Scalability, tight coupling with Microsoft infrastructure, and ease of management in the on-premise world all contributed to catapulting Active Directory and the associated LDAP protocol into the ...

For a long time the only way to use Active Directory (AD) for VPN authentication and authorization was to use a RADIUS server such as Cisco ACS that could use AD as an external database. With the ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...

This is my first post to this part of Ars forums, I tried to search for topics related to this, but found nothing.. but I haven't been following so closely that I would know for sure if it has been ...

I have a problem. At work we have several directories. A certain group of people have user accounts in our LDAP directory and now we are trying to set up some new stuff for them where they need to ...

New Active Authentication service on the Azure-based Active Directory uses phones to improve security for hosted apps such as Office 365 Microsoft is upping the security on Azure with Active ...

Microsoft on Monday announced a bunch or Azure Active Directory enhancements as part of its Ignite event happenings. Just a couple of the new Azure AD capabilities made the Ignite Day 1 keynote talk ...

One of the advantages of Microsoft's Active Directory is that it allows users to search objects in the database by performing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol queries. LDAP is an industry ...