Recovering an administrator password for Active Directory

If the administrator password for an Active Directory box is lost what is the process for recovering it? Can it be done?

NewnanIT1,110 pointsBadges:

Blocking USB drives or any removable media on Active Directory network

Can I block the use of USB drives or flash drives or any removable media on our active directory network across the board. We are using group policy but I do not know how to configure it.

ITKE1,129,060 pointsBadges:

Extracting all users’ passwords from Active Directory 2003

I need to extract all users passwords for our next project. How can I extract them from either their workstations or from Active Directory? We are on AD 2003. We have two domain controllers.

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Exporting Active Directory server security log

How can I export the data from a Windows Active Directory server's security log to create a graph of who logged in and out at what times?

TeachMeIT975 pointsBadges:

Security audit of access within Active Directory 2008 network

We need to do a security audit to see what users have access to what within our Active Directory 2008 network. Is there a free tool to help with this and possibly reassign permissions based on rules?

Troubleshooter24755 pointsBadges:

Scanning Active Directory for weak passwords

Is it possible to scan our active directory and see if people have weak passwords? We have upped the password policy but what about for users that already have passwords and are not scheduled to changed them yet?

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How to configure Active Directory to ignore non-threatening accounts

Can AD only lock accounts that pose a threat - with regards to a virus that locks accounts? I found a w32.downadup.b virus on the domain and it locks all accounts in AD. How can i configure AD to ignore the accounts that are not posing a threat?

KarenHu10 pointsBadges:

Validating Active Directory login from within a stored-procedure

I have an application that needs to use active directory to ensure user login is valid. The issue is that the machine is in a different domain than our AD server. I am looking at creating a clr procedure on the SQL server that is in the same domain. Then from the application execute a procedure...

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Adding Windows Firewall rule to Active Directory 2003

We need to add a Windows Firewall rule to all AD 2003 machines. How can we set that up via group policy? Where is the setting?

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Forcing Windows users to choose random passwords

Can we force Windows to choose random passwords for accounts created in 2003 Active Directory? Can we force the user to then change their password on login?

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Self-service portal to reset Active Directory passwords

How can we setup a self service portal to reset Active Directory passwords?

NewnanIT1,110 pointsBadges:

Blocking specific website via Active Directory

Can I block specific websites on our domain via active directory?

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active directory

what loacal or active directory item can effect the effective permissions

M3slf5 pointsBadges:

Blocking sniffers from catching SIP/VoIP traffic

Can we block wireshark or ethereal from being able to run on our Windows 2003 Active Directory network? We want to block sniffers from catching sip/VoIP traffic.

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Restrictions on a kiosk that has internet access on our Active Directory network

What restrictions should we put on a user at an internet kiosk on our Active Directory network? The user auto logs on. Should this be guest? Windows 7 enterprise.

NewnanIT1,110 pointsBadges:

How can I delegate exchange mobile services authority to someone?

Exchange 2003 - I need to set up a help desk person with the ability to enable/disable the Mobile Services settings (in the Exchange Features tab) for any domain user.  If no wizard is available which security attributes or exchange permissions must be set for the users? thank you

Mfhjek05 pointsBadges:

Freeze Active Directory users from changing passwords temporarily

Can we prevent users from changing their AD passwords temporarily? We want to create a network freeze and not change or modify anything including passwords while we do some backup/restore testing.

Troubleshooter24755 pointsBadges:

Blocking personal webmail from Windows Active Directory 2008 network

Is there any way to block all personal webmail from our Windows Server 2008 Active Directory network? All communications need to be logged.

NewnanIT1,110 pointsBadges:

Block users from remote access websites

remotely connect to their active directory computers on our corporate network?

Karl Gechlik9,860 pointsBadges:

How to compare Windows server security policies?

policy and copy policies from one system to another? Can this be done without active directory?

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