Parameter is incorrect error joining Windows 7 Beta or Windows 2008 to domain

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to Windows Reference RSS feed Thanks for visiting!When you try to add a Windows Server 2008 machine or a Windows 7 PC to a Windows Domain with the domain you may have the error
The attempt to join this computer to the <domain_name>.com domain failed. The parameter [...]

Enable Autologon in Windows 2000,XP,2003

Auto logon can be set for a user account in Windows XP, Server 2003 (not recommended) and later on which will allows a user to directly logon to windows without having to enter the Username and password in the Welcome Screen. While I have to admit this is not a great security feature, it helps [...]

Domain Highlighting – Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) new Security feature

Internet Explorer 8 hosts a cheeky little security feature called Domain Highlighting. This is a simple feature which highlights the Top Level Domain of a website in black while greying out the rest of the website link.
A Top Level Domain is the primary domain name of any site which can have any number of Subdomains. [...]

How to Disable a service or Device Drivers using Group Policies

Group Policies are used to apply system and security policies for the client PCs in a Windows Active Directory based Domains. While Group Policies is vast in itself to explain, here is a simple procedure on how to enable/disable a service or a Device driver using Group Policies.
The registry keys that the Group Policy targets [...]

How to make a Non Domain Aministrator an admin on the Domain Controller server

For an administrator to admin a server which is Active Directoty domain controller like install/unistall software or stop/restart services, as on any other member server, the admin should be a Domain Administrator. However, this can be worked around.
The following procedure will allow you to make a standard Administrator and admin on the domain controller server [...]