On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: When originally published this article said that by using dynamic user identification (UID) generation, users might be assigned a different UID number each time they logged onto a ...

Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft introduced Active Directory (AD) as a core feature of Windows 2000 Server, revolutionizing enterprise identity management. Although Windows 2000 has long since been ...