Tag Archives: Domain

Windows Security Best Practices

In todays age, you can not be too secure when it comes to your network it’s better to be safe than sorry.  In the current economy I’ve seen many companies consolidate jobs and add new burden to already over-burdened admins.  One of the places where this will hurt companies is the network security departments. I’ve learned many…

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Q&A Monday: Domain Auto-Logon

Question: We are currently building a test lab, in which we can test proposed changes to the network, and have a test domain in place.  We have a domain controller and a handful of workstations to test the changes out on.  The problem is, that every time we power on the domain we need to log in all…

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Question and Answer: Stop Domain Users from Installing Files

Question: I have Windows 2003 domain and some users have local admin rights. I would like to prevent these users from installing any software on their PCs. Bobby Clem Boulder, CO Answer:     In an ideal world we wouldn’t have users who were also local administrators, but we in the IT world often have perfect…

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Q&A Monday: Domain Password Last Changed

Question: I am in a situation on where I need to find out when the last time a user changed their network password.  Our domain policy forces the change in account passwords every 120 days, and a user is claiming that it’s been longer than that, I checked the GPO and everything looks OK, but…

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