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When to change a workstation name [closed]
I'm discussing with my coworkers when it is appropriate to change a computer name in Active Directory.
Our current naming structure is along the lines of . As computers are rebuilt they are either ...
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Need to update primary email address in Exchange 2010 based on email address policy
An email address for one of my end users was incorrectly configured awhile back in Exchange 2010.
When I go into the properties of the user in the Exchange Management Console I can only change the ...
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“Template” for handing out user & passwords for employees
Within this relatively small company I work for, I have been handing out usernames and passwords written very simply in a word document.
I wish for this process to be more professional now that we ...
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Postfix policyd dual usage setup - greylisting and quotas
On our server we are using policyd 1.x together with Postfix 2.1.5 for greylisting and enforcing incoming quotas from unauthorized users (ie. mail for our domains). For this, I have set up Postfix ...
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What should I do about this user?
What should I do about this user? The user is:
Downloading pornography
Attempting unauthorized access
Running hacking software
Sending unsolicited email
Installing software / tampering with the ...
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Deep Freeze Removing Group Policy?
I am having trouble applying group policies on computers with deep freeze installed on them. They are domain joined and pulling updates from our WSUS server before being frozen. When we freeze them ...
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Why warn users weeks before their passwords expire? [closed]
At my workplace (and I am told many others), several password-requiring systems warn users every day during the two week period before their passwords expire. The warning consists of a dialog box that ...
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Using CommVault to backup a NAS without NDMP
We have CommVault Simpana 9.0.0 build 84 currently installed and configured on our backup server that is equipped with both a magnetic array and a tape library. I am trying to find a way to backup one ...
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Optmizing tape media usage for CommVault Simpana 9
My employer has CommVault Simpana 9.0.0 build 84 currently installed and configured on our backup server that is equipped with both a magnetic array and a tape library. It may be a newbie question, ...
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Is it possible to detect clients behind a NAT?
Recently, UC Irvine's Residential Network department changed their security policies to include the following requirement:
Reconfiguration of Home Routers
Home routers will need to have DHCP ...
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How do you separate emails for different roles an individual has?
I work at a university, where we have staff members who can also teach as an adjunct faculty member. We issue an account for the individual based on their name, so Joe Smith would get ...
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CUPS policy to add paused jobs
At our NGO we have public terminals, which people can use freely. We do want to offer some limited printing abilities. Currently /home/printing/ is mounted on terminals, from which admin prints from ...
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Exchange Public Folders Recipient Policies
I am setting up Recipient Policies that delete emails after a set amount of days for all email accounts on my Exchange 2003 email Server.
I also have a Public Folder which contains emails to a ...
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Confidential Documentation and the role of the Sysadmin
I've got another interesting one.
I'm about to backup and reinstall the HR Administrator's PC. I suspect that the fastest way to do this is to use the Windows 7 Transfer tool, and create a backup ...
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Firewall policies don't apply to ping/tracert attempts?
I know next to nothing about networking so apologies if this is a stupid or strange question.
Our systems administration/IT support is outsourced to a consulting company. I was working with them to ...
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Disabling USB/removable devices in software
How can I truly disable USB/removable drive support purely with software?
On Windows for example I know I could disable the relevant hardware in device manager, and users would not be able to ...
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What is the best way to install .NET 3.5 on all machines on the network?
I am a developer and I would like to upgrade a client's application to .NET 3.5. This means .NET 3.5 needs to be installed on every computer on the network that is going to use this application.
The ...
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Retention Tags in Mail Folders
Instead of using Retention Tags, what other options do you have for setting retention on items in mail folders?
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Hosting Hyper-V VMs to customers [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing question?
So simple enough question really, I hope. I'm a little confused by Microsoft's licencing, go figure eh.
I'm maybe ...
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Windows Server 2008 AutoLogin Permission on WinLogon Key
I have a windows Server 2008 that need to automatically autologin on startup, i've added this registry key :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName ...
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Siteminder Policy Server installation fails to set super user password
Currently tearing my hair out trying to install Siteminder Policy Server and I'm sure I must be missing something obvious. I've tried console mode, gui mode and unattended installs, and each time I ...
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Force SSH public key authentication for specific users
Is it possible to force specific users to login with public key, while allowing other users to login with password? Since public key authentication (with passphrase) is stronger than password-only ...
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Using group policy preferences to push a file to C:\Windows on a restricted user
We have a really old Video learning program that we need to run from the network for our students. However it uses Director Player 6.0 and the students get the error: "Unable to copy the driver file ...
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Active Directory theme policies
I'm currently managing a terminal server in a domain. As the TS-service just got installed, previous users (I logged in with every user once to test it and set up a few things) use the default windows ...
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How to track user dependency on services, resources, settings and defs? (for example to be able to email dependent users if these change)
Is there industry wisdom, management and software tools (free preferably) for recording and tracking which users depend on what services, resources, settings and definitions centrally administered by ...
