The ADSI Edit tool (Active Directory Service Interface Editor) is a special MMC snap-in in Windows. It allows you to connect to Active Directory database partitions (NTDS.dit) or to the…
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In this article, we’ll look at how to troubleshoot and fix Group Policy processing errors on Windows computers in an Active Directory domain. If one of the domain computers fails…
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A lockout policy that automatically disables user accounts after a certain number of failed logon attempts is applied to all Active Directory users. This article shows how to find and…
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An Organizational Unit (OU) is a special container in the Active Directory domain that can contain different AD objects: other containers, groups, users, and computer accounts. In this guide, we’ll…
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The functional level of the Active Directory domain and forest determines the available features that can be used in the domain, and the version of Windows that can be used…
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A user can be a member of different Active Directory groups that grant permissions to access different domain services and resources. With the right permissions assignment strategy in AD, you…
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LDAP queries used to search for objects (computers, users, groups) in the Active Directory database according to specific criteria. You can use several tools to perform an LDAP query against…
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A common misconception, especially with new Windows system administrators, is they should log in to the domain controller server to manage the Active Directory. I’ve seen organizations where even the…
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Domain user passwords are an important part of the security of your Active Directory domain. An AD system administrator can manage domain password policies using Group Policy Objects and Password…
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In this article, we’ll show you how to manage the Group Policy Object Links in Active Directory from the GPMC graphic snap-in and PowerShell and consider the differences between Enabled…
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