Recent content by jwithi

Morning Chaps, we have just built a new 2008 server to use as a management server and want to be able to access AD from the server. this is mainly to be used when we are remote connecting in from home etc... normally we would install the 'adminpak' but apparantly this is not available for 2008...

i think we will look at setting up a custom MMC that they can use for now until we sort there permissions out. Luckily only a few know that they have access to AD and we have caught a few messing with things instead of coming to us. i would love to take Domain Admins off them but they have had...

Thanks for the reply chipk! and no offense taken. the previous system admin did not really know what he was doing and all the technicians have been given 'Domain Admin' access and most of them do not have a clue how to use AD and what the implications would be if they 'accidentally' did...

Afternoon, Does anyone know of a webpage or form that our desktop technicians can use to simply add users into Active Directory Groups? we do not want to give them access to AD and although i know you can restrict what users can do in AD we are not yet able to do this? Any ideas?

Morning all, i know this might not be the best place for this question, but i could not find a VMWare specific forum. We are just about to install VMWare as our virtualisation solution, but are left with the dilemma of how to charge users when they request additional servers for databases...

Morning Everyone, After doing some more checking on the server in question we realised that it has roughly 900 shares setup, which seems to be a hell of a lot to me (This server was configured etc before i joined the company) and only has 2GB RAM. Surely this will be impacting on the...

Morning Chaps!, We have started to get more and more users complaining about the amount of time taken to access files\folders on one of our filservers. It is a 2003 server that currently has 650GB data on it. This has only just started happening and i wondered if anyone knows of counters that...

Afternoon fellas! We set our users home folders path and drive letter on their AD accounts. In the past this has always worked 100%, provided they have permissions etc on their actual home folder etc... We have just started having a problem with a few select users. One day they logon and it...

I have just tried what the link said locally on a PC and it still allowed folders to be moved without any prompt appearing.

Thanks for the replies. I think i might have the title to this post slightly wrong. We are ideally looking to be able to have the users be prompted for confirmation before they move the folders. We cannot really alter permissions as users might have a genuine reason for moving them around.

Afternoon Chaps! I am starting to get more and more problems with users 'accidentally' doing a drag n drop on their network drives, therefore, moving folders all over the place without realising. I have read that it is possible to stop them movinf folder by restricting permssions on the...

Afternoon, We have a Citrix Farm that runs a batch file that maps users there network drives everytime they launch an application through Nfuse. We have a GPO applied to the farm that locks things down mainly for Citrix Desktop users. We decided to move from .bat files for the login script to...

That worked a treat, dm4ever! thanks a lot.

Thanks GrimR, I am not much of an expert when it comes to VBScript, this is the first one i have ever done. The above code looks a bit confusing to me, is there just on line of code i can added that grabs the users first name from AD and declares it as a variable which i can then add into the...

This is what i have now: Dim WSHShell, WSHNetwork, objDomain, DomainString, UserString, UserFullName, UserObj, Path, HourNow, Greeting Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set WSHNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")...