GPO for wifi sense
Windows 10 has a new feature called Wifi Sense. The feature connects WLAN adapter to any open hotspot in vicinity. It also shares WLAN passwords with friends over Facebook.how to completely disable...
View ArticleIs SID filtering enabled on forest trust?
Hi guys, we are going to create a 2-way transitive forest level trust between an old 2003 domain and a newer 2008R2 domain.We will be migrating users from old to new and want to retain SID history and...
View ArticleADFS 3.0 using my own login page
Hello There,One of my client looking to use the ADFS 3.0 as an IDP. However, ADFS 3.0 has 3 trusted internal ADFS. (example, when idpsignonpage displayed, it shows 3 option to choose). Our goal is, we...
View Articlesetting default calendar form using GPO
HiI'm looking for a method to force users to use custom form when creating new appointment or meeting in their calendars.What I know and what I've done:1. I've prepared custom meeting form and I've...
View ArticleDomain controller authentication
We have so many DCs (Windows 2003) in our domain. I have promoted another new DC - windows server 2012 in our environment. How can i restrict this new DC record in DNS database so no user...
View ArticleThe trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed
Hi , We are facing a strange(atleast for me) issue with two of our server's running 2008 R2. When we try to login as domain administrator we get this error."The trust relationship between this...
View Articleblue screen after system state recovery domain controller 2008r2
hi ,i have been asked to make a DR plan for our domain. we have two DCs and i am trying to make a baremetal restore of our primary dc (server 2008r2 enterprise) . all fsmo roles are reside on that...
View Articleconnect to server through remote desktop from outside the location.
Dear experts.i m using windows 2008r2 server at office location and i want to operate that server from my home pc through internet.
View Articleconnect to windows domain from internet
Dear expertswe have two offices in different location we installed windows server and configure ADDS,I want to connect both office in same domain .via internet.please help me.
View ArticleDon't allow to modify printer installed by gpo
Hi,I have several printers installed by gpo (computer configuration) but, I don't know how to avoid that domain users could modify the printers settings.Any suggestion?Thanks a lot.
View ArticleWindows cannot create the object username because: The name reference is invalid
After upgrading domain controllers from Windows 2008 R2 to windows 2012 R2. We cannot copy an existing user that has a mailbox.We get the error Windows cannot create the object username because: The...
View ArticleFGGP Exipration Issue with Passwords
There seems to be a bug with Active Directory reporting back the incorrect expiration date for passwords when using Fine Granular Password policies. I have set my password is expire every 160 days via...
View ArticlePreventing certain Active Directory users from enumerating/querying AD Users...
We are running a particular application where the only way to give a user access to it is to make them an AD user.This application is for our end-user customers, and as such we don't want customers to...
View ArticleActive Directory Connect Concerns for my situation...
Currently running 4 locations, separate IT depts at each. We use office 365 company wide working from the same domain/url and are running a single domain at one of the offices. Currently one of the...
View ArticlePlan to Migrate Active Directory From 2008 to 2012
Dears,We have plan to migrate our active directory 2008 to AD 2012, so we have some applications are running in our system, how can I know the applications are compatible with new AD, how do I import...
View ArticleWhere do we store employee pictures in Active Directory?
Hi,We have 100K users in a large national domain and are looking to store pictures of employees, being 5k in size each, in Active Directory.From a size and importance perspective, would it make sense...
View ArticleNO_CLIENT_SITE for upstream DNS servers
I just noticed an Event Log warning that says I have a handful of machines that do not have IP Addresses that match any of the existing sites in the enterprise (Source: NetLogon, EventID: 5807). It...
View ArticleHow to export local users and groups from window 2003 to window 2012
I need export local users and groups from window 2003 server to window 2012 server. Any body can help me?
View ArticleNetlogon Folder missing after Installation of DC on Win Svr 2012
DC1 is Windows Svr 2008 Alrdy Raised to Win Svr 2008 Domain Functional LevelDC2 is Win Svr 2012After installing AD DS function and also assigned as a DCNetlogon folder cannot be foundOnly SYSVOL Folder...
View Article2012 R2 Simple LDAP
We have added a pair of Server 2012 R2 DCs to our environment, and it does not seem that simple LDAP binds will work with them. We do binds in code, and from 3rd party applications. We have 2008 and...
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