Microsoft Open Specifications Support Team Blog

This blog post is to help understand the defaulting rules when assigning security descriptors to new active directory (AD) objects. Background The SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR structure defines the security attributes of an object. For instance, some of...

Active Directory Technical Specification Control Access Rights Concordance The attached PDF document provides a concordance for the Microsoft Active Directory ‘Control Access Rights’ documented in the Microsoft Open Specifications , as of 10 August...

Background Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC) provides a secure communication between domain members and domain controllers. In the protocol, a client delivers a logon request to the domain controller over an established secure channel between a DC...