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Network configuration management is a function that comprises assortment, monitoring and storage of information about every component that forms a network. The true purpose of such a solution is to come alive in time of any eventuality; it could be the need to update, upgrade, recover or could even be disaster management. The solution will provide all pertinent information at the hands of the IT operations team, enabling them to decide the course of action going forward.

Do new users created on one domain controller (DC) of an Active Directory (AD) environment, ever get erroneously deleted only after a few minutes by DCs of other sites within an AD forest? Do changes made in a particular AD site ever get rewritten by DCs in other sites? Can AD objects be erroneously identified? Can more than one AD user account, for example, with all its associated attributes, be a replica of another user account?

A local area network, what we know more commonly as a LAN, is a network that comprises devices based out of the same geographic location, enabling communication between them. The virtual counterpart of a LAN is a virtual LAN, or VLAN. A VLAN augments a LAN, offering flexibility in making changes, higher scalability, and better security.

California trucking company, Quik Pick Express, improves overall IT network performance using ManageEngine OpManager, efficiently solving downtime and troubleshooting issues and saving $10,000 annually.

CIT LAO utilizes OpManager to optimize network performance and troubleshoot network issues before end users are impacted, saving time and effort.

Imagine you’re in an airport and going through security. Why do you have to go through such rigorous checks? These security checks protect the passengers and the aircraft themselves from accidental harm and possible crime. Assume you’re in the office now. You enter the office after showing your ID card. Even if you forget your ID card, all you have to do is tell the receptionist your employee ID and they can let you in.

This blog series on Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is designed to help you gain a good working knowledge of what Active Directory (AD) is. Each successive blog sheds light on some aspects of AD. All blogs are curated to include the right mix of AD theoretical basics along with some valuable hands-on exercises. Through the earlier parts of the blog series, it has become clear that AD DS installed in a Windows environment opens up a host of benefits to organizations.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn what decision intelligence is, how it could help businesses, and much more. Illustrated by Derrick Roy We covered the basics of decision intelligence (DI) in an earlier Five worthy reads blog. In this blog, we’ll take a look at how it is going to help businesses flourish in 2022.

Active Directory (AD) objects are rarely managed as standalone entities. In Part 3 of this series, we covered practical exercises for creating and managing two of the most critical AD objects, namely users and computers, after setting up a laboratory AD environment on virtual machines. To manage AD effectively, knowledge and practical experience with AD groups and organization units (OUs) is imperative. In this fourth part of our series, we’ll elaborate on this.