• Active Directory is a mature technology that has been around for nearly 20 years and has undergone some evolution but still maintains its basic structure. • While the built-in Active Directory tools ...

Learn how to clean up Active Directory before enabling SAML-based SSO to ensure secure authentication, accurate user mapping, and smooth identity integration.

Users often create weak and easily guessed passwords they reuse across systems and websites. As a result, traditional passwords are often the weakest link in the security of business-critical ...

Microsoft today offered a snapshot of its Azure Active Directory service and how organizations are using it, based on October stats. Organizations are mostly (46 percent) using Active Directory ...

For a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the ...

Adding a computer to Active Directory is straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is join the workstation to your Windows domain and reboot it once or twice. You can use Active Directory ...

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 ...

I hope that the title is clear. Here is what I need to accomplish. Install a wireless access point ( cisco WAP2000). Have 2 wireless networks one for guests and one for the internal users. The guest ...

use winbind and pam_smb, it's part of the SAMBA packages. it assigns unix UID and GIDs from the users in your AD domain. you will need SAMBA beta3 in order to get good AD member support, if you use ...

To take advantage of all Windows 2000 has to offer you have to use Active Directory, but jumping straight in can be scary. There are all sorts of new data structures you need to be familiar with ...