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 ...

Secura digital security advisors and researchers, have discovered a highly critical vulnerability with Active Directory domain controllers. Rated as a 10 of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring ...

Microsoft's Active Directory is typically reliable once it's up and running, but a sudden breakdown with this key infrastructure component will require a quick remedy to keep the business running ...

CVE-2026-54121 lets a standard domain user turn your Enterprise CA into a Domain Controller. The patch is the easy part. The lesson is standing privilege, implicit trust, and treating PKI as the Tier ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to deploy an Active Directory Domain Controller on Ubuntu Server 20.04, with the help of Samba. Gartner releases 4 trends that will impact cloud, data centers and ...

Ok. I want to have two AD DC's for the same domain at two different locations. Unfortunately for the purposes of our network design there is NAT running between these two sites. I have read several ...

Imperva has publicly released the source code to Domain Directory Controller (DDC), a Java library that simplifies common Active Directory integrations. Unlike Java’s base LdapContext, this library ...

If Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is not responding or is slow to load on Windows Server or Windows 11/10 client machines, the solutions provided in this post can be applied to ...

When you struggle to remember your work password -- particularly after a long vacation -- you can accidentally trigger a security policy that freezes you out of your laptop until someone from IT can ...

Several years ago I documented Windows updates that needed additional registry keys to be set before you are fully patched. These updates can be hard to keep track of. Microsoft recently released ...

Mac OS X users are having an easier time of it when it comes to integrating their Jaguar-equipped computers with Microsoft corporate networks, but it’s still not seamless. Active Directory and Domain ...