Redmond Magazine

How To Edit the Active Directory Using ADSI Edit

• Active Directory is a mature technology that has been around for nearly 20 years and has undergone some evolution but still maintains its basic structure. • While the built-in Active Directory tools ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Add a Computer to Active Directory

Adding a computer to Active Directory is straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is join the workstation to your Windows domain and reboot it once or twice. You can use Active Directory ...
Redmond Magazine

Azure Active Directory and Sync Use Profiled by Microsoft

Microsoft today offered a snapshot of its Azure Active Directory service and how organizations are using it, based on October stats. Organizations are mostly (46 percent) using Active Directory ...
ZDNet

Mastering Active Directory domains

To take advantage of all Windows 2000 has to offer you have to use Active Directory, but jumping straight in can be scary. There are all sorts of new data structures you need to be familiar with ...
HHS

Essential Active Directory Security Defenses

Many organizations' principle Active Directory problem is that they don't know they have a problem. The vast majority of businesses today use Active Directory as their domain network management tool ...
Network World

Using your Active Directory for VPN authentication on ASA

For a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the ...
Network World

How-To Administer Active Directory Domain Services Groups Using Windows PowerShell

The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) objects, including group objects.
Ars Technica

Use Active Directory names/passwords with Unix servers

use winbind and pam_smb, it's part of the SAMBA packages. it assigns unix UID and GIDs from the users in your AD domain. you will need SAMBA beta3 in order to get good AD member support, if you use ...
Ars Technica

Index out of bounds problem using Active Directory (ASP.Net)

This is my first run in with the AD stuff and I've hit a snag. Here is what I've got.<br><br><br>I've used the following code to successfully pull the user's name and email from AD, but this ONLY ...
Cyber Defense Magazine

The Threat of Privilege Abuse in Active Directory

In early 2024, the BlackCat ransomware attack against Change Healthcare caused massive disruption across the U.S. healthcare ...
Computerworld

Critical design flaw in Active Directory could allow for a password change

Microsoft’s widely used software for brokering network access has a critical design flaw, an Israeli security firm said, but Microsoft contends the issue has been long-known and defenses are in place.