Disable Mailbox in Exchange 2007
My understanding of Disabling a mailbox in EMC is the active directory user account will stick around and the mailbox will be deleted in x amount of days. Why is the mailbox still deleted (or moved to “disconnected”) when you “disable” it? On the flip side, “Removing” from EMC will delete the AD user account and [...]
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| December 11, 2010 10:57 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailboxes
My understanding of Disabling a mailbox in EMC is the active directory user account will stick around and the mailbox will be deleted in x amount of days. Why is the mailbox still deleted (or moved to “disconnected”) when you “disable” it? On the flip side, “Removing” from EMC will delete the AD user account and [...]
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| December 11, 2010 10:57 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailboxes
link new Exchange email address to existing AD user
I have an existing AD user with his own mail adres. Now he wants an additional mailadres to be linkt to his AD account. How do I link new mailadres to existing AD user Working on Windows SBS 2003/Exchange 2003
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| March 4, 2010 10:10 AM
Active Directory, AD, Exchange, Exchange 2003, SBS 2003
I have an existing AD user with his own mail adres. Now he wants an additional mailadres to be linkt to his AD account. How do I link new mailadres to existing AD user Working on Windows SBS 2003/Exchange 2003
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| March 4, 2010 10:10 AM
Active Directory, AD, Exchange, Exchange 2003, SBS 2003
Domain controller
What other services a domain controller provide other than those related to maintaining an Active Directory? What arre the factors that should be taken into conderations when engaging the additional services?
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| March 4, 2010 1:59 AM
Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
What other services a domain controller provide other than those related to maintaining an Active Directory? What arre the factors that should be taken into conderations when engaging the additional services?
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| March 4, 2010 1:59 AM
Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Setting time in Active Directory
We currently have an AD topology in which we have one forest and a root domain and another domain in the forest. In order to set up time synchronization we have enabled the PDC emulator in the root domain to synchronize time with an outside time source. Is that all we have to do or [...]
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| March 4, 2010 5:39 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Forest, PDC, PDC Emulator, Primary Domain Controller
We currently have an AD topology in which we have one forest and a root domain and another domain in the forest. In order to set up time synchronization we have enabled the PDC emulator in the root domain to synchronize time with an outside time source. Is that all we have to do or [...]
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| March 4, 2010 5:39 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Forest, PDC, PDC Emulator, Primary Domain Controller
Does System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) require Active Directory and if so why?
Does VMM require Active Directory and if so why? This question was asked during the Microsoft System Center live chat on IT Knowledge Exchange in January 2010.
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| March 1, 2010 8:08 PM
Active Directory, Microsoft System Center, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Virtual machine manager, VMM
Does VMM require Active Directory and if so why? This question was asked during the Microsoft System Center live chat on IT Knowledge Exchange in January 2010.
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| March 1, 2010 8:08 PM
Active Directory, Microsoft System Center, System Center, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Virtual machine manager, VMM
GPO Configuration in Windows XP
Please help! Im using VMware Server and installed there Windows server 2008 and Win xp2. I’m done configuring AD and DNS. I’m done joining also XP2 in the domain. My problem is: When I deploying GPO to XP like Show quick launched. Nothing happened to XP. Please help! Thanks
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| March 1, 2010 5:01 AM
Active Directory, DNS, GPO, Group Policy Objects, VMware, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2
Please help! Im using VMware Server and installed there Windows server 2008 and Win xp2. I’m done configuring AD and DNS. I’m done joining also XP2 in the domain. My problem is: When I deploying GPO to XP like Show quick launched. Nothing happened to XP. Please help! Thanks
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| March 1, 2010 5:01 AM
Active Directory, DNS, GPO, Group Policy Objects, VMware, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2
Lastlogontimestamp in Active Directory
If I query a users I find that the users password is expired meaning it must change at next logon. The weird this is that the account has been logon to after the password expired. the account does not have password set to not expire, and this also has not been modified. PasswordLastSet 09 November 2009 [...]
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| May 10, 2011 1:06 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory User Profiles, User Login Data
If I query a users I find that the users password is expired meaning it must change at next logon. The weird this is that the account has been logon to after the password expired. the account does not have password set to not expire, and this also has not been modified. PasswordLastSet 09 November 2009 [...]
