I'm using Restricted Groups to XP machines to allow Domain Admins admin rights to all boxes in domain via GP. However, when this policy is applied, the local admin account is being removed. ...
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We have a total of 4 Domain Controllers, all running Windows Server 2003, SP2. I ran DCDIAG on all of them, and only 1 DC displays an error. The other 3 are completely clean.
He...
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Is it possible, to take first name and last name in AD, add a dott in between plus add a @ and domain name and put that information back in the users Email field?
Like this fir...
How do I change a group policy for one computer in an OU?
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we have several hundreds of laptops with the end users being local administrators on their pc. Now we had several incidents where people left the domain and couldn't join again (bec...
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I have an issue where a client pc running Win XP has software that every 15 mins automatically uses an SSL dial VPN connection to connect to a remote host.
When this connection is...
My company recently aqquired another company and in the process of intergration, we would like to move public folder from one exchange server to a different exchange server. The two servers a...
Is there a way to use Group Policy in AD to check the "Always ask before opening this type of file" check box when opening an Excel file with Excel Viewer in IE?
Hi, I'm on the root domain PC that runs win2000. I have 2 child domains that are all on win2003 R2. The child domains DC got all power down and then rebooted this Monday but since then I am ...
I am in the middle of starting my process to finally upgrade my parent\child domain to windows 2003 in preperation to going to 2008. I have run the adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep on...
I want to automatically add domain groups to the local administrator group when a system is added to the domain. Is there a way to automate this process.
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We are trying to work out how to change/update the comments propertie field in Active directory easily - we can run a LDAP query and we have 10 users with the same comment - but ...
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I did not know what I was doing and deleted some user mailboxes on the exchange server which in consequence deleted those AD user objects. The changes did no...
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We have got few file servers in our organisation,resently we have found that some of the files are being deleted we need to audit it. we have set the auditing on all the file servers-dele...
I have a 2003 Terminal Server and have just spent a week re-learning what I should have known about Organizational Units in Active Directory.
I want to structure a proper OU on one of my Do...
I have been getting these two error every 5 min for months now. From what I get out of this is that somehow permission on the sysvol has changed. I checked so see if there shared and active on...
I am currently replacing my 2000 DC's with 2003 R2 DC's. I successfully ran ADPREP for the forest and domain. Yes, I used the util on the second disk. I promoted my first 2003 R2 to a DC, but ...
I had a few group policies created on my test domain controller, one for mapped drives, another for a screen saver, and another for restricted internet usage. I figured having too many group ...
There are two domains in the environment - one Windows 2003 and one NT 4 domain. A two-way trust exists between them. From the Windows 2003 domain controller, the following System Event (321...
What functionality would I lose in my Microsoft Network if I were to use another server to provide internal DNS and DHCP to all the systems. This is a Cisco 'server'.
I can already think...
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I would like to show all my network printers in my active directory user and computer snap-in.
I tried to turn the user and computers as contains feature and also the advan...
My print server stopped working on a machine that is running Windows Server 2003. I notinced IIS was not running so I decided to reinstall it and when I did I got a message that said "cyclic ...
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I have a windows 2003 domain with XP clients and i want to be able to disable mass storage devices ,i.e USB's via group policy. What is the best way to go about this?
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I have a NetApp Filer that moved from domain A to domain B. Domains A and B have a 2-way trust. Using NetIQ DMA we have successfully migrated users, groups, and computers from domain A to B....
We have many pc's connected to a windows 2003 domain server. All pc's are windows xp pro, all the same (ghost image).
Seemingly randomly, we are starting to see some pc's throw up a message s...
