Raise Domain Function Level from 2000 to 2008
Are there any issues with raising the domain function level from 2000 to 2008 without raising it to 2003 first? Thanks in advance!
View ArticleGPO not applying when using group in sec filtering
Ok, I've googled this and can only find info on those having trouble deploying loopback GPOs. I created a global group and added all users with the dial in property allowed to the group. I then created...
View ArticleLearning how to use Active Directory
Does anyone know of any good places to learn more about Active directory online? Free if possible. I tried looking on udemy.com and didn't see anything geared towards Active Directory specifically...
View ArticleNTFS Security ID's after moving Users
Hello all,I was restructuring my AD Users and Computers yesterday and now all the NTFS permissions have been switched from names to what I believe are security ID's(S-bunch of numbers and hyphens). I...
View ArticlePowershell - Get AD group membership performance
Hi,Does anyone have any tips for the fastest way to get all members of a group from AD, using powershell? Ideally it should include users that are in nested groups too.I have tried MS cmdlets, Quest...
View ArticleDeploy Printer through Group Policy
We have tried setting up a Brother Label printer through Group Policies and Locally but nothing seems to work.We have followed these instructions with no joy:...
View ArticleAuto-configure Outlook Username via GPO
So, long story short, our parent company runs an Exchange server that all of our email addresses are set up with. Our email addresses are firstname.lastname@potomacbasin.com, while our usernames for...
View ArticleGPO created desktop shortcuts that open in Chrome when IE is default browser
I have a requirement to have IE the default browser, however one of my business web apps requires Chrome so we need to have dual browsers. I have Chrome Enterprise installed on all the PCs (C:\Program...
View ArticleGhost DNS zone appearing in BPA results
I'm going through BPAs for our servers, and I ran across something I'm stumped by: one server is reporting an error that DNS Zone update notification list must not be empty. Here's where it gets...
View ArticleMyDocuments instead of users name
Ok.. Ever since we moved to Windows 7, the My Documents redirect policy is changing the home directory name to My Documents instead of their username.Example: We have a folder structure as...
View ArticleGroup Policy randomly blocking MS Office
Sometimes on my domain PCs EVERYTHING on the machine is basically getting the Blocked by Group Policy error. We have GPOs that explicitly allow every single app we use. So it is like that policy...
View ArticleShortcut that opens a webpage in Chrome deployed through GPO
Hi everyone, Happy Friday!I'm trying to deploy a shortcut in Citrix to all employees that they can use to access our timeclock application provided SAAS by ADP.IE is the default browser and this is a...
View ArticleGroup Policy will not update on server without reboot
I have two domain controllers. A 2008R2 and 2012 R2. Every time I make changes to any group policy, it updates fine by running gpudpate /force on the 2008R2 box, but on the 2012, it always errors out...
View ArticleKaseya Questions
http://www.kaseya.com/Does anyone know Kaseya?I need to push a URL shortcut to a group of computers… on to their desktops.I know enough to be dangerous.Can anyone help out?BTW... the company I am...
View Articleactive directory terminal computers
hiWe have local computers (mix of xp/vista/7 desktops/laptops ~130) and our servers where most work is performed are on RDS in datacenter.The servers are hosted and supported by 3rd party and have...
View ArticleCloud Services as a one shop stop (exchange, AD, Centralized File Server)
Hello All,I have a client that is downsizing and will only have about 15 employee's on staff. They are wanting to downsize to a smaller office, and toying around with the idea of cloud servicing their...
View ArticleHow do I migrate from "mydomain.local" to a forest called "mydomain.org"?
We own "mydomain.org" but it is hosted in the cloud; so onsite we were using SBS 2008 that created a "mydomain.local" forest and now I want to convert it to the real domain. How the heck do I do that...
View ArticleServer computer object missing from Active Directory
I recently setup a new Windows 2008 R2 server and joined it to our network, and it doesn't show up in Active Directory Users and Computers. The server joins the domain fine, and can access domain...
View ArticleProtecting against CryptoLocker on a Windows SBS 2003 domain mixed environment?
My apologies in advance as I know there are numerous articles and posts relating to prevention. However, running on 2 hours of sleep for the past 3 days I am posting here for assistance to assist in...
View ArticleUsers cannot access roaming profile
I have configured users in active directory to have a roaming profile of \\fileservervm\profshare$\%username% . The share permissions are Everyone : full control, Administrators: Full control. NTFS...
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