Category: Domain Controllers

• Domain Controller to the Core

  **DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…

  Mitch Garvis

  April 1, 2021

  Active Directory, Domain Controllers, PowerShell, Server Core, Windows Server

• Renaming Your Domain

  **DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…

  Mitch Garvis

  March 31, 2021

  Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Windows Server

• DCPromo No More… PowerShell!

  I needed to build a new domain controller for a friend’s company recently.  It is something that I have done so many times over the past two decades that some things are just instinctive… like typing dcpromo to create a domain controller. Right… I had forgotten about that.  dcpromo has been deprecated. You could go…

  Mitch Garvis

  January 2, 2018

  Active Directory, Domain Controllers, PowerShell, Uncategorized, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016

• Creating a New AD Forest in Windows Server Core (Revisited)

  Several years ago Steve Syfuhs and I sat down and figured out how to create a new Active Directory forest in Windows Server Core.  It was an interesting experience, and even though I later gave rights to that article to the Canadian IT Pro Team (at the time it was Damir Bersinic) when you search…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 9, 2013

  Active Directory, Command Line Switches, Domain Controllers, Server Core, Server Manager

  Command-line interface, Installation (computer programs), IP address, Microsoft Windows, PowerShell, Windows PowerShell, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012

• Following My Own Advice: New DCs at SWMI

  Earlier this year I published an article in which I told you that it was okay to virtualize your domain controllers; however in the piece I opposed the idea of doing a P2V (physical to virtual) migration of them, or to upgrade them from one version of the OS to another. This weekend I followed…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 10, 2012

  Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Windows Server 2012

• Virtualizing your Domain Controllers

  I am asked all the time what the best practices are for domain controllers in a virtualized environment.  There are several that I will call out, but let’s begin with the simplest rule. You should never have ONE domain controller. This rule is not only true in virtualized environments, it is always true.  If you…

  Mitch Garvis

  April 26, 2012

  Active Directory, Domain Controllers, FSMO Roles, Virtualization

  Active Directory, DHCP, Domain controller, Domain Name System, IP address, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Small Business Server