Tag: Active Directory

Two Way Group Policy Locator Tool

Two Way Group Policy Locator Tool

This article and the tool it introduces will likely be of interest only to Windows system administrators, IT security practitioners,  and other members of the ... Read More

Domain Controller in Safe mode?  Marcos brings the Vet office back online.

Domain Controller in Safe mode? Marcos brings the Vet office back online.

Here is a guest post from my friend Marcos Velez.  He worked out a pretty perplexing issue involving a nonresponsive Domain Controller at his sister’s ... Read More

Centralized policy definitions – Bad idea! … with a remedy.

Centralized policy definitions – Bad idea! … with a remedy.

On several occasion in the past few years (and twice in the past month, probably the result of interest in piloting Windows 10 and/or Office ... Read More

VMware Site Recovery Manager – DNS Stalls for 20 minutes.

Chris Monfet sent over a handy setting for those of us leveraging VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect our Active Directory infrastructures. I was ... Read More

TS/RDS User Home Directory policy Explained

TS/RDS User Home Directory policy Explained

Here is a nice write up on Setting Home Directories via group policy by Jacques Bensimon. Since I’ve had to deal with this before, I ... Read More