For a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the ...

Microsoft today offered a snapshot of its Azure Active Directory service and how organizations are using it, based on October stats. Organizations are mostly (46 percent) using Active Directory ...

Many organizations' principle Active Directory problem is that they don't know they have a problem. The vast majority of businesses today use Active Directory as their domain network management tool ...

Editor’s note: When originally published this article said that by using dynamic user identification (UID) generation, users might be assigned a different UID number each time they logged onto a ...

I hope that the title is clear. Here is what I need to accomplish. Install a wireless access point ( cisco WAP2000). Have 2 wireless networks one for guests and one for the internal users. The guest ...

Users often create weak and easily guessed passwords they reuse across systems and websites. As a result, traditional passwords are often the weakest link in the security of business-critical ...

use winbind and pam_smb, it's part of the SAMBA packages. it assigns unix UID and GIDs from the users in your AD domain. you will need SAMBA beta3 in order to get good AD member support, if you use ...

Adding a computer to Active Directory is straightforward. In most cases, all you need to do is join the workstation to your Windows domain and reboot it once or twice. You can use Active Directory ...

Ninety-five percent of Fortune 500 companies use Active Directory, a 1990s technology, because their infrastructures are based on a 90s network architecture of on-premises PCs, applications, servers, ...