Of course you can. But having an account in internal AD gives someone *a lot* of power. I can not comment more on the topic, but there must be some resources out there (technet that is) describing...

This must be caused by AdminSDHolder being applied to admin accounts. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;817433 -- Dmitri Gavrilov SDE, Active Directory Core This posting...

You can use the Admin Pack to install specific groups of tools. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q314978 -- Jeff Jones Windows Command Shell Development Microsoft...

The GPO is giving me a hard time. For some reason, I cannot access it anymore using the AD. Even after removing the AD and recreating it from scratch. I get the following error: "Failed to open the...

Thanks. It also helps to have exchange management tools installed as well ;-) Rough week... MEC "Dmitry Korolyov " <d__k@removethispart.mail.ru> wrote in...

Thank you for your help

I have two practice servers I was able to rasie the level to functional level windows 2003 trying to raise to forest functional level and get this message -- the functional level could not be rasied....

It seems that someone beat you to the...

You can't add a 2003 server as adomain controller in a win2k domain...only as a member server. you must first upgrade the domain to 2003. Steve

Install the Exchange tools by loading the Exchange Install media, begin the installation and select Custom > Management Tools from the Install Options screen. If Exchange 2000 you need to add the...

Hi all: I have a small network running WS 2003 w AD. I added a user, jstraumann and a machine and then added the machine to the network, all good. I then logged on as the new user, jstraumann, set...

Hi all: Thanks for the replies. It WAS a DNS error and it works now.... John. "WJ" <JohnWebb@Yahoo.Com> wrote in message news:ues6TRlrDHA.1996@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Thats a good practice. One of the many. -- Dmitry Korolyov MVP: Windows Server - Active Directory "Will G Dempsey" <wigdemo@iol.ie> wrote in message...

You can cheat, get passprop.exe from the Reskit and run passprop /simple. "Jon" <urmine696@comcast.net> wrote in message news:077b01c3af05$ce61d080$a301280a@phx.gbl...

I would like your thoughts on my scenario - we have the Single Master trusted by Resources Domains model in NT4. The resource domains are used for web hosting. Obviously security is our prime...

In article <060a01c3aeee$ed880630$a301280a@phx.gbl>, Brandon says... give him writepermission on the lockoutTime attribute for user accounts. It is <not set> when the user never locked himself...

In article <u51vWZTrDHA.2620@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, Steve Hellwig says... is it possible that you run into the problems described in the...

Does anyone know how can I change the default desktop color on XP clients via GPO? I appreciate your help, Andre

Lol, but no...it's not. Spin means to spin the answers back after I spin the questions! -- "Philio" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

ok. thanks