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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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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.

EventSentry

Date - Nov 30, 2011

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

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.

ENow Compass

Date - Sep 27, 2011

Section - Network monitoring / management

Compass is an innovative systems management tool that combines all of the key elements for Active Directory monitoring and reporting - delivered in a single, user-friendly dashboard. Developed by Active Directory Architects who have real world experience managing and troubleshooting numerous enterprise environments, Compass is affordable, installs in minutes and will help you improve system uptime, simplify troubleshooting AD, identify and resolve DNS issues, and improve security.

Compass protects the foundation of your network by continually monitoring and reporting on all the various aspects of Active Directory. Identify logon failures, account lockouts and replication issues. With over 30 built-in reports, Compass serves as a powerful reporting tool for AD Administrators and Help Desk Technicians. The user-friendly, web-based interface enables users to easily manage and audit user accounts, groups, computers and domain controllers. Keep all key members of your team informed through our award-winning

Account Lockout Examiner

Date - Sep 20, 2011

Section - Network monitoring / management

Quickly identifies account lockout reason without doing routine work: detects, diagnoses, and resolves Active Directory user account lockouts in real time cutting down administrative costs associated with a manual resolution of account lockouts.

Active Directory Users List Reporting Tool

Date - Aug 10, 2011

Section - Free Tools

If you’ve ever needed to dump the entire contents of your Active Directory users list with one click, now you can!

TechToolbox has created a FREE Active Directory users list reporting tool that will output your entire Active Directory users list with:
User Status, Username, Creation Date, Last Login, Last Name, First Name, Email Address

Total Network Inventory 2

Date - Aug 02, 2011

Section - Network inventory software

Introducing Total Network Inventory 2, PC audit and software inventory solution.

Network scanning: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux-based computers can be scanned without preinstalled agents. Scan single nodes, network address ranges or Active Directory structure. Inventory: several dozen kilobytes of data for each computer are available in the centralized storage of TNI 2. Total Network Inventory 2 will present your network in all its beauty! Reports: create flexible reports on different data categories. Build table reports with hundreds of fields. Software accounting: the list of software found in the network is at your service. With just a few clicks you will see the number of software copies and the list of computers it is installed on.

Active Administrator

Date - Jul 29, 2011

Section - Misc. network administrator tools

The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Active Directory has native tools for basic administration, but, lack enterprise-class management capabilities that give administrators the ability to view, audit and report on the ever-changing state of their Active Directory infrastructure.

Active Administrator is an Active Directory management and auditing solution that takes over where the management tools supplied with Windows leave off. Active Administrator, the Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic provides administrators the ability to establish, view and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management, perform Group Policy management including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) as well as auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.

Backup for Workgroups

Date - Jul 07, 2011

Section - Backup software

Backup for workgroups is an easy to use backup software solution for small and medium-sized businesses which allows administrators to backup Exchange Server, Active Directory and MS SQL Servers. Backup one or more Windows computers to a disk-based Data Repository that can store data across multiple hard drives.

Backup for workgroups offers an easy to use interface through which backups can be scheduled to automatically run at a preset time and frequency. Quickly perform on-demand backups and view reports and Message Log for detailed information on backup runs. Restoring data from backups is quick, easy and flexible, offering a platform with a choice of four restoration options: Selected Files, Roll Back, Undelete and Disaster Recovery. Easily restore security settings and original folder paths – great for servers.

A free trial is available for download from our website.

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