Windows Server admins should establish one authoritative time source for their organization. Rick Vanover explains how to configure the authoritative time source. Time management is one of the more ...

Since Active Directory is a core feature of Windows Server, we can install it from the Server Manager. So, to install Active Directory, follow the steps mentioned below. After installing the role, you ...

Both modern Windows systems (e.g., Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2) and Active Directory, like Linux and Solaris systems, allow you to configure password policies that determine how long and complex ...

As locking down information becomes a more critical priority for IT organizations, securing individual files or shares is completely dependent on effectively setting up security groups. Because ...

Microsoft is advising that those using Azure Active Directory with federation should make a configuration change to take advantage of newly added resilience improvements. The announcement included ...

If you want to dive into the realm of LDAP, learn how to have that server up and running quickly and easily. LDAP, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is a directory service protocol. With it, ...

Editor’s note: When originally published this article said that by using dynamic user identification (UID) generation, users might be assigned a different UID number each time they logged onto a ...

If you are a server admin and part of an organization, you will be asked to configure Work Folders. They provide a super convenient solution for storing work files ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...