SUMMARY When you open the Group Policy Editor MMC snap-in tool, focused either on a local GPO or AD-based one, some Group Policy areas that are expected to appear may not be found. SYMPTOMS Some policy areas are missing when you open up the Group Policy editor. These missing policy areas are different than the…
Leave a CommentGot to help out with a customer with a very interesting query. Authorized DHCP server not showing the correct server name or IP instead it comes up as a (169.254.X ) IP. To resolve this issue or incorrect GUI Display we need to change the NIC binding with the steps below. How to set/view the…
Leave a CommentThis article describes how to add UPN suffixes to a forest. Adding these suffixes gives you the ability to use a friendly user-logon name that does not match the domain’s or parent domains’ naming structure. Adding a UPN Suffix to a Forest Open Active Directory Domains and Trusts. 2. Right-click Active Directory Domains and Trusts…
Leave a CommentOne Liner in PowerShell to provide the following information . 1.Domain Controllers 2. Forest 3. Ipv4Address 4.OperatingSytem 5.Is the Server a Global Catalog First we will start by running a one liner to give us the domain controllers Get-ADDomainController If any of you are like me i want to see less, so below we…
Leave a CommentA quick description of fine grained password policies is that you can specify multiple password policies within a single domain. You can use fine-grained password policies to apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain One of the nice features introduced in Windows Server 2010 “Server…
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