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Last Update: Apr 29, 2024
Daniel outlines the 2 methods available to use in order to repair “windows cannot connect to the domain” errors.
Last Update: Sep 19, 2023
One of the most tedious day-to-day tasks for Active Directory administrators in medium to large organizations is the management of user accounts and their respective information, things such as resetting user passwords, clearing account lockouts, updating of phone numbers and additional information. It’s true that in Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory Users and Computers allows…
Last Update: Sep 01, 2023
Too many cooks in the kitchen? Learn to import/export server lists using Windows Server 2012 Server Manager to share a server list between many sysadmins.
Last Update: Jun 02, 2023
Daniel Petri shows us how to make signing into Windows 10 a bit easier by disabling the lock screen.
Last Update: Feb 13, 2023
We’re back with our two-part series on enabling secure LDAP on Windows Server 2008/2012 DCs! In part 2, we cover LDAPS configuration.
Last Update: Dec 05, 2022
Need to quickly edit environment variables in Windows 8? Learn three ways to do exactly that in this step-by-step tutorial article by Daniel Petri.
Last Update: Nov 21, 2022
Active Directory is a hierarchical database that holds information about the network’s resources such as computers, servers, users, groups and more. The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Normal administrative tasks when working with Active Directory include creating, managing, moving, editing and sometimes – deleting – various objects…
Last Update: Nov 07, 2022
There are many tools and utilities designed to do so, but none are native W2K GUI. There are no graphical or command line utilities that produce comprehensive reports on groups, users and permissions included with the Windows Operating System or the Resource Kit. The NET commands and the Windows Resource Kit ADDUSERS.EXE and PERMS.EXE utilities…
Last Update: Oct 31, 2022
How can I easily give someone the Log On Locally user right on a Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Domain Controllers? In Windows 2000 (and Windows Server 2003) servers that are configured as Domain Controllers only 5 groups have the right to log on locally on the computer. Those groups are: Administrators, Account, Print,…
Last Update: Oct 31, 2022
Learn how to display last logged on information for Windows 8 and 8.1 in this quick how-to article by Petri IT Knowledgebase founder Daniel Petri.