Active Directory: Core Concepts, Architecture and Best Practices

In this article we’ll show how to read and write data from Excel worksheets directly from PowerShell scripts. You can use Excel along with PowerShell to inventory and generate various…

Information security best practices require the computer screen to be locked when the user is inactive (idle) for a period of time. A Windows user can lock the computer screen…

To ensure a high level of security for user accounts in the Active Directory domain, an administrator must configure and implement a domain password policy. The password policy should provide…

You can use Group Policies to flexibly map shared network folders from your SMB file servers as separate Windows network drives. Traditionally, .bat logon scripts containing the net use M:…

In this article we’ll show how to fix a broken trust relationship between a workstation and an Active Directory domain when a user cannot logon to their domain computer. Let’s…

Many Linux services (apache, nginx, etc.) can use keytab files for Kerberos authentication in Active Directory without entering a password. The keytab file keeps the names of Kerberos principals and…

In this article, we’ll take a look at how to centrally configure proxy settings on Windows 10 computers in a domain using Group Policy. Most popular browsers (such as Microsoft…

In this article we will show how to update Group Policy (GPO) settings on Windows computers in an Active Directory domain: how to update (refresh) Group Policies automatically, how to…

Quite an often task of an Active Directory administrator is to make a list of disabled or inactive user and/or computer accounts. You can use both saved LDAP queries in…

There are several different tools to get information about the time of a user logon to an Active Directory domain. The time of the last successful user authentication in an…