Active Directory

Promoting a server to domain controller is a common task for Active Directory admins. Learn how using both the GUI and PowerShell in this tutorial.

Want to know more about installing Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 with Server Manager? Learn to install AD DS components and configure a new forest.

One of the keys to successful federation is properly adding and verifying the domain. Learn to verify domain ownership in Office 365 with this handy article.

After the installation, integration, and federation comes the next step: Learn to activate local Active Directory synchronization with Office 365 in part three of this how-to guide.

Learn to set up single sign-on and complete federation in part two of this series on Active Directory integration with Office 365.

Get ready, get SetSPN… GO! Michael Simmons shows you how to how to specify a user or computer account to be identified with an SPN by using the SetSPN utility.

If you’ve ever needed to quickly create diagrams of your Active Directory structure and wanted to automate the process, this article will help. In this post, IT veteran Michael Simmons shows you a utility that is going to do it.

Read on to learn how to change or roll back the Managed Service Account (MSA) in part three of this series.

Learn how to connect the MSA to the computer account in Active Directory in part two of this series.

Service account management can be pretty labor intensive, but there might be an alternative. In part 1 of this two-part series, Microsoft MVP Jeff Hicks goes over a feature called Managed Service Accounts (msa). In Part 2, Jeff will cover how to deploy the accounts.