Pushing out GPO depending on location/computer?
Hi everyone, have a question regarding GPO's and locations. We have a few offices and I am setting up a domain environment to manage everything. So far so good, but I cam across an issue I may have....
View Articleactive directory account keep getting locked out
I tried to find out why certain users' AD accounts kept getting locked out.. Was trying to locate the issue at the DC & then at the users' workstations.. but i need to "enable Failure Audit logon...
View Articlelogon hours AD setting not applied when not on network
i set the setting in AD but my kids wake up in the middle of the night and unplug the NIC then they can log in... yes they cant access the network drives but they can play games and what not. any...
View ArticleMac os x and windows NPS
Hello, We have purchased new Mac laptops. I need these Mac cleints to authenticate to my Windows NPS server. My windows client authenticate perfectly. To get my windows clients to authenticate, first,...
View ArticleKerberos Event ID 4 - DC Alias?
I have several computers complaining about a DC in one of my branch offices & users in that office are having some issues connecting. The complaint takes the form of: Log Name: System Source:...
View ArticleWMI Filtering
Does anyone have experience with WMI filtering so I can apply a GPO to specific PC's based on membership? I have a scheduled task I want to run on some PC's and laptops, not all so I have the task...
View Articleshares drive - logon failure: the target account name is incorrect
after restarting one of our servers, no one is able to access the shares drive I keep getting this error: logon failure: the target account name is incorrect we have 3 DCs, one of which (this one is...
View Articlestrange login issue...
In a small school I have approximately 60 win 7 computers on our domain. A couple of days ago I recieved a ticket stating three students could not login to their computers. I ran several tests and...
View ArticleActive Directory Scripting / Automation
We have a number of variables that get edited in AD when a new user is created. In a nutshell, I'd like to remove some of the hands on involved so as to eliminate any possibilities of these fields not...
View ArticleEnable RDP 8 via GPO
I'm trying to create a GPO that will enable RDP 8 on all Windows 7 Machines, however, the setting is missing in the GPO editor. I'm guesssing I need a GPO template to see this setting, but I can't...
View ArticleCan you restrict Domain Admin from modifying users
I have a situation where I need to give domain admin access to a few people, that will be needing to access our servers, but as far being able to modify users rights and access. As far as I knew this...
View ArticleGroup Policies not applying and replication between DCs not working Event 1058
It appears no group policies are applying on any server and replication isn't working between domain controllers in my Server 2012 environment. Event 1058 Source : Group Policy...
View ArticleIssues with group policy and domain.
I'm starting to test out some group policy functions on my internal domain. I've got Server 2012 Standard set up as the domain controller. I created a simple policy that creates a shortcut on all PCs...
View Article_msdcs with an old NS entry
Hello all, I'm currently going through the DNS manager on my windows 2008 DC following the demotion of another 2008dc on the same network, and have noticed something a little off! Under my forwards...
View ArticleActive director
Hi what active directory attribute can i give to the IT service desk guys so that they can unlock each other at the moment its greyed out
View ArticleAnalysts say PC and phone security managed differently…?
Our (unnamed) analysts tell us that laptop security is managed with different tools and by different groups even within most companies. I need to understand this better. As you might guess most...
View Articlea weird Active Directory issue
I am having a weird problem in the Active Directory. I created a user then go to join the domain, "the username or password is incorrect". OK i think to myself i must have typed it wrong, no biggie!...
View ArticleTransferring (Only) AD from One Server to Another
So I have found plenty of scenarios with regards to moving to a new server, but not sure one exactly like mine. I am not a server guru by any means, as this question may attest to. Basically, we are...
View ArticleHow do I move an Exchange 2007 mailbox server to a new AD site?
Just moved our 3 Exchange 2007 servers (one client access/hub access, one client access for ActiveSync mobile device support, and one mailbox server) to a new data center, and a new AD site. Both the...
View Articleshortcut group policy /please help I am so tired
Dear whom read my problem good evening and thank you for help at first I want to appear to users the programs that I want to make them able to use so I want to appear these programs on dasktop as a...
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