Archive for the ‘Windows 2003’ Category

LogonHours

Below is a script to find any users who have logon hours restricted (i.e. not set to “Allow Any Time”)
 
Don’t forget to generate an objects.txt by doing a “dsquery –user –l 0 > objects.txt” as per any of my other scripts.
 

strtextfile = "objects.txt" [...]

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What to do when your SYSVOL stops replicating………

A Quick overlay how to re-replicate NtFrs shares :)

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Finding users who are not Inheriting Rights

Got a request from a support company, they have found multiple users who are not inheriting rights from above. These users are random, and he wanted a quick way to find (and therefore fix) the users effected. Screenshot below of the checkbox the users have mysteriously "unchecked";

So I created a little [...]

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Windows XP sp2 / Folder Redirection Policies and Internet Explorer Maintenance Policies (phew)

Found an interesting bug regarding XP2 and Group Policies.
When you apply a Internet Explorer policy to a XP SP2 machine, it only works first time. Any subsequent updates to the policy forces it to actually receive “nothing” via GPO.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888254 has the fix, but you have to request it.
Also believe that after applying the fix (and [...]

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2003 SBS, New Users, and Recovery Storage Groups.

Come across a semi-interesting “bug” / “feature” this morning in Server 2003 SBS. Old product, I know, but meh who cares.
If you create a new user with the SBS Wizard, whilst you have a Recovery Storage Group configured (even if it is offline), it will default to creating (or attempting to as you will see) [...]

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