GPO FundamentalsGroup Policy & Endpoint Policy

GPO Delegation

March 3, 2021
Introduction : Group Policy helps administrators with centralized control and configuration of user settings, operating systems, and applications. A Group Policy Object (GPO) is a collection of Group Policy settings that determine how a system appears and behaves for a certain group of users. GPO delegation in AD allows you to offer end-users permission to execute certain Group Policy…
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AD Domain ServicesAuthentication & Protocols

An Introduction to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

March 2, 2021
What is LDAP? The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, commonly known as LDAP, is a communication protocol used to access directory servers. In other words, LDAP is used to store, update and retrieve data from a directory structure. The term “lightweight” is used in comparison with X.500, which was the previous standard for directory services. X.500 was complicated, and it relied on…
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AD Domain ServicesAuthentication & Protocols

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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