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 ...

Your Active Directory isn't secure. Learn what to do to protect your users and be ready for the next attack. If not properly deployed, Active Directory can be a ticking time bomb. It's not if ...

Microsoft MVP Derek Melber explains why real AD knowledge depends on understanding how Group Policy, replication and DNS behave in production.

Most breaches don’t start with a clever hack—they start with a login. And when Active Directory (AD) is cluttered and outdated, it becomes the easiest way in. For many organizations, AD has quietly ...

Once again it’s time to look back and see what we were talking about 10 years ago. And what we were talking about was the most highly anticipated launch in IdM history — Microsoft’s Active Directory.

Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

Hackers can quickly wreak havoc if they get access to a victim’s Active Directory. “Just about every organization in the world at this point is probably using some flavor of Active Directory. So, I ...

In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover Active Directory support for IPv6. This is the fourth technical blog post on configuring IPv6 in a Windows networking ...