If domain users are being rejected by NPS, check the request processing destination and the NPS registration in Active ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to join Fedora Desktop to an Active Directory domain controller. Recently, I covered how to connect Ubuntu Desktop to an Active Directory domain. The domain controller I ...

An Active Directory domain (AD domain) is a collection of objects within a Microsoft Active Directory network. An object can be a single user or a group, or it can be a hardware component, such as a ...

Several years ago I documented Windows updates that needed additional registry keys to be set before you are fully patched. These updates can be hard to keep track of. Microsoft recently released ...

Most enterprises depend on Active Directory for their authentication and identity needs. If the replication process breaks down, administrators need to know quickly to prevent issues with the services ...

Earlier this week I saw a situation in which someone with a small, single-domain controller network performed a restoration of their domain controller. This restoration effectively reverted the Active ...

Canonical has made it easy for admins to join Ubuntu Desktop to Active Directory domains. Jack Wallen walks you through the steps. Ubuntu 21.04 was made available last month, and it has been quite the ...

Improving Active Directory performance is on everyone's mind. You can do so relatively easily using disconnected recordsets. A disconnected recordset (DRS) is an ADO record that resides in memory. A ...

As the gateways to corporate networks, VPNs are an attractive target for attackers seeking access to Active Directory environments. And when VPN credentials become compromised — through something as ...

We configure our computer objects in dedicated OUs for computers based on branches. We have a main computer GPO, but this way we can apply different GPOs to each branch without affecting others. We ...