Threads Replies Last Post 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20   windows banner to run every 60 days before login Hi, Looking for a way to run a windows banner every 60 days before login?, never heard of a way to do this but we are looking at running the disclaimer message every x amount of days. Is there a way to modify a windows password expiry message to add the disclaimer to it?, this would also word as passwords expiry every 60 days. ... 2 29.05.2007 14:42:46 auditing account lockouts I realize a failure event is generated when an incorrect password is attempted on a log-in...is there a way to audit when an account becomes locked out?... 1 30.05.2007 18:13:02 what is legacy policies? What does the "Only show policy settings that can be fully managed " really do? What are "Legacy Polecies"? Can anyone explain me? Thanks Reza... 2 30.05.2007 17:19:16 Delegating Link GPOs permission to a user problem Hi all, When I want to delegate the "Link GPOs" to a user I encounter the following error message: The Request is not Supported. How can I solve this problem? Thanks Reza... 1 30.05.2007 15:08:03 deleting cache copy of roaming profile Under group policy, under computer settings, there is an option to delete the cached copy of the user profile from the pc after a user logs out. I don't remember the exact terminology. I noticed after I logged out, in the C:/documents and settings folder the user folder was there and it didn't get removed. Anyone have any ideas of what could be missing or wrong? Basically I don't ... 4 30.05.2007 15:00:07 Controlling Print Jobs through GPO / Active Directory / Server Hi All Is there anyway to control printing through GPO / Active Directory / Server? One of the main stumbling blocks in schools is the amount of pages wasted or bottlenecked by over enthusiastic pupils (and teachers!). Rgds ... 3 30.05.2007 13:45:02 GPO Software Installation gives Catastrophic Failure I am trying to push out some software via Group Policy on a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. I created a new GPO for this software install and then edited it. I dug down to Computer Configuration > Software Settings > Software Installation. I right-clicked on Software Installation and chose New > Package... Then I navigated to the .msi file on my network share and selecte... 5 30.05.2007 13:43:01 Manage Vista via group policy on Server 2003 SP1 Does anyone know if there is a away to manage Vista's new group policy items from Windows Server 2003 SP1? Or can you only manage those items locally from Vista via gpedit.msc or wait until "Longhorn" is out for production? For example on Vista machine (gpedit.msc) you can access the ComputerConfiguration\AdminstrativeTemplates\WindowsComponents\BitLockerDriveEncryption, but of course ... 7 30.05.2007 08:56:52 Power Scheme Group Policy We have some computers which we need to set power options to "Always On" no matter who logs in. Since the user need at least Power Users right to change the power options, we are testing w/ MS article 915160 that describes how to use Powercfg.exe in Group Policy to have this power options set even though the user only has regular user rights. We followed this article step by step to cr... 3 30.05.2007 05:59:01 Action needed Dear friends, I am working as a system admin, need to assign modify permission to a folder for a local user account. But user do not have to delete any folder or file. Rather user can create, modify and add files or folders. Plz guide me how can i accomplish this task. ... 3 29.05.2007 12:27:49 Audit policy problem (deleted file name) Hi, i am trying to using audit poliy for files and folder (in win2003 domain).. i saw security events successufully about accessed files (who accessed, when accessed, ..) also true location and file name; for example D:\new folder\document.doc but i couldn't see file name when i deleted any file; i just saw that "explore.exe" as file name :( for example D:\new folder\explorer.exe ... 3 29.05.2007 12:25:01 assigned office 2003 mst takes forever to install I have assigned office 2003 to a OU that holds computers for a certain site installation went fine for almost every PC except for laptops, they take hours to install despite being connected to the LAN just as any other desktop I don't see a CPU hog, or a lack of drive space how can I find out what is going on here? thnx ... 