Workstations Questions


unlock group policy from PC
A workstation was removed from domain without turning off group Policy. How do I now turn unlock GP locked items.

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  11:59 PM
Group Policy, Group Policy management, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Workstations
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5 pts.

Sharing a directory on a local workstation
How can I share a directory on a local workstation to domain users? Windows XP SP3.

Answer Question   |  June 14, 2011  7:45 PM
Domain Users, Windows domain management, Windows XP SP3, Workstations
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755 pts.

Pushing out baseline Windows 7 image to Active Directory clients
Can we easily create a baseline image of our Windows 7 workstations and push it out to each Active Directory client wiping its current OS naming the system by its MAC address. It will have the OS and apps that were in the image. How can we do this?

Answer Question   |  April 27, 2011  7:35 PM
Active Directory, Baseline, Imaging software, MAC address, Windows 7, windows 7 backup, Workstations
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1,110 pts.

Server purchasing for peer-to-peer networking
We have currently 10plus worstations working on a peer to peer level and have been advised to buy a server – the operating system is windows 7 and we need to share program files in addition to devices such as printers etc and for it to manage our network – what kind of server should [...]

Answer Question   |  April 18, 2011  1:19 PM
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Workstations
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5 pts.

Getting reports emailed from networked workstations in Windows 7 network
How can I make use of internal memory and CPU utilization (Task manager) and have it email me reports from all networked workstations? Is this within the scope of Windows 7?

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2011  7:58 PM
CPU, CPU Utilization, Task Manager, Windows 7, Windows 7 Administration, Windows 7 Networking, Windows Network Administration, Workstations
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975 pts.

Imaging Windows Server 2003 to use in virtual machine
How can I image my Windows server 2003 so I can use it in a Virtual Machine on a Windows XP workstation?

Answer Question   |  February 10, 2011  6:43 PM
Imaging software, Virtual Machines, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Workstations
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755 pts.

Enterprise desktop virtualization solution
Can anyone share their experience with enterprise-wide desktop virtualization implementations? How many workstations were involved? What types of problems/difficulties did you experience? How did you address them? Any ideas as to how to broach the subject with execs would be appreciated as well.

Answer Question   |  January 20, 2011  6:43 PM
Desktop virtualization, Desktop Virtualization Implementation, Desktop virtualization software, Open IT Forum, Workstations
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755 pts.

View open applications and see which one has focus on a workstation.
Can we see what open applications are open on domain workstations and what the computers focus is on? How can we do this?

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2010  4:14 PM
Security in 2010, Windows, Windows Server 2008 Domain, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP SP3, Workstations
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9,815 pts.

User Accounts on workstation in a Network Domain
hi all, i have this  general question about workstations belonging to a certain network domain. here is the situation… there are several workstations in room A and another group of workstations in room B. All workstations in both rooms belong to a network domain say C. What is required is that how can one limit [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2010  8:31 AM
Domain, Network Access Control, User access, Windows XP, Workstations
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5 pts.

Setting up Small Business Server 2008 on a workstation
I know when setting up Small Business Server 2008 on a workstation, you simply go to an internal web address that downloads the client software to the machine that is used to verify the credentials and to log onto the server. However, my question is when doing this, does this block any non-server user of [...]

Answer Question   |  July 15, 2010  9:17 PM
Client Access, Login, Notebook computers, SBS 2008, Workstations
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10 pts.

Windows Server 2003 forced to DHCP
Does anyone know a way to force a workstation to use a specific DHCP server ? We have a windows server 2003 has DHCP active as well as our phone system. The problem is there are workstations getting there ip info from the phone system and not the server.

Answer Question   |  September 11, 2012  3:11 PM
DHCP, IP configuration, Windows Server 2003, Workstations
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16,755 pts.

AS400 admin/analyst
Hi, Could anyone tell me how can I see that my workstation is attached with which LINE.I can see the controller which my workstation is attached to, but cant see the line to which this controller is attached.Please advise.  

Answer Question   |  August 21, 2009  2:33 PM
AS/400, AS/400 Workstations, Workstations
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325 pts.

server, workstations
have problems sometimes with our workstations connecting. have shut down the server and then the workstaion will start back up. it seems the only way to get the workstaion back up is to shut down the server

Answer Question   |  June 30, 2009  1:38 PM
Workstations
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5 pts.

Icons won’t delete on domained workstations
I have some users who are setup with romeing profiles on a domain network. Every time they delete a file from their desktop such as a .doc or .pdf or .xlx, etc.. and they reboot their machines the files come back. Help….

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2009  9:11 PM
Desktop, Roaming Profiles, Workstations
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145 pts.

Is it possible to restrict a user to one specific workstation
I’d like to prevent one user from logging on to other people’s computers. The oS os SBS 2003R2

Answer Question   |  September 20, 2011  7:36 PM
Logon restriction, SBS 2003, SBS 2003 R2, SBS User Permissions, User Permissions, Workstations
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10 pts.

Prevent Software Installation on Clients Windows Server 2008
Can someone tell me how difficult it is to remove Installation rights from a group of users who use workstations on a Win2008 network? I’ve been told that doing so requires one to do a file audit of all files on the workstations to find out which programs need to write to the local disks [...]

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2008  11:47 PM
Group Policy, Installation Rights, Network security, Windows Server 2008, Workstations
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5 pts.

How to remove a workstation from the domain but not the network?
I am using an older machine for our driver’s lounge. They only need it for internet. So I need to keep it on the network, but remove it from the domain. I cannot allow these users access to our domain. My problem is that I have removed this machine form our domain and added it [...]

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2009  12:28 PM
Active Directory, AD, Domain, Network, Network administration, Workstations
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50 pts.

How to determine the number of workstations defined in an As400?
How to determine the number of workstations defined in an As400?

Answer Question   |  August 14, 2008  7:17 PM
AS/400 database, Workstations
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75 pts.

How can I test this at each workstation to see if port 25 traffic is actually being blocked
This question was submitted on SearchExchange.com I have created rules in my firewall to block outgoing port 25 traffic from any computer except the email server. How can I test this at each workstation to see if port 25 traffic is actually being blocked? The firewall logs will show me blocked traffic but I don’t [...]

Answer Question   |  April 9, 2008  2:14 PM
Exchange, Exchange security, Firewalls, Workstations
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16,755 pts.

Spiceworks
I have been testing with spiceworks (www.spiceworks.com)to do workstation inventory and discovery. It has been doing a great job of finding “Mystery” machines. (machines that are not part of the domain) Does anyone have any experience with it or can reccomend something similar?

Answer Question   |  April 5, 2009  3:09 PM
Servers, Spiceworks, Workstations
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20 pts.