Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) is a popular service that many organizations use for identity management today. If you're just managing a few employees with user accounts, you could get by with the ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

Windows Active Directory (AD) service accounts are prime cyber-attack targets due to their elevated privileges and automated/continuous access to important systems. Windows Administrators should ...

For one reason or another, which could be to enforce your corporate working hours policy or to improve security as threat actors will be unable to log on during non-office hours, administrators can ...

Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory security enhancements this week. Microsoft is previewing the ability to allow IT pros to remove inactive user accounts for organizations that use ...

Using PowerShell, Adam shows you one way to compare a .CSV file full of employee accounts with Active Directory users. So you've been given a .CSV file from your HR department that contains a list of ...

Since Active Directory is a core feature of Windows Server, we can install it from the Server Manager. So, to install Active Directory, follow the steps mentioned below. After installing the role, you ...

Microsoft is updating Microsoft Defender for Identity to allow security operations (SecOps) teams to block attacks by locking a compromised user's Active Directory account. Microsoft Defender for ...

Editor’s note: When originally published this article said that by using dynamic user identification (UID) generation, users might be assigned a different UID number each time they logged onto a ...