In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...

The other DC's on the domain appear to be fine (netdom can verify the trust to pdce.domain.com) but if I run netdom verify on the pdce itself it fails. The reason I am looking into this is that the ...

You know a little bit about what Windows 2000 group policies are and how they work. But how does Windows 2000 apply group policies? In this Daily Drill Down, Jim Boyce shows you how. In previous Daily ...

Group Policy is an important security tool that allows administrators to set, configure, and apply certain security settings to computers and users in Active Directory. In this article, we will see ...

Even if someone runs off with your remote office's domain controller, with Windows Server 2008 you don't need to worry about sensitive data being compromised. Russell Smith is a technology consultant ...

I have just setup GP Preferences on the domain, no OU's currently present. I want the servers to push out the group policy preferences but I don't want the servers to have printers/mapped ...

In the scenario where users cannot be added on a Windows Server because the Add User or Group button is grayed out in User Rights Assignment in Domain Controller Local Security Policy settings, this ...