By admin on January 17, 2011
In an Active Directory Domain users are verified by providing a username and password. This process of verifying the user is called authentication. Once the user’s username and password have been verified they are granted access to resources on the network that they have been granted to. One of the problems that occur with using [...]
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By admin on January 11, 2011
DSACLS | Apply Permissions to AD Objects DSACLS.exe is a command line tool that enables administrators to view and change permissions and security attributes of Active Directory objects. This command line tool is the same as using Active Directory Users and Computer but no GUI of course. You can perform the same tasks using dsacls [...]
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By admin on December 29, 2010
At times as a System Administrator, you need to know who is logging into which computer and what that user is accessing. This may also be necessary for compliance reasons. In An Active Directory Domain, you can setup polices to help you audit user activity and computer usage. This is done by defining a set [...]
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By admin on November 21, 2009
Active Directory Monitoring in a large organization can be an overwhelming task. There are many services, events, folders and policies that must be monitored in Active Directory to insure a healthy environment. There are many individual Active Directory tools and software packages that provide a centralized view of Active Directory across the entire forest. Active [...]
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