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 ...

First I would like to talk about my AD infrastructure. There are 2 domains in a single forest. first contosoholding.com was created and then contoso.domain was created. Step 0 : Create Enterprise / ...

Ok I have 2 Win 2003 based domains(all the servers in each domain are Win 2003). They are in different subnets(192.168.2.x{primary} and 192.168.20.x{secondary}) and are linked via a l2tp/IPSec ...

If I were searching for groups in a single domain, this would be a very simple chore. However, I wanted to find groups that matched the pattern in all domains within the forest. Technically, I could ...

In the first part, I talked about OU design as it relates to group policy-based security. In this article, I want to continue the discussion by talking about planning your Active Directory’s domain ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...