Microsoft Active Directory is a database embedded in all Windows server operating systems and in Windows Azure (Microsoft’s cloud-based platform-as-a-service/PaaS offering). The directory is used to ...

Active Directory health assessment is a challenge, especially for small and midsize companies that can't afford a full-time Active Directory admin or costly third-party tools. The first indication ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor ...

Microsoft is bringing a little more clarity to how Windows 10 will be used with traditional premises-based Active Directory, as well as with its Azure Active Directory service. While Active Directory ...

On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover Active Directory support for IPv6. This is the fourth technical blog post on configuring IPv6 in a Windows networking ...

Microsoft announced that 16 new Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) lower-privileged roles are available today in preview to help admins improve security by decreasing the number of Global ...

Microsoft announced today that it would change the name of its Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) enterprise identity service to Microsoft Entra ID by the end of the year. Azure AD offers a range of ...

In this ESG Technical Review, ESG validated how Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition (RMADDRE) simplifies, accelerates and automates backup and recovery of Microsoft ...

Amazon has launched an AWS Directory Service for Active Directory, a fully-managed implementation of Microsoft’s authentication and user management service. Using Active Directory in Amazon’s cloud ...