Password policy concern
just a question: in case you have 90 days password policy applied and the User regularly changed his password let's say every month. example: 90 days, start Jan 1 - March 31 (approx)... in between of...
View ArticleAdmin Password Control
Hi Guys, I am hoping someone can help. We have moved to a 2008r2 domain and decided not to use the default groups and try and architect the security with a role based perspective. This has been...
View ArticleDCDIAG Error
Hello,I have been trying to demote one of our domain controllers but it failed and I received an error during the process "the parameter is incorrect". GreatSo I have been running dcdiag on the dc and...
View ArticleGPO Security Filtering
I've created a GPO and linked it to an OU.The GPO is supposed to put a shortcut on the user's desktop. It won't work unless I add the user name in the Security Filtering section in GPMC. I can't add an...
View ArticleGPO Preference Drive Mapping Targeting Site
I need some clarification if I setup a user preference drive mapping with Item Level Targeting and I target Site does this mean that the user will map if they are physically at that site or if their...
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Old removed child domain still showing up in Entire Directory
For some reason this old removed child domain is appearing here. I don't see it anywhere else though. ntdsutil or in any AD snap ins. Only when you go to browse the entire directory. It used to be a...
View ArticleRegional Date GPO Not Applying To PCs But Does On PDC
So I tried to set a GPO to change the way the date is formatted. I don't know why the primary domain controller applied to policy to itself but none of the computers on my domain have. It's been...
View ArticleReminding Users for Annual Training
A few days ago the HR lady came to me and asked about setting up reminders for upcoming annual training for HIPPA and ISSA training for the users. I was thinking I could set a script to remind users a...
View ArticleScripts..
I have created a logon script to give user access to a shared folder on a server by creating a virtual drive but the drive just not coming up after many log off and log on attempts.
View ArticleGroup Policy Printers: Remove when no longer applied not working
I've set up a test of group policy preferences to deploy printers to users by security group. I've set up each of the printers on a print server with permissions to use controlled by a corresponding...
View ArticleDelegation issue with "protect object from accidental deletion" and certain OU's
We have a strange issue with delegation of rights in Active Directory (schema 2008 R2).We have an OU structure of Country Users Disabled Users. We've delegated rights out to a team to have them manage...
View ArticleGroup Policy not applying to user account - Removable Storage Access
Here's the deal. I'm trying to block every removable storage devices on some user accounts. There is a group policy called Removable Storage Access which is described...
View ArticleEnable management to change employee passwords
As with a lot of us here, I am the IT Department for the company I work for. I am the only one that changes AD passwords for users, as well as the sole individual in charge of setting up new accounts,...
View Articlenew Logon Hours policy messing with Folder Redirection & mapped drives
The google searches I've done have been almost useless due to the common words in my subject line! Anyway.Recently we implemented Logon Hours to secure the network a little more. We also do Folder...
View ArticleHelp with two domains
We have a 3 VM setup in a hosted Datacenter. Sharepoint, SQL and a DC for a domain that is separate from our office domain.The setup is that external users are created on this domain and the VPN allows...
View Article2012 R2 Domain Redundancy Issues
I have four domain controllers in my network, three of which are 2012 R2, one 2003 R2.The 2012's are set up as GC's, the 2003 is only a DC.The issue I'm having is that when any one of the three 2012...
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create IE shortcut on desktop to specific URL
I am looking for assistance creating a GPO to add a shortcut on the users desktop to a URL that will only open using IE.In the past I have manually created a shortcut using the form "C:\Program...
View Articlepassword dictionary check
I am looking for a possible solution to have something check the dictionary in password creation for Active Directory. Anyone have any suggestions? Anything out there that's free?
View ArticleFonts install permission to domain user
How to give permission to user to install fonts.
View ArticleTools to delegate user provisioning
I'm looking for recommendations for software that can be used by HR to automate user provisioning.Ideally the HR staff can create, modify and delete users without domain admin rightsThere's a workflow...
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