Odd stuff in AD Sites and Services
Server 2008R2. I noticed odd characters appear in my AD Sites and Services console (see attached). Where you'd normally see "", now is a bunch of random alph-numeric combo. What is it, why and how to...
View ArticleDomain Name Mis-Match
I'm working on an old SBS 2003 environment and seeing some strange issues with domain name. There seems to be a mis-match on the domain name in various places. On the SBS server, there is one domain...
View Articlehelp with dcdiag error on dns test.
I Currently have 4 DC 2 are 2008 R2 and 2 are 2003 and i been running the dcdiag /e /test:dns and it seems that my 2003 DCs are failing on the DNS Forwards. Below is what i got from the results...
View ArticleGPO is not working sometimes and it works sometime
I have notice on many workstations the GPO policy is not applying properly to the workstations. Sometime it is applying old GPO on the workstations which is no longer exist on the GPO (Windows Server...
View ArticleGroup Policy Client Service Failed the Logon: Access is Denied
I work for part time for a school and a couple of the students are unable to logon. They receive the message "Group Policy Client Service Failed the Logon: Access is Denied". As far as I can tell, it...
View ArticleCannot Add Remote Workstations to Domain
I am having trouble getting remote computers added to my domain. I can ping the DC from the workstation and everything is fine. I can also ping the workstation from the DC and everything is fine. When...
View ArticleHow to remove internet access for selected domain users Exschange Server 2013
Please I need a step by step info for the above topic Thanks Legzyl
View ArticleChanging over to AD from workgroup with Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation
I'm migrating 8 Windows XP point of sale registers from XP to Windows 7 along with building 3 new back office Windows 7 machines. Right now everything is setup on a workgroup and the server is...
View ArticleMerging Domains
We are getting ready to merge two domains and wanted to make sure we haven't missed something in our prep. This company has two domains, lets say abc.com and xyz.com, currently abc.com has it's own...
View Articleieak 10 configuration only package through group policy
Greetings, I have been trying to sort this one out for days but just no luck. I need to push out settings for Security/Local Intranet/Sites and also a predefined favorites folder for IE 10. IE10 is...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 domain controller IPV6
In Mix env. 1 windows 2003 DC and two windows 2008 R2 DC (Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 R2 ) if we login to local DC and try to connect to local DC from AD Users and Computers it shows unavailable...
View ArticleDrive Maps - Moving users from OU to OU
I have a few GPO of Mapped Drives for the departments. For example, I have a Compliance OU and CustServ OU. Each of these OU may have a Mapped Drive which are assigned via GPO. Let say I move a user...
View ArticleGroup Policy Folder Redirection Changed
I had an old (Pre-Windows 2008) folder redirection group policy. The resultant path was \\server\foldershare\username\My DocumentsI created a new folder redirection policy, but this one is based on...
View ArticleWho deleted this AD User?
So I was in the middle of creating a mailbox for a user and then poof it was gone and got an error saying the AD user no longer exists. Sure enough I got get-aduser on it and nothing. Anyway I can...
View ArticleWindows 2012 and Windows 8.1 pro AD login problem
Hello, when I try login to AD from Windows 8.1 pro I can see "Welcome" and immediately I am log out :( anyone can help me? I can login only as Administrator
View ArticleRestrict reading from USB drives
Is there an easy way to block users from reading data from USB storage devices that are connected to their Windows 7 systems? I want to prevent users from bringing their personal USB disks to work and...
View ArticleGroup Policy, Citrix VDI and saving documents only to network drive
Hello I am new to the "Virtual World" and we just installed Citrix VDI in a box. I am creating my first gold image and have made several revisions. I constantly have to create and destroy the images...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 on 2003 AD...can't change expired password on login
We've got a few computers that we're adding to our domain. Our DC is on Server 2003 and we're not planning on upgrading that until next year. Everything seems to be fine with 8.1 on our domain except...
View Articleblock inheritance
Does Unchecking block inheritance cause any problem ? When I do I see a blue alert on OU and other OU too.. it should not cause any problems. Not sure why it shows. Could some body answer this.
View Articlehow can create user to install program in active directory
create user have a permission to install program by group policy in windows 2008
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