How can I find out the name/IP address of the AD domain controller on my network? I'm looking for a command line tool which gets an IP address and returns the host name, for Windows. I have scheduled backup script that makes the database dump.

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How can I add the date timestamp to the file name? I am talking about Windows and CMD. 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.

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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...

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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... IIS7 finds the cert as available, but won't allow the entry of a host name. The host name textbox is ALWAYS disabled/greyed out, even before selecting my cert. I've even deleted the default port 80 binding.

Question: how can I set a host name for this site? Is it a matter of this cert being a wildcard cert?