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The Active Directory lab

Everyday identity administration, Windows endpoint evidence, and controlled security exercises.

Ordered as a reading path, not by date.

  1. Active DirectoryThe Active Directory lab7 min read

    Managing accounts, OUs and Group Policy in my AD lab

    Why I put my Windows machines in a domain, what that let me control, and how I used accounts, OUs, Group Policy and audit events to manage and troubleshoot endpoints.

  2. Active DirectoryThe Active Directory lab4 min read

    Tracing a failed domain sign-in

    Once I had Windows machines to look after, Active Directory became one of the tools I used most. This is how I read the evidence a single logon leaves behind, and which questions it can and cannot answer.

  3. Active DirectoryThe Active Directory lab2 min read

    Designing domain-account Wi-Fi with 802.1X and NPS

    An example of how Active Directory could decide who joins a wireless network, without handing out a shared password. It is a design I can test, not a setup I have deployed.