The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) objects, including computer ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

Understanding the ins and outs of AD and object permissions is no simple task, but your efforts can help avoid catastrophe. "I need more circuits in this room," I told him. "Oh, computers don't draw ...

Adding a computer to Active Directory is straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is join the workstation to your Windows domain and reboot it once or twice. You can use Active Directory ...

When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right ...

Jesus Vigo covers how systems administrators leverage PowerShell cmdlets to manage Active Directory networks, including the devices and users it services. Microsoft’s PowerShell (PS) management ...

So here's an odd one. Our bitlocker setup puts all the critical information in Active Directory tied to the computer object. So I start bitlockering this machine and then I realize I have typed the ...

Not all of the available attributes for the User Object in Active Directory are available via the Computers and Users management interface. While we could populate those attributes using various ...

Understanding the ins and outs of AD and object permissions is no simple task, but your efforts can help avoid catastrophe. "I need more circuits in this room," I told him. "Oh, computers don't draw ...