Active Directory

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains what Microsoft’s AD tier administrative model is and how it can improve security.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at Microsoft’s recommendations for securing Active Directory forests using its Enhanced Security Administrative Environment model.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to set up DNS in Windows Server so that you can establish a cross-forest trust.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to set up Azure Active Directory Connect pass-through authentication.

Aidan Finn explains how to use a preview feature of the Azure Backup MARS agent to backup and restore system state for Windows Server machines.

Russell Smith shows how to connect Visual Studio Team Services to Azure using a Service Principal Name so that you can deploy code directly to Azure from Visual Studio Team Services.

Continuing this series on Active Directory Searcher with PowerShell, Jeff Hicks looks at managing large environments.

Learn about using Active Directory Searcher in this series.

In this series, Jeff Hicks continues looking at ways to use the Active Directory Searcher with PowerShell.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to shut down a remote workgroup computer using PowerShell.