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Windows Server 2008 R2: Local account users can log into server without using ".\"

We have a small, standard Windows domain, two DCs with a couple of member servers. On our 2008 R2 member servers, local admin accounts can log into the machines WITHOUT having to put the ".\" in front ...
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Add an account from a trusted domain to Domain Admins

Our domain is trusting an external domain (not in the same forest) and we need to add a group from the external domain into the Domain Admins group of our domain. I understand that the Domain Admins ...
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Proper way to manage privileged admin groups for two trusted Active Directory forests?

The scenario is: There are two domains (DomA and DomB) with a trust relationship. The relationship is forest wide with the exception that DomA can access resources in DomB, but users in DomB should ...
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How often User Group Policies are applied

I have just a quick question, if I'm right: Currently I have GroupPolicies for Machines (and their settings) and for Users (and their settings) in my Domain. I know, that the Machine-Policies are ...
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Can I just add a server2012R2 DC to join Server2008R2 DCs?

All my DCs are Win2008R2, the forest functional level and domain functional level are all on 2008R2. So now we have more and more Win2012R2 servers joining our domain. I am having hard time to control ...
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Creating Mapped Network Drives VIA GPO Dynamically to Username

Good Day. i learned server 2008 r2 in college and trying to setup a small server for a college. I have set up AD with DNS,DHCP and WSUS. I am trying to Map 2 x Network drives to each user in a ...
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Computers lose trust relationship - disappearing from domain controller

This happens very seldom but lately a computer lost the trust relationship with our domain so I wanted to reset the computer credentials. Looking at my main DC (Server 2008 R2) I wasn't able to find ...
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Both Domain Controllers believe that they are the PDC and FSMO owners

We have 2 DC's in the environment, 1 VM in Hyper-V and 1 Physical Server for redundancy and backup fail over. Last week the (C:) OS HDD in the Physical Server just died and the Server crashed. The ...
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Programs crash after joining the server into a Domain

UPDATE: Problem solved We decided to upgrade the computer from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2, after reboot, all the problems where fixed. Every app can be executed from domain users. ...
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Setup a webserver as subpart of another server

I have a website in a server, pointing to a domain, say example.com I want to create a new webserver (running in another port) for a second website. This is no problem. The thing is that I need the ...
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How to share a folder on windows server 2008?

I have a Windows Server 2008 on my virtual machine. I created a domain controller and want to share one folder with one user. If I try to connect to the folder, I should enter the Username, Password ...
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Tips on setting up AD Infrastructure for two disjoint networks for a classroom environment

I'm doing a class which involves security\malware testing and therefore want to isolate my labs to their own network with no routing to the main site. I want to be able to set policies, create users, ...
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Best Way to transfer Domain Clients to Domain Contollers

What would be the best way to rejoin my machines to the AD02 and AD01. Background: Previously we have 3 domain controllers(AD01,AD02,AD03), running in redundancy all machines are connected to the same ...
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WS2008R2 - Cannot login to local account after disabling Active Directory Domain Services

I'm using Hyper-V version 10.0.10586.0 and I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine on it, which is a Domain Controller. I wasn't able to create a new checkpoint on Hyper-V, unless i disable ...
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Windows 10 how to force domain users to logon with temporary profile

We have one special computer in our company and we need it to be always "fresh". When there was windows7 all users where logged there with temporary profile and everything was great. Unfortunately ...
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