Although group policies are an extremely powerful security mechanism, it can be a bit tricky to deploy them in an effective manner. That’s because the effective group policy is made up of multiple and ...

Group Policies are essential to keeping Active Directory resources secure. At the same time however, group policy objects are a favorite target for attackers who may leverage group policy to spread ...

I am trying to help a friend set up a Win2K server running Active Directory, with no luck. He built a domain (rexanh.local), and managed to get file sharing going. He added a account (jjjakes), and ...

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that it has added new Group Policy Object (GPO) management capabilities to its Active Directory ...

NetPro last week bolstered its security and compliance suite for Microsoft’s Active Directory with software that lets users delegate who can set and change policies used to manage desktops and servers ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

Uncontrolled changes in Active Directory and Group Policy can lead to unauthorized additions to groups, modifications to objects and permissions, or even worse, deletions of OUs. Netwrix Auditor ...

So, you think you know how password policies work in Active Directory? Well, you might ... or you might not. Find out how to manage Active Directory password policies in Windows Server 2008 and ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...