When deploying Active Directory, it’s imperative that you first plan and design the rollout of the base operating system, also seen as NOS, or network operating system. Active Directory, if planned ...

Does anyone know of a way to search Active Directory at the file level from a client machine?<BR><BR>Directory Searching for OUs or individual Objects is easy enough, but the search is limited to ...

Here at work we are in the process of doing a complete network overhaul with Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory services is the primary component. Right now the basic user has been given the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week announced a few milestones for its Azure Files cloud-based file share service. The use of Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) with the Azure Files service has reached the ...

In an Active Directory environment, you can create a logon script that can be applied to user accounts that automatically goes to work once a user logs in. Logon scripts can be used to assign tasks ...

Last week, I promised to tell you about the new offerings from NetPro, and all of them (there are three) are worth paying attention to. Just released were: Version 2 of NetPro AccessManager, which ...

This affordable sector-based file recovery utility is tried and true, though it’s for Windows files systems only. Active@ File Recovery Standard is one of the more effective andaffordable sector-based ...

Creating enforceable, common-sense password policies has become increasingly critical in today’s business world. One major variable in that equation is terminology. While some words (or strings of ...