Active Directory

Get-ADUser is one of the basic PowerShell cmdlets that can be used to get information about Active Directory domain users and their properties. You can use the Get-ADUser to view…

Let’s look at how to automatically install and connect printers to specific users, computers and groups in an Active Directory domain using Group Policy (GPO). It is very convenient when…

When managing user access permissions to various resources in an Active Directory domain, an administrator may have to create dynamic AD user groups. Dynamic groups make it easier for an…

Outlook, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Office365 and other Microsoft apps allow you to use an Active Directory (or Azure AD) photo of the currently logged-in user as a user avatar…

In this manual I will try to tell you about typical reasons why a Group Policy object (GPO) may not be applied to an organizational unit (OU), specific computer or…

In this article we’ll get acquainted with the Chrome Group Policy administrative templates (admx), provided by Google, that allow you to centrally manage browser settings in an Active Directory domain.…

NTLM (NT LAN Manager) has been used as the basic Microsoft authentication protocol for quite a long time: since Windows NT. Although Microsoft introduced a more secure Kerberos authentication protocol…

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…