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| May 10, 2011 1:06 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory User Profiles, User Login Data
Can Active Directory Domain trusts and AD sites be managed using ADAC
Can AD Domain Trusts and AD Sites be managed using Active directory administrative center?
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| February 17, 2010 3:45 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Administrative Center, Active Directory Domain Trusts, Active Directory Sites, ADAC
Can AD Domain Trusts and AD Sites be managed using Active directory administrative center?
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| February 17, 2010 3:45 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Administrative Center, Active Directory Domain Trusts, Active Directory Sites, ADAC
Replicating / Synchronizing Windows (not AD)
Hi All, is it possible to replicate the whole windows? I am not using AD.What i mean with replication is if i do changes at location A, location B will get the changes too. thanks
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| May 16, 2010 8:26 AM
Active Directory, Windows Server 2003
Hi All, is it possible to replicate the whole windows? I am not using AD.What i mean with replication is if i do changes at location A, location B will get the changes too. thanks
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| May 16, 2010 8:26 AM
Active Directory, Windows Server 2003
new user in active directory can not access exchange server
Hi. My problem began when I used ghost to image from the small hard disk to bigger hard disk. There are no problems for all users before imaged both AD (server 2003) and Exchange 2003. However, the problems happen only in exchange server to all new user / re-enable users after ghosted. For the new user, he/she can login on [...]
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| February 11, 2010 8:59 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Exchange user permissions, Exchange user profile
Hi. My problem began when I used ghost to image from the small hard disk to bigger hard disk. There are no problems for all users before imaged both AD (server 2003) and Exchange 2003. However, the problems happen only in exchange server to all new user / re-enable users after ghosted. For the new user, he/she can login on [...]
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| February 11, 2010 8:59 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Exchange user permissions, Exchange user profile
Using GPO Loopback method to lockdown access
I now have a need to give a vendor file acces, specifically a certain folder on the network, but want to lockdown access to drives when I publish explorer.exe. Currently I have simple OU’s in AD with users, and no seperate GP for the Citrix server itself. Every domain user has default access to Citrix via Security Groups linked to [...]
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| February 5, 2010 6:04 PM
Active Directory, Citrix, GPO, Group Policy Objects
I now have a need to give a vendor file acces, specifically a certain folder on the network, but want to lockdown access to drives when I publish explorer.exe. Currently I have simple OU’s in AD with users, and no seperate GP for the Citrix server itself. Every domain user has default access to Citrix via Security Groups linked to [...]
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| February 5, 2010 6:04 PM
Active Directory, Citrix, GPO, Group Policy Objects
software compatibility issues moving from Active Directory 2003 to 2008
Has anyone had any software compatibility issues moving from 2003 to 2008 AD
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| February 5, 2010 3:39 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory migration
Has anyone had any software compatibility issues moving from 2003 to 2008 AD
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| February 5, 2010 3:39 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory migration
MS-Exchange on a dynamic ip w/ mail mx’d from hosted domain name (and website)
I’m trying to set up ms exchange on a dynamic ip thats configured with my router to use dyndns.org. I’ll call that example.dyndns.org. I have a hosted web and e-mail site not associated with my isp and i’ll call those www.example.com and mail.example.com I already have the mx records from mail.example.com pointed to forward traffic [...]
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| February 1, 2010 4:17 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory DNS setup, DNS, Dynamic IP address, Exchange, Exchange administration
I’m trying to set up ms exchange on a dynamic ip thats configured with my router to use dyndns.org. I’ll call that example.dyndns.org. I have a hosted web and e-mail site not associated with my isp and i’ll call those www.example.com and mail.example.com I already have the mx records from mail.example.com pointed to forward traffic [...]
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| February 1, 2010 4:17 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory DNS setup, DNS, Dynamic IP address, Exchange, Exchange administration
Active Directory Integration?
Our Mother company is pushing us to integrate Active Directory and have our domain under their forest. We are two different companies and we have our own IT infrastructure and IT team. We might have plans to go seperate in the near future but they are still pushing too hard for the integration phase. What [...]
