Summary Microsoft must have been listening to the complaints about Active Directory limitations because Windows Server 2008 allows multiple password policies within a domain, read-only domain ...

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 ...

Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec. 12.

Most breaches don’t start with a clever hack—they start with a login. And when Active Directory (AD) is cluttered and ...

When you’re ready to configure name suffix routing, open the Active Directory Domains And Trusts Console and click the root domain of the forest.

Best practices for managing identities and permissions in Active Directory can help enterprises handle complexity as AD environments scale.

The Active Directory documentation tool should enable you to generate automatic reports about your Active Directory usage. It should be able to read the data on an Active Directory domain and ...

Active Directory, a directory service provided by Microsoft Windows, plays a pivotal role in configuring permissions and network access for administrators. Comprising components such as Active ...

An Active Directory attribute, called the AdminCount attribute, identifies users who have been added to protected groups, like Domain Admins.

If you want to install Active Directory, create and delete users, create groups, and add users to a group, follow these instructions.