Microsoft's introduction of ADAM has set the stage for a major shift in the way directories are used for application authentication. META Trend: Driven by compliance and cost, organizations will focus ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Managing user privileges in a ...

There's a lot that is good and lot that is bad about directory services. They have brought a level of consistency, logic, and organization to network administration and programming that was impossible ...

Danielle: This type of slowdown is often a common problem when applications need to look up information in the directory to function. Lookup performance depends on a lot of factors: the position of ...

The new Microsoft Azure Active Directory puts more on-premises features into the cloud version and links to more than 1,200 Software as a Service (SaaS) apps. Last year's release of Microsoft Azure ...

Microsoft this week dropped multiple tweaks for Azure Active Directory Application Proxy service. One of those improvements concerns Azure AD Application Proxy on-boarding enhancements. Microsoft made ...

Attackers that want to steal data, deploy ransomware, or conduct espionage must go through a series of steps, from initial access through establishing persistence and lateral movement to eventually ...