In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...

Lost in the noise over the release of the beta 3 build of Windows Server 2008 was this gem: the read-only domain controller, or RODC. Created especially for branch offices or other environments where ...

Identity drift occurs in this gap, when a user’s credentials aren’t fully aligned across every system that can authenticate ...

I inherited an AD environment with 3 DCs. One of them has recently failed (we actually didn't even notice for a long time). The machine is dead and won't boot. Everything in the domain is still ...

A recent report from Microsoft reinforces warnings about the critical role Active Directory (AD) domain controllers play in large-scale ransomware attacks, aligning with U.S. government advisories on ...