Here at work, we are primarily a Windows shop. However, we do have Linux servers for certain tasks (web server, ftp server, Asterisk phone systems at each company site). One of the things that has ...

So, I'm trying to follow this guide to join a RHEL machine (eventually, all of our RHEL machines) to AD. I'm up to this bit: [user@webdev ~]$ sudo realm list [sudo] password for user: ad.domain.tld ...

Adding a computer to Active Directory is straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is join the workstation to your Windows domain and reboot it once or twice. You can use Active Directory ...

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 ...

VMware has long given its customers the ability to add hosts to an Active Directory (AD) forest, but is doing so a good idea? Like anything else in the world of IT, there can be pros and cons ...

Back in the day, we would be using ADSI to connect to our Active Directory forest/domain to gather information about a variety of things. Today I will completely ignore ADSI and focus solely on the ...

Microsoft is urging customers to patch two Active Directory domain controller bugs after a PoC tool was publicly released on Dec. 12. A proof-of-concept tool has been published that leverages two ...

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 ...