Alienstech Active Directory
Domain design, cleanup, group policy and account lifecycle so permissions reflect who actually works there.
Active Directory is where a business decides who can reach what. Left alone for a few years it drifts: accounts for people who left, groups nobody can explain, policies applied to the wrong place, and permissions granted directly to users instead of through groups.
It is also where a lot of avoidable outages start. A single misconfigured DNS setting on a domain controller can cascade into replication, authentication and time synchronization failures that look like several unrelated problems at once.
Sound familiar?
- Accounts still active for staff who left months ago
- Permissions granted to individuals rather than groups
- Group policy has grown and nobody knows what applies where
- Only one domain controller, and no plan if it fails
- Logins are slow and intermittent for no obvious reason
- No record of who has administrative rights
How Alienstech handles it
Existing domains get an audit first: accounts, groups, permissions, policies, domain controller health, DNS, replication and time. Nearly all of the difficult faults trace back to DNS or time being wrong somewhere.
- Dormant and orphaned accounts identified and disabled rather than deleted, so history survives
- Permissions moved onto groups that describe roles rather than individuals
- Group policy consolidated and documented, with what applies where written down
- A second domain controller where the business cannot afford to lose authentication
- Administrative accounts separated from everyday accounts
- A written process for staff joining, changing role and leaving
What you get
- Access that matches who actually works there
- Permissions that are explainable and reviewable
- Authentication that survives one server failing
- A documented process for staff changes
- Fewer intermittent faults caused by DNS and time drift