windows administration

  1. Mastering Group Policy in Windows 11: Best Practices for Admins

    Let’s face it—as a Windows admin, dealing with Group Policy is an essential yet often daunting task, akin to being handed a Swiss Army knife and being asked to build a whole house. You’ve got an infinite amount of tweaks at your fingertips, but the key is knowing how to use them wisely. Whether...
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    Lsass.exe constantly reading registry for DefaultAuthLevel (NAME NOT FOUND - in Process Monitor)

    I see it relates to DCOM Default Authentication Level, which has in total, 7 fields in the Component Services Windows admin tool. That is in this order, from top of the list to the bottom as it appears; Default, None, Call, Connect, Packet, Packet integrity and Packet Privacy. I only see one...
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    GP to make a user or a service member of the DCOM group

    Hello Experts, Looking for some guidance on how to make a user or service account a member of local administrator, DCOM, and Performance Monitoring group. Thanks!
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    Windows 7 How to list all shares? How to cmdline remove GRANT for everyone ?

    To create a folder share and grant full permissions to user karl I can write on cmdline: net share "myshare123"="D:\tool" /GRANT:karl,FULL ok, it works. But what about the other way: Is there a way to generate all the full "net share" commands for ALL currently existing folder shares? I...
  5. Migrating from 2008 R2 to 2012 with Domain name change

    Hi, I'm doing a migration from a 2008 R2 domain called "company,com" to a 2012 domain called "ad,company,com". My question is, which would be the easiest way to migrate all user accounts from one to the other? Is there a built-in tool or do I go third party? I already have the new servers set...
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    Windows 8 Demoting Your Account with Your Account

    So currently I was promoted from a standard user to an administrator, and now wish to demote myself using my administrator account. Is this possible? I tried going into Accounts in PC Settings, but there was no tab to manage accounts. Should I go to the control panel, or do I have get the...
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    Windows 7 Understanding user accounts and file permissions

    Hi, Can someone explain this to me. (1) When I go to "Control Panel -> User Accounts". There is only one account "User / Administrator". Yet when I create a folder and look at the Security tab (in folder properties), there is a list of different users: Administrators SYSTEM Users...
  8. Unable to Join Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 Computer to Active Directory Domain

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    Windows 7 Shutdown script deployed by GP not running

    We have a GPO that has a shutdown script that runs on our XP machines, but does not run on our win7 machines. Our DCs run Server2003. The script is simply a shortcut to an hta file on the hard drive of the clients machines. I have checked several win7 machines and the hta files are present in...
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    Windows 7 Can not uncheck startup/ edit startup entries

    Trying to disable some of the bloatware that came with my HP G62, as well as disable unneeded auto-updates, and have been blocked from doing so. Ran msconfig, startup entries... Unchecked, hit "apply" and they just become checked again. ??? (Ran as administrator on admin account) Tried...
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    Windows 7 UAC and the problem of ASUS EP4-engine on user accounts.

    Since i use an ASUS motherboard, i need to keep EPU-4 engine working all the time (it regulates the system consumption) But i created an account for my sister, then i locked mine with a password, and now everytime she logs in, the epu asks for my password (im the admin, shes an user), so i dont...
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    Windows 7 Access XP "Workgroup" share from W7 "Domain" machine.

    This question or a similar one has ben asked on here and other places but no one seems to have any idea. So this will probably go unsolved like many other windows 7 issues but here goes. I'm happy to award 8 internets to anyone who has any ideas about resolving this issue. Have a windows 7 pro...
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    Windows 7 What administrative errors are you getting in event viewer?

    My main one is DHCPv6-client..i have 484 of these errors. Also blocked driver....staropen.sys.................any-one any ideas on fixing these errors?