Windows Firewall Policy for Domain?
Does anyone even use Windows Firewall? The entire time I have worked here it has been disabled on workstations because we are a reseller and often do beta tests for our vendor applications and in-house...
View Articlerestor pdc
Please any one help me quickly we have two server in data center one adc & pdc and I want to restore backup for pdc in new server it is necessary to shut down adc or not and we take backup by using...
View ArticleGroup Policy Targetting issue
I have two GPO's containing user side settings, currently linked to my "RDS Test" OU. I want it so that when a domain user logs onto this new test RDS server, it applies the lock-down and folder...
View ArticleSMS Exchange and Active Directory
I'm searching high and low for an application that will allow staff to open Internet Explorer with SSO to enter in their Cell number and carrier OR their personal email address and this information...
View ArticlePrinter Deployment In GPO
Hi,Print Server 2008R2 and ADWe are currently deploying printers using location ids and a script in GPO. Since we have upgraded to windows 7 our login times have taken a big hit. It can take a while...
View ArticleAD Security Groups cleanup project
Im working on a project where the task is to clean up AD and organize users into groups. The reason is that over the years all IT workers have been put into the Domain Admins group to make sure they...
View ArticleChange a folders permissions on all computers without touching them all??
Hello Spiceheads,i am the new systems admin for a smaller company. i discovered that all users have local admin access to their machines... UGH!!! ithis was setup before i got here and the reason is...
View ArticleAttempting to push out software via group policy. Having trouble.
I'm pretty new to GPO and just recently started doing a bit of research into it. I'm trying to push out an MSI file to specific computers (not users) and it works fine only if the first person to log...
View ArticleRemove MIssing Domain Controller?
Hi All, I need a bit of help. I've been working on a server on a site I'm looking after. When I turned up on site I was asked to create a new DC plus migrate DHCP and DNS. I was told that the server...
View ArticleQuestion about Active Directory
Dial in tab is missing from my AD attributes. How can I add that
View ArticleDomain logon to physical computers much slower than VM's
Hi everyone, thought I'd see what the community thinks of this problem. We have a mostly VDI environment, approximately 80% of users are on VM's (VMware View, to be specific). However, we have a few...
View ArticleConnect Egnyte with my AD
I am starting a plan with Egnyte and their service allows me to set up a connection between them and my AD...however they are unable to provide assistance on this. The instructions read:Provide a...
View ArticleAD DNS "_msdcs" greyed out
I'm going through my DNS server and pulling out remnants of a dead DC. In my DOMAIN.local branch of DNS, the "_msdcs" entry is greyed out. Is this normal?Thanks, in advance--
View Articleprinter Item level targeting via printer preferences
I am trying to do item level targeting via printer preferences. I have tried numerous ways numerous times and cannot get this to work. I currently have 120 printers I am trying to assign via terminal...
View ArticleMcAfee EPO 4.6.6 and Active Directory not playing well.
Problem: Passwords not synching with EPOIt seems that in many case EPO and AD don’t sync or there is a delay in the process which can cause Outlook, Domain, VPN and even intranet access issues.Fix:...
View ArticleDemoting a DC without removing AD Cert Svcs
Bwuahahah... If you've seen any of my ther posts in the past day or two I'm having a heckuva time with one of my DCs... All roles are properly on the remaining DC. However, when I try to run dcpromo...
View ArticleWordpress 4.0 and LDAP
Anyone find an LDAP plugin that works with Wordpress 4.0? None of the ones I am finding on the Wordpress site, seem to want to authenticate my users!
View ArticleWin2K3 R2 Active Directory Migration
Hello,Windows 2k3 R2 will come to it's end of life July 2014. We use Windows 2k3 R2 as our PDC, DNS and Active Directory server. I plan on migrating Active Directory to our Windows 2k8 R2 VM but before...
View ArticleGPO for download headers only on specific computers, not users.
We are running into an issue when staff goes to a location and haven't logged into the computer for some time, when opening outlook, it consumes all the bandwidth trying to update emails. I figured I'd...
View ArticleUser complaining about slow log-in
So there is a department that is experiencing "slow" logins, I have tracked down the errors in the event viewer as 6006 and 6005.The winlogon notification subscriber is taking long time to handle the...
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