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I have several policies setup that restrict several things like changing IE homepage etc. I also have several users that run spy-bot and ad-aware on their local PC's and I also use it on my Terminal Servers. I noticed that both spyware programs see the policy and remove it as a threat thus...

I have the same problem with one user in particular that likes finding ways around OU policies. So far it’s a weekly thing to keep adding things to the disallowed list of programs he can’t run. You can block one program and he goes download a similar program to accomplish what he wants. I could...

Thanks for the reply. They are set as follows. The root C: drives permissions are set with Authenticated users read and execute, list folder contents and read. Administrators with full control and System with Full control. The second drive that I use as the pagefile drive is set with...

I tried that by setting the minimum on the C: drive and rebooted the server. When it came back up it only saw the pagefile on the C: drive but did not recognize the rest of the pagefile on the other drive. I even tried to set the pagefile to the second partition of my primary drive and it would...

I am having a very odd problem with my pagingfile. For some strange reason the operating system just stopped reading the settings correctly and I have done everything I can think of to fix it. I have a server with 2 hard drives in and one dedicated to pagefiling alone. I have removed the...

I agree with beerhunter on that would take even more time not to mention it would be a lot harder in the long run to manage, because you are going to have to go around to every workstation to do just about anything. Also when a user locks their self out of the workstation you will physically...

I have done it using a program called Second Copy and it worked fine. There may be some free options out there like robocopy but I do know that Second Copy will work and it will keep the permissions.

We audit failed and successful login attempts. We are also required to keep them for up to 3 years so we have a program that we created that copy them out to a file that we backup daily. We are only required to audit that on the domain level because users can only login to servers and PC's using...

I really don’t remember an exact time frame, but it really did not take that long. It only took the time it would normally take to load NT and do the upgrade. NT does not take anytime at all to load and if you load it as a domain controller it will automatically see your other DC and replicate...

Oh yeah about the win98 clients. (Sorry about the double post) Yes they work perfectly in my domain that is running in Native mode. All you have to do is edit the lmhosts file on the 98 clients and add this line “Ip address of domain controller name of the domain controller #PRE...

GlenJohnsons option is the easiest by far to do but when I had to upgrade my Domain a used your second option, because my NT PDC controller was old and nobody wanted to take the risk of trying to upgrade it and something go wrong and we lose the entire domain. Also by doing your option two like...

Sorry misread your post a little. As long as the Domain you are wanting to change over to native mode does not need to talk to your NT domain mentioned in the first post you are ok because native mode will no longer recognize the NT domain. There should be no issue with one of your AD domains...

Make sure she does not have the option "print as an image" selected when she goes to print. I had this issue and that ended up being the cause because when that option was selected the spool file would be huge. Also make sure you are using the correct PCL driver. If I am not mistaken there was a...

1) Yes if you want users to authenticate using your AD server you will need to add users to the active directory. Computers will automatically be added, but if they are NT based machines (nt/2000/xp/2003) they will need to be joined to the domain. 2) Use tcp for your protocol. 3) Make sure...

The purpose of mixed mode is to let both Win2K and Windows NT domain controllers to coexist. Mixed mode provides the functionality that lets NT domain controllers offer domain services. If your second site is running a NT domain you cannot switch to Native mode. Native mode doesn’t support NT...

You can use Roaming profiles and set the temp profiles that are created on the server during login to delete after logoff. Here is a link for Roaming profiles http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316353. The server is going to need to be able to right the temp folder to the...

Your question is rather broad ranged and it’s hard to just give "best practice" audit policies without knowing a lot more. For instance if you are looking for security practices it depends on what your organization needs to protect and what it needs to prevent. What sort of government...

Yeah I just checked and it has been released in beta. I don't do much beta testing and would wait until its released gold before I messed with it much. It should be a lot better product than the SUS server and maybe a few people have already looked at the beta version.

To my knowledge the WUS has not been released yet. They were going to release it last year but put it on hold until mid year this year. I may be wrong but that was the last thing I heard about WUS and never even looked at it again since we purchased the iPatch.

Honestly I did not like the SUS server and opted to go for a paid patch management option. We used SUS for about 3 months and never liked the features mainly because it doesn’t have many unless you hack the crap out of it. There was no reporting feature to it and it was not near as easy to back...