http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/413/all xx http://www.itworld.com/storage/68558/optimizing-exchange-and-active-directory-backup-and-recovery To optimize backup and recovery of Exchange and Active Directory environments, organizations can leverage a growing number of advanced tools that overcome the challenges of traditional approaches. These new tools give businesses a more simplified and streamlined process that reduces their backup windows, provides continuous protection and delivers efficient granular recovery of the critical business information. http://www.itworld.com/storage/68558/optimizing-exchange-and-active-directory-backup-and-recovery#comments Storage Opinion active directory backup data protection Microsoft Exchange recovery Fri, 29 May 2009 13:45:48 -0400 marisal 68558 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/61117/active-directory-comes-linux-samba-4 Enterprise networks now have an alternative choice to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) servers, with the open source Samba project aiming for feature parity with the forthcoming release of version 4, according to Canberra-based Samba developer Andrew Bartlett. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/61117/active-directory-comes-linux-samba-4#comments Networking Open Source Operating systems News active directory Linux Samba Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:59:47 -0500 ITworld staff 61117 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/59317/re-using-domain-controller-names You have five domain controllers named SEA-DC1 thru SEA-DC5. The physical hardware for SEA-DC3 is getting kind of old, so you do the following: http://www.itworld.com/windows/59317/re-using-domain-controller-names#comments Hardware Windows Tip active directory hardware Mitch Tulloch Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:12:39 -0500 Mitch Tulloch 59317 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/59315/tracking-changes-active-directory Do you have trouble sleeping at night, worrying that one of your admins or delegated users might change some aspect of your Active Directory environment? http://www.itworld.com/windows/59315/tracking-changes-active-directory#comments Security Windows Tip active directory auditing Mitch Tulloch monitoring Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:08:34 -0500 Mitch Tulloch 59315 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/57498/nesting-organizational-units-too-deeply On why nesting organizational unitess too deeply can lead to grief in an Active Directory environment. Windows Tip active directory design Mitch Tulloch Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:00:00 -0500 Mitch Tulloch 57498 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/nlswindows070515 If you're spinning off a part of your business into a separate unit, migrate your Active Directory, don't split it. There's a risk you could put it into an unsupportable state. http://www.itworld.com/nlswindows070515#comments Operating systems Windows How-to active directory Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:22:04 -0400 jnaze 4386 at http://www.itworld.com