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Fix Active Directory broken security inheritance problem
Ran into a situation at a client location where in Active Directory, the security permissions applied to an OU were not getting…
security
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Adding a security group to the Local Administrator Group in AD
[su_tooltip position=”north” content=”Note: I normally disable the built-in Administrator account., and make another account an admin. This is a good security precaution and…
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Creating Security Groups for File Shares in Bulk using PowerShell
Security Groups are great for managing large groups for permissions. Â A client requested that they needed to have Read-Only, Read-Write, and Ready-Modify…
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Remove disabled users from Distribution Lists & Security Groups in Active Directory
One of my clients had several disabled users showing up in distribution lists and security groups and this was creating unnecessary noise…
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Find out ‘in cloud’ Distribution Groups
Microsoft Teams was announced yesterday and many want to jump right in. I noticed when users wanted to create teams, new distribution…
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Remove group membership of disabled accounts
Majority of the system administrators I’ve met forget this very important rule. When an account is not needed remove its membership from…
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Microsoft IIS: Disabling the SSL v3 Protocol
Depending on how your Windows servers are configured, you may need to disable SSL v3. Note that older versions of Internet Explorer…
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Enabling ActiveSync for a Security Group using Powershell
$users = Get-ADGroupMember "AD Group with Users to be Enabled for ActiveSync" foreach ($line in $users) { $user = $line.samaccountname Set-CASMailbox $user…