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Aug 19th, 2011 - ENow launches Compass New Active Directory Management Solution
Los Angeles, CA - August 18, 2011 - ENow, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in infrastructure consulting and development of software to simplify Microsoft system management, announced the much anticipated launch of Compass, a new Microsoft Active Directory Management solution. ENow's Compass is designed to help organizations proactively monitor their Active Directory infrastructure, including replication monitoring and verifying DNS configuration
Jun 2nd, 2008 - ScriptLogic Expands and Updates Offerings to Provide Administrators with a Comprehensive Approach to Active Directory Management
Boca Raton, FL – June 2, 2008 – ScriptLogic® Corporation, a leading provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® Windows®-based networks, today announced its Active Directory Management Solution, a bundled solution that combines Quest® ActiveRoles Server™ and Spotlight® on Active Directory with ScriptLogic's just-released Active Administrator® 5.0

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Dec 12th, 2011 - Active Directory Change Auditing
Active Directory is critical to your organization and assessing configuration changes is a recommended best practice to safeguard this valuable asset. NetWrix has released an updated freeware version of their Active Directory Change Reporter product with significantly improved Active Directory change tracking and advanced reporting technologies

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Active Directory Federation Services 2.0: Is it right for you?: Date - Jul 21, 2011; Author - Derek Melber; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; In this article the author explains Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0 in conjunction with an Office 365 deployment and across organizations in order to reduce Identity and Access Management headaches.
Configuring the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (Part 7): Date - May 31, 2011; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; This article continues the discussion of the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services by discussing site link objects, inter-site replication, and some considerations for disaster recovery planning.
Securing Wireless Network Traffic (Part 7): Date - May 17, 2011; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / General Networking; This article continues the discussion of wireless network security by showing you how to deploy a Network Policy Server and how to perform certificate enrollment and Active Directory registration for that server.
Configuring the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (Part 6): Date - Apr 28, 2011; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; This article continues the series on AD LDS by examining how to create a site structure that can be used by larger AD LDS deployments.
Configuring the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (Part 5): Date - Mar 31, 2011; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; This article continues the discussion of the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) by examining the logical structure of an AD LDS instance and discussing how that structure plays into the replication process.
Configuring the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (Part 4): Date - Mar 01, 2011; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; This article continues the series on AD LDS by demonstrating the procedure for creating a replica of an AD LDS instance.
Configuring the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (Part 3): Date - Dec 23, 2010; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; This article continues the discussion of the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service by demonstrating the procedure for creating an AD LDS instance and a corresponding application directory partition.
Leveraging PowerShell for Active Directory Administration: Date - Dec 21, 2010; Author - Derek Melber; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Common for all OSes; This article gives an overview of PowerShell including some cmdlets examples.
Configuring the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (Part 2): Date - Nov 16, 2010; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; This article continues the discussion of the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS) by explaining some techniques that you can use to plan for the deployment process, and by showing you how to deploy the AD LDS service.
Configuring the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (Part 1): Date - Oct 21, 2010; Author - Brien M. Posey; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Windows Server 2008; The Lightweight Directory Services, its uses and capabilities.

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Active Directory Janitor - Voted WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Administration Tools Category: Date - Dec 23, 2009; Author - The Editor; Section - Site News; Active Directory Janitor was selected the winner in the Administration Tools category of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards. DameWare NT Utilities and Hyena were runner-up and second runner-up respectively.
Active Directory Janitor - Voted WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Administration Tools Category: Date - Dec 24, 2008; Author - The Editor; Section - Site News; Active Directory Janitor was selected the winner in the Administration Tools category of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards. DameWare NT Utilities and Hyena were first runner-up and second runner-up.
Active Directory Janitor - Voted WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Administration Tools: Date - Dec 27, 2007; Author - The Editor; Section - Site News; Active Directory Janitor was selected the winner in the Administration Tools category of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards. DameWare NT Utilities and Total Network Inventory were first runner-up and second runner-up.

