Active Directory (AD) schema is a blueprint that describes the rules about the type of objects that can be stored in the AD as well as the attributes related to these objects. The schema thus defines the content, and the structure of the object classes, and theobject attributes used to create an object. While creating a new object, the AD references the classes defined in the schema and…
Active Directory Password Policy
March 3, 2021
How to Configure a Password Policy – An Overview & Guide
Password Policy ensures that a user password is strong and is changed in a periodic manner so that it becomes highly impossible for an attacker to crack the password.To ensure a high level of security for user accounts in the Active Directory domain, an administrator must configure and implement a domain password policy.
Active Directory (AD) Computer Object
March 2, 2021
SAMAccountName: This is also a naming attribute that is used to uniquely identify a computer object in the network. It is the pre-Windows 2000 logon name of an object.
ObjectCategory: It includes the distinguished name of the object class to which the computer object belongs or the name of one of its superclasses.
ObjectClass: It contains the distinguished name of the object class to which…
Ownership of objects in Active Directory
March 2, 2021
The user who creates the object is by default the owner and administrator of the object. He can delegate administrative rights to another user for ease of management. Administrative rights can be delegated by using the delegation control wizard in Active Directory.
To delegate control of a container object in Active Directory:
Expand the ADUC console tree
Then right click on the container…
Active Directory Group Policy
March 2, 2021
Introduction- What is Group Policy?
Group Policy is a security tool built into Microsoft Active Directory that gives network administrators access to a variety of advanced settings. Administrators can set up and manage user settings, operating systems, and applications from a single platform. Group Policies help strengthen the security of users and computers and guard against both insider…
Creating objects in Active Directory
March 1, 2021
What are Active Directory Objects?
Active Directory (AD), Microsoft’s proprietary directory service for Windows Server, allows administrators to control permissions and network resource access. In AD, data is stored as objects. An object is a fundamental unit of data and is typically defined as a resource, such as printers or computers, or a security principle, such as…
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Simulating AD attacks with Purple Team labs
November 14, 2025
Purple teaming in an Active Directory (AD) context is the discipline of running controlled, authorized attack simulations (red) while
observing, tuning, and validating detection + response (blue). Done well, it turns vague goals like “improve AD security” into measurable
outcomes: which attacks did we detect, how fast, with what signal quality, and what changed because of it.
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How to fix slow DNS lookup
January 30, 2026
You notice it as “the internet feels slow,” but it’s not throughput. It’s the pause before anything starts. A new website takes 8–15 seconds to begin loading. RDP connections hang at “configuring,” PowerShell modules time out on first call, and “it’s faster the second time” becomes the only consistent clue.
In Windows environments—especially domain-joined endpoints and hybrid…
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AD Fundamentals
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AD Structure 101
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