User Permissions Questions


Disable “automatically find printers & network shares”
We would like to use Group Policy to disable the above mentioned setting. I have been researching this idea, and see many entries suggesting that this should be automatically disabled because of the fact we are looking at a Domain situation. I have also run across postings that quote the Microsoft Note that says this [...]

Answer Question   |  August 19, 2008  11:36 PM
Group Policy, User Permissions, Windows Server 2003
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6,150 pts.

Deny delete permission problem
Hello I have a problem with the 2003 SBS server I am in charge of. If you can help, I’d be very grateful. So… I want to set deny delete permissions for individual files, not for folders. In all the tests I made, after setting the deny permission on a file any user(administrator or member [...]

Answer Question   |  August 27, 2008  8:08 AM
File permissions, SBS, SBS 2003, User Permissions
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15 pts.

Microsoft Outlook problem
A user reports that when he logs on to his account in Windows XP, all his files on ‘Desktop’ and ‘My documents’ etc are gone. His Outlook is also not working; when he tries to open Outlook it’ll ask him to configure an account. It seems as though he’s logging into a brand new account. [...]

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2008  4:18 AM
Outlook, User accounts, User Permissions
asked by:
EST
15 pts.

Internet access restriction via GPO
I need to restrict internet access in a particular department in my organsation and i need a way by i cld do that using Group Policy

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2008  11:41 AM
GPO, Group Policy Objects, Internet access, User Permissions
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60 pts.

User restrictions
I have noticed that there’s been to much traffic on my network because users are always accesing music and movies frome other machines.How do are put restrictions so that only a few machines get access to other machines outside of their dept?

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2008  9:35 AM
Group Policy, User Permissions
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10 pts.

How to Restrict a member of Administrators?
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, [...]

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2008  7:53 AM
Active Directory, Local Administrators Group, User Permissions
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25 pts.

limit access to usb in windows-server2003
how can we restrict the domain user to access the usb or cdrom only admin can use it

Answer Question   |  July 30, 2008  7:59 AM
Removable storage, USB Flash drives, User Permissions, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

ISA and Firefox
Dear Sir. I have ISA 2004 and i create rule to deny users from access some websites but the Problem the Mozilla Firefox users can access all this sites , and I couldn’t find a way to deny users from using firefox or to enforce firefox to use proxy server. Please tell me how to [...]

Answer Question   |  July 29, 2008  5:34 AM
firefox, ISA, ISA Server 2004, Security policies, User Permissions
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15 pts.

Proxy server authentication
I want to configure my squid proxy server for my existing domain, which has windows 2003 server as domain controller. So I want to authenticate users who want to connect to the internet through my active directory database. Can anybody help me out with how to do the configuration? Please reply as soon as possible, [...]

Answer Question   |  July 29, 2008  9:26 PM
Active Directory, Authentication, Domain Controller, Proxy servers, Squid, User authentication, User Permissions, Web security, Windows Server 2003
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110 pts.

Block Files types using active directory
I would like to be able to blockusers running certain file extensions in active directory

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2008  7:46 AM
Active Directory, File extensions, User Permissions
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5 pts.

Users created as administrators on Windows SBS 2003
Hi at all, I’ve recently deployed a network with Windows SBS 2003 as a server and 7 workstations…when I defined the users in the active directory, I did as “Domain Users”. But they have administrative privileges in their workstations when they are logged in in the domain. Is there any way to solve this? Thanks [...]

Answer Question   |  August 12, 2008  9:41 AM
Administrative privileges, Domain Users Group, SBS, SBS 2003, User Permissions, Windows Server 2003
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70 pts.

hi,i’ve just reloaded windows xp[sp2] on my pc and i did not format i left the current folders.But now i cannot access my documents,i receive this error ‘access denied’.
hi,i’ve just reloaded windows xp[sp2] on my pc and i did not format i left the current folders.But now i cannot access my documents,i receive this error ‘access denied’.

Answer Question   |  July 23, 2008  2:54 PM
User Permissions, Windows errors, Windows XP
asked by:
Xxx
385 pts.

Network access control security problem
Hi everybody, I am not a security expert nor an IT specialist but having a network of 7 terminals, some users are limited account others are administrators, some having XP OS others 98 and 2000.All the 6 terminals has to log on using a user name and a password when trying to click on any [...]

Answer Question   |  September 23, 2008  10:29 AM
NAC, Network Access Control, Network administration, Network security, User Permissions
asked by:
Gaf
5 pts.

Exchange and SBS 2003 I inadvertently changed all the user permissions and now no one has Owner rights.
I inadvertently changed all the user permissions and now no one has Owner rights. How do I create an owner or change permissions, or delete this public calendar that’s on the exchange that came with SBS2003?

Answer Question   |  July 16, 2008  4:24 PM
Exchange Server, Microsoft Small Business Server, Public Calendar, SBS 2003, User Permissions
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16,755 pts.

Permissions for Flash Player Plug-in
How do I give permissions to the other user on my computer for Adobe Flash Player? I don’t want him to have admin privileges.

Answer Question   |  July 15, 2008  1:48 AM
Adobe, Permissions and settings, User access, User Permissions
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5 pts.

Membership in Local Admin group
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

Answer Question   |  April 5, 2009  1:49 AM
Access Rights, Local Administrators Group, Security management, User Permissions, Windows scripting, Windows Security
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10 pts.

Stop using USB in office computers
How can I define a GP so that users cannot use their USB Flash disks??

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2012  7:51 AM
Active Directory, Group Policy, USB Flash drives, User Permissions
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80 pts.

How to Prevent Forward and Print out an email
I would like to know it there any feature in outlook 2003 for me to prevent receipant forward or print out the email I sent?

Answer Question   |  July 9, 2008  2:24 AM
Exchange permissions, Exchange user settings, Outlook, Outlook 2003, User Permissions
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30 pts.

sbs2003 ISA SERVER
Hi i am using sbs2003 server and isa .one of my client want to restrict one website from his windows xp pc and isa client is install on client machine and in isa i have just 1 rule default rule ALOW RULE for all user but i want restrict one website from just 1 client [...]

Answer Question   |  July 6, 2008  1:59 PM
ISA Server, SBS, SBS 2003, Security, User Permissions
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5 pts.

restrict users sending e-mails to specific outband accounts
how to restrict a user in exchange 2003 that should not be able to send an e-mail to some specific account on the internet

Answer Question   |  July 3, 2008  7:39 AM
Exchange 2003, Exchange security, Exchange user settings, User Permissions
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5 pts.