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Active Directory database file NTDS.DIT: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Active Directory
ADC Before or After the User Migration: Date - Jul 28, 2005; Author - Santhosh Sivarajan; Section - Exchange; Do you install and configure Active Directory Connector (ADC) before or after the user migration? The answer to this “complicated” question is either you can install and configure ADC and Connection Agreements (CAs) before or after the user migration. Here are my explanations for both scenarios.
Fast Searching of Active Directory: Date - Apr 20, 2005; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Miscellaneous; Make life easier for your users by simplifying how they search for resources in Active Directory.
Group Policy without Active Directory: Date - Oct 19, 2005; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Security; Can Group Policy be configured on a per-user basis without Active Directory?
Introduction to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory in Application Mode: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Active Directory; 368 KB Microsoft Word file : white paper introduces a new capability in the Microsoft Active Directory service: Active Directory in Application Mode (AD/AM).
TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Diagnostics, Troubleshooting and Recovery: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Active Directory; 92:01 minutes - covers verifying Active Directory functionality, diagnosing and troubleshooting replication, locating Active Directory database files, backing up and recovering system state data, and seizing FSMO roles.
Web-based AD management: Date - May 31, 2006; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Admin; A web-based interface to Active Directory you should know about.
Who's logged on?: Date - Apr 06, 2006; Author - Mitch Tulloch; Section - Active Directory; How to tell who's currently logged on to an Active Directory domain.
Active Directory Disaster Recovery: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Active Directory
Active Directory Migration Tool ( ADMT ): Date - Apr 20, 2004; Author - Wayne Maples; Section - Active Directory

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NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter Free Edition: Date - May 11, 2012; Section - Free Tools; The product keeps tabs on what's going on inside your Active Directory, tracks changes to users, groups, OUs, and all other types of AD objects and fills major gaps found in native Microsoft tools. This is the newly updated freeware edition with enhanced reporting capabilities. E.g. now the modification events indicate "before" and "after" values for all modified settings (e.g. login name changed from one value to another)
Netwrix Active Directory Object Restore Wizard Free Edition: Date - May 11, 2012; Section - Free Tools; A part of NetWrix Active Directory Change Reporter, this product provides granular object-level and attribute-level restore capabilities that allow administrators to rollback unwanted changes (e.g., mistakenly deleted users and OUs, modified group memberships, etc). Does not require authoritative restore and involves no domain controller downtime. Provides much more capabilities than built-in AD Recycle Bin on Windows Server 2008 R2.
Traffic Inspector: Date - May 02, 2012; Section - Network Traffic Monitoring; The product contains: a proxy server that provides caching and blocks unwanted resources; a secure firewall to protect against network attacks; a billing system; system for the dynamic control of speed and sessions; blocking of excessive network activity; diversion and routing of traffic; mail gateway; integration with Active Directory; secure authorisation; web server statistics; remote access; reports.
EventSentry: Date - Apr 02, 2012; Section - Network monitoring / management; EventSentry is an affordable yet flexible real-time log, system and network monitoring suite. You can receive event log alerts through a variety of notifications (e.g. email, pager, etc.) and our filtering engine supports advanced features such as thresholds, day/time settings, summaries, timers, recurring schedules and more. EventSentry also helps companies meet the requirements of SOX, HIPAA, PCI and more through event log consolidation. With EventSentry you can consolidate events to a central database (many database type including Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL are supported) and create a variety of reports with the web-based reporting component. EventSentry uses reliable agents which monitor your machines without any impact on performance. Agents ensure that your systems are monitored in realtime regardless of network connectivity. Additionally, EventSentry also monitors services, disk space, performance, software/hardware, NTP and file checksums. EventSentry's compliance tracking feature normalizes Windo
UserLock: Date - Mar 06, 2012; Section - Active Directory Management; Logins are the first line of defense for your network. UserLock provides and enforces granular rules and policies to control and secure network access. UserLock allows you to limit or prevent concurrent logins on your Windows network. You can control interactive sessions, RAS sessions, IIS sessions and set limitations per user, user group, organizational unit. UserLock also allows you to define user access rules to your network restricting them to specific workstations, times (business hours for example) or time quotas. You can follow the session activity in real-time, receive alerts for specific events such as denied logins, close or lock user sessions, and shutdown workstations from anywhere. A report engine is included and provides you detailed and graphical reports.

