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To my surprise, one day while working on a project to cleanup some Active Directory user accounts, I found some on-prem accounts with expired passwords logging into M365. This caught my attention since that...
Ever experience an issue where hidden mailboxes show up in GAL (Global Address List)? In researching this issue, I found others had experienced similar problems. The solution to this issue was simple but I...
Making the move to Azure AD and Office 365? Having a problem with active directory accounts not syncing to Azure AD? Of course, there could be a few reasons for this but one of...
Windows Server Manager has come a long way since the Windows Server 2003 days. Personally, I use it all the time to manage hundreds of servers. But what if you changed computers and want...
The first step in finding why an AD account keeps getting locked out is to find the domain controller that is doing the locking. There are a couple of simple ways to do this....
To add ADMX templates to Group Policy, Windows Server 2008 and above uses a Central Store to store Administrative Template files. In Windows 7, the ADM folder is not created in a GPO as in...
I can pretty much guarantee that if you work in a Windows Active Directory environment, you’ve probably had support calls from your users stating they cannot log into their computers because of the following error message,...
There are a couple of ways to restore deleted objects from Active Directory Recycle Bin. The default age that a deleted object stays in the AD Recycle Bin is 180 days. Therefore, you have...
Terminal Server users logging on to terminal server continually receive the Windows Update popup ” Restart your computer to finish installing important updates” every 10 minutes. They’re only option is to select “Postpone” to make...
There are times when you need to edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER for another user without logging on as that user. Knowing how to do this can be very handy when troubleshooting group policy issues that affect user...
Easy Print is a new feature of a Windows 2008 Server R2 Terminal Server. You’ll see the term “terminal server” and “remote desktop services” referenced throughout this post. These are synonymous. Microsoft changed the...
You may find yourself in a tight spot where you need to create a Windows 7 user profile, for one reason or another, on a computer with limited network connectivity. A Windows 7 profile...
