User accounts in Active Directory have various attributes, among which there are two interesting and critical attributes: samAccountName and UserPrincipalName (usually it is called UPN), the differences between which are not understood by many …
Active Directory
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Sometimes there are situations when the AD user account keeps locking out. This happens when you try to log on to a domain computer and get an error on the …
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You can use the Active Directory Attribute Editor to get/change the LDAP attribute values of any user, computer, or group in your domain. There are several different tools available for …
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When you create Active Directory OUs, they have the “Protect container from accidental deletion” option enabled by default. If you try to delete such an OU with the Active Directory …
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When you sign up for a new Microsoft 365 tenant, a default password policy is already in place that Microsoft considers optimal. It helps secure your users’ accounts by forcing …
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Changing the name of an Active Directory domain is a rather rare procedure that few AD administrators have actually performed. The process of renaming a domain must be properly planned …
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All objects (classes) of Active Directory have a predefined set of attributes (properties). For example, the AD user class has the attributes Name, Surname, City, Office, OfficePhone, and so on. …
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This is a short tutorial on how to join a computer to a domain over a VPN connection. This was very useful for me this weekend. Like many others, I …
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Local security settings in Windows let you to allow or deny local (interactive) logon for users on computers. In this article, we’ll take a look on how to manage local …
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CSVDE is a command-line tool that allows you to import and export Active Directory objects from/to CSV text files (comma separated values) or Excel files. The csvde tool is simply …