Active Directory

Daniel Petri walks us through the steps on managing local Active Groups with the help of Group Policy Restricted Groups.

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks continues his discussion of using PowerShell to manage Active Directory organizational unit settings.

PowerShell expert Jeff Hicks wraps up his lesson on managing Active Directory OUs with PowerShell by showing you how to move and delete them.

As your organization’s logical layout changes, you may need to delete OUs in Active Directory (AD) from your domain controllers. In this post, we’ll show you two different ways to delete protected OUs (Organizational Units) and what minor roadblocks you may come across while doing so. Why you cannot delete protected OU in Active Directory…

Microsoft has launched a new product family of identity and access management solutions called Microsoft Entra. This new suite of products is designed to help organizations protect access to any application or resource by making it easier to discover and manage permissions in multi-cloud environments. As cyberattacks like credential theft and social engineering become more…

In this Ask an Admin, find out how to configure DNS on a Windows Server 2012 DC using two IPv4 addresses.

Microsoft released new out-of-band (OOB) updates yesterday to address Active Directory (AD) authentication problems caused by the May 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. These emergency patches also include a fix for the bug that previously prevented the installation of apps from the Microsoft Store. The May 2022 security updates that shipped earlier this month included fixes…

Microsoft launched a new Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials (VC) solution in public preview last year. The company has now announced that it’s expanding this service to all Azure AD customers. Azure AD’s Verifiable Credentials solution is a decentralized identity scheme that lets organizations to create cryptographically secure digital attestations to an individual’s identity without…

Apple is phasing out its macOS Server application that was first released back in 2011. Indeed, the company has announced in a support document that macOS Server is discontinued as of April 21, 2022 (via MacRumors). According to Apple, all existing customers can still continue to download and use the app on the latest macOS…

Microsoft has released updated guidance to help enterprise customers protect domain controllers (DCs) against cyber attacks. The company urges IT admins to deploy Azure Active Directory (AAD) in their organizations to prevent security breaches. For those unfamiliar, a domain controller is a type of server that responds to security authentication requests from network endpoints (such…