2 2012 DCs OK add 3rd 2012 DC and SYSVOL NETLOGON not OK
Hi Team Spice, Have read into nearly every thread that deals with this issue from technet to some guys blog in Japanese and so on ... each instance is a little different, most of them contain a lot...
View ArticleMove from Workgroup to domain
We are looking at a project to migrate a customer from a Windows Workgroup (creatively named WORKGROUP) to a new Windows Domain. We don't want to require all users to have to set up new accounts. We...
View ArticleBulk Groups with Bulk Members
I need to populate bulk members (1K) in Bulk Groups (7k), is there a way I can populate such amount of membership in huge number of Groups? For Detail: OU = Users -> Contains 1000 Users OU =...
View ArticleGroup policy not applying to map network drive?
Hello, Server 2008 r2 GPO preference not applying to users to map network drive? When I see errors on client pc, here is the error I found? Log Name: Application Source: Group Policy Drive Maps Date:...
View ArticleGPO + Give Local Admin rights to specific users to their machines only
Currently we have a User Admin GPO using Restricted Group that has Group = BUILTIN\Administrators and have Members = \ITGroup in it. My goal is to have some of the users be local admins only their...
View ArticleHow do I disable W7 firewall via Server 2000 group policy ?
Hello, Our domain structure is Windows 2000 {dont ask} and i have a need to disable the domain firewall on W7 workstations, is there a way to do this on a 2000 domain via group policy or shall I need...
View Articleie 10 group policy
Hi, I have two applications I need to use with ei10 and unfortunately one needs ie 8 or above and other one needs compatibility view as it is not working with ei10. All my clients are using same...
View ArticleTWO DCs but only 1 authenticates
Hello fellow Spiceheads, I have 2 DCs which the PDC will authenticate users but the BDC won't. The PDC was upgraded from 2008 to 2008 R2. The BDC was installed 2008 R2 and then promoted ....
View ArticleAD information not replicating after server move to another subnet
Server 2008R2. Installed new server while on site A and then moved it to site B which is a different subnet. AD stopped replicating to/from this new server. IP information was changed to reflect site...
View ArticleProblem with using remote admin AD to unlock user accounts
I am having a strange issue when using my remote admin server tools, specifically the AD Users and Computers mmc. I am able to do everything within the snap in that you are able to do, except for...
View ArticleIssues adding Domain Controller
Have a windows 2003 domain with one domain controller that is a Windows 2003 R2 64 machine. I tried adding a 2008 r2 domain controller, did the ADPrep for forest, domain, gpprep. When I do the DCpromo...
View ArticleDFS - replication
Currently we have Mixed domain env. windows 2003 R2 and Windows 2008 R2. DFS (Domain based) is configured in windows 2003 R2 and it has \\abc\dfs share folder which is replicating to 3 file servers -...
View ArticleDeploy VPN Connection Settings via GPO for L2TP
I would like to deploy our VPN settings via group policy. Our VPN type is Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol with IPsec (L2TP/IPSec) and requires use of a preshared key for authentication. In GPO, I don't...
View ArticleTime Services within a domain
We have a very basic domain, couple of domain controllers time sync is working fine between clients and the PDC. We need to install the time service on another machine NOT join to the domain but in...
View Articlelog off script
We have users (around 20) that RDP into a server to use a program that is run off the server. The problem with this is that every time a user connects via RDP, it eats up space on the server in the...
View ArticleRun these programs at user logon AND/WITH login scripts
I am trying to use the GPO setting of "run these programs at user logon" to run IE at logon. It would seem that I have it set correctly and the GPO is applied, but IE does not start. I ran a gpupdate...
View Articlescript for transfer user profile from one domain to another
Hi, this is the situation, we're using for the moment samba 4 with active directory, but for several reasons we need to change to windows servers and their active directory. We can install a windows...
View Articlehow to: get list of computer and logged username
Hi all, Need a tool a script a command to get the computer that a network user is logged ? Example: Username= bill ; computer = PC00001 find the computer name of a particular domain user. Regards, Paulo
View ArticleADMX Update - any known issues?
Afternoon all, I'm looking at replacing the admx templates with the latest R2/8.1 templates from MS. Has anyone experienced any adverse affects to the update/replacement of the templates? Or has it...
View ArticleUser prompted for server password
Server 2008R2. Out of the blue a user is prompted for server username/password while login script is running which maps drives for her. She is in all correct security groups that have access to server...
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