the November Patch Tuesday) that might lead to freezes and restarts on some domain controllers. LSASS ...

A recent security update for a Windows NTLM Relay Attack has been confirmed to be a previously unfixed vector for the PetitPotam attack. Microsoft is investigating a known issue causing authentication ...

At our organization I'm responsible for our Windows infrastructure and another guy looks after all the Linux/*nix stuff. We're currently running a domain using Windows 2003 R2 Domain Controllers with ...

Installing this month's Windows Server security update has knocked some enterprise domain controllers into continuous reboot cycles, Microsoft confirmed in a release health dashboard entry. The ...

I'm exploring replacing a NT4 server which is the domain controller and file server for a small network of 6 client machines. However, I've never used samba before, or anything else to do it. The ...

Although domain controllers can be configured to obtain an IP address from DHCP, it’s best practice to configure a static IP address so that it can be reliably discovered across the network. You may ...

A single flaw in the way Windows domain controllers verify network identities has given attackers a shortcut to total control of corporate and government networks since 2020, and security agencies ...

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 ...