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| April 18, 2011 12:37 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Deployment, Active Directory Integration
Our Mother company is pushing us to integrate Active Directory and have our domain under their forest. We are two different companies and we have our own IT infrastructure and IT team. We might have plans to go seperate in the near future but they are still pushing too hard for the integration phase. What [...]
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| April 18, 2011 12:37 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Deployment, Active Directory Integration
linux / Windows server
a network runing on workgroup networking. i want to install mail server on its.what is better option for me choose linux server or window server (AD).we have 100 user on my network please give me appro suggestion
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| February 19, 2010 4:16 AM
Active Directory, Linux, Windows Server, Workgroups
a network runing on workgroup networking. i want to install mail server on its.what is better option for me choose linux server or window server (AD).we have 100 user on my network please give me appro suggestion
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| February 19, 2010 4:16 AM
Active Directory, Linux, Windows Server, Workgroups
W2k3 secondary domain controller recovery: join or trust with primary domain controller lost
Hello, I’ve a problem which was driving me crazy…but the problem primarily was my lack of knowledge in domain controllers troubleshooting. I have a Windows 2003 standard edition backup domain controller. I have been connecting to this one by RDP (only using s domain admin credentials, not the domain users accounts) since many years but [...]
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| January 28, 2010 4:23 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory connection lost, Domain Controller, Windows 2003 DC Restore, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller
Hello, I’ve a problem which was driving me crazy…but the problem primarily was my lack of knowledge in domain controllers troubleshooting. I have a Windows 2003 standard edition backup domain controller. I have been connecting to this one by RDP (only using s domain admin credentials, not the domain users accounts) since many years but [...]
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| January 28, 2010 4:23 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory connection lost, Domain Controller, Windows 2003 DC Restore, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller
Synchronization of Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Users from a Sql Server table
I have a table in a sql server database than contains the data of all the users of my network. How can I create a procedure that will add-remove-modify users to the windows server 2008 using the data entered in that table?
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| March 2, 2010 12:31 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users, SQL Server, Windows Server 2008
I have a table in a sql server database than contains the data of all the users of my network. How can I create a procedure that will add-remove-modify users to the windows server 2008 using the data entered in that table?
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| March 2, 2010 12:31 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Users, SQL Server, Windows Server 2008
Active Directory users RDP to domain controllers
by default can a domain users RDP to a domain controller? I tried putting the account into the remote desktop users group which has the allow logon via terminal services. I also grant it the “allow logon locally” rights. But while I am able to log on to the DC locally with that account, I [...]
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| January 15, 2010 2:54 PM
Active Directory, Domain Controller, RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol
by default can a domain users RDP to a domain controller? I tried putting the account into the remote desktop users group which has the allow logon via terminal services. I also grant it the “allow logon locally” rights. But while I am able to log on to the DC locally with that account, I [...]
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| January 15, 2010 2:54 PM
Active Directory, Domain Controller, RDP, Remote Desktop Protocol
Active Directory 2008 Allow Network Access Permisson
I need to do a bulk edit of every user in our Active Directory OU and turn on Allow Network Access (in the Dial-in tab). It would also be very convenient to make it default for new uesrs. Thank you for your help and info. Regards
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| January 11, 2010 4:23 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory Users, Network Access Protection
I need to do a bulk edit of every user in our Active Directory OU and turn on Allow Network Access (in the Dial-in tab). It would also be very convenient to make it default for new uesrs. Thank you for your help and info. Regards
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| January 11, 2010 4:23 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory Users, Network Access Protection
Changing a user account name in Active Directory
We are using Exchange 2003 I am having issues with the local Windows profile We are in the process of moving to a Windows Domain environment. I setup a dummy user in Active Directory, logged into Windows as that user. I then changed the name in Active Directory. I was able to log into Windows [...]
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| January 7, 2010 2:08 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Windows Server User Profiles
We are using Exchange 2003 I am having issues with the local Windows profile We are in the process of moving to a Windows Domain environment. I setup a dummy user in Active Directory, logged into Windows as that user. I then changed the name in Active Directory. I was able to log into Windows [...]
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| January 7, 2010 2:08 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Windows Server User Profiles
