Give supervisor access to redirected folder- how?
The only way I have seen to do it is to give the supervisor ownership of the folder. I understand that the base GPO for redirected folders is supposed to give the user sole access, but in this...
View ArticleGPO setting(s) not applying on Vista / XP machines
Hello,I've create a GPO which creates a folder under Program Files called Screensaver, then copying in the SCR file, amend the Registry to set the time out for 60 minutes. It also creates a new Power...
View ArticleServer in Site and services post demotion
Hello All,I recently demoted ADC gracefully, everything looks fine, except the server is still under Site & Services MMC. I tried metadata cleanup but i didn't find it under listed servers.Could we...
View ArticleGPO settings for Chrome
I've just uploaded and setup some GPO settings for Chrome so that staff get our intranet page when they first start up Chrome.It all works fine, but some staff would like to edit Chrome so an...
View ArticleHome Folder after migration
Hi allCurrently migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011I'm looking for some guidance regarding the Home Path setting in AD. SBS 2003 did not use folder redirection. What is the Windows default behavior if...
View ArticleVirtual LDAP directory
HiI'm trying to pull together multiple Active Directories in my organisation into a single virtual LDAP server view. I am aware of a couple of open source products (MyVD, Penrose) as well as some...
View ArticleGroup policies: Switching to ADMX, but what to do with my "old" policies
Hi everybody!As we're switching to Office 2013, I decided to implement some new group policies. So I just read about the central storage for ADMX file in \SYSVOL\domain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions,...
View ArticleRest the Local Admin Account on All workstations
Dear All,any one can help me to Rest the Local Admin Account on All workstations ?regards,Ahmed.
View ArticleAuto Archiving Via GPO
Hi guys,I was wondering if anyone could provide me some information/steps on how to setup auto archiving on Outlook every 6 months for users in Active Directory.Thanks.
View ArticleGroup Policy Management; Access Denied
Here is something I have never run into before.I am RDP'd to my domain controller which is Windows Server 2008 32 bit (Virtualized) and there is a shortcut on the desktop for Group Policy Management....
View ArticleUnderstanding the XSS filter GPO Setting
Hi, I just had one quick question. We are currently using a Windows Server 2008 R2 hyper-machine to manage GPO's on win 7 machines. One of our vendors require that we disable the XSS filter for their...
View ArticleDomain problems - migrating user accounts?
So we're having enough domain issues that we've contemplated building a new domain and migrating users to it. We're running a Windows 2k3 domain on a 2k3 server. What kind of precautions should I take...
View ArticleGroup Policy not populating IE11's compatibility sites.
We normally do not allow IE updates (at least IE10 killer GPO is enabled), but we got a pallet of new computers with IE11 preinstalled on them from Dell. I figured now is a good time to get this...
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 ArticleGroup Policy causing EventID 1058 on random clients
Some background:Two DC's, both Windows Server 2008 R2.DNS on both DC's NIC's are pointed at themselves.The hosts files on both are edited with the following lines at the bottom:IP LOCAL...
View ArticleHow to give a user access to control AD group
I'm wondering what the best way for a user to be able to control an AD group is. I could have the Admin tools installed on his machine and create and MMC with a filter to control the specific group,...
View ArticleGroup Policy over VPN
We have 3 remote locations that have a VPN tunnel back to the main location, we can get users to authenticate, but not pull group policies, it errors out. We are using SonicWalls on each side to do...
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 ArticleDomain Rename Missing DNS - FUBAR Friday!
I renamed my domain from capfsc.lan to ad.capfsc.org. Prior to renaming I verified the checkbox to Change domain suffix when domain membership changes was checked. Since I completed the rename I can...
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GPO preview pane showing non-existent settings?
Hey folks,On Friday we changed our IP scope, and so with that had to remove and re-install all network printers.Previously I had a GPO set to push 3 particular Xerox copiers to every machine, as all...
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