Active Directory

In this article we’ll consider how to delegate administrative privileges in the Active Directory domain. Delegation allows you to provide some AD management tasks to common domain users without making…

In this article we’ll consider how to change (or reset) a users’ Active Directory passwords using the PowerShell cmdlet Set-ADAccountPassword.

Let’s consider how to deploy the same desktop background image (wallpaper) on all Windows workstations in the Active Directory domain using Group Policies. As a rule, it is important for…

You can use the PowerShell cmdlet Get-ADComputer to get various information about computer account objects (servers and workstations) from Active Directory domain. This is one of the most useful cmdlets…

Windows Firewall allows to restrict inbound/outbound network traffic for a certain application, protocol or a TCP/IP port. This is an easy way to restrict network access to/from user workstations or…

Let’s look on how to centrally deploy an SSL certificate on domain computers and add it to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities using Group Policy. After the certificate is deployed,…

In this article, we will look at how to use Group Policy (GPO) to centrally create, modify, import and delete any registry keys on domain-joined computers.

In Windows environment, each domain and local user, group and other security objects are assigned a unique identifier — Security Identifier or SID. It is a SID, but not the…

By default, when you create a new Active Directory users, they are automatically added to the Domain Users group. In its turn, the Domain Users group is by default added…

In this article, we’ll take a look on how to manage local administrator passwords on a domain joined computers using the official Microsoft tool – LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution).…