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Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's implementation of the LDAP protocol or X.500 standard.  Its purpose is to manage objects from a networked computer and make them available for users and administrators of the network.

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Active directory scheduled job distribution + copy files to remote server

Just I was wondering if it's possible to schedule a job and distribute to all clients on the domain. What we want to do is basically to run that job on clients to copy files from their PCs to a remote ...
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Administrator being asked for admin password when running admin programs

I have a user that is part of the default 'Administrators' group and the default 'Domain Users' group. When the user tries running a program on Windows 8.1 Industry Pro that requires administrator ...
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Mandatory Profile Windows 10 Enterprise 64 bit

In my LAB environment all my computers run mandatory profile since windows 7 and i deploy the configuration using GP, recently when i switched to windows 10 mandatory profile was kind of buggy, since ...
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windows 2012 server gpo for usb access

I face a strange problem...I need to enable usb access to a certain user..The it person responsible before me has restrictred usb access to all users by a group policy which I cannot find or ...
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Exporting and importing Active Directory users

We need to export all the users (~20000) to newly installed Active Directory 2016 server from our existing Active Directory 2012 server, the problem is that we have not user passwords, and I wonder if ...
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How to request (not renew) Kerberos Ticket every 5 days on Ubuntu

I have set up a ubuntu 16.04 machine and integrated it into a windows active directory domain environment using this guide: https://www.unixmen.com/how-to-join-an-ubuntu-desktop-into-an-active-...
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Windows 10 login error when working outside of corporate network

I get following error when I try to log on to my laptop while not on the corporate network: there are currently no logon servers to service the logon request While connected on corporate network, ...
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Why my home PC wallpaper updates to my office wallpaper [duplicate]

In my office, they have some server policy that changes the wallpaper every month. I can't change my wallpaper there. The problem is that my home PC and laptop also get updated, and I dont know why. ...
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Can I sync a single active directory user account?

My main question is in the title. This first part is to shed light on why I'm asking. I'm writing a PowerShell script that will make it much easier for IT to give End Users a domain admin account to ...
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Authentication against LDAP on Apache fails with password mismatch

I want to accomplish LDAP authentication on my Linux machine, but can't get it working. Currently, I get the following error in the Apache log: AH01617: user john.doe: authentication failure for "/": ...
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Accounts with same mail Attribute

I have to search AD objects based on mail addresses (from/to/cc). Currently I try to search for all AD objects, with a mail property that matches an address : ([email protected]) As result I ...
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What is the correct method to apply various group policy settings to multiple groups of users?

What is the correct method to apply various group policy settings to multiple groups of users? An example of the scenario: Windows server 2008, domain "CompanyName". Presume all users switch between ...
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Linux clients + Windows server - Assigning computers to users/groups

I have a windows server and ubuntu clients. My clients already joined the active directory but I cannot figure out how I could assign certain users to certain computers. I don't want all the domain ...
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What are the implications of blocking SMB traffic laterally between servers?

I want to only allow SMB and NBT traffic from servers in the data center to the Domain Controller. I would then like to block any other lateral SMB and NBT traffic. This is done for security reasons. ...
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xrdp authentication using active directory in ubuntu

I used this tutorial to install xrdp on my ubuntu with active directory users: http://eurekamoment.eu/?p=999 Is there a way to specify which user groups from the active directory can connect to the ...
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Missing ADUC tabs after RSAT install Windows 10

After a fresh installation of Windows 10.0.10240, I installed RSAT 1.2. All the tools are there, but when opening ADUC the only tab I have is COM+. I'm running the MMC under an account with domain ...
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how to verify whether computer is already exist in AD or not

I am looking for a script which find the machine guid and search in Active directory whether it is exist or not If exist provide me their "distinguish name" I am looking for a powershell script ...
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User group in AD to be able to remotely access a certain computer inside the network

I have a Windows Server 2008 and I want to allow a user group in AD to be able to remotely access a certain computer inside the network (not the server). Is that even possible? Or I can only specify ...
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How do I find out containing OU in results of “Find Users, Contacts, and Groups"?

After a search, how do I get to know in which OU (Organizational Unit) a given result is?
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Restrict user to only run programs on Windows server 2012 R2

I have a situation here I hope You can help me with. I have a Database running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 with a specific user account. Same user account is running a Windows Service. This Service ...
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Duplicate user "cryptoPolicy" in active directory 2012

Im moving Windows Server 2012 Essentials to a new hardware using this tutorial , in the best practice analyzer i found that i have 2 usernames with the same CN "CryptoPolicy" one inside Program Data/...
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SSH using Active Directory credentials

I am using AWS, I can ssh using .pem file, I have also enabled password login by modifying /etc/sshd/sshd_config. I can create a new user and login with that user using password. However, instead of ...
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Active directory home folder misreporting its used space on Windows 10 client

The server shows the actual used space (a few KB) but the users Windows 10 desktop shows they have used 4.99 GB of their 5 GB quota and won't allow them to save anything. How do I force Windows 10 re-...
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Active Directory GPO excluding users

I want to set a rule for all users in a domain. The rule turns on the screensaver after 15 minutes and then the user must use a password to login again. Everything works, but I need to exclude one ...
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Windows 10 64 domain computer cannot access Linux (Raspberry Pi3) samba share

Samba server: Raspberry Pi3, running osmc media server (I believe this is a down-scaled Raspbian version). Samba version: 4.2.10 Domain controller: Windows 2012 Windows client: Windows 10 Evt. 64-...
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Can browser Windows logon prompt warn to change password first time

When a user tries to connect via remote desktop, there's a clear error message telling them they first need to change their password before first logon. When they try to run an application, there's ...
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Tuleap - LDAP Plugin - Active Directory Issues

I've used the instructions from the tuleap documentation (http://tuleap-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/administration-guide/services.html#ldap) to install the LDAP/Active Directory plugin and ...
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How do I get a powershell query to show attribute values instead of just their names?

