Some things in life, like death and taxes, are guaranteed. There are other things in life that you think are guaranteed, or at least you think you know how they work -- such as Active Directory ...

I was onsite today at a clients office and I was thinking about something related to the "default domain policy" GPO and the impact that it would be if you enabled "password must meet complexity ...

The other DC's on the domain appear to be fine (netdom can verify the trust to pdce.domain.com) but if I run netdom verify on the pdce itself it fails. The reason I am looking into this is that the ...

Creating enforceable, common-sense password policies has become increasingly critical in today’s business world. One major variable in that equation is terminology. While some words (or strings of ...

So, you think you know how password policies work in Active Directory? Well, you might ... or you might not. Find out how to manage Active Directory password policies in Windows Server 2008 and ...