One thing that is a must for most organizations is to join the vCenter Server to Active Directory. A few words of advice to do this smoothly. Last year when I wrote 10 Steps to Setting Up vCenter ...

Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

Active Directory is obviously a critical part of your infrastructure -- so what are you doing to protect it? Furthermore, what are you doing to protect the important Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that ...

After explaining the four different types of directory services that you can natively create in AWS, Brien Posey shows you what's involved in setting up a cloud-native Microsoft Active Directory ...

I'm putting a Windows 2003 Standard server into a very small office. There are only two users. Would you implement Active Directory on this server or just set it up as a standalone/member ...

Office 365 customers can use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for free, although some of its capabilities entail paying for subscription costs. Office 365 has its own local directory. There's no ...

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names ...