Active Directory Users and Computers Questions


Integrating host without being a domain administrator
Hi everybody, I’m a domain administrator and I would delegate some tasks to a classmate. Is it possible to let an user integrate hosts with the active directory domain without being a domain administrator but just having a specified privilege ? Thank you for your answers.

Answer Question   |  August 29, 2012  8:21 AM
Active Directory Administration, Active Directory Domain, Active Directory User Profiles, Active Directory Users, Active Directory Users and Computers
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5 pts.

How do i find which user was the last to log onto a PC in an AD Domain?
I’m part of an AD domain and i’d like to know which was the last user to log onto the machines in that domain and the date that happened? I’d also like that information for all the machines in each container. So for example if the London container contains 50 PC’s, can i find out [...]

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2012  9:28 PM
Active Directory Users and Computers, Windows XP
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5 pts.

Adding last login and login machine to Active Directory
Is it possible to add last login time and last login machine to our active directory? How can we do that and what needs to be done?

Answer Question   |  June 21, 2011  2:53 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Administration, Active Directory Users and Computers
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1,110 pts.

Setting Active Directory rules
Can we set Active Directory rules that say when a user is able to log in to a domain computer and off hours should display a message telling the user they do not have access to the system at this time.

Answer Question   |  June 6, 2011  2:45 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Administration, Active Directory Users and Computers, Domain Administration, User Permissions
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16,755 pts.

Re-join clients to Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Hello All, For some reasons, I needed to format and re-install my Windows 2003 Enterprise server. I re-setup it with same fqdn name and other stuffs alongwith AD as they were before. Now, all clients (WinXP) can connect and use the server resources but everytime they connect to sever, following errors are logged: Event ID: [...]

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2011  8:58 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers, Server connectivity, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows XP SP3
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40 pts.

Better way to enroll users in Active Directory
I have just reviewed the steps given to me by my Network Admin for enrolling a new user in A/D and I can’t believe it’s this complicated and requires this many steps. The summary steps are : 1. On the A/D server open the A/D users and computers 2. Add the user entering his name, [...]

Answer Question   |  December 30, 2010  4:46 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Administration, Active Directory Users and Computers, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
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10 pts.

Active Directory site with Child Domain
I have 3 AD servers, one forest, one tree, one site My main AD server holds all of the FSMO roles.Until now, there hasn’t been a need to have any sort of sync or network connection between our office and any of our other offices. we’ve been asked to support their network, possibly long-term. They [...]

Answer Question   |  February 6, 2011  4:03 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Deployment, Active Directory Users and Computers, Child Domain, Windows Server Management
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1,695 pts.

Setting up a message once users login to their Active Directory workstations
We want to display a message after users successfully log in to Active Directory and their workstations. Can this be done? where can we set this logon text?

Answer Question   |  November 29, 2010  6:19 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory User Profiles, Active Directory Users, Active Directory Users and Computers, Login screen
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975 pts.

Precautions in re-installing the Active Directory Users and Computers
What are the precautions to be used while re-installing the Active Directory? Please suggest about how to back up the Active Directory Users and Computers

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2010  8:27 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Installation, Active Directory Users and Computers, Active Directory Users and Computers Re-installing, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
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115 pts.

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115 pts.

group policy
How can I define group policy to block port 25 in windows 2003 server when ever user is log in? I have heard it can be done using login script.

Answer Question   |  June 1, 2010  5:25 AM
Active Directory Users and Computers, Login scripts, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Login Scripts
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40 pts.

New User email not working exchange 2007
Why when I add a new user to AD then to Exchange 2007 the user’s email does not work externally. Require that all senders are aunthenticated is unclicked.

Answer Question   |  May 11, 2010  6:49 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 administration, Exchange 2007 error messages
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5 pts.

VBScript for AD users?
I need a VBScript that can read the First Name, Last Name, and Email ID properties of Active Directory users from Active Directory. I also need to populate this data onto a text file. Does anyone know the code or a link where I can find this code?

Answer Question   |  April 28, 2010  6:30 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers, VBScript
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335 pts.

AD without network connection
We have AD Server in our office and after removing network connection user can login with AD Authentication with their own desktop and data so kindly tell me how this can happened?

Answer Question   |  April 14, 2010  11:47 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Administration, Active Directory Authentication, Active Directory Users and Computers
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5 pts.

not able to add users to AD users and computers
not able to add users to my AD. It shows some relative identifier missing

Answer Question   |  April 12, 2010  2:03 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory errors, Active Directory Users and Computers, relative identifier, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

DHCP Permission issues in my domain
I have a number of dhcp servers installed on DCs in various offices. I need to assign a local admin in one of the remote offices permission to manage the dhcp server in his site not all dhcp servers. If I add admin to the default local dhcp administrator group in ADUC I believe he [...]

Answer Question   |  March 9, 2010  5:42 PM
Active Directory Users and Computers, Administration, Administrative privileges, DHCP, DHCP Permissions, DHCP server, Domain Controllers
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1,695 pts.

Users unable to access shared drive on their own computers
I am having a problem with our network. Originally, users could access a share in one of the servers. However, now when they try to access it, they get an error that the trust relationship between the primary domain and the trusted domain failed. This only happens when they log in to their own computers: [...]

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2010  4:35 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers
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335 pts.

Acrive Directory Users and Computers
I provide support for a small school network running Windows Server 2003 on its server and Windows XP Pro SP3 on all of its clients. I want to set up user accounts that will remember user default setting no matter which client machine is used. All users need to map a network drive and various [...]

Answer Question   |  July 21, 2010  11:06 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users and Computers, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows XP Professional
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120 pts.

Distribution group not showing in Exchange 2007 console
Distribution group not showing in Exchange 2007 console We use AD 2003 which I have installed on my desktop (MMC 3.0) with the Exchange 2007 snap-in added. The problem is if, for example, I add a Distribution Group (Global or Univ) to the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in and desire this group to have [...]

Answer Question   |  September 9, 2009  1:18 PM
Active Directory Users and Computers, Distribution Groups, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 Distribution Group list, MMC, MMC 3.0
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16,755 pts.

unchecking the ‘password never expires’
Hi, I have a number of domain users in Windows 2003 Server Active Directory Users and Computers. I believe these users to have the ‘password never expires’ check box ticked in their accounts. I do not know who or where their accounts reside, therefore, I would like to know how to obtain a list of [...]

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2010  2:45 PM
Active Directory Users and Computers, GPO, Security audits, Windows Server 2003
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Jam
80 pts.