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What do you do about staff and personal laptops?
Today, one of our developers had his laptop stolen from his house. Apparently, he had a full svn checkout of the company's source code, as well as a full copy of the SQL database.
This is one ...
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Cisco ASA 5510 multiple time-range commands
I asked this question a while back, and have since discovered the "time-range" command in the ASA 5510. This works as expected.
Is it possible to setup 2 sets of access-list rules that take effect ...
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Backup Plans - How do we ensure NERC 1213 / CIP-009 compliance?
We're about to deploy two racks of servers that will be in an environment that necessitate meeting NERC CIP-009 standards.
While everyone has their own methodology, how would you go about creating a ...
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How to manage semi-external webapplication from within a strict company intranet?
Ok, so this is the scenario.
We are about to insource one of our webapplications, however, my companys it-policies are very strict, so I'm not quite sure how to maintain the app after insourcing.
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How do I deny a user-based Group Policy for a specific computer?
So we have a GPO setup to redirect "My Documents" to a server location for all users in the domain (it's linked to the root "Users" OU). This works just fine, but we have 2 special workstations that ...
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Email Retention Policy for terminated employees
We are going through a situation where we have a former employee who will continue to do contract work for us. The boss thinks it is normal to IMMEDIATELY suspend their accounts and delete their ...
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Exchange 2007: Prevent Users from Deleting or Moving a Folder
Need a solution for preventing my users from being able to move or delete their "Inbox\Archive No Delete" folder. This is a subfolder of the Inbox which is created by a third party application ...
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Cisco ASA 5510 Time of Day Based Policing
I have a Cisco ASA 5510 setup at a boarding school. I determined that many (most?) of the students were downloading files, watching movies, etc, during the day and this was causing the academic side ...
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Firewall policy sanity check tool
Im looking for a tool to analyzer firewall policy to check if there are duplicate rules/overwritten rules. Could you please suggest any to do the job?
Thanks.
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What's the proper way to change a process' scheduling policy to IDLE?
I have a long running process on a server running Ubuntu Server 9.10. I would like to make it run under the SCHED_IDLE policy using the chrt command. However, after reading the man page, I can't ...
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Need opinions on an organizational computer replacement policy
Back story - I was hired by my current employer out of college as a web developer roughly 2 years ago. In that two years, I have taken on some of the roles of a system administrator as this position ...
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Apple client OS support lifecycle
I have a simple question that I seem to be having a hard time getting a straight-up answer for. What is Apple's support policy for Mac OS X client versions? When do they drop support? For example, ...
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Linux Server update / upgrade policy
I am running Debian Stable on all our servers. Debian Stable always gets
security and other important updates time to time which includes Kernel Updates
too. Do one have to immediately update all ...
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Why can't a domain's root be a CNAME?
I've just read this question which essentially says that when I set up DNS for example.com, the root record can't be a CNAME, it has to be an A record.
My question is, why?
I'm sure the clever ...
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Group Policy: Enforce No Write Caching for Removable Drives
We've run into a number of issues on our system where students are unplugging devices from workstations without safely removing them first. Whilst the results are often a very good learning experience ...
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How do I configure privileges for a Standard user account?
How do I limit the features of a Standard user account, without affecting the Admin account?
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What are some best practices when taking over IT at a new company?
I thought this would make for a good topic with some interesting suggestions.
What are the first things you would do when taking over IT at a new organization?
What are some red flags you would look ...
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Relay access denied and policy rejection errors
I have two different errors when receiving mail from this server mailserver.santanderrio.com.ar[200.61.38.105].
postfix/smtpd[23015]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ...
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How can I revoke access for a user across different systems?
We are going to let one of our sysadmins go in a few weeks. He has access to our entire infrastructure, so we'll have to reset the passwords on everything. This is going to be really time consuming ...
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How do I audit changes made to our servers, routers, etc.?
We have a lot of servers (running Windows and Ubuntu) along with a mix of Cisco and Juniper routers with a side of HP Procurve switches. We have a few sysadmins who like to make changes to configs ...
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Is there a Utility that will scan selected locations and return all files older than a certain date?
Can anyone recommend a utility that can scan specified directory locations (network shares specifically) and return all files older than a certain date?
I am looking to implement a data retention ...
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Group Policy Drive Mapping
How do I get to the screen which allows me to set drive mappings for Active Directory Group Policy?
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Codec Pack that can easily be deployed via group policy
We have a teacher that has a project for doing some basic film editing with windows movie maker. We loaded the avi file onto the computer and Windows is trying to install a codec but can't. I assume I ...
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Group Policy Trust Problem
I've setup a new group policy for our windows XP users but now when they run a link to a program they get a trust box which they have to click 'run' on. I think its a trusted locations thing ie, ...
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Resrtict MS Access creation
Is it possible to restrict MS Access creation but still be able to view and execute Access files.
