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ActiveDirectory
Installing Active Directory Certificate Services
Active Directory Certificate Services Role allows you to install a certificate authority in your Active Directory environment which allows you to issue self signed certificates for a variety of purposes and uses. We want to step through this process on…
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Mobile
Manage Active Directory with Android
As IT professionals we are always looking for ways to be able to manage systems anytime, anyplace, and anywhere. Mobile Smartphones have completely changed the world in which we live and made possible things that were only dreamed of some…
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Group Policy
Preventing a user from receiving group policy settings
Let’s say you have a group policy object that you are applying to a group of users. Maybe you have one user that is a member of this group that you would like to filter from receiving those group policy…
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Troubleshooting
Dell laptop nVidia display Windows 7 driver issue
Recently in working with a client we ran into a driver issue with a set of Dell D820 laptops. The laptops had recently been installed with Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit. The display driver worked, however, the driver that was…
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ActiveDirectory
Using DSQUERY to find users and groups
In huge AD infrastructures with several OUs and thousands of users and/or computers, it becomes difficult many times to be able to locate users/computers and which OU structure they reside in. A very handy command line tool for AD administrators…
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Exchange 2010 SP1 Restricting Address Lists in Outlook
In a previous post, we described how administrators can restrict Address Lists for Exchange 2010 OWA users by editing the msExchQueryBaseDN attribute for a user. However, what if we want to restrict address lists in Outlook? Unfortunately, Exchange 2010 SP1…
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Troubleshooting
Access Denied when running shutdown command for a remote machine
There have been multiple blog posts about an “access denied” error message when running the command line shutdown command pointed to a remote workstation. Example of Shutdown command: shutdown /m \\SOMECOMPUTER /t 5 /y /c “Your machine is about to…
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Running multiple SSL IIS sites IIS7 and 7.5
Starting with IIS 7, Microsoft made major changes to IIS. The look and feel of the entire interface is way different than what administrators were used to with IIS6. All in all most of the changes have been a good…
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Installing Additional Hub Transport Servers – Exchange 2010 SP1
In many small organizations we find that many install one server to handle all the needs of their employees. So, all Exchange 2010 SP1 roles may be installed on a physical box. There is nothing wrong with doing this if…
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Evernote – Great tool for IT Documentation
Have you ever been looking for documentation that you just know you wrote down, a license key or important URL that you saved into a notepad document somewhere, or a phone number you scribbled onto a sheet of paper and…
