Long story short, I'm trying to lock down my workstation to keep mischief out (windows 7 on a windows domain). Encrypting the HDD (bitlocker) prevents people from slaving the drive or booting into a ...

We all love our Active Directory domains. Being able to provide single sign-on authentication for users and computers is great. It's a secure solution that saves a ton of time -- cutting out the ...

I posted this on Forensit's support forum as well, but I thought I would post it here as well in case you guys have experienced something similar. I have used Forensit's user profile wizard in the ...

The most common reason for domain join failures is incorrect DNS configuration. For your computer to find the domain controller, its network settings must point to a DNS server that can resolve your ...

Use PowerShell to shave time off routine tasks like renaming computers. Here are some commands to try. Occasionally it may become necessary to rename a computer in an Active Directory environment.

If you leave a company and your personal computer is connected to the company's domain, you can leave the domain to join a Workgroup provided that you're directly connected to the domain and that you ...

It's not always the best idea to create Active Directory users from scratch. Chances are, your company has a standard "template" of attributes that are set for every domain user. If so, why are you ...

A computer running Windows 7 might be used by a single person, by a group of people in an office, or by a family in a home. Fortunately, Windows 7 was designed from the ground up to be a multiuser ...

For one reason or the other, you may want to delete a domain user profile or account on a Windows 11/10 PC – for example, you may have a laptop that was used temporarily that you want to repurpose for ...

Microsoft says Windows domain join processes may fail with "0xaac (2732)" errors after applying this month's security updates. The issue stems from hardening changes introduced when addressing the CVE ...