Active Directory

Learn about a free Active Directory tool to help prevent insider misuse and security breaches within your organization.

What is Azure Active Directory, and what are the features? Here’s a feature comparison for the free, basic, and premium editions of Active Directory in the cloud.

Jeff Hicks provides an in-depth review of Softerra Adaxes, an Active Directory management and automation solution.

Learn how to restrict the use of domain admin accounts using authentication policy and silos in Windows Server 2012 R2.

Learn how to create authentication policies and silos using PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 R2

Learn how to use startup scripts to manage local Active Directory groups in this step-by-step tutorial by Daniel Petri.

Daniel Petri shows us how to manage local Active Directory groups with Group Policy Preferences, which lets us create, delete, update, and rename local groups.

Russell Smith shows us how to easily back up and restore Group Policy Objects with the help of PowerShell.

Daniel Petri shows us an alternative method for managing local Active Directory groups, this time with the help of the “This group is a member of” Group Policy control.

Russell Smith walks us through improvements to his script used for automating domain controller deployment in Microsoft Azure.