WMI Filtering between IE6 and IE7/8
Recently, i have had the pleasure of working on some very challenging items across a whole slew of products and operating systems; I came across a particular problem one day in relation to Internet Explorer settings for IE7 and IE8. The problem was around authentication with internal websites, several...
How do i: Rejoin computer to the same account?
Pet hate of mine is creation of new computer accounts (ahhh) for machines that have been reimaged, rejoining the same account is actually really simple! Open up AD Users & Computers Find your computer account Right click an hit “Reset” Join the computer to the domain with the old...
The tools of the trade, AD Management
As Active Directory administrators we are accustomed to our AD Users & Computer’s, Sites and Services and Domains and trusts snapin. And on their own they are great tools and can get some really good information or do some really smart tasks but in general it takes a long...
GPO Central Store Update for Windows 7 (External)
My Colleague Alex Verboon has a great article on updating your Group Policy Central Store with your Windows 7 ADMX templates, a must for any GPO Administrator. http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2009/11/updating-the-central-store-for-windows-7-group-policy-administrative-templates/ Michael...
Finding when a user last logged on
In this case ADSIEdit.msc is our friend (this is found on the Windows 2003 support pack or from the Administrative tools on your 2008 DC / in the RSAT pack on Windows Vista / 7. So open up adsiedit.msc Connect to your Domain Naming context, navigate to the users...
Windows 2008 Active Directory (New forest)
Hi, i am going to start a series of blog entries on setting up a Windows 2008 Based infrastructure, this may be helpful as a reference for System administrators with limited experience with Active Directory and other Windows 2008 Features to have a reference for setting up 2008 related...