The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names ...

Microsoft shared info on a now-fixed known issue leading to Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) crashes and Windows Server domain controller. The LSASS Windows service is responsible ...

Group Policy offers Active Directory administrators thousands of configuration options that they can apply at various levels, enabling a flexible system to provide consistent environments with the ...

Upgrading an Active Directory forest to run on Windows Server 2025 isn't overly difficult, but the process requires preparation. In its latest Windows Server release, Microsoft introduced several ...

I need to stand up a domain controller as a prerequisite for another piece of software (so there is no real desire to have AD set up other than to get this other software up and running). If I was ...

Microsoft says Windows domain join processes may fail with "0xaac (2732)" errors after applying this month's security updates. The issue stems from hardening changes introduced when addressing the CVE ...

hoping some one has seen this issue and can lend a hand here. I've been tasked with setting up LDAP over SSL (TLS) for a Windows domain controller. This requires an SSL certificate to encrypt LDAP ...