Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) is a popular service that many organizations use for identity management today. If you're just managing a few employees with user accounts, you could get by with the ...

Managing permissions on files and folders can be an enormous time drain for IT professionals. Users have home folders, departments have proprietary folders, projects have unique folders — the list ...

Microsoft today announced two new Azure Active Directory PowerShell module capabilities available at the preview testing stage. The first new capability is the addition of "multifactor authentication" ...

PowerShell management does not have to be painful with PowerGUI in your IT toolbox Since its introduction I have come across two very different reactions for PowerShell. Some love it since to them it ...

Microsoft last week released a community technology preview (CTP) version of Windows Management Framework 3.0. The CTP requires having Common Language Runtime 4.0 in ...

Last month the White House issued a recommendation that everyone change their password as a way of preventing a potential breach. Although such a request sounds simple enough, enforcing password ...

These 10 PowerShell commands will come in handy when you need to remotely manage computers on a domain or workgroup. Doing more with less is a common mantra bandied about in the workforce these days ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...