The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names ...

I'm at a small but tech-heavy business, a TV station. The domain (that I set up in 2003) uses a .local TLD. Considering a move to office 365, which would require more hacks on top of the already ...

Default domain policy sets minimum password length. We have a couple of workstations that need local accounts with shorter passwords, trying to set them doesn't work "doesn't meet minimum length" etc.

Anyone who's gone through any MCSE training (at least for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003) knows you use the acronym AGDLP when assigning permissions in a Windows environment. AGDLP, which stands ...

Group Policy offers Active Directory administrators thousands of configuration options that they can apply at various levels, enabling a flexible system to provide consistent environments with the ...

Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPs) will solve the issue of using a common local account with an identical password on every Windows computer in a domain by setting up a random, different ...