Working with Pre-existing group polocies
Our group policies need updating and I know very little about this. There is no documentation and the previous employee who managed the policies left. I need to do two things first: 1.)create a group...
View ArticleActive Directory Folder Redirection Not Working for Older Users
I set up an Active Directory Domain Controller with CentOS ans Samba (not Windows Server) and it works great but its acting strange.. I had setup the domain with the same configuration before and the...
View ArticleDirect Access GPO not applying on some machines
Windows 2012 Direct Access Server. It applies to all machines except a few that were previously applying on. On those that it doesn't apply they cannot reach the NLS server, although the others...
View ArticlePolicies and and thoose pesky users
Hi,I am away to create a new domain and roll out 100 physical desktops (it was cheaper this way).Now who locks down what? to stop these pesky users messing with stuff. Folder redirection?Roaming...
View ArticleInternet Options --> LAN settings not applying via GPO
Windows 2008 R2 domain.I have about 100 users in my organization. For the last 8+ years, I've pushed this setting via GPO with 0 issues. Over the last several days, I have 3 users in which the...
View ArticleAD Users and Groups - Security Audit time...
Anytime you do a huge data reorganization, it's probably a good idea to do a security audit to review any special permissions that might have been added ad-hoc over time, or just be buried in...
View ArticleLDAP Settings Via Group Policy
We will soon be "opening the floodgates" and allowing users to set their own passwords for their domain, email and main system accounts - brave I know, but this was a management decision.Getting these...
View ArticleAD Domain Issues
I have an AD network that "had" 2 DC's. Server01 (windows server 2003), and Server02 (windows server 2012).The network was in place long before I started working here.My issue is a number of things,...
View ArticleCreating a list of active directory groups with members
Hi I am trying to get a list of AD groups with their members.get-aduser -filter * -searchbase "OU=OC-Users,OU=Oldercare,dc=oldercare,dc=local" | select na me,memberof | export-csv c:\users.csv The...
View ArticleMMC AD snapin question
hellowe want to allow our help desk via AD MMC to be able to reset passwordswe did a query for a specific group, and via delegetion in AD gave a permission to reset the passwordthe question is, HOW do...
View ArticleDefault Windows AD User logins
I am not sure if I am dreaming or if I simply can't find it, but I swear in a past life AD was configured to automatically create usernames/logons based on a template (i.e. first initial last name) and...
View ArticleActive Directory Authoritative Restore - Sub-NCs were not updated
Hi all,We are currently in the process of testing our Active Directory Disaster Recovery process, and have hit a couple of warning messages which we're not sure we should be concerned with or...
View ArticleMigrating users after domain name changed
I've migrated Windows Server 2012R2 from one domain to a new domain (lab server thankfully) and the domain changed over ok. However the users under the old domain still have the samAccount of the old...
View ArticleSync time from AD to client pc's
Hi Just need to know where I can set, so that the time is pushed down from AD to client machines in the GPO. Im running Windows Server 2012 R2 with AD installed.Many ThanksDirkie
View ArticleIntroduce 2012 R2 DC to Windows Server 2003 domain functional level
HiWe currently have two DC's one 2003 and the other 2008, we are now wanting to introduce a 2012 R2 DC to the domain.I have read the...
View ArticleIE Settings Issue with an app.
A program I support makes a call to IE out to a website and pulls some data into the program. I have a few users that it will not work on. The only odd thing is it will work on the Computers once IE...
View ArticleMixing Windows 2003 and 2012R2 Domain Controllers
Saw this link that I got from a Veeam Forum email today and thought I would share. Some issues with this configuration and Microsoft is working on a patch. Sorry if it was posted before. I figured with...
View ArticleRemote Domain Controller
Hi there, i'm wanting to know if a Remote Domain controller would work for my business.A Main DC would be hosted in a DataCentre where they have a Fibre Link, What i want to do is connect remote...
View ArticleCant access website from domain
I had a .local active directory domain setup but the permissions got messed up so I formatted the hard disks and re-installed/set up a .com domain and now cant access our website from inside the...
View ArticleAD replication problem and account lockout
I have a Windows 7 user that is having a problem accessing resources. Her username and PW are fine, I've checked it several times, but the account constantly is getting locked out. I looked in the AD...
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