UserLock provides specific features for compliance to major industry regulations, including HIPAA, NIST 800-53, Sarbanes-Oxley, NISPOM Chapter 8, PCI, Bâle II, ICD 503.
Radmin 3.0 Remote Control: Date - Mar 01, 2012; Section - Remote control software; Radmin (Remote Administrator) is a secure remote control software which enables you to work on a remote computer in real time as if you were using its own keyboard and mouse. You can remotely access the same computer from multiple places and use advanced File Transfer function, multi-user Text and Voice chat, Remote Shutdown and Telnet. Radmin supports multiple monitors, folder management in Radmin phonebook, scan for available Radmin Servers, mouse wheel support and many others. Radmin utilizes DirectScreenTransfer technology that provides speed of work with a minimal CPU usage. The major advantage of DirectScreenTransfer is that it receives data directly from Windows, before it ever gets to the Video RAM.

Radmin 3.0 fully supports Windows Vista 32 bit, including User Account Control and Fast User Switching. Another feature of Radmin 3.0 is its security system, which provides a high level of data protection from interception or all types of malicious attacks. Radmin 3.0 demonstrates an increase of sec
Active Directory Change Tracker v1.0: Date - Mar 01, 2012; Section - Active Directory Management; Active Directory Change Tracker audits all changes made to your Active Directory by periodically collecting only the changed data, reporting what exactly changed, along with the new and old values, when the change was made, where the change happened in your Active Directory. Active Directory Change Tracker also determines who made the change by looking up the Security Event logs of your audit-enabled Active Directory
Help Desk Pilot: Date - Jan 27, 2012; Section - Help desk software; HelpDesk Pilot is multi-lingual, 100% web based, php & mysql driven support / trouble ticket solution. Help desk pilot converts customer emails into tickets and each email id as a department. Add support members (staff) to a department. Each ticket (issue) is grouped by responses and each activity is tracked. It takes a minute to set up helpdesk pilot on your webserver. As an administrator you have 100% control over your helpdesk activity. With announcement and news features keep your team (staff) informed about latest developments. Help Desk Pilot also supports Canned Responses, Custom Fields, MS SQL Server database support, LDAP / Active Directory integration, Knowledge Base Integration, track time spent per ticket and more.
Hyena: Date - Dec 22, 2011; Section - Administration tools / Ping & trace utils; Using the built-in Windows administration tools to manage a medium to large Windows NT or Windows 2000/2003 network can be a challenge. Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all of the day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration. Hyena uses an Explorer-style interface for all operations, including right mouse click pop-up context menus for all objects. Management of users, groups, shares, domains, computers, services, devices, events, files, printers and print jobs, sessions, open files, disk space, user rights, messaging, exporting, job scheduling, processes, and printing are all supported. In addition to supporting standard Windows system management functions, Hyena also includes extensive Active Directory integration. In fact, Hyena can be used on any Windows NT/2000/XP client to manage any Windows NT 3.51, 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 installation.
Lansweeper: Date - Nov 30, 2011; Section - Network inventory software; Manage and collect all hardware and software information from all windows computers in your network. Calculate license costs, create alert reports, maintain allowed software, get active directory information all without installing an agent on your computers. All administrators in your company can browse the computer details, can run custom actions and can view reports in the intuitive web interface. If standard reports are not enough for you, why not build your own based on custom files and registry keys that you can scan.