Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services [AD CS] provides a platform for issuing and managing public key infrastructure [PKI] certificates. On top of securing application and HTTP traffic the certificates that AD CS provides can be used for authentication of computer, user, or device accounts on a network.
In the series of posts this month we’ve been looking at network ports relevant to security administrators. This note explores the ports used for Active Directory (AD) communications, which is a topic particularly relevant for allowing AD traffic across a firewall. For instance, you may be wondering which ports to open to allow AD replication…
DHCP is used to dynamically assign IP addresses to client machines. This tutorial is written to help you to install and configure DHCP on Windows Server 2016. Once you have followed this article, go ahead with creating scopes and start leasing out IP addresses (which I have documented in another article).
Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a really interesting tool from Microsoft. It allows an administrator to remotely deploy Windows operating systems to machines booting from a network adapter. In environments with a high number of clients WDS can be very useful, a new computer can be formatted just plugging the Ethernet, without any physical support like Windows DVDs or USB drives.
Domain Name System (DNS), defined in several Request for Comments (RFC)documents, performs a single task: translating user-friendly hostnames to IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. The DNS serverin Windows Server 2016 works the same basic way as it does in Windows Server 2012 R2. However, the Windows Server engineering team added some worthwhile enhancements, including DNS policies and Response Rate…
In this post, we’ll learn about Repadmin command, it’s the Active Directory Replication Tools used to check Active Directory replication between Active Directory Domain Controller. Repadmin is a command line tool introduced by Microsoft in Windows Server 2003 R2 and still actively used in latest version of Microsoft e.g. Windows Server 2012 R2, etc to replicate…
There are interesting new features now made available in Windows Server 2016 such as time based group membership, privileged access management, and others. Most will be covered in future posts. This post will detail how to install active directory on Windows Server 2016. Before the AD install however it is important to understand what is the minimum requirement to…