What you’ll learn:
Active Directory authentication and authorization are security processes. These processes are necessary in any environment so that the resources of an environment are not misused by anyone. In this article, we will take a look at what is authentication and authorization in an AD environment, and how AD tackles these process. Before going further, let’s take a look…
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 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)…
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…
