After creating a new user and committing, I am attempting to set the
password.
I create the user as:
DirectoryEntry newUser = adUserFolder.Children.Add("CN=" +

Hi I have A Dept. Supervisor wants to check what sites her staff have been
visiting on the Internet. This would be done from her own workstation.
Thanks Guys I've been battling with this one for over a month now...

Hello world,
I was wondering if it's possible to limit a group of user which are in a
specific OU access to a hand full of websites and block the rest?
SBS 2003 environment.

We are running a 13 Site Windows 2003 AD infrastructure across a very large
geographical area. All the IT Operations are centralised at the Head Office.
We operate a reasonably sophisticated Intranet Portal that is available to
all users for workflow collaboration.

DC1 and DC2 are in the same site A in Swizterland. DC3 and DC4 are in the
same site B in Hong Kong.
In the Sites and Services, I can see that DC1 has replications with DC2
(intrasite A) and with DC3 (intersite).

I want to restrict the number of users that can logon to a computer. eg:
user A can logon to X but user B can't logon to X.
I can set in the users and computers that a user can logon to only a certain
range of computers but can I set a range of users that can logon to a

We are currently in the midst of a possible roof collapse in our company and
have to put a new network up ASAP.
My question is how to go about setting up a new server as a parent domain
controller.

I'm trying to use CSVDE to generate contacts in AD. The import works, but I
don't understand how AD is generating the 'name' or 'cn' attributes. In my
import file, I specify how I want the contacts named, but AD just names them
as 'sn, givenName'. My import file looks like this:

Thanks in advance for your input. I hope I can get this issue resolved
soon since it will relieve me of my daily morning headache.
Here's a brief history of what has happened. Our company was recently
bought by a bigger corporation. We have since been in the process of

hi, i am from spain, excuse me my inglish
I have a 2003 domain and i want to send mesagge to my client (to notify
restart server, virus notification, restart services, etc)
Are there any alternate to net send?

I have a corperate jpeg loading as the wallpaper - pushed via a group policy
object. All seemed well - until I noticed on a few PCs and servers where the
wallpaper doesn't load properly.
Have the screen is covered by the wallpaper and half not - the second half

On a 2003 server, I set up a shared folder in Windows Explorer and right
clicked on it and set some permissions- everyone full access.  That did not
give everyone full access.
Then I right-clicked on My computer/Manage/shared folders/shares Share

sorry for crossposting
memberof is listed as an attribute for computer objects but returns an
automation error when attempting to access it using the following code:
           For Each strGroupName In objComputer.memberOf

I can't edit my default GPO. I can't do anything to it. Can't delete it etc.
I'm following the KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290647 as those are
the event log errors i keep getting every 5 minutes.
This is Win2k as well.

at least 3 or 4 times a day i get user that are unable to logon to the 2003
AD domain..  the message they get 'unable to login, the domain is
unavailable, or the computer is no registered...
After a couple reboots, the user can log in fine...  I ran dcdiag and this