Thursday, 3 September 2015

Are you sleep deprived because of your Active Directory? If yes, then you can easily understand the reason behind it. Active Directory is the heart of Windows network. It is the combined, distributed directory service that is included with Microsoft Windows Server. It is the largest and most perilous distributed system in your organization. It provides a single manageable point for network...

Monday, 11 August 2014

Active Directory (AD) delegation is certainly one of the most critical aspects of any organizations' IT infrastructure. By delegating administration, you as administrator grant users or groups only the permissions they necessitate without adding users to privileged groups (e.g., Account Operators,...

Thursday, 7 August 2014

Users logging on or off into their domain computers is a very routine activity that occurs in any enterprise. However, just like any other activity this might look a simple Active Directory event but administrators could very well make use of this valuable data for different audit, compliance and operational needs. There are occasions when an organization looks out for audit details on User Logons...

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

All objects in Active Directory (e.g., users, groups, OUs and group policy objects) are structured as per the AD’s schema of object classes and properties. Active Directory objects can be fairly complex due to the nature of its associated attributes. If even one attribute gets omitted or disturbed,...

Thursday, 30 January 2014

The importance of auditing the Active Directory can be proved with a single fact that doing this will help to maintain the security and integrity of the IT infrastructure in an organization. However, auditing using the traditional Windows native tools is a time consuming and difficult process. It becomes more cumbersome when the auditor has to deal with the...