In order to get the most out of Active Directory, you need to give a lot of thought to an efficient configuration that matches your workflow. One of the safest strategies for configuring Active ...

Security Advisor Active Directory Object Permissions 101 10/01/2001 "I need more circuits in this room," I told him. "Oh, computers don't draw that much electricity," Bob the electrician said. I think ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right ...

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 ...

If you are like most administrators, you want to know who is logging on, to which computer, and accessing resources on your servers. For your Windows computers and Active Directory environment, you ...

As you probably know, setting up user accounts through the Active Directory Users And Computers console can be very tedious. Sure, going through the basic wizard for adding users isn’t too bad, but ...