Active Directory and Exchange upgrade steps
We have two active directory servers running windows server 2003 standard 64bit and we have an email server running windows server 2003r2 64 bit with microsoft exchange server 2007. We have a licence...
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I just Migrated from an old server to new one(windows server 2012 r2). I still had the old server plugged in until this weekend. I made a master batch file for all the teachers to map 3 drives, I...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 policy enabled that blocks NT 4.0 drivers.
When I fired up the computer lab computers at the end of the summer none of them had any printers. When I try to manually add them I get an error message that reads "Windows cannot connect to the...
View ArticleActive Directory Workstation Remote Administration
Hi all,I am wondering if there is a way to have a system that allows the "Remote Assistance" group to login to an IIS like page with their AD credentials to provide remote assistance to all...
View ArticleHow I can get a list of all the Users on Active Directory
How to generate a list of all of the users I have in Active directory? I've seen some Scripts that you can run, I tried once but nothing happened can Someone give me some help with this in Steps, Thank...
View ArticleAssinging users to specific Folder Redirection servers
I have two sites, (Site 1/Site 2), I am trying to create a structure in the GPO's and direct the users that are at site 1 to the site1 folder redirection server and Site 2 user to the site 2 folder...
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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...
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Missing items in group policy editor.. (server 2008)
A normal GPedit window looks like this (under preferences, windows settings):For some crazy reason our one and only AD server is doing this:As you can see its empty! We cannot map a drive or...
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Group Policy Not Working
Hello,I am trying to deploy a shortcut through Group Policy and the shortcut is not showing. I have run gpupdate and even rebooted the machine I want to deploy it to. I created an OU called "Test...
View Articlehow to launch a web page on startup
Hi how do i launch a web page on start-up for 400 machines within a company?Do i do this via AD or Group policy?Any answers would be appreciated
View ArticleNew company acquired and want to merge the 2 domains
The company that I work for has acquired a company and we are now ready to bring them into our domain. From now on I will refer to our company as domain 1, and the acquired company as domain 2. Domain...
View ArticleGPO for Turning off Automatic Color Scheme: 8.1
Hey, all. I have a great GPO written for customizing the start screen, metro apps profile, desktop wallpaper...etc. I have it set to gray and everything is great...except the taskbar and menu items are...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 R2 Domain
Hey everyone: I am having an issue connecting to a domain. I downloaded a trial of Windows Server 2008 R2, installed Active Directory, activated WINS service, activated DNS and config'd forward and...
View ArticleWindows Server Event Viewer - Tool to generate reports?
As part of our daily audit checks, we currently filter our AD server event viewer for event IDs 4625 and 4740, for the last 24 hours. We then look at each event and make a tally of the number of...
View ArticleNeed for Active Directory
Do I need to have my computers in an Active Directory in order for Spice Works to work?We are a small, charter school and I just have passwords on the local computers. Not feasible to have...
View ArticleNew company, new name, new AD environment?
Good Morning Colleagues,Our radio station was recently bought out by a new company. The new company has no infrastructure what so ever (kind of like how I started out at this office). So we'll have to...
View ArticleBest Practices - Active Directory and Domain Controllers for Public Facing
It's been many years since I researched this topic so I'm reaching out to see if the thinking has changed.We are moving several systems into Amazon Web Services. Many of these are public facing IIS...
View ArticleDomain Controller Times Are Off
I have 7 Domain Controllers on our networks and they have different times and it seems some of the PC in our office have different times as well, either they are OK or 5 minutes fast.Primary Domain - 5...
View ArticleAD Replication Issue
Please help. We have two DCs across our two office locations and both have been working and replicating well. Recently I noticed that one of the DCs does not replicate consistently. It keeps showing...
View ArticleGPP Shortcuts Limited to 7
It's weird.I'm not sure if anyone else has this issue but i seems to be a little bit stuck. I seem to hit a limit with Group Policy Preferences.This is the simplest way I can put it.I have created 9...
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