LAS VEGAS – Directory management vendor NetPro opened its fifth annual Directory Experts Conference Monday with upgrades to its software that move it into the realm of managing and monitoring not only ...

In order to get the most out of Active Directory, you need to give a lot of thought to an efficient configuration that matches your workflow. One of the safest strategies for configuring Active ...

About a year ago, I wrote a series of blog posts in which I explained how to deploy a cloud-based Active Directory environment to the AWS cloud with just a few clicks. As easy as the Active Directory ...

Microsoft wants to bring Active Directory users to Azure AD, but rivals vie to manage enterprise user authentication in the cloud age with alternative offerings. Well more than 90 percent of ...

To manage your environment, use the AD PowerShell provider that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2, or the Active Directory Management Gateway for any down-level DC. A terrific benefit of learning ...

Microsoft Active Directory management, monitoring and recovery startup Cayosoft Inc. today announced that it has raised $22.5 million in new funding from Centana Growth Partners LP to accelerate its ...

Consolidating Active Directory domains saves money, time, and labor, but migration can require costly tools -- unless you follow this approach using ADMT Chances are that your Active Directory ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

One of the highlights for me of NetPro’s annual Directory Experts Conference is the report on the survey of attendees that the company releases after the event. It was slow coming out this year – the ...

Jesus Vigo covers how systems administrators leverage PowerShell cmdlets to manage Active Directory networks, including the devices and users it services. Microsoft’s PowerShell (PS) management ...

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 ...