Amazon Web Services is now offering a set of new options to run Active Directory as a managed service in its EC2 cloud. The company this week said it's offering three options for its new cloud-based ...

Amazon Web Services is baiting some of Microsoft’s legacy customers with a new offering that allows them to move applications like SQL Server, Sharepoint and custom apps built with .NET onto its cloud ...

Safeguarding service accounts is essential to securing your Active Directory environment. Join Semperis for this expert-led webcast to uncover why service accounts are so challenging to manage, how ...

Learning how to work with directory services is a long journey that involves trusts, policies and organizational understanding, along with the tools that make the operating system hum. The new 70-294 ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

Kerberoasting gives attackers offline paths to crack service account password, without triggering alerts. Learn from Specops Software how to protect your Active Directory with stronger SPN password ...

The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) objects, including computer ...

Over the past few days we've been covering a series of issues with Active Directory in conjunction with Mac OS X 10.4.4. There now appear a number of issues with Macs bound to Active Directory ...

With each new edition of Windows Server comes changes to Active Directory, usually in the form of slight adjustments in performance, schema inclusions, and sometimes new tools like the ...

Remember, I was wanting active directory to act as the user database instead of creating accounts for everyone, since they already exist in AD. The server itself doesn't necessarily need to be a ...