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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.

Quik Pick Express, a California-based trucking company, provides a variety of services, including container drayage, warehousing services, container shipping, transloading, and much more. The company services seven locations in the state of California, with its IT infrastructure network being critical for its business. After a thorough evaluation, Quik Pick Express’ IT team chose OpManager, an all-inclusive network monitoring solution, to monitor its business-critical IT infrastructure network.

How do you begin working with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)? If you have read the previous parts of this blog series, you will know that Active Directory (AD) is a vast subject. In this series, we have chosen topics to help familiarize you with theoretical AD concepts and equip you to work with AD. This blog offers practical AD exercises to help you get started. Understanding the life cycle of all AD objects, from creation and modification to deletion, is necessary.