In the previous blog, we went over how most reporting tools have preconfigured reports, which don’t always meet your specific requirements. We learned that ADManager Plus’ Custom Reports feature empowers you to define your...
ADManager Plus Custom Reports, Part 1: Unrestricted reporting
This blog will discuss the constraints of prebuilt reports and how ADManager Plus helps overcome these limitations by providing unrestricted reporting capabilities. Prebuilt reports provided by...
A New Year’s resolution for Windows administrators
Did you make your personal New Year’s resolution? How about your professional one? With 2018 now here, I suggest that all Windows administrators make a...
2017 IT recap—Things we learned
2017 was full of new information, new technologies, and lessons learned. As I toured the world again, I was reminded of the commonality that the...
Preparing for the GDPR: Designing Active Directory groups
One aspect of the GDPR is the fact that all users who have access to personal data must be monitored. As a best practice, only...
GDPR preparation—Testing
GDPR compliance auditing will be new to many organizations that have never been under a compliance regulation before. Therefore, many of the logistics around the...
Common mistakes administrators make when applying GPOs – Part 1
Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP) are essential components of most enterprises, so it goes without saying that making changes to AD and GP...
Optimize GPO processing: How does Group Policy work?
Group Policy is a great mechanism for deploying numerous settings across different Active Directory (AD) objects. In this blog, we’ll discuss the basics of Group...
How to easily find a GPO’s Administrative Template settings
I’d like to propose a challenge for all you users working with native Active Directory tools: find a way to change the period of inactivity before Windows begins hibernating for every system...