Is there a way to prevent a computer from adding shared printers?
I need to prevent a computer from receiving shared printers assigned by user policy.This is to prevent an error that occurs when there a two Dymo Label Printers on this computer.Ā 1 shared and 1...
View ArticleTwo Domains on One LAN?
ļ»æI'm relatively new to networking,So this might not be possible?But can I set up two domains on a single LAN?Essentially,I would like to have to different sets of Active Directory that can authorize...
View ArticleWhat are some effective ways of troubleshooting network account lockout issues?
I'm curious to learn from some of you desktop support gurus out there what are some effective methods as well as tools you may use in troubleshooting account lockout issues. Current tools I have had...
View ArticleGPO to disable On Screen Keyboard
Cannot seem to find an answer to the above. I have recently moved to a new environment and the OSK pop ups during logon. I can disable it per user but would rather create a GPO.Anyone dealt with this...
View ArticleMS exchange 2010 failed after renaming DC
Hi guys.We have a exchange 2010, a DC let say A. We created a new DC, renamed the old DC A to DC B. and the NEW DC was named DC A. Ā The domain name remain the same. was only a hostname changeAfter...
View ArticleDynamic Access Control
Has anyone been using this in production yet? Trying to teach myself at the moment and it looks fairly intimidating. Wouldn't have thought ill be using it any time soon but is it likely to become a...
View ArticleMoving Domain Controller
Dear Experts,Ā The upper management asked me to start upgrading/migrating our old Domain controller running Windows Server 2003 SP2 ( 32 bit ) to another Virtual Server running Windows Server 2008 R2 or...
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 ArticleUsing my Global Domain name
Dears,Ā I want to install a new Active directory in a company but I want to use their global Domain on Internet for example www.xyz.net. What are the steps and how to make it ?Ā Please advise.Ā Thank you.Ā
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Veeam Explorer for Active Directory BETA is available
ļ»æHello Everyone,Ā I'm happy to announce that the public BETA of a new tool,Ā Veeam Explorer for Active Directory, is now available for download.From the description:Ā ---ļ»æVeeam Explorer for Active...
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Default Domain Password Policy issue
Hi everyone, I have an odd issue that is happening. Ā Here is a little background on my domain. Ā We have a Domain and Forest functional level of Windows Server 2003. Ā We have extended the schema to...
View ArticleUnable to delegate AD unlock permission
I accidentally removed the privileges for some users to be able to unlock accounts in AD during a directory cleanup (wasn't aware the permissions existed on this network), and now am unable to return...
View ArticleFailed Trust Relationship
Hi All,Have had a few of these occur recently, Windows 7 Machines that have been purchased added to the domain, all appears fine and then we get the failure on the trust relationship.I know about the...
View ArticleRemoving old PCs from AD
Is there a way to find out which computers in AD have not made contact or been on the network, say for the past 6 months? I need to clean up AD a bit and I'm looking for maybe a simpler solution. Any...
View ArticlePrinter tray deployment via GPO
Printers seem to be the frustration of mine and our support desks life! What we generally come across for customers is they will have a central laserjet with several trays (headed, plain, colour etc)...
View ArticleUnable to join domain in different subnets
Hi! We are running a windows domain with domain controller dc1. Now I want to add a second domain controller dc2 in remote location, which is connected over site-to-site vpn as a different ip subnet....
View ArticleVery slow resolution from SID to Username in Group Policy Manager
Hi,Whenever I opened group policy that has people listed within the Security Filtering section, the time it takes for the SIDs to get turned into usernames is very long.For instance, I have a group...
View ArticlePhantom Firewall Rules
I have some rules in my Windows Firewall that are not listed in any of my GPO even though they appear like GPO enforced so I canĀ“t delete them or modify.I believe that's the reason of all the unknowns...
View ArticleDoes Software Restriction Policies disable regedit
I recently created a Software Restriction Policy for our Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Server with the default security level set to "Disallowed". I added logonui.exe, userinit.exe, explorer.exe, and...
View ArticleGPO to prevent write-access to Documents and create desktop shortcut to U:
So, we have 3 terminal servers (VMware machines) that our users RDP to. The thing is, we use DNS round-robin for load balancing, but some users are saving items to his/her desktop, documents, etc, then...
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