Active Directory Naming for the Branch Office
Hi,Just checking.. currently our office AD server is located at HQ (mydomain.com) Users from overseas remote location authenticate to it via site to site vpn. If an event that a branch have 100 users,...
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I have a question. I have created a win 2008 R2 AD domain and in the users, computers, (I have created about 6 OU's then created 6 groups. My question and need is I want to lock down certain things in...
View ArticleI changed domains, so why do I still see olddomain\users in RDS?
I basically followed this guide that I found after Googling the best way to change domain names on Server 2012. Now, though, when I look at RDS, the users that have access to a collection are in the...
View ArticleRicoh MP C4503 - How to distribute 'on touch' presets with Group Policy
Hi, we are trying to deploy our new Ricoh MP C4503 to client using GPO rules which is largely working as expected. The one remaining problem we are having is that the 'one touch' preset's that have...
View ArticleNew domain existing forest VS new domain new forest (for sister company)
I work for Company A. Company B is a sister company, but still a separate company. Company A supports Company B. Same IT staff, resources are shared, other staff helps with both, Company A buys stuff...
View ArticleRODC in DMZ, a little help...
Hey all, thanks for reading. So the long and the short of it is that I've been tasked with setting up a Windows 2012 VPN server and an FTP for our site. Access to these services would be best done via...
View ArticleNew Domain / Joining an existing Domain?
Hi all,At present, I run a Server 2008R2 Domain across 5 sites, each site having a local Domain Controller and a Primary DC at our Head Office.Shortly, the 5 sites will be split up, two going one way,...
View ArticleApplying HKCU REG_NONE value to registry
Hi all, I'm trying to apply a REG_NONE HKCU value to a logon script. The script itself is applied in testing both for an admin or a user. GP Result says the script is applied. The change is made in the...
View ArticleError 1603 when deploying Java to Windows 7 Via GPO
Hi all,I am currently trying to roll out Java 7 verison 51 via GPO. This installs perfectly onto Windows XP machines but will not install on Windows 7 machines. This is the error we get:Failed to apply...
View ArticleHow do you map your network drives?
I'm curious how everyone maps their network drives and seeing if there is a better way than what I do.I have multiple sites and vbs drive mapping scripts for each site. I have also created a Group...
View ArticleWindows 7 GPO without a Windows 2008 R2 DC?
Hi guys.We are planning a pc refesh in the next few months. From XP to Win7. In the ideal world we would have updated all of our DC's from 2003 to 2008R2. But this is yet to happen. We have one DC...
View Articlecomputers misplaced in AD
In ADUC, many domain computers are shown in domain.local > Computers. Should they be in domain.local/MyBusiness >Computers>SBSComputers ? Are they ending up in the first location when I don't...
View ArticleAD account keeps getting locked out on win7
Hi there I need some help.A couple of our users accounts on the AD keeps getting locked.We have an application were users use there PC log in credentials to access it.When doing there annotation after...
View ArticleUnable to manage domain computers from Domain Controller in AD
Hi Guys,seeking for your spices about this issue :1. when I try to manage computers in AD, it says "cannot be manage. The network path was not found" (open AD users and computers > ou=Computer >...
View ArticleForcing users to log off
I've seen many instructions for forcing a user to be logged off when their log on hour expire, but I can't get it to work. Here's what I've done in the default domain policy.1. "Set action to take...
View ArticlePTC Windchill and AD integration help
Hello Spiceheads,Been trying for the last 3 weeks to make sense of PTC Windchill's instructions to all AD integration for SSO with no luck. Wondering if there are any Spiceheads that have done this...
View ArticleIE11 Policy on 2008 R2 DC
Hi. I am trying to disable Internet Explorer compatibility mode completely on my domain computers. My domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 and they have IE11 on them. I have a...
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 ArticlePrevent users from modifying the default browser
Hello everyone,What i am trying to find out is a way to prevent any users in my domain from being able to modify what there default browser is. if anyone is aware of a good method to make this happen...
View ArticleActive Directory Nightmare with SBS 2008... Painless way to fix this?
I have a virtualized SBS 2008 that I've been trying to spin off of but I just didn't have all of the pieces in place until recently. After a recent windows update, I went to work after that Saturday...
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