Active Directory can hold near 2 billion objects. When the number of objects grows, the requirement for affective object filtering grows as well. Active Directory have several GUI options to search/filter specific objects. We also can filter objects using PowerShell.
In previous posts, we learned about Get-ADUser and Get-ADComputer cmdlets and how it can be used with other commands to filter…
Active Directory is great tool, no doubt about it, administrators can do their magic to manage resources in infrastructure with it. But same time if someone able to gain access to AD account with privileges, easily they can use those across the domain joined resources. So the protection of the AD infrastructure is critical.
Microsoft continues with implementing new security features to the Active…
What will happen if you have deleted the wrong user account? Or any other AD object? In your AD environment. “Recovery” is the answer but issue is how fast and how easy you can do it.
Once active directory object is deleted, it is automatically goes in to the deleted object container in the AD. Then during the active directory garbage collection process it will clean up these…
This is one of the features in Active directory which most administrators, system engineers not using in typical networks. Even though this is very small feature it’s very helpful in larger infrastructure systems and will save lot of time, errors with user creation in AD and permissions, membership assign.
Even most not using this, user account templates feature was in place from Windows…
