Today I am going to show you how to install a Active Directory Server Core. Server Core is a really cool technology built into Windows Server 2008. It is basically the absolute minimum that is required to add an operating system. This provides multiple benefits with the main 2 being a greatly decreased attack surface …

Ever wondered what the limits of Active Directory are? Each domain controller in an Active Directory forest can create a little bit less than 2.15 billion objects during its lifetime. There is a limit of approximately 1 billion security identifiers (SIDs) over the life of a domain. Security principals (that is, user, group, and computer …