Have you ever been in need of identifying all the global catalog servers in a Windows domain?  What are the ways we can determine which domain controllers house the global catalog?  ...

In order to compact the size of the Active Directory Database you need to stop Active Directory Domain services.  If you are running Windows 2008 and above you can simply stop the ...

As an administrator, have you ever found yourself in need of collecting user information about users on your network such as what computer a user is logged into or what IP address they ...

Scripting is a system administrator’s best friend as it allows you to do very labor intensive and mundane tasks often without user intervention.  In working with an educational ...

There are a wealth of things you can do with the NTDSUTIL utility and it is one of the most powerful command line utilities a system administrator can have in his/her bag of tricks ...

Read Only domain controllers provide a really nice option for administrators who may want to place a domain controller in a remote site, particularly one that may not have a secure ...

Active Directory Certificate Services Role allows you to install a certificate authority in your Active Directory environment which allows you to issue self signed certificates for ...

In huge AD infrastructures with several OUs and thousands of users and/or computers, it becomes difficult many times to be able to locate users/computers and which OU structure they ...

As Microsoft introduces new servers OS’s, there is usually the option to raise your Forst Functional Level as well as the Domain Functional Level once all server side domain controllers ...

We here at Computer-howto.com are big fans of the free utility Powergui. Powergui offers a wide range of free powerpacks which offer tremendous control for admins over their environments. ...