Parallel directory trees are called forests. The trees within a forest have nothing in common with each other, except that they share a common global catalog and Active Directory schema at the forest ...

When two companies merge, a top-to-bottom assessment of settings for Active Directory forests with trusts can eliminate headaches and create a more secure environment In the past, security decisions ...

Securing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) involves dealing with a mixed bag of risks, ranging from misconfigurations to unpatched vulnerabilities. That's why many current cyber-attacks involve a breach ...

‘’The really hard problem for customers is scaling forest-level recovery. Think of it as a tree, with multiple domains within a forest partitioned off based on things like work groups or geography.

we are looking at being forced into an active directory forest as a child domain, with other child domains that aren't cleared to see the information we process on a daily basis.<BR>one of my concerns ...

Over time, cybercriminals have uncovered the tried-and-true attack tactics that ensure success and maximize profits. One lesson learned: by compromising Active Directory (AD), they can access an ...

Brien Posey shows how to create a cloud-based Active Directory, and how to join an AWS virtual machine instance to the Active Directory environment that's been created. Active Directory has been the ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

Brien Posey shows how to create a cloud-based Active Directory, and how to join an AWS virtual machine instance to the Active Directory environment that's been created. Active Directory has been the ...