A project to build a giant Web services directory touted by the likes of Microsoft and IBM has yet to catch on, as companies stumble over technology hurdles and come to grips with market hype. Born ...

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On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

While not completely comprehensive, there are a number of different policy settings that are exposed through the Active Directory Administrative Center. In many ways, working in an Amazon Web Services ...

Carlos Netto is Co-founder and CEO of Matera, a software company he founded over 30 years ago in Brazil. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines the word "directory" as "a book or electronic ...

On Twitter a few days ago, a tweet from @jwildeboer caught my attention: OATH, OAUTH, OpenID - this is all getting too complicated. We need simple identification for the future. The reason it caught ...

Well, while creating a new user in the AD, there's an error message "The Directory service has exhausted the pool of relative identifiers". * Verifying that the local ...

Directory Services provides a central place to store users and passwords for corporate and enterprise users. Here's how to use it on macOS. Many enterprises today have a need for a central place to ...

Windows Server 2008 introduced the most significant changes to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) since its inaugural release in Windows 2000 Server. Microsoft has continued along this path with ...