The company I work for has a significant number of "field" laptops (field meaning they are used by employees at remote sites with nothing but Internet access). Currently, each field user has a local ...

Creating a group in the domain containing the domain accounts that are allowed to administer machines, and adding that domain group name to the local administrators group on each machine, let you ...

Protect domain-joined computer passwords with Windows’ Local Administrator Password Solution Your email has been sent Windows finally includes a tool to manage ...

Domain-based networks are common in companies and organization, where the process requires multiple computers to be controlled through a single node called a server. The server administrator can set ...

Outlook 2010-2016 allows you to add multiple Exchange accounts (from the same Exchange server / domain) to a single Outlook Profile. MS has a KB article that says this is unsupported and can cause ...

In Windows XP Home Edition, there are two basic types of local user accounts (in addition to the guest account): administrators and limited users. With XP Pro, things get a bit more complicated. Users ...

In my Tech Insight article in November, I discussed the issue of managing privileged accounts within an enterprise. One area I didn't really touch on was how to protect the local administrator ...

For one reason or the other, you may want to delete a domain user profile or account on a Windows 11/10 PC – for example, you may have a laptop that was used temporarily that you want to repurpose for ...

Windows Active Directory (AD) service accounts are prime cyber-attack targets due to their elevated privileges and automated/continuous access to important systems. Windows Administrators should ...

Before I begin my discussion of the new NT domain features in Samba, I’d like to discuss some important differences between the NT and Unix security models. Parts of the user-account model in the ...