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Securing Active Directory

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Active Directory · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

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Observation details · observed 24 Oct 01:28 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
24 Oct 01:28 UTC
Source update metadata
1 Jul 17:34 UTC
First observed on this installation
8 Oct 23:45 UTC
Last successful check
today 01:38 UTC
Next check due
27 Oct 01:38 UTC

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Timeline

From the capture of 24 Oct 01:28 UTC

Requirements, exceptions and scope

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How this timeline changed

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7 earlier changes
Observed history and review priority

Captured 24 Oct 01:28 UTC; extracted 24 Oct 01:28 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/d9863eb412f92fa5ec3a8ca32e2dd7cfe8095530f456ecb1866608d1166a435d.

Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 1 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 24 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 15

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Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read today 00:51 UTC.

  1. Adding Tier Model for Active Directory Domain Services (#8110) Served on LearnView diff
  2. Freshness pass: best practices for securing Active Directory View diff
  3. Removing special character View diff
  4. Removing local applies to for AD DS View diff
  5. Correct Acrolinx error View diff
  6. Adjusting bullet spacing. View diff
  7. Tweaks for acrolinx. View diff
  8. Removing reference note. View diff
  9. Apply suggestions from code review View diff
  10. Acrolinx cleanup. View diff
  11. First writeup of merge finished plus redirects and deleting redundant articles. View diff
  12. Added Applies to for Windows Server 2022 and 2019 (where missing) View diff
8 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. Remove manager and ms.assetid metadata fields from identity folder markdown files Metadata onlyView diff
  2. [Scoped] Reassigning Meaghan Osagie's articles Metadata onlyView diff
  3. [Scoped] Bulk update author metadata Metadata onlyView diff
  4. Bulk update ms.topic (#6814) Metadata onlyView diff
  5. Updated ms.author values Metadata onlyView diff
  6. replaced daveba as ms.author Metadata onlyView diff
  7. Updating metadata date. Metadata onlyView diff
  8. bulk updates to add missing descriptions Metadata onlyView diff

Suggested by a shared curated topic and product; not a verified connection (6 items)

Retained observations

  • 24 Oct 01:28 UTC · shown above
  • 13 Oct 00:39 UTC

    1 removed passage (18 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 8 Oct 23:45 UTC

    Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

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