To provide a consistent manner to identify the functional area responsible for a given object in the Active Directory, and to prevent collisions between objects in different organizational units (OUs) ...

When you accidentally delete an Active Directory object, can you bring it back without performing an authoritative restore on the entire directory? This tip shares a little known service built right ...

Understanding the ins and outs of AD and object permissions is no simple task, but your efforts can help avoid catastrophe. "I need more circuits in this room," I told him. "Oh, computers don't draw ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

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, ...

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 ...

That sure is a long title for a blog post. Anyhow, I seem to hear the following question a lot: “In Active Directory, how do I figure out which account objects are valid?” Well, first off, if you ...

Windows 2000 has been available for more than a year, but many people are still struggling with how to implement the most promising and most complex part of Microsoft Corp.’s new operating system: ...

In this white paper, you will learn more about recovering Active Directory objects. It explores different options for performing those tasks, including native Windows tools and external tools like ...