Security groups are vital when it comes to maintaining appropriate access rights to your most sensitive data. The ability to group users into pots to assign levels of permissions is incredibly useful for maintaining a policy of least privilege. For example, you can use Active Directory security gr...
Once part of an AD group, a user can easily access all the resources and directory services common to the group without making multiple requests. AD administrators typically use a single reference object for an entire group. What are the different types of groups in Active Directory? AD is a...
Active Directory Domain Services:Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is a core component of Active Directory and provides the primary mechanism for authenticating users and determines which network resources they can access. AD DS also provides additional features such as Single Sign-On (SSO), ...
memberships are managed automatically in these groups. Once a user accesses a particular resource or logs into any system, the user automatically becomes part of such a group. The option to apply group scope and view and modify memberships is unavailable in these groups. Anonymous Logon, Authenti...
Back around the turn of the century, Active Directory was the thing that authenticated a user when he logged in, applied group policies to the user and his computer, and helped him find the printer he was looking for. Just a few years later, Microsoft released a standalone variant called ...
Active Directory stores data as objects. An object is a single element, such as a user, group, application or device such as a printer. Objects are normally defined as either resources, such as printers or computers, or security principals, such as users or groups. ...
What's New in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) New Features in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Network Security Features in Windows Server 2008 Configuring Roles with Server Manager in Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008: Deploying Windows Server 2008 with System Center ...
The Active Directory schema supports various types of objects like User, Group, Contact, Computer, Shared Folder, Printer, and Organizational Unit, along with a set of descriptive attributes for each object. For example, User Object attributes include information like the user’s name, address, an...
Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), a format and application-agnostic technology, provides services to enable the creation of information-protection solutions. AD RMS includes several new features that were not available in Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS...
Group Policies What does this mean? A computer can now be domain-joined over the Internet if the domain is DirectAccess enabled Getting the blob to the non-domain-joined machine is an offline process and the responsibility of the administrator ...