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March 27, 2025 | Jonathan Blackwell

PowerShell Grep Command

Grep (Global Regular Expression print) command is a powerful text searching utility in Unix/Linux systems. Grep takes a pattern such as a regular expression or string and searches one or more input files for the lines that contain the expected pattern. Grep command can be significantly used for...
March 26, 2025 | Joe Dibley

Understanding NTLM and Kerberos: Key Differences and Use Cases

Introduction to NTLM and Kerberos Connecting all your company resources in a network for sharing is valuable, but you need a way to verify that only authorized users and devices can access these resources. Authentication serves this purpose by providing methods for users and devices to prove...
November 20, 2024 | Jonathan Blackwell

Add Alias in Active Directory

Overview of AD Microsoft Active Directory is a directory service for Windows domain networks. Active Directory serves as a centralized database which stores information about network resources, including users, computers, and services. It plays a significant role in network management and...
October 30, 2024 | Dirk Schrader

What are Active Directory Service Accounts?

Just like human users, computer programs also need access to resources on a network to function properly. There’s a difference in how these two groups—individuals and programs—access these resources, though. While humans utilize user accounts, computer programs use Active Directory...
October 10, 2024 | Jonathan Blackwell

How to Create New Active Directory Users with PowerShell

Tools like ADUC and ADAC enable Sysadmins to create a new user in an Active Directory quite easily, but they has certain limitations when it comes to bulk user creation. PowerShell is a powerful and flexible tool for creating Active Directory accounts, and much more at scale. This blog reviews...
October 2, 2024 | Jonathan Blackwell

How to Install & Use Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC)?

ADUC is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that enables administrators to manage Active Directory objects and their attributes. For example, they can: Change passwords. Reset user accounts. Add users to security groups. Create and delete organizational units (OUs) Assign...
September 6, 2024 | Jonathan Blackwell

Understanding FSMO Roles in Active Directory

If your organization runs on Microsoft Active Directory, you rely on one or more domain controllers to keep AD operations going. On the surface, Active Directory seems to run on a peer-to-peer models in which every domain controller (DC) has the authority to create, modify, and delete AD...
July 8, 2024 | Kevin Joyce

How to Backup Active Directory: A Step-by-Step Guide

Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the primary authentication service used by a majority of organizations worldwide (roughly 90 percent). It stores critical business information on domain controllers (DCs) like user accounts, their permissions, the number of computers in your organization’s...
May 6, 2024 | Jonathan Blackwell

Identity and Access Management Assessment: Key Features 

Choosing the right identity and access management (IAM) solution is an important task. Organizations need to properly manage user accounts and other identities and ensure they have exactly the appropriate access to data, applications and other resources. After all, if users do not have all the...
April 25, 2024 | Carlos Mejia

Manage Exchange Online with Exchange Admin Center

Managing email services efficiently is essential for any organization's productivity and security in the modern digital workspace. This blog will discuss Exchange Online administrative tasks and how to streamline their management process. Before we discuss how to manage Exchange Online, we’ll...
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