The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to perform password and account search operations against Active Directory Domain ...

Learn how to clean up Active Directory before enabling SAML-based SSO to ensure secure authentication, accurate user mapping, ...

That sure is a long title for a blog post. Anyhow, I seem to hear the following question a lot: “In Active Directory, how do I figure out which account objects are valid?” Well, first off, if you ...

Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

About 30 minutes ago all of our accounts were locked out of active directory. We do have a group policy set to lockout an account after 3 attempts and to reset the account after 10 minutes. I've run ...

Any Active Directory gurus out there?<BR><BR>I tried assigning a static ip address to an active directory user to use whenever he VPNs in (under the Dial-in tab in his User Account in Active Directory ...

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 ...

Microsoft is updating Microsoft Defender for Identity to allow security operations (SecOps) teams to block attacks by locking a compromised user's Active Directory account. Microsoft Defender for ...

Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory security enhancements this week. Microsoft is previewing the ability to allow IT pros to remove inactive user accounts for organizations that use ...