Understanding the ins and outs of AD and object permissions is no simple task, but your efforts can help avoid catastrophe. "I need more circuits in this room," I told him. "Oh, computers don't draw ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right ...

Not all of the available attributes for the User Object in Active Directory are available via the Computers and Users management interface. While we could populate those attributes using various ...

In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...