active directory

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 9, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker submits a specially crafted URL...

When we talked about Link Removed back in November, we announced new capabilities that will enable Windows 10 to leverage Azure Active Directory. Since these capabilities are now starting to appear in the Windows 10 preview builds, this is a great time to explore them in more detail. When...

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The "Local Administrator Password Solution" (LAPS) provides management of local account passwords of domain joined computers. Passwords are stored in Active Directory (AD) and protected by ACL, so only eligible users can read it or request its reset. Link Removed

I have been 'googling' for sometime looking for an answer to this issue but would like to ask for help here. What I am trying to achieve is to setup roaming profiles, folder redirection and offline files with all 3 working together. The system involves a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller...

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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (April 14, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user leaves their browser open...

Volume license editions of Office 2013 client products require activation. This download enables IT administrators to set up a Key Management Service (KMS) or configure a domain for Active Directory-Based activation. Either of these volume activation methods can locally activate all Office 2013...

Hi, I'm doing a migration from a 2008 R2 domain called "company,com" to a 2012 domain called "ad,company,com". My question is, which would be the easiest way to migrate all user accounts from one to the other? Is there a built-in tool or do I go third party? I already have the new servers set...

i have covered loads of tutorials and my settings seem to be correct but i just can not get my workstations to log on. my server has the following config 2 nic cards but one disabled due to reducing problems. nic 1 ip adress 192.168.1.200 gateway : 192.168.1.1 (my router) DNS 192.168.1.200 and...

Lex Thomas welcomes Mark Simos, an Architect for the Cyber, Security and Identity team here at Microsoft, to discuss tools, techniques and services that are available to help mitigate “Pass-the-Hash” and other forms of cyber credential theft. Tune in as they give us an in-depth overview of the...

We are going to migrate from SBS 2008. Which server is easier to migrate including Active Directory, Exchange at SharePoint? or should I say less complicated? Should we use SBS 2008 or SBS 2011?

Scripts to enable creation of public folder related objects in the O365 Active Directory and synchronization of public folder related Active Directory objects between on-premise and O365 directories. Link Removed

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On Windows XP NetSend could broadcast a message to all systems on your network. Can the Windows 7 MSG do the same thing and if so how? The help for MSG says this: Send a message to a user. MSG {username | sessionname | sessionid | @filename | *} [/SERVER:servername] [/TIME:seconds] [/V]...

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Greetings Fellow Techies, I have Virtualized a Windows 2008 DC Server using VMware vCenter tool. Once I open the Server using VM Player on Ubuntu the Server boots up flawlessly but Active Directory do not work. There is no point virtualizing the DC if the Active Directory is not working...

Hi Guys Will apologise in advance for the vagueness of what I am about to ask. First of all, I will tell you what I have, and what I have done/planned to do. I have a server that is running Windows Server Standard. It has Active Directory installed and the client PC's are connected to the...