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 ...

First I would like to talk about my AD infrastructure. There are 2 domains in a single forest. first contosoholding.com was created and then contoso.domain was created. Step 0 : Create Enterprise / ...

Ok I have 2 Win 2003 based domains(all the servers in each domain are Win 2003). They are in different subnets(192.168.2.x{primary} and 192.168.20.x{secondary}) and are linked via a l2tp/IPSec ...

If I were searching for groups in a single domain, this would be a very simple chore. However, I wanted to find groups that matched the pattern in all domains within the forest. Technically, I could ...

There are several tools included in Windows Server to manage Active Directory in all its aspects. In this article, you’ll learn the uses for and the ins and outs of the Active Directory Domains And ...

In the first part, I talked about OU design as it relates to group policy-based security. In this article, I want to continue the discussion by talking about planning your Active Directory’s domain ...

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 ...