2 29.05.2007 09:57:14 In what order are GPOs applied? Can someone please point me to a Microsoft doc that explains in which order GPOs are applied and if I can modify the default order? I'm doing unattended installs and currently use batch files run from my sif to install programs, default profiles, add users to the local administrator gourps and to rename the the local admin account and password. But not all my programs are MSI and some ha... 3 28.05.2007 22:20:51 Users Don't Have Access to My Documents in Office Applications I did a folder redirection using a GPO some of my users when trying to save to My Documents in Office programs get an error of "you do not have access to the folder" errors. Otherwise, they can save in other programs.... 6 27.05.2007 15:07:16 Disable Auto-Enrollment for all computers in a domain via CLI? Dear administrators, I am administrating a Samba/LDAP/UNIX-powered company network with a few dozen computers. Everything works like a charm, except that the Windows XP clients spit "Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the active directory" errors. The unofficial Samba HOWTO suggests [1] the following: "To disable annoying Event Viewer notification... 3 26.05.2007 10:25:02 Software Restriction Policies and Path Rules I want to stop users running all .exe files from their My Docs folder. I have setup Software Restriction Policies and Path Rules for: \\server\users\%username%\*.exe and \\server\users\%username%\*\*.exe and H:\*.exe and H:\*\*.exe but from subfolders in that path they can still run .exe files. Am I doing something wrong here?... 4 26.05.2007 09:54:01 Remove logoff and shutdown...only have restart available after ctrl-alt-del We have a mix of W2K and XP machines. We are using deep freeze in our school's labs. So I want to make it so the only option the students have is to choose Restart when they press ctrl-alt-delet. I did have a log off script working for a while using shutdown.exe but it's stopped working and I'm not sure why. I can see where to disable Shutdown and or Logoff at the ctrl-alt-del. But is it p... 3 25.05.2007 23:03:41 No GP plugin on MMC 3.0 ??!!?? I have vista home premium. When I go to the MMC, and click Add/Remove plugin, the Group Policy plugin doesn't show up. Did microsoft take ou the GP editing on Vista home premium? if so, can I get the MMC plugin without upgrading to another version of Vista? -- |)4.-7|-| |-|4x0.-... 2 25.05.2007 18:59:44 File Auditing with Group Policy Hi guys, I am hoping anyone that is doing enterprise auditing can help out with this one. We have a new project and it can really be broken down into 3 objectives First - Use auditing to monitor the modification and deletion of files on workstations/servers Second - Try to keep security logs as clean as possible by auditing only cetain folders we and only the create/write data succes... 4 25.05.2007 17:21:30 Install printer for users with mandatory profiles. I created a classroom enviroment with Windows server 2003 Sp1 and xp clients. Created a default user profile, copied it to the netlogon share and renamed ntuser.dat to ntuser.man. Works great. Now i forgot to install a printer in the image. For now i don't want to go through the proces off install printer, create image(sysprep), deploy image, copy the new profile. I'm waiting for more "m... 4 25.05.2007 12:47:40 My Computer Performance Settings Is there a way to auto set users Performance Settings? My Computer > Properties > Advanced > [Performance] Settings > Custom Disable all settings. Or disable all settings apart form Common Tasks Folder, Drop Shadows for Icon and Visual Styles on Windows & Buttons. Thanks ... 3 25.05.2007 08:28:03 Adobe Acrobat and MIS I am trying to install adobe reader 8 via GPO I I have the full installation file AdbeRdr80_en_US.exe. does anyone know how I can extract the MSI from this file or where I can get the MSI file for version 8 wayne ... 3 24.05.2007 16:25:02 GP to Diable Tabbed Browsing Anyone know of a GP that can disable the tabbed browsing in IE 7? ... 2 24.05.2007 15:16:09 GPMC ignore migration table. Bug? Hello, We have found an issue with the GPMC tool and I would like to know whether anyone has seen this before. Actually, we use a pre-prod domain to prepare and tests new GPOs. This pre-prod domain has been cloned from the production domain. So the domains have the same SIDs. Now, when we export a GPO from the pre-prod domain and reimport it into the production domain, there are some ... 5 24.05.2007 13:47:11 Need help configuring delegate authority for department administra I am trying to determine how to best set up administrator-like settings for a new departmental IT person - to do administrator-like tasks without having full administrator rights. I've looked at using DELEGATE AUTHORITY to assign permissions - but it seems to provide only a subset of features that I'd want (resetting passwords, etc.) I was hoping to allow our departmental IT person the... 6 24.05.2007 11:29:51 20 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20