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6 Must Have Conditional Access Polices

February 12, 2022 by Phil

Microsoft has done a fantastic job with Azure and Office 365, giving us admins a suite of tools and solutions. However, there is so much in these products it can be a little confusing knowing where to start. One area …

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Searching for an Active Directory Object that Contains a Word

August 27, 2021October 22, 2015 by Phil

Searching for an Active Directory Object that Contains a Word I am trying to find a group in Active Directory Users and Computers that I know contains the word “Visio”. However I don’t know what the group name starts with. Overview: …

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Active Directory: Finding and Copying the DN of an Object using LDP.exe

December 21, 2015July 23, 2010 by Phil

If you want a graphical tool to find the DN of an Active Directory object then the free Microsoft tool LDP.exe should do the trick. The tool is included with the Windows Server OS and can be accessed from your …

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Active Directory: Redirecting New Users and New Computers to a Specified OU

January 2, 2016July 23, 2010 by Phil

By default when a new user is created in Active Directory the object will be created under the top level User container (CN=User), similarly when a computer is created it will be created in the top level Computers container (CN=Computers). …

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Group Policy ADM to set the desktop wallpaper and the desktop colour

December 27, 2015April 12, 2010 by Phil

For some time I have been using a group policy and Active Desktop to set users Wallpapers however Active desktop is far from perfect. So instead I have now started using the attached ADM to specify the desktop wallpaper and …

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Changing Permissions on a Registry Key Using Group Policy

December 21, 2015February 2, 2010 by Phil

The below steps will slow you how to set the permissions on a given registry key using Group Policy, this is vey useful is you want to run a script with user privileges that needs to modify a certain registry …

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