Local policy does not permit you to log on interactively
Random occurance that I have yet to have seen.Today two windows xp workstations (I know...I know) on our domain won't allow the user to login. There isn't a password error but a message that states...
View ArticleRoaming profiles with folder redirection issue
Hi!First off, to clarify, I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 with Windows 8.1 Enterprise workstations.I have users set up as roaming profiles with folder redirection. Originally, we were using just the...
View ArticleAdd a new Domain user to a remote PC (Software VPN)
Long story short, I have a very small remote office (1 employee) who is expanding to 2. This was anticipated to happen sooner than it did so we had originally sent hardware for 2 to the office. On PC 2...
View ArticleActive Directory Integration
By chance is there anything I need to change on my server for this integration to work. I have filled in my server info and credentials and checked of what is needed and when I have one of my...
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Folder redirection offline files conflict
Here's my setup.Windows 7 Pro desktopMy Documents and Desktop redirected to a network share on a Netgear ReadyNAS CIFS share attached to AD.I have some users who float between two PCs on the same LAN....
View ArticleProfile files being copied
So we have Active Directory set up in our school. Everyone has their own account and password assigned to them, but we have a general account for students with the username student and password...
View ArticleActive Directory and Exchange Migration to new domain on Existing Servers
Hey Guys,I apologize in advance if this question islong winded or is confusing, please let me know if it does not make sense.My company isseparatingfrom our parent company and we need to remove all of...
View ArticleSlow Login Time for One User
Disclaimer: I'm not super fluent in technical jargon, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't say something in the correct format.I am about to beat my head against the wall on this one... I have one...
View ArticleThe directory service has exhausted the pool of relative identifiers
Good day! In my organization has only one domain controller on Windows Server 2003. When creating a new account or group error directory service has exhausted the pool of relative identifiers. Then I...
View ArticleHow to remove the users from perticular group from win servers Active Directory?
Hi,My requirement is here:Every 3 months I need to remove the users from the particular groups from AD: Currently I'm doing this manually and it takes almost about 1-2 week, so I want to do it this by...
View ArticleManaging user passwords
I'm an admin of 30 users, I sometimes need to login as the user on their PC when they're not available to configure software etc... We try to keep track of all user passwords for this purpose, which...
View ArticleGroup Policy Auditing Quick Reference Guide
Hi Spiceheads,The time for our next Quick Reference Guide, now its about Group Policy auditingThis guide will show you how to enable Group Policy auditing on GP and Sysvol level and also what events to...
View ArticleGPO - domain users to format drives
hi all,is there a GP i can assign to users or computers so that users can format a drive in disk management or using windows explorer, without giving them full local administrators permission?many...
View ArticleHI How to reverse the redirected My Documents in Windows 2003 domain controller
HIHow to reverse the redirected My Documents in Windows 2003 domain controller to the users local machine as before the redirection group policy applied . Now Users my documents are located in server...
View ArticleProblems running 2003 Domain Controllers alongside 2012 DC's?
Prior to last month, we had 3 DC's - 2 of which were 2003 and 1 which was 2008. We added a new remote site and put a DC there with 2012.Ever since introducing the 2012 DC to the network, our 2003 DC's...
View ArticleWhiteList Path in Software Restriction Policy for Java and Adobe updates to run
We are working on software restriction polices to block .exe file from running in appdata folder. It is working and now blocking a lot of other programs from running. Main ones I need to get to be...
View ArticleDoes the domain admin need a list of everyone's password?
I just started to work for a company where the policy is for the IT department to keep a list of every user's password. I know that this is a bad policy, but how do I explain that to my boss? The...
View ArticleDomain changes to local on logon screen
I'm running Small Business Server 2008 standard.I have a user with a domain-joined Windows 8.1 laptop on which the initially presented login inexplicably often changes to the local machine instead of...
View Articlehow to allow domain user to change local network configuration
Hi everybody..how can I allow a laptop user on my domain to change network configuration when he travels.also some time if he runs some software it asks administrative credentials. I want to allow that...
View ArticleUser Portal AD Restrictions
We have multiple tabs in our user portal, we want to restrict who can access them based off a AD Member group.For example we have a tab for submitting a request to setup a new user in the system. We...
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