To say Windows is a huge platform is an understatement. At a high level it seems so large because everything tends to work together in a way that makes sense for both administrators and employees ...

One of Active Directory’s coolest features is the ability to delegate administration in an extremely granular way. This guide shows you how. In the years leading up to the release of Windows 2000, one ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

In our Active Directory domain, we’d like to manage users and groups from a workstation rather than from the server. How can I get the Active Directory Users and Computers application into my XP ...

In "Mastering Active Directory Domains," I explained the importance of good domain naming and discussed the concept of nesting domains. In this article, I'll discuss two more Active Directory ...

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 ...