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It's awesome to have so many of you joining us today for our Advanced Group Policy webinar! Sadly, we only have an hour and there are a ton of questions coming in -- if you're watching and we weren't...
View ArticleCloud based Active Directory... or IDaaS?
I'm new to IT admin and have fallen into this position by default since I have the most tech knowledge out of our small 8-person medical device start up company. Most of the other users at my company...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controllers - Multiple vLANS/Subnets
Today, all of our servers are in vLAN-1 (192.168.1.0/24), the default vLAN. Tomorrow, we will be virtualizing our servers (not P2V) as time allows and placing any new servers in vLAN-10...
View ArticleThe Trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.
After Scouring the Internet for Several hours I tried so many solutions to this error:"The Trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."I haven't really found an...
View ArticleGroup Policy, Accessibility Options, WinXP
Good afternoon everyone,I have a student with impaired vision who does better with High Contrast enabled, and the theme being 'High Contrast Black Large'.I've found these settings in the registry under...
View ArticleClient AD User cannot see certain GPOs
OK I'm at my wit's end on this one:There are currently two (that I'm aware) of users at a customer site that are unable to see certain GPOs and therefore aren't applying policies properly.They can...
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Best practice for number of Group Policies
So, something we do here that I find somewhat concerning, but may just not be that big of a deal: pretty much everything we do in Group Policy gets its own GPO. This gives us a nice, long list of...
View ArticleRemote User with expired AD credentials
·From time to time a user will wait too long tochange his/her password, resulting in their Active Directory account expiring. Occasionally this will happen while the user is traveling, thus preventing...
View Articlecombine 5 separate domains
HiIve taken on a group of companies that are all under the one umbrella.they have 5 separate servers with separate domains in different locations. i want to combine them into the same forest/domain and...
View ArticleDomain Controller Can't set external NTP Always gets Local CMOS Clock
I have played with commands, powershell, registry, etc but cannot for the life of me get the domain controller to use ntp.org for its NTP source. It is a Windows Server 2012 R2 DC. It is the only...
View ArticleHow to know how many domain controllers you need?
Currently I have three domain controllers to support 950 PCs, 18 VM Servers, 2 NAS, 2500 Students and 600 teachers/staff. I'm looking to consolidate my physical environment and I wanted to know if I...
View ArticleAD integration for inventory
Hi Folks,Just a quick question.We are planning to integrate spiceworks on our AD, for the use of our equipment inventory.Is it possible that when we scan our network, we found the device at the same...
View ArticleMissing Attribute Editor Tab
Hello,I'm missing the Attribute Editor tab in ADUC. I've got the Advanced Features enabled and I'm pulling up a user object directly, not through Find. Domain is 2k3, server is 2k8r2.Any ideas?
View ArticleActive Directory User - That's not an Authenticated User
Hi Folks,i got following problem. I have a Sharepoint 2010 environment, all Authenticated User are allowed to enter the Sharepoint start page.I want now create an Active directory User that's not...
View ArticleLocking Down Windows......Sort Of
Our K12 school provides laptops for school/personal use to two groups. The educators have no permission to install applications and so far, beside a few gripes it has been blissful. Our one laptop per...
View Article"Promote this server to a domain controller" task shows after demoting DC
I was having some problems with a secondary domain controller (we'll call it SERVER2) on my network. Since our network is actually quite small, I opted to demote SERVER2 and remove the DC role from it....
View ArticleHow to permanently delete a user and profile from Domain
Good morning guys and gals,Normally when an employee is not longer with our company I disable their account and add them to a Disabled Users group in the Active Directory. My question is if I were to...
View ArticleOffice/Excel 2013 Group Policy configuration questions
http://blog.crmguru.co.uk/2010/07/01/annoying-file-format-warning-when-exporting-crm-records-to-exce...Hi, AllI've been asked to apply the fix found in the above link, as transcribed here:TextYou will...
View ArticleThe User Profile Service service failed the logon.
I know there are already thousands, if not more, posts on this topic, but mine seems to have happened just since 2-3 days ago.We first thought that it was a rogue machine, but it seems to be happening...
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Two way trust (Forest) only working one way
I have two domains (Domain A/Domain B). I set up a two way forest trust between the two.I set up Secondary Zones in Domain B for Domain A in DNS and vice versa so all DNS servers have copies of all DNS...
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