Microsoft has finally provided a service that mitigates the single most critical password-related security risk in the enterprise today: common passwords. You should kick the tires on this new Active Directory capability today, so you can deploy it as soon as it reaches general availability. This is a long post; ... Read More

Back in 1999, I wrote a book on Windows 2000 Server in general, and Active Directory in particular. I try not to look back at what I wrote about AD back then compared to what I know now, but I remain fond of a passage that explained how the Kerberos ... Read More