Tag Archives: Active Directory
Q&A Monday: Check MAC AD Authentication
Question: I work for a School District with a very small tech department. As we are in an educational environment, we are running a mixed environment with Mac’s and PC’s authenticating to a Windows 2003 AD servers, 9 total servers total spread out throughout 8 sites. I have been running into problems with a few Mac’s in…
Question and Answer: Stop Domain Users from Installing Files
Question: I have Windows 2003 domain and some users have local admin rights. I would like to prevent these users from installing any software on their PCs. Bobby Clem Boulder, CO Answer: In an ideal world we wouldn’t have users who were also local administrators, but we in the IT world often have perfect…
Virtualized Domain Controllers
I got a call yesterday from my old job, it was the software specialist who was having problems with the VMWare 3.51 server which I installed a couple of months before I left. Though by the time I was able to get a break and call them back, but it got me thinking about my…
Q&A Monday: Domain Password Last Changed
Question: I am in a situation on where I need to find out when the last time a user changed their network password. Our domain policy forces the change in account passwords every 120 days, and a user is claiming that it’s been longer than that, I checked the GPO and everything looks OK, but…