If you’re moving from Windows NT to Windows Server 2003, one of your biggest challenges is Active Directory. You can download our Sample Active Directory Chart to ...

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 ...

In order to get the most out of Active Directory, you need to give a lot of thought to an efficient configuration that matches your workflow. One of the safest strategies for configuring Active ...

Why mess with the default AD structure? Better security and organization are two reasons. Let's take a closer look. Recently, I read a blog article in which the author indicated that he likes to take ...

An Active Directory (AD) tree is a collection of domains within a Microsoft Active Directory network. The term refers to the fact that each domain has exactly one parent, leading to a hierarchical ...

One of the most overlooked and most important passwords in a Windows network is the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password on a domain controller. This is a powerful password that’s the key ...

Kym is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. When Jonathan DeAngelo joined Chautauqua County, N.Y., as ...

I'm in the process of deploying active directory at work and I'm looking for pointers and examples of AD structure. I'm especially interested in small networks. All the information I seem to find is ...

Active Directory security work went better as a group. David Fuhr on how 27 municipalities hardened their servers in 12 weeks ...

We are in the process of restructuring our Active Directory. Basically we are going to start from scratch and get it done right. As a part of this we are going to change the shared drive structure ...