In an Active Directory environment, Group Policy is an easy way to configure computer and user settings on computers that are part of the domain. An Active Directory environment means that you must ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...

Setting up a Domain Controller (DC) in a Windows server is crucial in managing a secure and centralized network. A Domain Controller handles authentication, enforces security policies, and enables ...

Group Policy should be a no-brainer for organizations running Microsoft Active Directory. It lets IT control changes and a variety of settings for all users and computers in AD from a central console.

Creating enforceable, common-sense password policies has become increasingly critical in today’s business world. One major variable in that equation is terminology. While some words (or strings of ...

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the addition of the password policy enforcer in ADSelfService Plus, its integrated self-service ...

“[LAPS] mitigates the risk of lateral escalation that results when customers use the same administrative local account and password combination on their computers. LAPS stores the password for each ...

Editor’s note: When originally published this article said that by using dynamic user identification (UID) generation, users might be assigned a different UID number each time they logged onto a ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...

Enabling the Active Directory connection during the installation of Ubuntu Desktop 21.04. How to connect Ubuntu Linux Desktop 21.04 to an Active Directory domain Your email has been sent Ubuntu 21.04 ...

Active Directory is at the center of many attacks as it is still the predominant source of identity and access management in the enterprise. Hackers commonly target Active Directory with various ...