Federated identity management, or FIM, is just one of the latest networking buzzwords to hit mainstream. FIM involves a set of agreements for trusting repositories of accounts located in two or more ...

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, ...

Microsoft MVP Derek Melber explains why real AD knowledge depends on understanding how Group Policy, replication and DNS behave in production.

A key pillar of the shift to zero-trust architectures for cybersecurity is identity and access management. It’s crucial for organizations’ IT security teams to know who is on their networks and to ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now permits organizations using different Microsoft hosted cloud services products to collaborate, if that's mutually agreed, after performing some setup steps.

As the gateways to corporate networks, VPNs are an attractive target for attackers seeking access to Active Directory environments. And when VPN credentials become compromised — through something as ...

Although it's decades old and used in legacy IT systems, Microsoft's Active Directory remains foundational to many large enterprises — and likely will be for the foreseeable future. Yet, despite ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 security updates are causing Active Directory issues on Windows Server 2025 systems. As the company explains in a Windows release health dashboard ...