Running an Audit on Active Directory
Our active directory has been like the wild west over the last few years and I plan to start running some basic audits to make sure things are up to snuff.Things like inactive users and computers,...
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Im trying to get a log going for all the login / log outs on the domain. I have tried various things in searched articles on spiceworks but it seems I cant even get the scripts to run on the client...
View ArticleSlow AD Logins
Hello All,At present we are experiencing sometimes over a 10 minute wait before users are able to login to OS X 10.9.2 New iMacs AD bound to a Windows 2008 R2 Server hosted on a Hyper-VWe are not using...
View ArticleGroup policy to manage Windows firewall on netwwork devices
I'm at the following link trying to create a group policy;http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/22635-use-group-policy-to-enforce-windows-firewall-confi...Step 3 is indicating I need an OU with...
View Articlewindows server 2008 active directory
HI,I'm using windows server 2008 R2 active directory. There has been a problem with the system. 2 user accounts have been deleted from the list of AD users, but they can still login to their PCs in the...
View ArticleBenefit to Hiding Local Drive?
Our user base has local admin privileges but we have hidden the C drive. This was done to 'protect' important system files. We have also used GPO to restrict these users access to Administrative tools....
View ArticleAD users LOG
I never did set up or make any scripts on my AD server and computers and user accounts..my problem now is... My boss ask me to print the LOGs/report of all AD users.... Who, when, which PC on what lab?...
View ArticleHow to create an OU for domain computers in AD
I'm trying to create a GPO to setup remote access to all domain computers so they can be scanned. There is a step in the instructions that says I need an OU that contains all the computers in the...
View ArticleRoaming profiles...old xp machine to new win 7 machines?
If I add new windows 7 machines to a domain, will the users that could log on to the xp computers still be able to log onto the windows 7 computers? or will that cause issues? Also, how do I tell what...
View ArticleUser gets prompted for username/password when login script runs
AD Server 2008R2; user has all permissions to shares she is mapping to, but when she logs in, and the login script runs that maps her drives to shares, she gets a prompt within command line window to...
View Articledomain trusts and gpo
Hi!I am having a problem I hope you can help me with.I have one domain A (windows 2008r2) that also as terminal serversI have one domain B (windows 2008r2) that would like to use the above ts.I have a...
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Trust issue. Trying to add user account to group in trusted domain
I am trying to configure ADMT for my migration purposes and I am having difficulties setting up an account that is useable in both domains. I can see both domains just find from my Source domain but...
View ArticleIs it bad to flush dns on domain controllers during business hours?
topic We are having issues with exchange losing communication to dc's for some reason.. someone wanted to flush dns on all of our dc's. is that bad to do during uptime? Is there any 'better' way to do...
View ArticleGP ScreenSaver Timeout not waiting full 15 min??
I recently pushed out a policy via group policy that sets the screensaver to lock a computer at 15 minutes.Everything works great for 98% of the computers. However we have a few computers that wait...
View ArticleI need to configure a GPO to make all my tablet's Start Screens uniform
Hey guys. I need a little help. I'm working on trying to get a bunch of tablets all uniform. In order to do this, I need for all of their start screens to only have certain tiles. Namely, I want...
View ArticleGPO for folder redrection with data copy
Hello, I am running Server 2008R2 on the server side, and Windows 7 on the client side. I have set up a redirect GPO for "Documents" to redirect to "%HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%. This is working. Folders are...
View ArticleUpgrading administrative templates in Server 2008
I have an MSI from Microsoft that is supposed to install the administrative templates for Server 2012 and Windows 8/8.1. I ran the installer on my Domain Controller. The templates are not there! Do...
View ArticleDefault Domain Policy - Edit, Unlink, or Override for unwanted settings?
Building a Server 2012 domain. I know it is best practice not to touch the default domain policy which is by default linked to the entire domain. There are settings in that I wish to override/remove...
View ArticleDomain Controller as virtual machine questions
We are SMB with around 30 employees.We were using standalone physical Windows server as our domain controller all these years. We are planning to replace the physical windows server with a newer...
View ArticleRead-Only Domain Controllers failing to provide authentication
We've got an environment where we've got about 40 remote locations, and based upon their needs, we'll provide a read-only DC (if they have a small number of employees and don't host any applications)...
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