How can I find out the name/IP address of the AD domain controller on my network?
I have scheduled backup script that makes the database dump. How can I add the date timestamp to the file name? I am talking about Windows and CMD.
I'm looking for a command line tool which gets an IP address and returns the host name, for Windows.
The hostname is just the computer name and the fully qualified domain name is the hostname plus the domain name after it.... hostname: bigbox fqdn: bigbox.mynetwork.com or commonly the fqdn ends in .local instead of .com but that is environment specific. Usually you'd have a private DNS that has your .local domain setup in it and a separate DNS server for the public where your .com lives. You ...
What is the difference between a hostname and a fully qualified domain ...
I have googled but not able to find a proper set of restriction in user name in active directory setting. Please help me in telling what are the special char which are not allowed in Active direct...
I am confused between the user principal name (UPN) and SAM account name (SAM). Heres what i know SAM- Pre-windows name, for backward compatibility with Windows NT machines etc. DOMAIN/USERA, look...
The friendlyname only seems to need to start with "*" but can contain whatever other name you want for it after that. In my case I had a cert valid for several different domains that didn't have a common root other than *.com and giving that as the friendly name seemed odd. So, I ended up calling it *-my-descriptive-name-here instead. And thanks @Garrett for the rename tip!