Some technologists have described Group Policy as one of the best features within Microsoft’s Active Directory software. Group Policy, which is supported on Windows 2000, Server 2003 and XP, enables ...

Group Policy should be a no-brainer for organizations running Microsoft Active Directory. It lets IT control changes and a variety of settings for all users and computers in AD from a central console.

NetPro last week bolstered its security and compliance suite for Microsoft’s Active Directory with software that lets users delegate who can set and change policies used to manage desktops and servers ...

Some things in life, like death and taxes, are guaranteed. There are other things in life that you think are guaranteed, or at least you think you know how they work -- such as Active Directory ...

Attackers have learned to use Active Directory and Group Policy to find weaknesses in Windows networks and identify targets. Here's what you can do to prevent that. Active Directory, part of Windows ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...

Windows Server admins should establish one authoritative time source for their organization. Rick Vanover explains how to configure the authoritative time source. Time management is one of the more ...