I have created several distribution lists which are largely populated by
contacts with external email addresses only.  The contacts are in a separate
OU to segregate them from normal users.  The distribution lists are
maintained through Outlook 2003 by a user who does not have ...

We have 5 DCs in our domain and upgraded the first DC to 2008.  We do
not see the GPMC.MSC.  Do we have to upgrade all of them to get the
GPMC from the 2008 DC ?  It is not listed under administrative tools
and can't do a search for it either.  Thanks in advance.

Hi
Recently I deployed this GPO, however our boss does not like it and asked me
to remove it.
I put all three policies "not defined". But it seems not to work.

is there any way to get past the default 64 character limit in AD for
group names?

We have a restricted group policy at the domain level which basically
defines the domain members of a local group (the local group members
are these...) , which is the "lock down" type of restricted group
policy as opposed to the one where you just say "this domain group

I am using GPO to deploy printers for users in an OU - based on per user.  I
have logon script setup to use the printer connection .exe.  The printers
deploy fine, but when I move the users out of the OU the old connections
remain.  This occurs on Vista, XP, Windows 2003.  I can ...

Hello NG,
in my Windows 2008 domain (2008 native mode) I'm not able to create any new
GPOs using the GPMC. I receive the error message "data present in the reparse
point buffer is invalid". I already checked the reparse points like described

I have deployed SP3 for XP on a number of test PC's, but I have noticed the
firewall turns on after the install and reboot.  I need all computers in the
Domain to have their firewalls turned of, can I do this?

We are due to merge with a another company, and due to us having a
more complex AD structure we are bringing the new domain into our AD.
We want to try and hide our domain.com from the end users of the new
company and ours and show a newdom.com (its a bit sensitive as the CEO

I am trying to create a saved query to find out all locked-out user
accounts.
The query string I used is:
(&(&(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(lockoutTime:1.2.840.113556.1.4.804:=4294967295))))

I am having trouble with DNS. The only error in the event viewer is a warning
with Event ID:4521 with the description of "The DNS server encountered error
32 attempting to load zone mydomain.local from Active Directory. The DNS
server will attempt to load this zone again on the ...

Hi All, Is there any way to query AD to find out if a computer account has
not accessed AD in over a month? I need to find any old or non-existent
Computer accounts is AD. I am trying to clean up my installation. Thanks in
advance for your help.

From some documents, I know ktpass.exe from windows 2003 support tools can
map SPN to user. I use this command to generate a key file for SPNEGO purpose.
In this command, an option "-pass" which is used to provide password for the
user. However, I found even providing a wrong ...

So I downloaded the office 2007 compatibility pack for office 2003 and I want
to try to install it via group policy.
The file I downloaded is a *.exe file.
Do I need to somehow create a .msi file in order to accomplish the

We are trying to figure out how to remove the address bar from Internet
explorer 7 using a group policy.  I have found how to remove it by changing
the computer's registry but I would like this to be controlled by a group
policy.