OK, I know you used to be able to do this on a domain prior to a patch to 2003. Yet I can't for the life of me seem to find a recommended/supported means of doing this now. At least not in a 2008R2 or ...

OK, so like many places. IT staff is domain administrators. I know that is a bad idea and our recent outbreak of a undiscovered version of the conficker worm made that all too apparent. So I wish to ...

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

Windows administrators have a problem — passwords. Specifically, administrator passwords that lurk out there, identical across machines, just ready to be compromised. But there is finally a solution ...

Open Directory, Mac OS X’s native directory service, allows users to both manage local accounts and to create shared directory domains hosted by Mac OS X Server. With shared directory domains, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since its inception in 2014, my team has been on the front lines many times, helping companies combat cyberattacks that target identity systems such as Microsoft's Active Directory, an increasingly ...

Yaron Kassner, CTO and co-founder of Silverfort, discusses why using all-seeing privileged accounts for monitoring is bad practice. In almost every network, there is a highly privileged service ...