[ActiveDir] Setting the background to GPO

2006-01-11 Thread Bart Vandyck
Hi guys,We added a new branch office to our domain and they still have a lot of windows 2000 machines. Now I'm trying to enforce our Company desktop look and feel and ran into a problem.We load a logo thru GPO for our XP machines and it works as expected: %logonserver%\netlogon\background\logo.bmp

[ActiveDir] Transfer GPO between domains

2005-09-05 Thread Bart Vandyck
Hi all,Quick question, I've been asked the following and I'm not sure about theanswer. When a trust is created between domain A and domain B and a userfrom A logs on to a computer in Domain B. Will he recieve the User GPO's of domain A?Bart

Re: [ActiveDir] Transfer GPO between domains

2005-09-05 Thread Bart Vandyck
Nop it's not in the same forrest... We just created a Trust between them.. So it will not transfer if there not in the same forrest? rgds, bartOn 9/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, he will get the user GPOs. (At least for domain in the same forest)

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO design

2005-02-15 Thread Bart Vandyck
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Vandyck Sent: maandag 14 februari 2005 19:25 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] GPO design Hi Jorge, Great input.. But do i understand you correct that performance is depended on the amount

[ActiveDir] GPO design

2005-02-14 Thread Bart Vandyck
Hi all, I just wanted some feedback on this project I'm working on from people with real world knowledge. We have AD in place with and OU structure. I've been asked the make plan to implement GPO's in this organization. I was thinking about creating a GPO for each application we want to manage

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO design

2005-02-14 Thread Bart Vandyck
: GPO_POL_C_Dept01_DefaultSettings GPO_SWD_U_Site01_AcrobatReader As I think of it: don't go crazy on GPOs. GPOs provide lots of functionality but may also kill performance Cheers, Jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Vandyck Sent

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO design

2005-02-14 Thread Bart Vandyck
patches and updates from MS at one go... Other applications consolidate into one and publish. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bart Vandyck Sent: 14 February 2005 18:25 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] GPO design

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: pushing user info into Outlook

2005-01-28 Thread Bart Vandyck
When you install office you could apply an mst file in wich you can define this.. Have a look at the Custom Installation Wizard on screen 18 here I have entered: username : %Username% Exchange: EXCH01.Domain.local Now Everytime A new user logs on he connects to the correct mail server without

[ActiveDir] Simple GPO Question ?

2005-01-20 Thread Bart Vandyck
Hi all, I have what i suspect a simple GPO question. If I set the background of the workstation thru a GPO does the Image file gets copied every time the user logs on? I did a small test by replacing the image by another image with the same name and after a GPupdate the original cam back..

Re: [ActiveDir] Citrix and AD migrations

2004-12-25 Thread Bart Vandyck
No it is not a remote management solution. It allows all your users to run applications on a server instead of on there local desktops... Practical example: You have 50 users you take a big server put windows, ts citrix on it. You install your application 1 time on the server. Then you can

[ActiveDir] Expired Accounts

2004-12-09 Thread Bart Vandyck
Hi all, A client of mine is thinking about implement a password policy where all users have to change there password every xx days with notification 7 days ahead. They have al lot of off site workers who never come into they office. They only connect thru vpn. So they first log on with cached

RE: [ActiveDir] Account name as Common Name

2004-07-10 Thread Bart Vandyck
Title: Account name as Common Name Thanks forpointing metoin right right direction.. I have been playing with this but it does not work for %sAMAccountName in the article Q250455 it says Note The only tokens that can be formatted in the dislayName are %sn, %givenName, and %initials.

[ActiveDir] Account name as Common Name

2004-07-08 Thread Bart Vandyck
Title: Account name as Common Name Hi all, Just a quick question I don't find on google at first site.. We are implementing AD on W2K3 and we want that the common name of the user object = the account name and not the first + last name.. Currently we create a user and then have to