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 ...

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, ...

That sure is a long title for a blog post. Anyhow, I seem to hear the following question a lot: “In Active Directory, how do I figure out which account objects are valid?” Well, first off, if you ...

Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) is a popular service that many organizations use for identity management today. If you're just managing a few employees with user accounts, you could get by with the ...

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 ...

Using PowerShell, Adam shows you one way to compare a .CSV file full of employee accounts with Active Directory users. So you've been given a .CSV file from your HR department that contains a list of ...

Several years ago I documented Windows updates that needed additional registry keys to be set before you are fully patched. These updates can be hard to keep track of. Microsoft recently released ...