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How to Change Username in Active Directory?

You can rename user accounts in Active Directory in several ways. You can use AD graphical snap-ins, command-line tools, or…

The account lockout policy in the Active Directory domain allows you to automatically lock a user account if an attempt…

Active Directory security groups are used to grant users permissions to various domain services and resources. Therefore, to understand what…

In this article, we will look at two important elements of the Active Directory infrastructure — sites and subnets. Sites…

Like on-premises Active Directory, Azure AD is used to store various objects (users, groups, or devices). All AAD objects have…

In addition to the 5 FSMO roles in Active Directory, there is the sixth (unofficial) domain controller role — Global…

The user account object in Active Directory contains several properties (attributes), such as canonical name, first name, middle name, last…

Error 1722 RPC Server Unavailable (RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE) is a quite common Windows error. Often domain administrators face this error when AD…

An Active Directory administrator must periodically disable user and computer domain accounts that are not used for a long time….

In the previous article, we showed you how to create the custom attributes in on-premises Active Directory. When using a…