1. Remotely managing the disk management snap-in in Windows Server 2008
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... aspect of this is that simply enabling the rules in the “Remote Volume Management” firewall group on the target isn’t enough to allow this to work either. In addition, you need to...

2. Mailbox-enabling many users with the Exchange 2007 management shell (PowerShell)
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... -------- Oliver Williams olliw @ ilmv2.idmgmt.int X64E12DC\First Storage Group\... Jeff Page jeffp @ ilmv2.idmgmt.int X64E12DC\First Sto...

3. Creating an active directory test lab environment from your production AD forest
(Blogs/paulw)

...xisting production active directory environment for testing purposes is a frequent one in the forums and groups. There are several ways of doing this: backup/restore, cloning, attribute import/ expor...

4. Group Policy Restricted Groups
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...ers and techies from the community I’ve been surprised as to a number of misconceptions around the Group Policy Restricted Groups security setting. This isn’t all the surprising I guess as...

5. HOW TO: Delegate the ability to add a domain controller to the domain (using minimum permissions)
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...the ability to promote a domain controller using the minimum required permissions. The idea being that a group is granted these permissions and the service account that performs the automated promotio...

6. Creating a self signed SSL certificate for testing purposes
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...n my first go so it wouldn’t work on my machine. I fixed this issue by granting the administrators group on the local machine, full control permissions over the following folder. I did this beca...

7. INFO: Configure USERENV.LOG logging
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The core Group Policy engine writes various, configurable types of information to its log file, which is stored under %windir%\debug\usermode. In Windows NT 5.x this file is called USERENV.LOG. In Win

8. INFO: Fine Tuning Net Logon’s SRV Resource Record (RR) registrations
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...r the zone. There are two supported ways of controlling these settings, these are. Group Policy (Computer Configuration\ Administrative Templates\ System\ Net Logon\ DC Locator D...

9. INFO: What are Active Directory Recursive Queries?
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...3556.1.4.1941:=For example, to use a recursive query to ascertain whether or not a user is a member of a group, you would use the following syntax: (member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=cn=administrator,...

10. TIP: Group Nesting
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The question of what group type can be placed into what group type, otherwise known as group nesting, is often asked in the news groups. It is also easy to forget. This tip summarises what group