Monitoring public domain expirations with Centreon

No one doubts the importance of public domains, ¿No? You know when they expire? Instead of having it written down there and hopefully seeing it… Why don't we centralize everything in our monitoring tool?? In this document we will see how with Centreon you can monitor any domain and forget about the subject! We will be able to consult any domain, Be .com, .Org, .is, .rho, .fr, .it, .Euss, .co.uk…

New Windows 2008 R2: Offline domain join

Another new feature that Windows brings 2008 R2, is the ability to join a domain offline, This is, we don't need to have connectivity between the computer and the domain controller to join, avoiding traffic between both devices. This is ideal when deploying large numbers of computers or sending them to our branch offices ready to be started (generated from images), so that we don't have to join them to the domain from there and can join them using AIK through an answer file (For example).

Checking if a public domain is correct

These days you can try a great tool that performs some 100 Tests on our public domain, Everyone knows that it is very important to have the public domain well configured, to avoid problems especially with DNS resolution to it or any 'rare' problem’ Email. This test can be done with DNSreport from DNSstuff.com, A page we should never forget!