I spent the day today at the soccer field for the championship games of the local town soccer season. My daughter’s team came in third place, winning its first and last games. It is interesting to watch little kid “beehive soccer.

  Over the first three Securing Active Directory webinars, we have covered a lot of ground. If you haven’t watched them, I would encourage you to do so as they are every bit as relevant today as they were when we did them over the last couple of years.

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Just when you thought it was safe to move along to other technical topics, along comes Scott Quimby’s Hardening Active Directory Part III to scare you even more.  If you haven’t watched Part I and Part II, you can find them here. In Part III we will do a little review of some core topics […]

I have been talking over the past year about “Hardening Active Directory”.   In those discussions, we have been talking about implementing a granular password policy so that you K-2 students have a lower password requirement than your financial and guidance users.

This update has numerous Microsoft related updates to improve the integration with Microsoft servers and Active Directory.  Some of the features include: Improve binding to read-only Active Directory Domain Controllers Improve binding and login speed for Active Directory users in a domain whose name ends in “.local” Improve reliability of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates by […]

Active Directory Domain Services uses AdminSDHolder, protected groups and Security Descriptor propagator (SD propagator or SDPROP for short) to secure privileged users and groups from unintentional modification. This functionality was introduced in the inaugural release of Active Directory in Windows 2000 Server and it’s fairly well known.