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Local Group Policy Editor

February 4, 2021
Group Policy in Active Directory (AD) simplifies the administrative burden and makes management a whole lot easier. When an administrator needs to control and configure settings on a local computer that is not part ofAD,settingsspecific to that computer can beconfigured in the Local Group Policy. Multiple Local Group Policy objects are an enhancement to Local Group…
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Password Setting Objects (PSO): Explained

February 4, 2021
Administrators are well aware of the fact that usersand groups occupy different levels of their organization’s hierarchy and do not all have the same privileges. Some accounts demand a stronger password policy than others for obvious security reasons. Fine-grained password policy and PSO Fine-grained password policy (FGPP) brings with it the capability of setting…
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Active Directory fundamentals, and workgroup vs domain: An explanation

February 4, 2021
What you will learn: Active Directory is a powerful directory service that allows organizations to manage all their resources, apply security configurations, and keep everything organized in one place. In this article, we will get an introduction to Active Directory and how it is structured, take a look at the five services of Active Directory, and then dive into what are workgroups, domains…
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NTLM authentication and Kerberos Authentication Protocols Explained

February 4, 2021
What you will learn: A network needs to have security processes put in place to avoid the misuse of its resources. An authentication process goes a big way in identifying whether a person is who they say they are, or a fraud. Active Directory employed the NTLM authentication protocol to securely authenticate its users, which was then succeeded by the Kerberos authentication protocol. In this…
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