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Group Policies
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 2 Comments

There are two areas that you can use in Group Policy. Which area, and what you use, is dependent on how you want to limit these users. The first is: User Configuration | Administrative Templates |...

Transfer FSMO Roles
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 1 Comments

If your network is heavy loaded you may should do this after business hours. -- Regards, Christoffer Andersson No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup If the information was help full, you...

New guy question
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Here's a link to some info about group policy update intervals... The interval differs, depending on whether you are talking about DCs...

Delegate Control to AD user or group programmatically
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Hopefully, the details won't be too tricky, but basically, if you copy the ACEs that get created, when you make manual changes you should get their exact behavior. Write back if you get stuck. Joe...

Domain Migration
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Thanks Chris, I'll give it a shot. 8c9773c25c6c&DisplayLang=en

Kerberos Authentication issue.... maybe?
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 5 Comments

Try opening all ports between OWA on the DMZ and the internal network to see if it works. Then, begin restricting ports until you find some that fail. I ran OWA on a DMZ and found that there were...

Cross Forest Trusts
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I have been doing research on Windows Server 2003 in preparation for an upcoming project. I need to create 2 separate forests linked by a cross-forest trust. I have set up 2 boxes with...

Replication to allow authentication
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 3 Comments

rolling out W2K AD throughout. They are using one domain serving all 1500 employees and have a scattering of DC's around key geographical sites. For the small branches they are not putting DC's in...

i have windows 98 clients
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi John, Windows 98 clients will work in a 2003 domain without the AD client as long as the security settings are not that strict. Please see this post by Joe Wu for more...

Change creat time of AD
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Manually make sure the clocks are within 5 minutes of each other on all domain controllers. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Aubert MCSE, MCSD,...

AutoProf Policy Maker Software
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi Has anyone any experience of using AutoProf Policy Maker software? http://www.autoprof.com/policy/index.html It looks pretty good, but I wondered how well it 'really' worked under 2k server,...

AD and SUBNETS
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Hi. You can define a Network (Subnet) as well the subnet mask with in a subnet object in AD Sites & Services. In Windows Server 2003 you can define and use sites with out have a DC in each site. This...

Custom Address Lists / Creating an LDAP query in Active Directory Users and Computers
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 5 Comments

Hi, I have some tips for using ADO to search AD at this link: http://www.rlmueller.net/ADOSearchTips.htm An LDAP filter for all users that are members of a group could look like (watch line...

Automatic reboot
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 3 Comments

this script makes a job to run on specific days of week, how to make a job to run on dates of month say(1,10,20,25) of each month ?? i have tried at.exe 10:00 /every:1,10,20,25 C:\MyExe.exe for...

Using ADAM with the authorization manager
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 10 Comments

The naming schemes are not related, so you are free to use X.500-based names in ADAM. You should be just fine. Keep in mind -- only your app will be talking to ADAM. And MIIS, which you...

New Child Domain with SMTP? Possible?
Posted on February 24th, 2004 | 3 Comments

In news:1457a01c3fa04$51faccf0$a301280a@phx.gbl, Harrison Schofill <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted their thoughts, then I offered mine Politics unfortunately rule when politics have...

SID in Domain
Posted on February 23rd, 2004 | 3 Comments

Ranadip Roy Choudhury says... Hello Ranadip, the computeraccount is like a useraccount which changes his password with the domain automatically. Windows XP will start changing the password after 15...

ADAM : API's available ?
Posted on February 23rd, 2004 | 3 Comments

Don't know. Which means it's not soon. I've heard few months after w2k3 sp1 ships. -- Dmitri Gavrilov SDE, Active Directory Core This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no...

Ad in DMZ
Posted on February 23rd, 2004 | 2 Comments

Lee- Most secure will be to have separate LAN (internal) and DMZ (external) forests. If you want to allow LAN accounts to manage resources in the DMZ, you can still set up separate forests but put...

Difference between userPassword and unicodePWD
Posted on February 23rd, 2004 | 3 Comments

It's a bit complicated. unicodePwd is the "real password attribute", in both AD and ADAM. That's what is used for user binds. It has a very specific formatting requirements. Whenever you set a...