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 ...

Find the actual number of users in a group by locating those that may be hard to find in a hidden subgroup. As someone that manages Active Directory users and groups, trying to figure out the true ...

There's a slow way and a fast way to get this task done. Always go with the fast way. If you find yourself building, modifying or removing lots of Active Directory (AD) groups frequently, how are you ...

Now it works once in about 10 tries on opening without the error, but most of the time it gives that same error, especially if trying to access active directory users and groups on 2 computers at once ...

Some technologists have described Group Policy as one of the best features within Microsoft’s Active Directory software. Group Policy, which is supported on Windows 2000, Server 2003 and XP, enables ...

Microsoft introduced Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) with Windows 2000 as the company prepared to release Active Directory. The objective of ADSI was to provide a powerful, but easy-to-use, ...

While not completely comprehensive, there are a number of different policy settings that are exposed through the Active Directory Administrative Center. In many ways, working in an Amazon Web Services ...

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 ...