Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure Active Directory Domain Services is commercially available. Microsoft charges hourly rates for organizations using Azure AD Domain Services, depending on ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Active Directory PKI component commonly have configuration mistakes that allow attackers to gain account and domain-level privileges. As the core of Windows enterprise networks, Active ...

Windows Active Directory (AD) service accounts are prime cyber-attack targets due to their elevated privileges and automated/continuous access to important systems. Windows Administrators should ...

Editor's note: Several experts had some key criticism of this month's Windows Insider column, which originally appeared in the June 2015 print edition of Redmond magazine. Columnist Greg Shields has ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

The output will also inform you if you have any leftover CA values that are no longer in your network. In my case, it flagged two servers that used to be in my Active Directory that provided ...

Active Directory is at the center of many attacks as it is still the predominant source of identity and access management in the enterprise. Hackers commonly target Active Directory with various ...

If Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is not responding or is slow to load on Windows Server or Windows 11/10 client machines, the solutions provided in this ...