I am using powershell to query an Active Directory. I want to list user's names and their citizenship (e.g. US, AS, CA...). However, when I run the query, the results show the name and value for the ...
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Prevent USMT 5 from migrating deleted AD profiles

I'm working on a project to replace desktops and laptops. Some shared desktops have dozens of profiles, some of which are users that have left the organisation and should not be migrated to the new ...
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Is there any way to query a list of users who can access a VPN connection in Windows Server 2008 R2

I was wondering if it is possible to query (powershell, ADUC, etc) and generate a list of users who are able to login to a VPN server running on Windows Server 2008 R2? Is the main thing that ...
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Administrator accounts cannot change their password

I have the issue at one of my customers that some of their AD-accounts are not allowed to change their password via ctrl+alt+del. The error they get: 'Permission denied' What I found out about the ...
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Create Vagrant Windows Server 2012 box with Active Directory + Forest breaking WinRM

I followed the instructions on this blog post to get a Vagrant box with Windows Server 2012 R2 eval. Then I tried to install Active Directory Domain Controller and an Active Directory Forest (with ...
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How to find all machines with a username via command prompt

I know my user credentials, they are User:Johannes, Passwort:Pass12345. I can find the groups that I am part of with net. net user /domain Johannes This gives me the groups I am in. *BELIEVER51 *...
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Get Event Log Over Network with PowerShell

I am trying to write a command that pulls an event log from another workstation on the same local network. I currently am using the command below but it only works on the local machine I am currently ...
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Mac user is able to login, but sudo doesn't work

We have a strange problem with a Mac OSX El Capitan. The Mac is joined to an active directory domain and the user is able to log in with his domain password. In the settings, the user is listed and ...
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AD Account Got Locked Out

We have a service account in our AD environment (Windows 2003) got locked out frequently. some background information: Windows 2003 domain the account is set to never expire we never changed the ...
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Ubuntu - unable to ID AD Accounts

After following this guide, I got to the point were it tells me to verify using ID "username" which just straight up tells me this account does not exist. I have been adding debian machines to the ...
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In Windows Adding a domain account to the local administrators group. What problems can arise?

I work as an IT and every employee in my company has a domain account (Windows server 2003). Many people want to install new software for their professional needs and I have to be there just to write ...
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Windows server 2012 r2 x64 turn black screen after login

I'm new to windows server anyway especially windows 2012s, actually server was there for only Ncomputing devices,so i messed-up with it by installing AD and Hyper- V, after seeing those feature ...
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GPO only works on authenticated users

I am trying to apply a group policy to select users. All of the select users are in a security group. The group policy includes user settings I am applying the policy to an OU that includes the ...
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VisualStudio won't accept credentials in enterprise environment - StatusCode: 0x80090308

I'm currently using Visual Studio Community 2015, Version 14.0 Update 3. My problem is, that I can't connect to my own MS TeamFoundationServer 2015 from my workplace. The problem is definitely not ...
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Active Directory Password Change Issue

We have a password issue here. The security policy requieres to change user's password in every 90 days (so the 'Password never experies' solution is not working now). They got a automatic warning ...
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Does whoami /groups query the DC?

How does whoami /groups work? Does it connect to the DC and get the information from there or is that information cached on the computer somewhere and retrieved by the command? If it is stored ...
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Showing two domain controller DC and GC on AD server, Need to remove old DC

I was abc AD server 2008 r2 with single domain controller on it and its working fine but due to issues in some roles on abc, I have create another xyz server and replicate with abc. Now I've remove ...
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How-to represent/add devices like IP-Cams, Printers, VoIP-Phones etc. in Active Directory

I have a number of devices neither fitting the category "Human" nor "Computer", but needing some of their characteristics, like "email-address", or MAC. e.g. IP-Cams: They need an email-address, and ...
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Changing IP of DNS Server machine

I am in windows server 2012R2 machine environment and there I am having my Active Directory and DNS server(local LAN) configured. Now due to some requirement I want to change IP of this machine and ...
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.NET deny anonymous access blocking domain user too

We have installed the same .net web app to a few of our servers but one of the server is blocking access for domain users despite only set to deny anonymous access. We used the following web.config to ...
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Import schema into Samba/AD domain?

I have set up a Samba4 domain controller to serve as my Active Directory PDC. It works flawlessly in that respect. My next challenge is to install FusionDirectory to make managing it easier and to ...
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Flipping names of the two server machines

Following is my scenario. I have maintained two servers machines.On one machine(lets call it machine-1) I have installed SharePoint Server 2013 which is using Active Directory Installed with users ...
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Windows offline domain join

Apparently administrators can join the machine to the domain without a reboot according to this article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/offline-domain-join-djoin-step-by-step%28v=ws.10%...
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