Category Archives: Active Directory

Ideas and utilities for managing Active Directory

Access-based Enumeration

Posted on May 6, 2008 by James Rudd

A great new feature in Windows Server 2003 is Access-based Enumeration (ABE). What ABE does is hide any file or folder that a user does not have access to. So for example the folder where you store all your users … Continue reading →

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Security Templates

Posted on December 3, 2007 by James Rudd

When using Group Policies with Zenworks and Windows XP you may find users are able to create folders and files in root of C:. This is due to the change in default security settings for drives on Windows XP from … Continue reading →

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AD Explorer

Posted on November 20, 2007 by James Rudd

An LDAP browser for Active Directory. Makes it easy to see all attributes of objects and assists in configuring web applications that authenticate using LDAP. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Networking/AdExplorer.mspx You can connect to your AD server without knowing any LDAP paths, just use … Continue reading →

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