One of the highlights for me of NetPro’s annual Directory Experts Conference is the report on the survey of attendees that the company releases after the event. It was slow coming out this year – the ...

In "Mastering Active Directory Domains," I explained the importance of good domain naming and discussed the concept of nesting domains. In this article, I'll discuss two more Active Directory ...

One of the safest strategies for configuring Active Directory is to stick with the simplest deployment possible. Active Directory has been around since the release of Windows 2000 Server edition. This ...

The way you set up your Active Directory topography will have a direct impact on how well you're able to organize your users and resources. Since the release of Windows 2000 Server edition more than a ...

Learning how to work with directory services is a long journey that involves trusts, policies and organizational understanding, along with the tools that make the operating system hum. The new 70-294 ...

It’s called “site coverage.” When domain controller X registers its SRV records in DNS, it checks to see if any poor, neglected Active Directory sites don’t have any domain controllers in the same ...

Active Directory design is a science, and it’s far too complex to cover all the nuances within the confines of one article. But I wanted to share with you 10 quick tips that will help make your AD ...

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. — The Active Directory toolbox available to IT executives will get a little deeper next week. NetPro Computing Inc. will launch its DirectoryInsight tool, which provides change and ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...