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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft has released emergency Windows updates to address a known issue affecting local audit logon policies in Active Directory Group Policy. Sergiu Gatlan April 14, 2025 ...

Uncontrolled changes in Active Directory and Group Policy can lead to unauthorized additions to groups, modifications to objects and permissions, or even worse, deletions of OUs.

Like group policies in Active Directory, Mac OS X’s managed client environment — sometimes referred to as MCX — allows administrators to restrict access to Mac OS X system components and to ...

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 ...