Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Story behind the blog

This blog reflects my personal experiences, thoughts, opinions and ideas about different kind of software that a system engineer have to deal in his daily job.There were 2 reasons which made me write my blog:
- the desire to help others that have the same problem;
- the desire to have a place accesible from every computer in the world where to find my information.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

How to force users to logon on one domain controller

Hello,

The scenario is : one active directory site with two domain controllers.
Question: How to force users to logon only on one domain controller?
The answer to this question resides in the srv records priority. See here how to do it:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsServer2008/AdminTips/ActiveDirectory/AQuickTiptodesignateadomaincontrollerforclientauthentications.html
You can verify the priorities by dns mmc console or by using nslookup like this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738991.aspx