Can an account name be too long?
I created a new Active Directory 2008 R2 user account today. The account name is CxxxxDataExxxxExpress (the x's are placeholders so that the real user name is not being exposed by this question)The...
View ArticleMachine accounts disappearing from Active Directory
This morning we have had three adverse events on our network. Our Exchange 2003 mail server crashed with all sorts of bizarre findings (missing network drivers, Exchange SA won't start, etc.) and two...
View ArticleDeploying printer - error 0x80070bcb
We've finally got some Windows 7 machines so I'm working on GPP. I'm trying to deploy a printer to a fresh machine, so the driver isn't on it. The Event log on the PC is showing error 0x80070bcb...
View ArticleAppData GPO not blocking EXEs in subfolder
Hey all,I have a GPO set up to block all EXEs in the AppData folders, I have just found out that manually creating a sub folder and adding in an executable works fine. However Citrix and GoToMeeting...
View Articlelocking down users from installing software using group policy
i want to lock down the users from installing software whats the best way to do that?whats the best way to do it? and whats the admin way of installing software for the users on the users account that...
View ArticleChange domain for user logon name
Hello,We'd like to change the default domain name applied to users in our environment. Our internal domain is .local but for mail sync purposes we use a .com which we have set up and attached to our...
View Article2003 sp2 AD replciation to 2008 r2
Today I noticed that my Windows 2003 sp2 32 bit server was not replicating AD over to my 2008 r2 server. The 2003 server is my domain controller. We have tried to stand up the 2008 r2 server as the...
View ArticlePowershell - Get AD group membership performance
Hi,Does anyone have any tips for the fastest way to get all members of a group from AD, using powershell? Ideally it should include users that are in nested groups too.I have tried MS cmdlets, Quest...
View ArticleWin2k3 on a IBM blade how to run side by side with cloned blade
Hi all,I have an HS20 IBM blade and a spare cloned blade on Win2k3 we wanted to add the spare blade on the network so realised we need to change IP address and the server name but then hit issues such...
View ArticleQuerying GPO Details..
Hi all,I need some help on querying GPO. 1. I want to know how many total GPOs applied for each OU.2. GPO with out no parameters and no link 3. GPO's With less than 2 parameters and less than 2...
View ArticlePassword Lockout Wild Goose Chase
I'm having a problem with my own Admin account getting locked out after a recent password change. That usually indicates that I've entered my admin account on some product or another that I was...
View ArticleHow do I create a Custom Attribute in Active Directory?
I need to have an attribute "cstAuthEmployee" of Boolean type. How do I do this on Server 2008 R2? Please reply with step by step procedure, and links for tools required to achieve this. Thanks
View ArticleActive Directory From Scratch?
Hey everybody. I want to know if I can build a new Active Directory from scratch. Ours seems to be forever needing tweaks, etc. Plus the server it resides on is failing and over 11 years old. Yikes! We...
View ArticleEdit LDAP Entries
Its been too long, but I've been busy. Anyways, here we go...We are needing to clean old entries out of our LDAP server (Win2008R2 AD DNS). Anybody have any clue how to do this?Thanks,
View ArticleQuestion about Zentyal
Anyone know how Zentyal handles things in Win7 Pro like....Customizing the start menuSetting screensaver timeoutsPushing executables for new software that needs to be pushed to workstationsWorkstation...
View ArticleGroup Policy Certificate Deployment
Hi all,First post here!I'll keep the story short but hopefully have enough information for you guys to help me.I'm an IT manager for a company of about 60 employees. Laptops users and desktop users.Our...
View Articledisable folder redirection
I have 1 remote user who logs into the domain through VPN. This user has some performance issues because the internet connection is not the greatest. I would like to disable folder redirection for...
View ArticleAD design questions..
So I have started a new job as of a couple months ago, and the AD setup here seems strange to me. We are a small company with less than 100 users. We have multiple WAN locations, all connected back to...
View ArticleNeed a GPO Login Script that only fires on certain computers but Username aware
Hi Folkswe have an app which doesn't play nicely with roaming profiles, so we need a script to copy the config and licence to and from the desktop (its stored in \\server\data\%USERNAME%), but this is...
View ArticleApply GPP only on first logon
I have some customization settings I'm wanting to apply to some new computers but I don't want to affect other users that are already up and running in the OU. Is there a way that preferences can only...
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