Posts Tagged "active directory"

Bookmarks for June 17th through September 9th

These are my links for June 17th through September 9th: Lighten your workload: Delegate permissions in Exchange 2010 – Exchange administrators regularly handle patch management, database backups and similar tasks…read more +

Email users when their password is about to expire

Email users when their password is about to expire

At work we have been getting more and more require for accounts that have users that are not “full employee’s” (my term) These are users that do not spend most…read more +

Windows 7 – Do I need to change my Active Directory for new Group Policy features?

At work  we will start testing Windows 7 within the IS department Q2 next year. Our current AD forest is still in mixed mode 2000!!! So I have some cleanup…read more +

Slow logon? Look at these items

The Directory Services Team at MS has wrong two very good blog post about troubleshooting slow logons for workstations. Here’s a clip from So you have a slow logon…? (Part…read more +

How to tell what version of AD you have.

How to tell what version of AD you have.

Image via CrunchBase There are quite a few ways to tell. Here are a few I found. The correct version of the ADPrep.exe tool for Windows Server 2003 R2 is…read more +

links for 2009-02-18

Wiisic – Play mp3 music on your Wii! (tags: wii) Understanding Function Levels in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory (tags: activedirectory)

Quick dcdiag tip

Image via Wikipedia If you run dcdiag and get a failure on the systemlog, it means you have errors in the system event log. You can clear the system event…read more +

Active Directory Users and Computers Saved Queries

Wow, check out these great ADUC saved queries from   Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com Does anyone use the Saved Queries with in the ADUC? I do, and I love them. Here…read more +

Automatic creation of user folders for home, roaming profile and redirected folders.

Here is great step-by-step instructions on creation of Home, roaming profiles, and redirected folders. I need to review this and see what impact it would have if these locations are…read more +

Active Directory Health Checks

We plan on having an outside company come in and do a AD/Exchange health check before we work on our domain migration project. This article will give me a head…read more +