Since Active Directory is a core feature of Windows Server, we can install it from the Server Manager. So, to install Active Directory, follow the steps mentioned below. After installing the role, you ...

When deploying Active Directory, it’s imperative that you first plan and design the rollout of the base operating system, also seen as NOS, or network operating system. Active Directory, if planned ...

Adding a computer to Active Directory is straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is join the workstation to your Windows domain and reboot it once or twice. You can use Active Directory ...

Tried and true, Active Directory has been managing permissions and access to networked resources for decades. It's a system that has weathered storms — cyber, organizational, and competitive — and has ...

There's a lot that is good and lot that is bad about directory services. They have brought a level of consistency, logic, and organization to network administration and programming that was impossible ...

I spoke with Microsoft‘s Stuart Kwan and Kim Cameron last week at NetPro’s Directory Experts Conference. Kwan is the director of program management for identity and access in the Windows Server group, ...

If you’re still planning your seminar, conference and trade show calendar for the year, be sure to keep in mind NetPro’s Directory Experts’ Conference coming up in March (in Washington, D.C.) and ...

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 ...