Amazon Web Services now supports Microsoft's Active Directory. It's a bold move that will attract plenty of business attention. But what are the potential implications for existing Microsoft channel ...

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Brien Posey shows how to create a cloud-based Active Directory, and how to join an AWS virtual machine instance to the Active Directory environment that's been created. Active Directory has been the ...

While the AWS Directory Service was intended to provide flexible support for Active Directory in AWS, it has several limitations and caveats. Microsoft AD, for example, is the enterprise-class version ...

When you create a Windows-based EC2 instance, there is a configuration option that you can use to automatically join the new instance to an Active Directory domain. Even so, I have found that this ...