Active Directory Policies

Delegation wizard: common use cases and pitfalls The Delegation of Control Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) looks deceptively simple: pick an OU, pick a group, tick a few boxes, and suddenly the helpdesk can do their jobs without Domain Admin. In real environments, though, delegation is where small mistakes turn into big…

Detecting privileged group membership changes Privileged group membership is one of the highest-leverage control points in Active Directory. If an attacker can add an account (or a computer, service principal, or nested group) to a privileged group, they often don’t need a “loud” exploit anymore—access becomes legitimate by definition.

How to sync AD groups to cloud services securely Syncing Active Directory (AD) groups to cloud services sounds simple: “make the same groups appear in the cloud.” In practice, it’s one of the easiest ways to accidentally leak access, expand blast radius, or create hard-to-audit privilege paths across environments. This guide walks through the…

Recovering deleted groups from Recycle Bin Deleting the wrong group in Active Directory is one of those mistakes that feels small until everything attached to it (file shares, application roles, GPO filtering, nested memberships, Azure AD sync) starts failing. The good news: if the Active Directory Recycle Bin is enabled, a deleted group is…

Hybrid identity is supposed to feel like one system: the same users, the same groups, the same access decisions—just stretched acrosson-premises Active Directory and cloud identity. The reality is that the boundary between directories introduces drift: objects end up in the “wrong” OU, policy and delegation assumptions break, sync scope becomes messy, and teams start papering over it with…