A new module for the TrickBot trojan has been discovered that targets the Active Directory database stored on compromised Windows domain controllers. TrickBot is typically download and installed on a ...

Active Directory is at the center of many attacks as it is still the predominant source of identity and access management in the enterprise. Hackers commonly target Active Directory with various ...

Installing this month's Windows Server security update has knocked some enterprise domain controllers into continuous reboot cycles.

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 ...

Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft introduced Active Directory (AD) as a core feature of Windows 2000 Server, revolutionizing enterprise identity management. Although Windows 2000 has long since been ...

Attackers have learned to use Active Directory and Group Policy to find weaknesses in Windows networks and identify targets. Here's what you can do to prevent that. Active Directory, part of Windows ...

Microsoft has issued an advisory about an Active Directory privilege escalation attack. The vulnerabilities have already been patched but unpatched domain controllers are more at risk now than ever.

In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover Active Directory support for IPv6. This is the fourth technical blog post on configuring IPv6 in a Windows networking ...

Several years ago I documented Windows updates that needed additional registry keys to be set before you are fully patched. These updates can be hard to keep track of. Microsoft recently released ...

Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

Once again it’s time to look back and see what we were talking about 10 years ago. And what we were talking about was the most highly anticipated launch in IdM history — Microsoft’s Active Directory.