Keeping an organization safe from potential security breaches and costly downtime involves knowing who has access to what parts of the infrastructure and how changes were made to group policies or to ...

Active Directory health assessment is a challenge, especially for small and midsize companies that can't afford a full-time Active Directory admin or costly third-party tools. The first indication ...

Administering and managing AD encompasses a multitude of activities. Although you can do the job with built-in services and tools, four powerful third-party solutions also want to help. Any systems ...

Hackers can use tools like BloodHound to visualize the shortest path to owning your domain. But that doesn't mean you can't use it to find and protect your organization's weak spots. Here's how.

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) are meant for the system and IT administrators. They allow admins to set and manage roles as well as the features that are installed on a Windows Server ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Samba's open source alternative to Microsoft's domain controller is a good start, but not ready for prime time Samba 4.0 is a milestone release that brings Active Directory functionality to the open ...

While not completely comprehensive, there are a number of different policy settings that are exposed through the Active Directory Administrative Center. In many ways, working in an Amazon Web Services ...

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 ...

Hackers can use tools like BloodHound to visualize the shortest path to owning your domain. But that doesn't mean you can't use it to find and protect your organization's weak spots. Here's how.