Active Directory - Basics
Windows Domains
Picture yourself administering a small business network with only five computers and five employe...
Active Directory
The core of any Windows Domain is the Active Directory Domain Service (AD DS). This service acts ...
Managing Users
Your first task as the new domain administrator is to check the existing AD OUs and users, as som...
Managing Computers
By default, all the machines that join a domain (except for the DCs) will be put in the container...
Group Policies
So far, we have organised users and computers in OUs just for the sake of it, but the main idea b...
Authentication Methods
When using Windows domains, all credentials are stored in the Domain Controllers. Whenever a user...
Trees, Forests and Trusts
So far, we have discussed how to manage a single domain, the role of a Domain Controller and how ...