Mapped network drive changes?
Hi guysI have a strange issue with mapped home drives for some of our users in the office.They have a home folder set in there AD account (server/homes/username)for some reason once in a while the...
View ArticleGroup Policy Setting
Dear All,I currently run Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R 2 on my network. I have two ISPs providing my LAN with internet services via fiber optic terminating into two different servers. Presently, I...
View ArticleBooks on Group Policy
I am looking for a good book or two to help me utilize group policy better and make my life easier. As a one man shop I find Group Policy to be an invaluable tool and an outrageous headache at times....
View Articlegroup policy software install question.
hi,quick questionif i create an OU, which has a Group policy linked to it to install "company default" software on a new PC, once the software is installed, if i move the PC back out to an OU with no...
View Article2 folder redirection at once
I have a an OU for office computers, which containes the users and computers in seperate containers.In the Office OU i have 2 GPO currently applied, one for folder redirection and the other for...
View ArticleOU Computer Printer Deployment Laptop
Currently, I deploy some printers based on a computer OU, computer policy.Sometimes, the students complain that the printers aren't loaded when they log in. I have noticed this too and would like to...
View ArticleAdding RODC to remote office (AD & DC config)
I have the VPN tunnel setup, connecting both main and remote offices. I am in the process of getting the new RODC setup which will be installed at the remote office. But right now the RODC has a...
View ArticleActive Directory
Hello Mates,I would like to share an issue which I'm facing with regard to Active Directory Group Membership. I have a User who has to assign Permissions to manage the Group. With this I simply added...
View Articlecheck password policy for entire domain?
I am having a senior moment here. I hope you can help me.I need to check to an entire domain (2003) for minimum password complexity.is there a CLI I can run to receive current password requirements?...
View ArticleServer 2012 Domain Controller - ADUC is slow when run remotely
We currently have a Server 2003 domain controller (Physical box) that is running fine. I just stood up a Server 2012 R2 secondary domain controller (Hyper-V) about 2 months ago. When I run ADUC from my...
View ArticleGPO User Configuration block for a specific OU
I am trying to change the way that we map our drives. Currently we use VBScripts. I am wanting to use GPO's to map network drives, based on location. The problem that I am running into, is that I do...
View ArticleHow to create GPO to restrict RDP access to a server for specificed Groups
Hello all,I'm after a bit of advice if you don't mind. I'm trying to create a GPO on a Windows Server 2008 domain that will restrict the ability for users in specified Groups to logon to the server via...
View ArticleBest way to migrate user files from local drives to a file server?
We have a couple dozen users who currently have all of their files stored on their local C drive. I would like to create a home folder for each user on our file server and move their data (My...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between replication of Sysvol and NTDS.dit database
I assume that sysvol replication is happening becoz of FRS/DFSR.but how the ntds.dit is replicating between two domain controller??is it by KCC in sites and services or by RPC???i got confused nw..
View ArticleGroup Policy Program at startup
I have a program that is just run as an exe and i want to run it on all the pc's, I have done it through a registry key and the key is in the reg but not running. Have tried with a script and many...
View ArticlePreventing users from changing IE favorite folder
I have been tasked with a project as our users favorites have become unmanageable as some are dead links, bad links, etc. I have managed to create a script that takes all users old links, placing them...
View ArticleGPO for IE10
Hi,Can someone please tell me how to apply a GPO in order to customise Internet Options for IE10?Specifically I want every user in restricted sites zone with two sites restricted. Group policy is the...
View ArticleGPO Documents redirect questions
Hello everyone!I have decided to tackle on another task with group policy. Here is the current setup:Desktops and laptops have a mapped network drive of H:\ that is a share on one of our servers that...
View ArticleOpenvpn Authentication with Active Directory Issue
Hi,Below are the configuration of server and client. Goal: OpenVPN authentication with Active Directory. Please help me on this as soon as possible. Thank...
View ArticleExclude Group from one Group Policy Object
I have several Group Policy objects set up on a Windows 2003 server. One of the rules is that computers automatically lock after 10 minutes. I need to exclude a group of computers from this one rule....
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