Figure 1: Warning from ADPREP /FORESTPREP that the schema upgrade is irreversible

Upgrading to WS2016/2019? Consider a Safety Net for AD

A colleague here at Semperis recently looped me into a conversation with the manager of a large Active Directory environment running on Windows Server 2008 R2. With end of support for Windows ...
Semperis DEMO: Recovering Active Directory cleanly: without re-introducing malware

Cyber Scenarios Expose Shortcomings of BMR

Ransomware and wiper attacks are causing organizations to re-evaluate their backup and recovery capabilities. An obvious concern is whether backups are safe – for example, are they offline where they can’t be ...

Toughen Up Your AD

Request for Comments (RFC) 1823 from August 1995 introduced the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Application Programming Interface (API). One could argue that this important work served as the foundation for modern ...