Active Directory is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services.
NTLM still appears inside many Active Directory environments. Even when Kerberos handles normal authentication, NTLM often surfaces through legacy applications, services, or fallback behavior. Before blocking anything, visibility matters. The safest place to monitor NTLM usage is the domain controller. Read More …
NTLM stands for NT LAN Manager. Windows uses this protocol for authentication when Kerberos fails or legacy systems exist. Modern Active Directory relies on Kerberos for normal domain logon and access. NTLM remains mainly for backward compatibility. NTLM exists in Read More …
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) plays a critical role in managing identities and access in modern IT environments. As an administrator, you may often need to export a list of security groups and their members for reporting or auditing purposes. Read More …
If you are using Azure Exchange for email, you may want to create an email alias for a user in your on-premises Active Directory domain. This can be achieved by syncing the user account to Azure AD and using the Read More …
While creating a Test Environment to check a few issues I am experiencing on a Previous RODC I set up. The following error kept coming up: “You must supply a user account Name”. Upon doing a bit of research I Read More …
Logging onto an AD Server this week, we found a very worrying event in the Security Event Viewer when we saw Event ID 4776 Audit Failure every few seconds. The problem with this event is that if it does not Read More …
One of IT Daily’s challenges is when User passwords expire. The problem with this is Users don’t even know their passwords are expiring then during the day IT would get a call that the Printer is not working and it Read More …
When troubleshooting a network issue on a computer one of the first steps is to check whether the device can see other devices and vice versus if other devices can see the device that is being troubleshot. This does mean Read More …
When administrating a remote site one of the biggest problems is not being able to connect to a Remote Server or Workstation because Remote Desktop Services have not been setup. To ensure that all workstations are compliant with this we Read More …
When looking at GPO to uninstall software the answer is really simple. Group Policies can only uninstall software that was installed via Group Policies. Well even though this statement remains true we can still use Group Policies to run PowerShell Read More …