I have created a GPO which has computer configuration and user configuration. I want to apply for all staff.
To make it work do I need to link the GPO to both Computer-OU and User-OU?
(security filtering is set to Authenticated Users)
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I have credentials for the local "Administrator" user on every computer in my department. Sometimes, when I set the machines up for my colleagues, I forget to add my domain username in the administrators group (whoopsie!). It would be easy just setting up a remote desktop connection passing the Administrator user credential, but I'd like to do this "silently", so my question is: is there a way to pass those credentials by shell and then perform the usual operations for adding a user (mine, in this case) to the administrators group?
I work with Windows machines in an Active Directory environment.
Thanks.
Well, this is not from the shell, but you could from your PC/Server as admin run computer management, right click "Computer Management (local)" select "connect to another computer" and bring up the remote computers computer management console and add yourself to that computers local admin group in the background.
Hope that helps.
Password complexity setting is disabled in default domain GPO. I need to enable it on one server, but I don't have the access to edit this GPO on the domain level. When I open local security settings on the server, option to enable (or disable) is grayed out. Is there a way to override default domain GPO for password complexity locally in the registry? And to keep it that way, to stop GPO from being propagated down from domain level to this particular server?
There are two moments in your case. First you can't use a local group policy for domain accounts because AD accounts store on only DCs. Only Domain Controller Polices. And ones apply only to user accounts. Not computer accounts. Second you can use a local group policy for edit settings for only local user accounts. Run the gpedit.msc command on local server for it.
But since Windows 2008 Domain you can separate password policy for different user groups. You can read about it here for example
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770842(v=ws.10).aspx
Good luck.
I have a PC (Windows 7) that has a domain user. Because of some maintenance issues the PC is not in the company that has the domain user. There is no access to the domain through the internet.
I need to add this domain user into one of the local groups. I tried to to this by means of the Local Users and Groups panel of the Windows. It was not possible of course. Location of the user is only the local PC, domain is not accessible. As the local admin account I have also tried command line
net localgroup "My Group" Domain\user1 /add
However this also did not work. Is there any way to add a domain user into a local group when the domain is not available?
No, not without joining the computer to the domain containing the domain user to add locally or at least to a domain for which a trust exists with the domain containing the user to add locally.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739265(v=ws.10).aspx
• If the computer is joined to a domain, you can add user accounts, computer accounts, and group accounts from that domain and from trusted domains to a local group.
Is it possible to give someone access to the SiteMinder administration console, but in a read only fashion? We want some people to be able to see the configuration but not be able to modify anything.
SiteMinder Administrator accounts can be configured with fine-grained privileges that determine the administrative capabilities available to that administrator.
SiteMinder Administrator accounts are assigned rights to one or more security categories that define their administrative authority in the Administrative UI, such as managing authentication schemes. By default an Administrator account has access to every SiteMinder object related to an assigned security category.
Workspaces define a subset of SiteMinder objects. Assign a workspace to one or more Administrator accounts to filter the objects that are available to them, further controlling the scope of their administrative authority. An Administrator account whose authority is restricted by an assigned workspace is known as a scoped administrator.
Consult the SiteMinder Policy Server Configuration guide for more details...
I am working on the examination system and need to implement the following scenario:
User ( standard windows user ) completes the exam and then it is saved on the network share.
For security reasons the share does not have permissions for this user account. So I use impersonation API ( LogonUserEx, ImpersonateLoggedOnUser, RevertToSelf).
It all worked fine when the user with which I do the impersonation had admin privileges on the
local computer but the requirements are that it will be standard user.
With standard user the share is not visible. When I log in interactively with this user the share is visible and writable. So I assume that the standard user can not mount share when not logged in interactively. Is this correct? Is there a workaround?
The only time my code runs with elevated privileges is during the setup of the software.
I thought about using WNetAddConnection2 API but I need the share to be mounted to
this "hidden" user profile and not the administrator one that runs the setup.