I am trying to help a friend set up a Win2K server running Active Directory, with no luck. He built a domain (rexanh.local), and managed to get file sharing going. He added a account (jjjakes ...

IDC says as many as 80% of users in North America have Active Directory deployed. “The next logical thing to do is to take advantage of group policy; it’s pretty powerful,” says Al Gillen ...

Kerberoasting gives attackers offline paths to crack service account password, without triggering alerts. Learn from Specops Software how to protect your Active Directory with stronger SPN password ...

Group Policy Objects: Active Directory’s Hidden Security Trap. Date: Thursday, May 18 at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Group Policies are essential to keeping Active Directory resources secure. At the same time ...

Attribute Value Explanation; Cn: HRPasswordPolicy: The name of the password policy object in Active Directory. Should be named after which user group it will affect.

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.

The cloud service lets customers push group policies set in Active Directory to employees’ mobile devices. Device management can be handled directly from Active Directory.

How to Exclude Words within Active Directory Password Policy. At the most basic level, Active Directory’s default complexity option will provide some options out of the box. Company names aren’t all ...

Our test of Microsoft's out-of-the-box policy administration tools shows that they are limited in scope and do not meet the rigorous security auditing requirements of today's compliance-driven ...

Unfortunately, the native AWS Directory Service prevents you from using the Group Policy Object Editor to modify anything other than a local security policy. Even so, you'll find that while not ...

All - Thanks in advance.I have a Windows 2000 domain controller and we're utilizing active directory and group policy. One of the group policy objects basically runs a script on logon. When I look ...