Active Directory, a directory service provided by Microsoft Windows, plays a pivotal role in configuring permissions and network access for administrators. Comprising components such as Active ...

Microsoft MVP Derek Melber explains why real AD knowledge depends on understanding how Group Policy, replication and DNS behave in production.

Your Active Directory isn't secure. Learn what to do to protect your users and be ready for the next attack. If not properly deployed, Active Directory can be a ticking time bomb. It's not if ...

Once again it’s time to look back and see what we were talking about 10 years ago. And what we were talking about was the most highly anticipated launch in IdM history — Microsoft’s Active Directory.

Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...