Hello, I have a new Windows 2022 server. If I install active directory on it I can run “Set-ADForestMode –Identity “acme.com” –ForestMode Windows2012R2Forest” – however at that point it requires me to have AD already on it and joined to a ...Read more
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Hello, I see many suggesting a role+characteristics based naming scheme (and some warning against it, citing targeting of hacking attempts). Then I see this: https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/ suggesting that the actual hardware/vm should be replaceable easily, and that mapping any service directly to ...Read more
Hi Dears, We have a GPO that we want to apply to all our servers except ones in a particular OU. We want all the other policies to apply to this GPO so I don’t want to use Block Inheritance ...Read more
I’m setting up AD (WS2016) at home to admin my kids PCs. What would anyone recommend for limiting their accounts, I’ve blocked the Control Panel and CLI and limiting logon times. I would describe their tech knowledge as enough to be ...Read more
Hello, i’m new here but i need some help. That’s the situation: this company is using a server (not joined to a domain) as network share for all their data. This is a 5 yo machine, but still working fine so ...Read more
If Azure AD connect syncs with a domain controller which then becomes unavailable. Does AAD connec5 automatically find an alternate DC if one is avaliable? Please answer
I made a mistake and removed read access to “everyone” for a certain OU. Naturally, I became unable to see the OU at all. I was able to go to the administration console and change the setting to allow read ...Read more
As the title says. We have a request for an end user to be able to add/remove colleagues from an on-premise active directory distribution group. Is ...Read more
Hey all, This may be addressed earlier but i am unable to find them here. our policy is to disable users who have not logged in over 90 days. We have many users who use helpdesk applications and some users using exchange ...Read more