Today I ran across an interesting issue. Everything was normal on the network except that no users could print to ANY of the network printers. They could not be pinged or accessed in any way. The network consisted of a single subnet, single server, and single switch. I moved some of the printers to other …
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Adding a Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller to A Windows Server 2003 Domain
Adding a server running Windows 2008 to a domain that is running Windows 2000/2003 servers is no big deal until you try to promote the 2008 (or 2008R2) server to a domain controller. Active Directory must be updated to accommodate changes to the schema in 2008 and 2008R2. The first thing that I would do …