Ever wondered why size of Active Directory database is different on domain controllers? You might ask yourself if Active Directory supports MultiMaster technology, then all objects reside in database on all domain controllers, so if that is true, why the size of database (NTDS.DIT) is completely different on one domain controller to another?
User authentication is one of the key principals of Active Directory as a directory system. It is safe to say that when user authentication does not exist in an Active Directory environment, then there is no need to have an Active Directory in our organization.
Today, in modern days of technology, the concept of auditing has become one of the interesting facts in Information Technology (IT). Back in days, when I was probably playing with my SNES, the concept of auditing was so hard to follow with built-in applications and consoles, but today, you can find many applications which either covers a specific part of auditing or support a huge number of services and applications. Among them, it is rare to find a solution which covers a whole range of services and audits, but ‘LepideAuditor Suite’ is one of those rare. In this article we will talk about this application.
As you all know the #wannacry malware hit the whole world in the last few days. The vulnerability behind this malware was leaked out by ShadowBrokers. Since the spreading rate of this vulnerability is greatly increasing, it is considered an obligation to prevent from this.
After long delay of being absent, I managed to fetch some time in order to pen down an article and share my thoughts about on of the features of Active Directory which has been always in total darkness for me. ‘List Object Mode’.
A friend of mine recently had problems regarding uploading certificates to GAL. As a matter of fact the users were unable to upload certificates when they choose "Publish To GAL". In this case the most errors you get is "Microsoft office Outlook was unable to publish your certificates. The server may be offline or your certificates may be invalid".
Recently I faced a request from a client wanting a Dynamic Security Group in Active Directory which automatically update its members.. However we do have the concept of dynamic objects in Active Directory (I promise to speak on that on another article), but this one was completely different. The client wanted to have a security group which automatically removes the disabled users from it. So I started a lovely conversation with my lovely friend PowerShell.
Ever wanted to add your custom attribute to Delegation Wizard feature of Active Directory? Then you came to the right place. Sometime it can happen that default attributes of ‘Delegation Wizard’ are not just enough for you and you would like to add more options to it. In order to do that, you have to edit delegwiz.inf file which you can simply find it on a Domain Controller.