Microsoft 365 users saw a slew of phishing emails, thanks to an ongoing attack aiming at stealing Microsoft 365 credentials. To make the emails look more realistic and legitimate, attackers are adding a fake Google reCAPTCHA system in addition to their company logos in the mails. Security researchers indicate that over 2500 such emails have been unsuccessfully sent to senior-level employees in the…
How to force Group Policy update?
March 3, 2021
What you will learn from this article:
Group Policies are a set of security and management instructions that are administered and updated to ensure secure and smooth operations of an Active Directory (AD) network. Sometimes, these Group Policies would need to be updated instantly for various reasons. Hence, Microsoft has provided functionalities to force Group Policy updates. In this article…
Group Policy Results
March 3, 2021
What are Group Policy Results?
System administrators have a tough time determining what settings are actually being applied to users and computers because there may be several GPOs linked at different levels of the AD hierarchy. Group Policy Results is a Group Policy Management Console feature that allows administrators to scan local or remote computers and users in order to discover which…
Windows Group Policy Object Inheritance: Explained
March 3, 2021
Introduction:
In Active Directory (AD), there is a significant feature called Group Policy that allows you to implement specific settings for users and computers. Administrators can apply hundreds of different settings to objects in AD by establishing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and associating the GPO to domains, sites, and organizational units (OUs). Ironically, the versatility of Group…
Group Policy Objects
March 3, 2021
What is a Group policy object?
A virtual group of policy settings is called a Group Policy Object (GPO). A GPO has a distinctive name, like a GUID (globally unique identifier). GPOs can be created like any other active directory object and are linked to a Site, domain, or OU in which the policy settings have to be applied. GPO settings are evaluated by clients using the hierarchical nature of…
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…
Active Directory Computer Objects Tabs
March 2, 2021
The general tab
Some properties are assigned to a computer automatically once it’s joined to a domain, such as DNS name, Computer name, and Role etc. Even the administrator himself cannot change these properties.
In the description box you can add a brief description of the computer.
The location tab
You can save the physical location of the computer in this tab.
The…
