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Add your own domain to Microsoft 365: verify ownership with a TXT record, set the right MX, CNAME, SPF, and DKIM records, and fix common verification failures.
Pillar Guide
Step-by-step guide to installing the AD DS role on Windows Server 2022, promoting the first domain controller, setting functional levels, DNS, and verifying with dcdiag.
Retire an old domain controller without breaking your domain. Pre-checks, moving FSMO/GC/DNS/DHCP roles, graceful demotion, metadata cleanup, and DNS cleanup.
How to configure DNS on domain controllers the right way: partner-first then loopback, AD-integrated zones, forwarders, and how to avoid the DC islanding problem.
Hyper-V VM has no internet? Work through the virtual switch type, NAT setup, VM adapter, host firewall, and DNS to get your guest back online for good.
Pillar Guide
A practical, step-by-step guide to diagnosing and fixing Active Directory replication error 1722 — the RPC server is unavailable — from DNS to firewall to RPC ports.