Regular reviews of the effectiveness of user, admin, and service passwords stored in Active Directory is a good idea. Here's how one password review tool works. More applications and devices are using ...

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, ...

I know I'm behind times. I still use the NT tools (srvmgr, usrmgr). I am now forcing my self to learn the Windows 2000 mmc. I wanted to change my domain administrators password from my desktop and can ...

Active Directory account lockouts happen when too many failed login attempts trigger security limits. Configure the Account ...

Microsoft’s widely used software for brokering network access has a critical design flaw, an Israeli security firm said, but Microsoft contends the issue has been long-known and defenses are in place.

In the past, many organizations chose to trust users and devices within their secure perimeters. This is no longer possible, with workers spread out geographically and needing access from multiple ...

The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to perform password and account search operations against Active Directory Domain ...

Microsoft’s widely used software for brokering network access has a critical design flaw, an Israeli security firm said, but Microsoft contends the issue has been long-known and defenses are in place.