Just a quick question as a sanity check. According to Microsoft you shouldn't use a made-up DNS suffix when setting up a domain (.local or whatever) and should use a subdomain using the TLD instead.

How do Active Directory domains relate to DNS subdomains? I've gotten myself confused. We're expanding out from the corporate office to new facilities. The first thing that comes to mind is to create ...

In Windows 2000, domains exist in trees. A domain tree consists of a root-level domain and child domains, each of which can contain other child domains. Parallel directory trees are called forests.

Google's Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory offering is now at the beta-test release stage, according to a Thursday company announcement. In essence, Google acts as a managed service ...

NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Radiant Logic announced support for Azure AD, further strengthening the value of its flagship RadiantOne Federated Identity Service for the Microsoft installed ...

No advertiser wants to support piracy, and every ad exchange has policies against monetizing stolen content. But domain blocking, the industry’s go-to approach for demonetizing sites that host pirated ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

In "Mastering Active Directory Domains," I explained the importance of good domain naming and discussed the concept of nesting domains. In this article, I'll discuss two more Active Directory ...

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names ...

Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec. 12. A proof-of-concept tool has been published that leverages two ...