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A unit of organization in Windows Server that organizes Users, Computers, and Printers.

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Apply group policy to specific users (in an OU) on specific computers (not in an OU)

This has been bugging me for a while. Here's the setup: We have ~20 Win2k8r2 servers. They are separated into various OUs that I can't change. I have created a security group "DevHostsSG" that ...
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Add an audit rule to an Active Directory Organizational Unit with powershell

In the powershell script below, I am collecting Active Directory audit rules for a specific OU, checking if any audit rules exist for a failure, and adding a failure audit rule if one does not exist. ...
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Move email addresses to company domain

My current setup is Exchange 2010 and I have 4 different organisational units setup. We have a number of users spread across these organisational units. We would like to now move to a single domain/...
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OU Search base in LDAP AD integration using CUCM

If i dont define an OU when creating user search bases in LDAP will it use the whole domain instead of a specific OU?
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Remote Group Policy Update failed (Access Denied) for Domain Admin

My first question in ServerFault heya :) In our domain manage all server and client machines with Microsoft Active Directory. We have 13 Vm Server. Domain\administrator user is Domain admin. I use it ...
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Two days in the trenches.... How to delete google cloud organization? I'm setting up Gmail to Send WordPress Emails

How to delete google cloud organization? Greetings from Nice, France, I've got a question which I can't wait to hear what the solution is.... I'm setting up Gmail to Send WordPress Emails. I'm so ...
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Windows Server 2016 Active Directory: Granting Admin to a User for only specific machines

I have granted local admin to several machines for an active directory user who requested / needed this access. I did not want to grant admin to the entire domain and server, but instead to only ...
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OU Name with 'slash' in title "suddenly(?)" rejected by Exchange 2013/0365 Hybrid

We recently migrated from Exchange 2007 to 0365 Hybrid with a 2013 server on-prem. I'm reasonably sure I've made changes to users in the 'Web/IT' OU since the migration and not run into this error, ...
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Unable to remove security group from OU advance permission due to inheritance + Active directory 2012

I am trying to remove one of the security group which has inherit permission on one of my OU in Active Directory. When i click on remove i get the message " You cant remove xxx group (Domian\xxxgroup) ...
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Can any user inside a organization remove a project?

Recently, I have created a project to apply full permissions on a such google account from my organization. I realized that any account could enter and destroy any project. I don't know if this is an ...
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Powershell reporting wrong info for Protected OU

Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -filter * -Properties ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion | where {$_.ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion -eq $false} | ft DistinguishedName,ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion Shows "...
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Can I safely change the OU for an AD DC? What about for a Shared Exchange Mailbox?

Running Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Domain with Exchange Server 2013 CU13 I initially set up my Domain with a very basic structure, and just used the built-in default Users and Computers ...
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How To Enforce OU Policy Of Domain Policy?

I have a domain with 4 OUs in it. The domain level Policy sets security policy for the whole domain. In 2 of the lower OUs I want to overwrite some of the security settings with different settings ...
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Syncronise only one container between Active Directory

I have a Microsoft Exchange server off-site and a file server on-site (with their own separate AD environment). I want to synchronise AD so that new users and password changes are reflected on both ...
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Using DSCONFIGAD to bind computer objects to a specific OU using a FQ LDAP DN

The DSCONFIGAD utility for OS X has a -OU parameter that allows one to generate and bind computer objects to a specified -OU via a FQ LDAP DN argument. This is taken directly from Apple's DSCONFIGAD ...
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WSUS: organize computers

in my 2012R2 domain I need to organize efficiently clients and servers in WSUS. Who setup the domain created one group for each location, and each one is divided into operating systems: Location 1 ---...
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