Posts Tagged Active Directory
AD: ADMT 3.2 released
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 21/06/2010
AD: Specops Gpupdate updated
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 25/05/2010
New features
- New Specops theme The new Specops theme has been applied to the administration tools
- Confirmation page for multiple computers When a pinned command is executed that applies to more than one computer, the execute wizard shown indicates the number of computer affected and an extra click is required to start the actual command
Download the new version 2.1 from here
AD: Disable Browser Choice update using GPO
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 17/03/2010
I was looking into KB2019411 -> A Browser Choice update is available for users who are located in member countries of the European Economic Area.
You can manage the display of the Browser Choice update screen using this registry entry:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\BrowserChoice
Value name : Enable
Value type : DWORD
Possible values
1 – Display the Browser Choice update (default)
0 – Do not display the Browser Choice update
After reading the KB I google’d for an Group Policy Preference XML and found it on this great site
Hints: Windows admin tips and tricks
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 13/02/2010
Here you got a text file with a variety of different commands that I use on a daily basis.
Just starting up …
Hints: Inventorying Computers with AD PowerShell
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 04/02/2010
There’s a great new blog on the AD Team blog on inventorying Computers with AD PowerShell.
Great stuff …
Stuff I read: W7, W2008R2 and the GPO Central Store
Posted by Lars Krogh in Stuff I read on 10/12/2009
Here’s a great blog on the GPO Central Store - posted on the Directory Services Team blog.
Lot’s of good background information …
AD: GPO preferences and locale-specific information
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 03/12/2009
Remember to read KB951430 before setting locale-specific information via group policy preferences (In my daily job as a MS admin I work with us and non-us operating systems (NOT my choice), so I read this KB very carefully).
AD: Security and access assessment
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 25/11/2009
Just found this AD tool called Gold Finger.
The tool covers 10 administrative categories including account and group management, and Microsoft Exchange and AD ACL management. Out-of-the-box it featuring over 225 valuable Active Directory security reports and it is 100% free and fully supported!
AD: Restarting Computers from ‘AD Users and Computers’
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 06/11/2009
Oddvar Håland Moe – this dude from Norway got skills!
Check our his post on restarting Computers from the ‘AD Users and Computers’ MMC’ … another keeper!
AD: Active Directory Computers cleanup script
Posted by Lars Krogh in Hints on 03/11/2009
I use OldCmp from Joeware.net to detect old computer objects in Active Directory.
Is it time for switching to PowerShell?
Check out this great post. The PS script will detect old machine accounts in Active Directory, and disables or deletes them, based on certain ages (in days). It logs information to Excel about actions (disable or deletion) that it takes. Pretty nead … that’s a keeper!
