Michael Taschler

Installing Active Directory domain controllers in a virtual machine (VM) can be useful if you want to separate them from the physical network, giving you more flexibility and additional protection for your Active Directory infrastructure. In this guide, we’re going to detail the best practices for installing Active Directory domain controllers (DCs) in a virtual…

In this guide about Active Directory security, we’re going to detail five steps that IT admins need to follow to secure Active Directory environments in an organization. There are many best practices you’ll need to be familiar with to ensure Active Directory security, including restricting the use of privileged accounts, monitoring Windows Event Log for…

Microsoft’s Office 365 Quarantine is a new service designed to keep organizations safer by moving all suspicious messages to a secure location. In this guide, we’ll explain how Office 365 Quarantine works and how IT admins can use it to protect users in an organization from malicious files and messages. What is Office 365 Quarantine?…

In this guide, I’ll provide information on where to download Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID) Connect V2 and walk you through the installation and configuration of it. Microsoft states that the most common topology is a single on-premises forest, with one or multiple domains, and a single Azure AD tenant. My guide will…

This article will look at Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), and explain how they differ and can complement each other. We’ll also compare these Microsoft solutions to some of the major alternative identity providers. This article is not meant to be an exhaustive resource and will not provide step-by-step instructions on how…

In this article, I’m going to show you how to use the command-line tool ipconfig. If you’re an IT admin, ipconfig is a very useful console application program that can help you troubleshoot network connectivity problems in Windows. Linux and other operating systems (OS) have similar capabilities, but they often use different commands to achieve…