To create a user account in Active directory login to the domain controller server, and click on Start go to Programs then click on Administrative Tools and choose Active Directory Users and Computers. once you are at the active directory users and computers console, right click on the user organizational folder and go to new [...]

Active Directory lacks a native tool to run reports on things like; User Accounts, Organizational Units, Disable Accounts, Security Groups etc. there are many commercial tools like AD reports that will do that, but some of them are limited for free use.
The good news is that if you know visual basic or Powershell scripting you [...]

Now that we have setup active directory on our Windows Server 2003 VM machine is time to do some customization on our active directory OU structure. each admin customize active directory according to his organization need; so, feel free to add whatever you think is necessary to your active directory, after all, this is a [...]

now that we have setup Windows Server 2003 on our virtual machine, and we have patched it with SP2, Installed an Antivirus and setup DNS, is time now to setup active directory using dcpromo. read about how to install and configure DNS on Windows Server 2003 from my previous post.
setting up active directory using [...]

Yesterday we setup DNS on our testing server. during the setup we were asked to setup our server with static IP address which is required for the DNS server. now, to avoid any IP conflict between the server and other network devices getting IP addresses from the same DHCP server, we need to exclude from [...]

Now that we have Windows Server 2003 patched with SP2 and with an Antivirus, is time to do the preparation to setup active directory for our domain controller in our testing network. you can read about our previous posts here “Free antivirus for windows server 2003” and “Installing Windows Server 2003 on a VMware server.
Before [...]