Brien walks through the steps necessary for authenticating users on-premises and in the cloud with Microsoft's Windows Azure Active Directory. As companies move more and more applications and services ...

But migrating your Windows Server 2003 Active Directory DCs to Windows Server 2012 R2 -- the most recent and, hence, recommended target platform to replace the decommissioned servers -- doesn't have ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...

Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s directory service. It runs on Windows Server and helps administrators manage permissions and access to network resources. To backup and restore Active Directory in ...

Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) is a special boot mode for Windows Server domain controllers, similar to Safe Mode, that allows administrators to perform critical maintenance, repair, or ...

Microsoft first introduced the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) as a way to migrate from Windows NT to Window 2000. Since shipping Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has made some changes to the ...