Tag: Active Directory (AD)
How to Connect to SQL Server with a Different Domain User Account
This post is a guide on how to connect to SQL Server with Windows Authentication, but using a different Domain User rather than your own. The regular Windows SQL Server User connects & runs their queries via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). If you’re in a corporate environment, you’ll likely be logged into your computer…
Domain Join Sanity Checks
In order to join a Windows Server to a domain, you may need to request that the network team open certain firewall rules. The network requirements for this process can be complex and may vary depending on your specific environment. After joining a domain, especially in a new environment, it is important to perform some…
Joining a Windows Host to a Domain
This post contains a demo of joining a Windows Server onto a test Domain, which I created in my previous post (Installing Active Directory on Windows Server 2016). Joining a Windows Computer to Active Directory Domain Services is required in 99% of Corporate environments, and is usually a Systems Administrator task to configure at the…
Installing Active Directory on Windows Server 2016
This post contains a demo installation of Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2016. It follows a previous post for a series of test lab configuration posts. Microsoft docs on installing AD on Windows Server can be found here: Install Active Directory Domain Services Configuring a Windows Server 2016 on a local Hyper-V can…
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