How can the network settings be locked down even to local administrators. We track users based on IP and we don’t want to compromise our results or skew them with people monkeying around.
Can I encrypt data over the wire between local Windows Server 2008 local servers?
We have just recently joined to our parent companies domain, and as such our old local admin account “administrator” name is not being used as an login anymore. Most of our machines have administrator as the local admin account. Since we want to get away from that name, we would like to add a local [...]
I have a machine (which is not the domain controller and I have only remote access to this machine) on a domain X. I tried to promote this machine as a domain controller (domain name Y), during which this machine got disjoined from the domain X. I had logged in as a user from domain [...]
Someone prior me added a account called Admin and added this user into Local PC administrator group. All the PC’s are in domain. But the company IT security department wants me to delete the user account Admin from the local computer. I know i can delete it by loging localy into each individual computer. Can anyone give a complete [...]
I have one client PC on an SBS 2003 network. I need to gain access to the local machine outside of the network to check on the User Rights. Problem is – we have lost the password for accessing the Administrator on the local PC – is there a way in which I can reset [...]
We have service ids that are in the local administrators groups on some servers. They should not have the capability to be used to RDP.
I’d like to change the built in Administrator accounts on our servers. What implications would I run into? Will this change automatically change the permissions that were assigned to Administrator and also reflect the name change (ie, folder perms and such), or will I have to manually go thru each folder to change access?
Hello All, Thanks for taking the time to help me with my problems as i am almost finish. I have two things left to accomplish for now and maybe a few more in the near future. My friends company had a Tech that recently passed away and I am trying to help him out with [...]
We are running an Active Directory. Two cities are connected with each other and IT staff from other City can log in to the AD with (“Admin” account built manually: member of administrators). I want to restrict them not being able to create or delete users, change group policy, but be able to restart servers, [...]
Before removing users’ local admin right in their pc, I want to list all members for each client PC with W2k3 domain. Is there a script / tools in carrying out the inventory? Thanks





