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Secure E-Mail Using Digital Certificates

For millennia, humans have used various methods to hide information in transit, validate the sender, and authenticate the message. Now one method for handling all three has been developed and is becoming widely used—Secure Multi-Purpose Internet Mail. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:15 AM by sharont | 0 Comments

Windows PowerShell: Automating Directory Management

While Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool, it does have a notable shortcoming that is largely due to timing.  In the May installment of the Windows PowerShell column, Don Jones explains why the first version of Windows PowerShell offers less than Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:45 AM by matt_graven | 1 Comments

Designing OU Structures that Work

How much planning do you put into your Organizational Unit, or OU, structure ? If you're like many administrators, probably not enough. Too many administrators underestimate the importance and complexity of a well-designed OU structure. It is something Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 8:45 AM by matt_graven | 1 Comments

Active Directory Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2008

Active Directory is one of the most critical components of your infrastructure.  If it goes down, your network is rendered useless. Therefore, to ensure business continuity and compliance, you need to have a solid backup and recovery plan in place Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:15 AM by matt_graven | 0 Comments

Extending the Active Directory Schema

Microsoft provides a base schema definition for implementing Active Directory, and many applications take advantage of the underlying s tructure it provides—instead of building their own schema from the ground up. But many applications do need to extend Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:21 PM by sharont | 0 Comments

May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine available online

The May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462914.aspx . The May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online. In the May issue, we delve into Active Directory management, Read More...
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 5:45 PM by matt_graven | 0 Comments

What's New in Active Directory Domain Services

Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 introduces some substantial enhancements to Active Directory Domain Services . In the March issue of TechNet Magazine, Gil Kirkpatrick delves into these changes. He takes a close look at how read-only Read More...
Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 7:00 AM by matt_graven | 0 Comments

Active Directory replication

While Active Directory created a great deal more flexibility in terms of supporting a large or decentralized environment, it also generated new challenges for maintaining the integrity of directory data. When two admins on opposite ends of your organization Read More...
Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 1 Comments

Live from DEC Europe 2007

Greetings all- I'm spending a few days this week at DEC Europe 2007 - the Directory Experts Conference. The conference is run by NetPro, which I mention primarily because NetPro's CTO - Gil Kirkpatrick - is a regular writer for TechNet Magazine . Gil Read More...
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 3:22 PM by joshhoff | 1 Comments

11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory

Active Directory is a crucial technology for managing users and groups in an enterprise, but managing user accounts or fixing configuration issues isn't always fun and games. In the September 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, Laura E. Hunter introduces Read More...
Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Reanimating Active Directory Tombstone Objects

Data loss is a fact of life and it pays to be prepared for all sorts of recovery scenarios. Tombstone reanimation for Active Directory was introduced in Windows Server 2003. This feature takes advantage of the fact that Active Directory keeps deleted Read More...
Posted Friday, August 31, 2007 10:00 AM by tdorsey | 1 Comments

Preview: 11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory

Coming up in next month's issue of TechNet Magazine , Laura Hunter - a Windows Server MVP - joins us with an excellent article highlighting 11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory . These are the kind of tools that can make the job of an IT administrator Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:00 AM by joshhoff | 0 Comments

Active Directory Poster available for download

You may remeber back in March when I posted about the Active Directory Component Jigsaw poster that was published with our March/April 2006 issue . Well, we continue to be amazed by the response we've gotten from readers around the world, who have told Read More...
Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 7:00 AM by joshhoff | 3 Comments
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