Active Directory Fundamentals

Comparison of Active Directory and Windows NT

March 1, 2021
Difference between Active Directory and Windows NT What you will learn:Windows NT and Active Directory, at the core, are network operating systems (NOS) developed by Microsoft for centralized management of network devices. Active Directory is the successor to Windows NT. In this article, we will discuss in brief the network operating systems, take a look at what directory services are, and go…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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)…
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Group Policy Backup

February 4, 2021
What you will learn: Group policies are critical pieces of instructions in an Active Directory environment used to configure a variety of advanced settings that can be applied to objects in the network. A set of Group Policy configurations are bundled as Group Policy Objects (GPO) which can then be applied to objects. IT administrators take weeks and months to create GPOs that are customized to…
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Active Directory Maintenance Checklist

February 4, 2021
What you will learn from this article: There are so many moving parts related to Active Directory (AD). So, it is important to know how to monitor, report, fix and diagnose issues related to the different supporting technologies. Identifying bottlenecks and resolving them before they cause much harm improves productivity, ensures efficient usage of resources, maintains consistency in data and…
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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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