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Modify AD Items in Bulk
I am going through our Active Directory here with the purpose of cleaning things up and making sure everything is up to snuff. A lot of the changes we want made are common across many users. I didn’t...
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Local Groups, Active Directory, and Group Policy
I was asked to set up a handful of laptops for a specific one-day event where users would be taking a survey on them and that was pretty much the end of it. I created a special limited user account for...
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GPMC Is Your Friend
I suppose this is rather late in the game for me to write a little post about the Group Policy Management Console but here it is nonetheless. I usually work with SBS (Small Business Server) machines...
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How to Fail at Creating a Server Share Folder
I found this great step-by-step guide for making a mapped drive in Active Directory for each user. It covers both sets of permissions (share and security), and it covers all of the basic details for...
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Attach Ubuntu to Windows Domain via Active Directory (+ sudo)
There may not be too many advantages to adding your Ubuntu machines to your Windows domain, but if you think of them this will allow you to work toward them. It’s actually pretty easy to add a Linux...
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Install AD in Win7
I feel like you used to be able to install AD (Active Directory) through the “Turn Windows features on or off” dialog. Apparently you must now first download the Remote Server Administration Tools (or...
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Album Art Wallpaper Changer
If you’ve been following along you know all of my music is ripped or downloaded as FLAC and is living on an Ubuntu server here on my network. I do a fair job of scanning in the album art (there are...
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