The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) objects, including computer ...

A new module for the TrickBot trojan has been discovered that targets the Active Directory database stored on compromised Windows domain controllers. TrickBot is typically download and installed on a ...

The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable. You may use your printer for various reasons. However, you can use it only when your computer detects ...

Improving Active Directory performance is on everyone's mind. You can do so relatively easily using disconnected recordsets. A disconnected recordset (DRS) is an ADO record that resides in memory. A ...

Generative AI is accelerating password attacks against Active Directory, making credential abuse faster and more effective.

Use PowerShell to shave time off routine tasks like renaming computers. Here are some commands to try. Occasionally it may become necessary to rename a computer in an Active Directory environment.

If Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is not responding or is slow to load on Windows Server or Windows 11/10 client machines, the solutions provided in this ...

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 ...

We configure our computer objects in dedicated OUs for computers based on branches. We have a main computer GPO, but this way we can apply different GPOs to each branch without affecting others. We ...

Earlier this week I saw a situation in which someone with a small, single-domain controller network performed a restoration of their domain controller. This restoration effectively reverted the Active ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...