Creating users manually through Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is fine when you’ve got just a few. But what if you’re tasked with adding hundreds—or even thousands—of new accounts? Using the GUI just won’t cut it. In this guide, I’ll show you how to automate the process by importing user data from a CSV […]
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In enterprise environments, it’s often necessary for users in one Active Directory (AD) forest to access resources in another. This is where trust relationships come into play. These trusts are commonly used during mergers, acquisitions, or cross-organization integrations. This guide walks you through setting up a two-way trust relationship between two separate forests—contoso.loc and test.loc.
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Relying on a single Domain Controller (DC) in your Active Directory environment is risky. If that one server goes down, no users can log in, and critical services depending on authentication will stop working. To avoid this single point of failure, best practice is to deploy at least two Domain Controllers per domain. In this
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