Questions tagged [active-directory]
Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's implementation of the LDAP protocol or X.500 standard. Its purpose is to manage objects from a networked computer and make them available for users and administrators of the network.
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How to list the users and groups of an AD Security Group when not a domain admin
I am on Windows 8 connected to domain.
I wish to view the users and groups of an AD Security group. I am not the owner of the group. The command:
net group /domain TheGroupName
shows the direct ...
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How can I find out which user groups my domain user belongs to? [duplicate]
Running Windows 7 on my work PC, how can I check which groups I am a part of on the domain from my PC? I know how to check the local groups using MMC (Microsoft Management Console), just not the ...
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How can I tell which Domain controller I'm authenticated to?
How can I tell which Domain controller I'm authenticated to? Is there a way to do this without local admin?
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Overriding HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH as a Windows 7 user
My employer has an Active Directory group policy which sets my Windows 7 laptop HOMEDRIVE to "M:" (a mapped network drive) and my HOMEPATH to "\". Since I have read-only permissions for the root of ...
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How do I add Azure Active Directory User to Local Administrators Group
With Windows 10 you can join an organisation (=Azure Active Directory) and login with your cloud credentials.
Based on the information provided here the first account per computer that joins the ...
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Re-joining a computer to domain
I have a problem with a Windows 7 PC that had been a member of the domain. When I try to logon to this PC with domain credentials I get a message similar to
The trust relationship between this ...
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Using the "net user" command in Windows XP to list all group memberships for a specific Active Directory user
Is it possible to list all group memberships for a certain AD user?
I thought it was something like:
net user londondom\john
But this doesn't seem to work for AD users. The same command will work ...
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Is there a sample AD & LDAP server for practice? [closed]
I am trying to study the connection method to LDAP and AD, but don't have a working AD.
I do have a full working Window 2008 Server.
Is there a sample AD & LDAP server I could use for practice?
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How to make Chrome trust Windows system root CA certificate?
Our corporate machine administrators distribute corporate root CA certificates via Active Directory, but Chrome does not trust system certificates by default. Is there any way to tweak Chrome to trust ...
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What characters are valid for Active Directory groups?
My software program is going to auto-generate Active Directory group names. We need to know which characters aren't allowed in an AD Group name (i.e. /, \, [, \, |, etc.).
I found this link from ...
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Checking if a user account is locked on another domain controller
I'm trying to see if a user account has been locked out, using the command line.
I thought that I could do this with the net command, but when I run the command
NET USER username /domain
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Why my home PC wallpaper updates to my office wallpaper [duplicate]
In my office, they have some server policy that changes the wallpaper every month. I can't change my wallpaper there.
The problem is that my home PC and laptop also get updated, and I dont know why. ...
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Refreshing user's group membership in active directory without log-off/log-on
So, when user logs in to their workstation, they receive SIDs of groups they are members of, and this is used for the length of the session, until logging off.
Is there a way to refresh membership ...
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From the Active Directory Snap-In, how can I find the GUID for a user?
How ca I view the GUID associated with an Active Directory user under windows 7?
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getent passwd outputs only local users
I want to authenticate via Active Directory on a CentOS 6.4 server.
wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g display the domain users/groups. Authentication via wbinfo -a DOMAIN+user works. Authentication via kinit ...
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