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...
Common mistakes administrators make when applying GPOs – Part 3
Although it’s not directly related to the application of Group Policy Objects (GPOs), administrators typically do not back up their GPOs so they can recover...