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I decided to release another free utility I wrote a while ago. This small command-line utility can be used to find out where Active Directory users are logged on into, and/or to find out who is logged on Read more

On popular request, this is a quick write-up on how to set up a Juniper screenOS firewall to use an external Radius server (I’ll use Windows IAS) to authenticate administrators and to let the Radius server to assign admin Read more

Introduction

The title of this post may be a bit misleading – synchronizing multiple account domains to a single domain or forest is not limited to Exchange. There may be other reasons (e.g. Identity Management solution) that require you Read more

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Case definition :

• 2 AD domains, containing user accounts. One of Read more

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According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows server version ever.

Windows 2008 does include many features that will help increase overall security of the OS, or assist you with securing AD, the network, etc. Most Read more

Every admin knows by now that using Active Directory as the central authentication database allows for a lot of possibilities in terms of user account and security management. Keeping internal as well as external users in one and the Read more

As most of the bigger players in the firewall market, Juniper/Netscreen SreenOS based firewalls allow you to use/enforce/require authentication for various reasons :

• Admin login
• Client VPN
• Authentication to open a specific rule on the firewall

In a default Read more

Windows 2000 /Active Directory has been around for more than 7 years now. I’ve been using AD for almost 7 years, and due to its stability, I never had to recover a deleted object in AD. (Knock on wood). Read more

Updating from 2003 to 2003 R2 & implementing Exchange are 2 common administrative tasks which both require a schema update. Since I’ve mentioned "updating from 2003 to 2003 R2", I’ll take the opportunity to add some "notes from the Read more