In today’s dynamic IT landscape, the need for organizations to be agile and adaptable is more pronounced than ever. Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) stands as the cornerstone of organizational identity. While the allure of designing a brand-new AD infrastructure can be strong, especially with the ever-evolving features and security enhancements, the reality for most organizations is…
How to change the IP address of a domain controller
January 19, 2023
The domain controller (DC) is an integral part of your IT infrastructure. Due to its role within the domain, it’s crucial that any change to its IP is done correctly.
The DC’s address is statically assigned to the server. However, you might be required to change the DC’s IP address at times—when there’s a change of the IP addressing scheme on the local subnet, for…
What is Active Directory?
February 4, 2021
Large organizations depend on Windows Active Directory (AD) to maintain order in the chaos that is managing users, computers, permissions, and file servers. Thesheer number of articles available on the internet can disconcert beginners and make AD management seem more confusing than it actually is. This articleaims to demystify AD for the dummies.
What is Active Directory?
AD is…
Security Account Manager (SAM)
February 4, 2021
What istheSecurity Account Manager (SAM)?
When you log in to your Windows Operating System, you must enter a password to gain access to the system. Have you ever wondered where your passwords are stored when you set up any new user account, create a new password, or update your existing passwords? All the passwords of the Windows operating system are stored in a Security Account…
Active Directory Sites
February 4, 2021
What you will learn:
Active Directory (AD) is a powerful and versatile directory service that allows for quite a bit of customization according to an organization’s needs. Part of the reason that makes AD a powerful tool is that it allows the AD network to be designed based on two distinctly different structures it possesses: a logical structure and a physical structure. The logical…
Managing Active Directory Local Users and Groups
February 4, 2021
Local User Management deals with creating, managing, and securing user and group accounts that are stored locally on a Windows computer. Local user accounts are specific to a computer. Local Users and Groups is a part of the collection of tools that an administrator can use to manage single local computers as well as remote computers. Administrators can set permissions and rights on a local user…
Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS)
February 4, 2021
What is Active Directory Rights Management Services?
Sensitive information in an Active Directory environment cancause a great deal of trouble if it reaches the wrong hands. Every organizationshould do all in its power to avoid such a situation. Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is aserver rolein Windows Active Directory, which aims to do just…
Hyper-V Virtualization: An explanation
February 4, 2021
What you will learn from this article:
There are many scenarios where something would need to be tested on a server or a computer machine. In such scenarios, instead of using a physical test machine, it would be better to use a virtual representation of a target machine, so that should anything go wrong, this ‘virtual machine’ can be shut down without affecting the real machine.
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) – Part II
February 4, 2021
In part Iof Active Directory Users and Computers, we introduced the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) snap-in. We also saw a list of tasks an administrator can perform from the ADUC console and described how to perform a few basic tasks. In this part, we will look at some Active Directory advanced features that will come in handy for an administrator managing users…
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) - An introduction and installation guide
February 4, 2021
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is a common tool used by administrators to carry out daily tasks and much more in Active Directory AD. Some of the tasks an administrator can perform with the help of this MMC snap-in are as follows:
Create and manage AD objects, such as users, computers, groups, and contacts, along with their attributes.
Create Organizational Units (OU), move…
