Michael Reinders

LDAP vs Active Directory and OpenLDAP are the most used identity and access management solutions today. In this article, we’ll explain how they work and help you determine which one is the right choice for your network. LDAP vs Active Directory: What’s the difference? In general, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re more familiar…

Windows 10 doesn’t reliably give you easy access to stop codes when it crashes. Plus, these codes may flash on your screen for just half a second! In this guide, we’ll show you how to find Windows stop code fix methods, understand the reasons behind Windows crashes and guide you to solidify your Windows reliability…

The UPN and sAMAccountName are user account attributes in Active Directory. In this article, I’ll explain how these two user account attributes work and how the username and user logon name can be used in your organization. What are user naming attributes in Active Directory? In the world of Active Directory, there are two core…

In this article, I’ll show you how to export Active Directory users to a CSV file using PowerShell and Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). Using PowerShell is recommended as IT Pros can use it to extract task-specific information about a subset or all of their users from Active Directory. This can be really helpful…

Microsoft 365 includes powerful collaboration features that allow teams to work on and share Office documents more easily than ever before. But do you understand how file sharing works within Microsoft 365 and how to manage and secure your files?  In this article, we’ll take you through the basics of file sharing and collaboration in Microsoft…

Key takeaway: RAID 5 provides good read performance and it can tolerate one disk failure in a minimum 3-disk array. RAID 10 provides fast read and write performance and it can potentially tolerate up to 2 drive failures in a minimum 4-disk array. RAID 5 and RAID 10 are two different redundant array of independent…

Advanced password attacks, like brute force and those launched by malicious insiders, are devastating the security of today’s enterprises and cloud services. ADSelfService Plus from ManageEngine can protect web properties from such attacks with multi-factor authentication (MFA). Multi-factor authentication is the best way to protect Active Directory and cloud-based user accounts As the impacts of…

RAID 0 and RAID 1 are two of the standard RAID storage levels that you can use to create large data stores by combining multiple disk drives. In this article, we’ll explain the main differences between RAID 0 and RAID 1 and help you determine how to choose the best RAID level for your projects….

With earlier versions of Microsoft Office reaching end-of-support milestones throughout 2023, IT Pros need to offer their managers recommendations on how to proceed – Upgrade to Office 2021 LTSC or migrate to the subscription model, Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise? Read this article to find out. We all know that Microsoft has steadily increased the…

Windows File Recovery is a free command-line utility for recovering deleted files in Windows. If you have lost files on your PC after accidentally deleting them, this article explains how to use Windows File Recovery to recover them in a couple of steps. Windows File Recovery (WFR) is a newer file restore utility Microsoft released…

In this review, we show you how you can use Action1’s free platform to patch Windows and third-party applications. See how it works here. What is Action1 and why do I need it? Action1 is a class-leading patch management software with a robust feature set that automates the deployment of security updates and patches to…

The Active Directory Recycle Bin is a tool that IT pros can use to recover lingering objects on a network. In this article, I’ll explain how to enable and use the Active Directory Recycle Bin and recover objects without the need to use System State backups. There are two main ways to enable the Active…