Videos tagged with Active Directory

Come hear how the Access Control Service capabilities of .NET Services make it easy to add authorization to Web applications. See how to federate with Active Directory and Live Identity Services, request and parse security tokens, and perform session and state management. Justin Smith Justin Smith is a Senior Program Manager in the .NET Services team. His focus is on the ‘Access Control&r...

This weeks training screencast: Previously we upgraded our Windows 2003 domain to Windows 2008 and now we add a Windows 2008 core server. Windows 2008 server core is basically a stripped down version of Windows Server 2008, no GUI, no tools, not even solitaire! Core servers can host a number of key services, e.g. DNS, Active Directory or DHCP and when adding these roles only the required files ...

This weeks video training screencast: The second part of our five part cramsession covering the MCSE 070-290 exam In this episode we cover creating users, computers and groups using Active Directory Users and Computers and then using scripting. We then tackle the subject of user profiles and demonstrate local and roaming profiles.

This weeks Training Video Screencast: Create your very own vbs logon script with our template and this podcast. Visual Basic logon scripts can be quite daunting but they are extremely powerful and incredibly flexible. You can do practically anything. Using our template you can quickly create a logon script that maps drives, connects to printers, verify if an application exists and even check th...

This weeks Training Video Screencast: What with our 3 servers and 2 client machines, the management of our network is becoming a pain so we introduce Systems Management Server to help. This episode is an overview of the product, We also celebrate our 21st episode with an amazing firework display (Its actually quite embarassing really). Oh, yeah a little bit of bad language in this one, not much...

This weeks training video screencast: Users, Groups and Resource Sharing This week we start to build up the ad.itidiots.com Active Directory Domain with resources, all using Best Practices. This includes creating users, groups and assigning permissions to a shared folder and a network printer. Also we use a group policy to give our users a home directory stored centrally on our file server. Ama...

This weeks Training Video Screencast: Administration Tools, Custom MMCs and Taskpads This week we turn our attention back to our virtual network which now contains domain controllers, an Exchange server and a WSUS server. As the servers will be hosted in the other room, we need to find a way to administer them from our client machine, in this case Windows XP. This podcast shows the installation...

This weeks Training Video Screencast: Do you remember DOS? Well, some of the commands used in DOS are still extremely useful today. We start off in DOS and end up in a Windows Server 2003 command prompt. Come and see just how amazingly useful piping, and the FIND command are. We also introduce some Active Directory command line utils, DSADD, DSQUERY and DSRM.

This weeks Training Video Screencast: Okay, last week was all about theory. This week we start implementing our group policy design to restrict our users. Covers implementing a group policy using the GPMC, to restrict our Windows XP client machines and users.

This weeks Training Video Screencast: We look into Group Policies, and see how they can help us secure our Active Directory network