IE 10 Won't Accept Group Policy?
We have a group policy configured on our domain controller to set IE with a home page for all users within the OU unit. This has been working fine with a XP SP3 workstation using IE 8, but we have...
View ArticleNo GPO's Visible on Destination Server from Source Source Server
In the middle of an SBS migration and have successfully integrated Windows 2008 RT onto the destination server. However, I do not see any of the GPO's from the source server (the SBS server we are...
View ArticleAdd Trusted Sites Via GPO but still allow users to add trusted sites
does anyone know how to add a trusted site via gpo while still allowing users to add trusted sites themselves? Currently if I add trusted sites via a GPO it greys out the users access to this feature...
View ArticleGroup Policy not working
Anyone seen this in the attached photo: When I try to run gpupdate on a host I get this: Updating Policy... User policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encount ered: The...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 Case Sensitive Username
Hi all, One of our customers is having issues with a voice recording system not picking up users being logged in because of users accidentally putting capitals into their user names. Their environment...
View ArticleThin clients on a Windows 2008 Terminal Server in a Windows 2003 AD
I have a bunch of HP Thin Clients connecting to a Windows 2008 Terminal Server in a Windows 2003 AD. On some of the Thin Clients I have a local USB printer that redirects just fine. The issue I have...
View ArticleGroup Policies not working on a desktop for one user
This is the environment: Server = SBS 2011 GPO = My Documents and Desktop are redirected to share of folder for all users (set using the SBS Wizard) Desktops = Win7 Pro 64BIT desktops The client has...
View ArticleRemove managed application from certain PCs
I have (1) GPO to install Adobe Reader XI that is applied to several different OU's of computers. Unfortunately, due to incompatibility with another piece of software I must remove Reader XI from only...
View ArticleRemove managed application
I have (1) GPO to install Adobe Reader XI that is applied to several different OU's of computers. Unfortunately, due to incompatibility with another piece of software I must remove Reader XI from only...
View ArticleActive Directory Forests
We have a company running Active Directory in Michigan (2003 servers). We are preparing to install AD at a sister-company in Illinois (2008 servers). The quandary: The MI company was set up with the...
View ArticleBest way to integrate a domain controller into a live environment?!
Hi. We have about 100 PCs, all running windows XP pro or 7 Pro (plus about 5 macs). All running on a workgroup with local admin accounts. we have a linux based server running DHCP and Bind DNS All PCs...
View ArticleGPO settings Disappeared
Hi, I have a GPO that pushes out software cross our network, it has been working with no problems but all of a sudden I had people saying that flash and adobe reader weren't working (they are pushed...
View ArticleActive Directory + RPi
Since i finally purchased my first Raspberry Pi, i've been googling the crap out of stuff to do with it. I know what i'm going to do with the one i bought, but this is the type of thing you could have...
View ArticleProblem in deploying printers with GPP Windows 2008 r2
Hello! I'm trying to deploy prinetrs using Group Policy. I've created host on Windows 2008 r2 with installed Printer Server role, added all printers and published them in Active Directory. Then I...
View ArticleSetting local printer as default via GPP/GPO?
Hi, I am trying to set a locally-installed IP printer (let's just call it Colour Laser) to be the default printer for users who log on. We have tried this out using GPP user config (and been...
View ArticleDisconnected Primary Domain Controller, Past Tombstone Lifetime
I have been forced to take-over as IT person because of layoffs so please bear with my almost total ignorance, I'm learning as fast as I can- my problem seems to be that my pdc is not connecting to my...
View ArticleEvent ID 4625 keeps locking admin account after password change
I've been trying to figure this out for the past week. I'm just an intern and my knowledge is limited in this area, but I change my admin domain account in Active Directory and my password has...
View ArticleAD Corruptions, not sure where to start
So the other day I was looking to modify my GPO's and I found that I could no longer access them via the GPO manager tool. I started to look into what could possibly be causing the problem and this is...
View ArticleNetlogon missing and Sysvol partially missing
I hate to open up another thread but I am at wits ends here. We have 3 domain controllers in the environment 1x 2003 SP3 2x 2008 R2 About 3 months ago there was just the 1 AD DC (the 2003). Part of...
View ArticleSecond Domain controller 2003 - advise please
Hi Guys, I'm looking for a bit of advise please on setting up a second DC on a windows 2003 domain. I'm fairly new to much of this so please forgive the ignorance. Also, all the infrastructure here...
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