Bill: I am the sysadmin of a small school district in Tucson. For approximately one year, I have been in the planning/training stages of creating Active Directory in my school district. I'm about to ...

Most likely, it's time to at least consider restructuring your current domain and forest design. With the right planning and tools, migrating to a new structure won't be as painful as you might think.

Why mess with the default AD structure? Better security and organization are two reasons. Let's take a closer look. Recently, I read a blog article in which the author indicated that he likes to take ...

A new user interface for carrying out Azure Active Directory logins will take effect in June, Microsoft announced this month. The sign-in interface is getting simplified with a more "centered" look.

Experts are skeptical of the threat posed by a reported design flaw in Microsoft Active Directory, which is used by many enterprises to control employee access to the corporate network. Israeli ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Managing user privileges in a ...

Microsoft Active Directory tops the list of targets that attackers go after in the enterprise. It’s generally the core identity and access management solution for accessing resources in many ...

AD is pretty smart about replication. Once you set up your site links as you detailed, everything will replicate with your main center. There will be two replication hops from romote site A to remote ...

Windows 2000 has been available for more than a year, but many people are still struggling with how to implement the most promising and most complex part of Microsoft Corp.’s new operating system: ...

REDMOND, Wash., July 23, 2001 — Bancorp South had a problem. The US$9.4 billion company — one of the largest bank holding companies in the United States, with more than 250 locations in six states, ...

Editor’s Note: This story is reprinted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Supporting Mac users can be a challenge to systems administrators in ...

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 ...