I have a user who works a hybrid work schedule, and experiences a strange issue only when working from home. When he connects to VPN and attempts to open a shared folder, his account is immediately ...

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Patching alone won't fix all known Active Directory vulnerabilities. Here are the steps to audit your Active Directory domains and shore up weaknesses. If you have a traditional domain, it’s time to ...

Even after 25 years, Microsoft Active Directory (AD) remains the backbone of identity and access management in up to 90% of enterprise IT environments worldwide, making it a high-value target for ...

Depends on what you mean by 'permissions'. Do you mean NTFS permissions? If so, they do take effect immediately. Do you mean permissions against an AD object? That requires a replication interval (a ...

Today, threat actors are using a variety of methods to target organizations. While ransomware, phishing, botnets and other malware steal the headlines, Active Directory (AD) remains a major vector of ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

For one reason or another, which could be to enforce your corporate working hours policy or to improve security as threat actors will be unable to log on during non-office hours, administrators can ...

Hackers can quickly wreak havoc if they get access to a victim’s Active Directory. “Just about every organization in the world at this point is probably using some flavor of Active Directory. So, I ...

How to deploy Samba on Linux as an Active Directory Domain Controller Your email has been sent Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s way of making it possible to create and apply policies to machines ...