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Hello, To clarify further.. We have some mischevious users of XP and Vista computers removing the Domain Administrators group from the local Administrators group on their computers. and also we need to have a desktop admin AD group to be placed in the Administrator group of every computer on the network for remote administrative functions. This is most common problem we are facing since long time. I work for a medium sized organization, and we...

Would it have anything to do with Zone Transfers?

Got it fixed. For whatever reason, I never seem to think Safe Mode is going to fix anything. Well, it allowed me to get in and reset the clock. After that, everything worked fine. -Phrancie

One of the administrators decided to rename the 'Everyone' group, and then someone else told them to switch it back. There are two domain controllers across a WAN. Now when we try to change the pre-Windows 2000 name back to Everyone we get the message: The following Active Directory error occurred: The specified user already exists. Does anyone have suggestions on a way to get around this? Thanks, David

Well, i agree with Joe's Question, as in what are you trying to achieve.......? To talk about restraicted group policy, it is used to make a certain group/User member of a certain group... Like recently on one my XP machine, domain admins grp was taken out of local administrators grp accidently, and we didn't have the pwd for local admin account...so technically we were not able to login as admin on that machine....in that case using...

You've been asked to use Restricted Groups for what purpose? What's the goal for using them?

Hello, I had major problems with AD, when the old Win 2003 Ent primary drive failed. This was cured by installing Win 2008 Ent R2 and activating AD plus DNS etc. Active Directory is native Windows 2008 Enterprise R2 based. Problems arose with networking under R2, and after a technical session with Microsoft, the major problems were corrected. Now then: the techie's comments, and research throughout the Web, has shown that for computers...

Dear All, I have been trying to create user with vb6, but I have some problem, they are : 1. User can not map to his home folder with error: "cannot find the file "\astwin2003s\user1\use1 test1$" (or one of its components). Make sure the path and file name are correct and tha all required libraries are available" Whereas the home folder have been available on my file server and I already grant him with full...

HI i am having windows 2003 Domain Controller, i need to update users attributes such as Description, Title , Location , Telephone details of all users . I am having all the data in excel file i need a script through which i can update all the details of users automatically..... please help in providing VBS sript or some tool through which i can update these records..

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