A Domain Controller (DC) is a Microsoft Windows Server that provides authentication requests for clients. The advantages to a Domain Controller model include: centralized user control, managed access control to resources such as printers, files and computer authentication. Managing Domain Controllers and Active Directory can be a big Task for administrators no matter how large of a computer system. On this site you will find tools and resources that help in the aid of managing a Domain Controller environment.
Search for data in Active Directory LDP is a Microsoft Support GUI tool that allows you to query information out of querying Active Directory. It also allows for users to connect, bind, modify, add and delete objects from Active Directory. LDP allows for Administrators to query data that would not be visible through the Active [...]
The Domain Controller Diagnostic tool (Dcdiag) is a command line tool that can be used to analyze the state of a single domain controller or all domain controllers within a forest. Dcdiag is included in the Windows Server 2003 Support tools that are provided on the CD. It can also be downloaded from the Microsoft [...]
Netdom is a tool that enables administrators to do various tasks from the command line. Netdom has many uses the most common are: establish, review domain trusts relationships, adding and removing computer accounts and verifying or resetting the secure channel. In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server R2 Netdom is a built in command line tool. [...]
Back in the Windows NT days, there was a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) and a Backup Domain Controller (BDC). This was designed so that every Domain Controller had a copy of the directory database, but the Domain Controller that held the PDC role was the only that could make changes to the database. This directory [...]
FSMO Roles is a tool that will identify Domain Controllers that hold FSMO roles. Domain Controllers have certain roles assigned to them; these roles are called FSMO roles (Flexible Single Master Operations). The FSMO Roles tool provides a GUI interface for identifying which Domain Controllers hold FSMO roles. The Five FSMO Roles 1. Schema Master [...]
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