Active Directory Research
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Active Directory Maintenance & Cleanup
Sponsored by: STEALTHbits TechnologiesActive Directory (AD) plays a central role for many organizations’ Windows Domain architecture and access control, so it’s essential to maintain a clean and correct AD to avoid any potential security and operational risks. View now to explore the risks and challenges of AD that organizations face today and uncover best practices to address them.
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Simplifying and Securing Group Policy Management
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareDiscover key tips for protecting, maintaining and recovering your Group Policy infrastructure in this essential resource. Find out how you can secure every desktop and server in your Windows environment with these best practices.
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7 Tips for Achieving Active Directory Compliance
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareDiscover 7 key tips to help you achieve and maintain compliance in Active Directory, including what to keep an eye on, warning signs to look out for and how to leverage auditing tools to simplify the process in this essential resource.
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Disasters within Disasters: Looking Past Microsoft for True Active Directory Protection
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareNative Windows tools alone can't protect your business from the many Active Directory (AD) disasters that can occur. Explore comprehensive AD recovery solutions that can help your business recover quickly from disasters ranging from lost AD objects to widespread corruption.
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Ensuring High Availability for Active Directory
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareThis Quest Software webcast explains the symptoms of a failing or failed domain or forest. It also discusses how you can best prepare for this failure, and compares manual forest recovery procedures with a powerful automated solution.
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Jack Madden and Tom Kemp Discuss Centrify's Free Mobile Security Management Solution: Express for Mobile
Sponsored by: Centrify CorporationMobile device management is imperative to assuring the security of your corporate networks, applications, and data. Listen to this podcast to hear about a mobile security management solution that can help you mitigate risks while giving employees the freedom to choose which device they use in the workplace.
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Two-Factor Authentication – Your Questions Answered
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareIn this Quest white paper, get the answers to your authentication questions to help make an informed decision when adopting two-factor authentication for your company. Be ready when two-factor authentication becomes the norm. Read this white paper today.
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What is BYO? (And what you can do to make it happen)
Sponsored by: Centrify CorporationWatch today’s webcast to learn about BYO programs and how you can get your organization on its way to adopting one.
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Centralize Local Privileged Account Access Enforcement and Audits for Windows Servers
Sponsored by: FoxTThis paper explores the challenges with local privilege accounts in Windows Server 2003 R3 or 2008 R2 and uncovers an approach to address them, enabling you to centrally provision and administer Windows Server local accounts and easily centralize and implement security policies for the support staff controlling access to privilege accounts.
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7 Tips for AD Compliance
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareIn this paper, Microsoft MVP Darren Mar-Elia provides best practices for leveraging native AD auditing. Then, he’ll discuss what auditors and compliance officers look for when it comes to examining your AD environment. He’ll also explore third-party alternatives to native auditing that greatly enhance AD auditing. Read this paper today.
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AD to LDAP Through Virtualization
Sponsored by: Radiant Logic, Inc.Most enterprises already have a heavy investment in Active Directory. Find out how your business can leverage AD for a more efficient and responsive identity management system.
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E-Guide: Expert guide to secure your Active Directory
Sponsored by: Dell and MicrosoftThis expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com offers advice for planning and designing an effective security strategy. Find out why it is important to also secure Group Policy settings and learn how managed service accounts boost server security in R2.
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The Upgrader's Guide to Group Policy and Active Directory
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelTaking advantage of Group Policy and Active Directory can simplify Windows 7 migration while simultaneously boosting efficiency and cost savings. Access this white paper to learn how you can gain more control over your Windows 7 migration, enhancing your competitive advantage and increasing your business opportunities.
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Windows Server 2008: Object Accidental Deletion Protection
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeDisaster prevention is often better and easier to implement than disaster recovery. In Microsoft Server 2008, there are several new built-in disaster prevention capabilities to help you avoid trouble. One of these is accidental object deletion protection.
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E-Guide: Windows Server 2008 R2 Learning Guide
Sponsored by: Dell and MicrosoftThis expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com is designed to help IT pros determine whether Windows Server 2008 R2 makes sense for their organizations. Learn how to get the most out of this new operating system version and get answers to frequently asked questions from your peers.
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Fine-Tuning Windows Servers for Performance
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelSimple adjustments to server settings and parameters can have a huge affect on performance. A properly designed Active Directory will also make a difference. With the right tuning and server management tactics, you can keep your data center humming at peak performance. Check out these lessons to find out how.
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E-Guide: Expert guide to new features in Windows Server 2008 R2
Sponsored by: Dell and MicrosoftThis expert e-guide examines the top ten Windows Server 2008 R2 enhancements that organizations should consider before deciding to upgrade to this new operating system. Plus, learn how to leverage Hyper-V to monitor memory in your virtual server environment.
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Federate Identity for Cloud-Based Applications
Sponsored by: Radiant Logic, Inc.A new, more flexible identity infrastructure is on the horizon. With the growing adoption of federation standards and protocols, such as SAML 2.0, OpenID, and WS-Trust, both enterprises and end users will benefit from enhanced security, increased privacy, and a better experience. Read this white paper for more information about the new system.
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Post-Migration Best Practices: Exchange Environment Operation
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareIn this Quest white paper, discover best practices - straight from Industry experts Nelson Ruest and Danielle Ruest - to help you have a successful post-migration operation. Learn why you MUST have the same level of post-migration planning that you had for pre-migration, and discover four key aspects of post-migration management you must know.
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Delivering an Identity Service through Virtualization
Sponsored by: Radiant Logic, Inc.Delivering smarter security and more customized services are at the top of any IT agenda. Both would be easier and cheaper to achieve with a common infrastructure, in what we call an identity and context service. In this paper, we’ll address how such a shared service can serve these two very different IT initiatives.
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Active Administrator™, Version 5.6.1
Sponsored by: ScriptLogic CorporationActive Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights.
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E-Guide: Windows Server 2008 R2 upgrade and management considerations
Sponsored by: Dell and MicrosoftWhat does Windows Server 2008 R2 have in store and what benefits are early adopters most excited about? Get answers to these questions and more in this expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com. Gain greater insight into new features and learn how R2 could help save your organization money.
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Active Directory Provisioning: Overcoming Top Challenges
Sponsored by: Quest SoftwareIn this new Quest white paper, learn about the challenges of managing Active Directory using native tools – and how provisioning in your diverse environment is equally difficult. Then, discover a third-party solution that not only delivers a comprehensive provisioning solution, but one that makes it quick, easy and painless.
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E-Book: What's New in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelThis chapter sample, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, Willem Kasdorp as the contributing author and published by Wiley Publishing, summarizes the defining features of Windows Server 2008.
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Windows 7 and AppLocker
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeOrganizations want to run the apps they want, and not run the apps they don't want. One of the tools Microsoft has given Active Directory administrators to help in this regard, Software Restriction Policies (SRPs), has been re-engineered in Windows 7 as AppLocker.
