Upgrading Active Directory to 2012 R2
Well it's that time again where enough water has flowed under the bridge and it may be time to upgrade AD.I'm interested in hearing about any gotchas.Some things I am concerned about with legacy...
View ArticleActive Directory Password Reset Policy
Hello there,as this is my first question please bare with me. We have windows server 2008 R2 as an active directory controller and we are looking at creating a policy that allows me to do the...
View ArticleGPO to map network drives
I do hope some one has seen something like this.Background and Goal.We are a school so on a basic level our network drives are divided into staff only, pupil only and shared between the 2. then there...
View ArticleClients Time goes out of sync
I have an NTP server locally. Is there something I need to do special for the clients to sync? It is a domain controller. I run into an issue with servers getting out of sync every once in a while...
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What's your AD Structure?
Hello all,I'm opening another discussion, (this must be my 3rd now)Basically, I'm wondering, how is your AD Users and computers structured. I would like to redesign our structure in a way that allows...
View ArticleDenying use of a laptop without AD Authentication
I have a staff member, that for lack of a better term, has sticky fingers (two iPads are gone and she has them). Due to no backbone and tenure I can't get my superintendent to address the problem. So...
View ArticlePassword Expiry Notification
Windows 7/8 users do not receive password expiration notification during the logon process. How do i activate this on windows 2012 domain
View ArticleHow to disable sharing of users folder on domain computers
I use Windows server 2012 and to my surprise every computer that joins the domain has the users folder on c: shared by default. Is this normal and how can I disable it?
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Geeks! How long has this been here? lol
I just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure this out over wmic and then I come across this in GPMC. How long haven't I known about this? lol
View Articlesecurity log 80% full warning
I've configured 2008 GPO to set the max size, backup when full of the security/audit log.Is there a GPO setting to give a warning when the log is at 80% full? Tom
View ArticleAnyone use Smartcards for windows and application authentication
If so what are you using, why and how do you like it (Pros/Cons)?
View ArticleGroup policy object missing for internet settings IE10 and IE9
I am trying to set a default home page on my XP & 7 clients with group policy on my Windows 2008 R2 x64 server, and I seem to be missing the option to set it for IE9 and IE10 browsers (see...
View ArticleAdd to groups VIA GPO but allow users to add other groups
Hey everyoneI need to add a group to every machine's Local Administrators group, but I don't want to remove any accounts that are already there. How can I do this? When I use the standard GPO option...
View ArticleAD Domain Name
I've been reading up on best practices for AD domain names. Seems the consensus is to use something like ad.company.com.In our environment, our AD domain is a public domain, and the domain name is not...
View ArticleSome confusion about a Domain Controller vs a Global Catalog
We have multiple servers running and I've been trying to replace the oldest units (2003) before they crap out. (I'm new at this - previously we had a 3rd party vendor do all this work).Last week I lost...
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Trocar Imagem Background do Windows Seven
Amigos,Gostaria de Inserir uma imagem de meu interesse na Tela Inicial em Background do Windows 7 via Script ou GPO. Pois, são muitas Estações de Trabalho, preciso de algo mais comodo e automático.
View ArticleSilverlight AllowMaximumIsolatedStorage settings
HiWe use an Online MS CRM based app which uses Silverlight. One of the security methods it uses is to prompt the user when it needs to increase the amount of space it requires. I came across a...
View ArticleOffline AD and GPO Viewing Tools
So here's the situation. Often times we find ourselves in a situation where a domain controller has died (not too often) in a single controller environment. Usually its an older box so instead of using...
View ArticlePassword expiration in SQL/ODBC before AD
I have a script that emails users that their password expires in X days. Today a user got an alert that her password expires in 8 days.She was having problems with Excel and Access databases that get...
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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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