Ten years ago, Microsoft released its Active Directory technology to skepticism that it could build an infrastructure technology to anchor user management and access control. Today the software is an ...

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 ...

In an era where 75% of security breaches are attributed to weak authentication, the importance of robust cybersecurity measures has never been greater. Recognizing this critical need, TACACS.net has ...

Lying deep in every network is Active Directory. The legacy network operating system that just will not die! It is like a Frankenstein, connected to nearly every application, service, IAM, and device.

Scenario:<P>Home network, Win2K server with Active Directory<BR>ICS on another computer on the network (not the server)<P>How do I set this up so the dialup connection on one of the Win2K Pro machines ...

We list the best Active directory documentation tools, to make it simple and easy to control access to your IT resources and monitor usage. Active Directory is a popular directory service developed by ...

Many small and medium-sized businesses standardize on Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for user authentication and management. That works really well when all the servers and client computers are ...

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 ...

Active Directory is a Microsoft technology that provides a raft of network services. This includes LDAP-like directory services, Kerberos-based authentication and DNS-based machine naming. These items ...

Since I'm flush with APC gear at the moment, I've been working with the network management devices (obviously, since I wrote Cacti and Nagios plugins for most of them). One of the features of most of ...