But migrating your Windows Server 2003 Active Directory DCs to Windows Server 2012 R2 -- the most recent and, hence, recommended target platform to replace the decommissioned servers -- doesn't have ...

As promised in the last issue, we’ll take a look today at the upcoming Windows Server 2003 to see what’s new. First, though, I’ve been surprised to see some writers, pundits and analysts dismiss this ...

Microsoft first introduced the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) as a way to migrate from Windows NT to Window 2000. Since shipping Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has made some changes to the ...

Security concerns are accelerating current migrations to Windows Server 2003, a new joint ENTmag.com and Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine survey finds. Deployments of Active Directory and ...

At the recent Directory Experts Conference, which NetPro put on in Reston, Va., at the end of March, some attendees had some remarkable things to say in the survey that was carried out at the show.

Customers that haven't upgraded to Windows Server 2012 are either living in denial or under a rock. Those that don't migrate off Server 2003 face a range of consequences from security issues, no ...

Learning how to work with directory services is a long journey that involves trusts, policies and organizational understanding, along with the tools that make the operating system hum. The new 70-294 ...

You can not really have a backup DHCP server but what you can do is create scopes on each server that hand out half the IP ranges on your respective subnets. That way, should one go down, you still ...

Microsoft have released the next update to Windows Server 2003 into beta today. In a note to beta testers Microsoft advises that testers should not install R2 on a later pre-release of Windows Server ...