Tag: mvp

ADManager Plus: Creating Users in Bulk by Importing a CSV File

It is extremely common for a company to hire employees in mass. It might be a school with a new school year, a corporation hiring interns for the summer, a business which is hiring contractors for a project, or a result of two companies merging. Regardless of the reason, being able to create new users in Active Directory should be simple and easy

Going Deep With Nested Group Audits

It is one of the top three most complex areas of auditing: nested groups! You know, you find a group listed on an access control list, and you ask for the group members. You get back a list of 25 users, but you know there must be more. So you ask for not only the users, but also the groups that have membership in the original group

How to Create User Accounts Efficiently in Active Directory

For years, it has perplexed me how inefficient it is to use Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) to create users. Forcing me to first create a user based on the “mandatory schema attributes,” so I can then configure the “optional schema attributes” is not efficient. You all know what I am talking about, right?

Domain Password Policies: Configuring and Auditing Correctly!

Over the past 14 years, I have been around the world helping admins, auditors, and security professionals understand how the domain password policy works in Active Directory. The default behavior has not changed in those 14 years, so you can imagine how many people I have helped, not to mention how many times I have spoken about it. So why mention it here