A quick update for y'all that are watching/participating in this thread (thank you, by the way!). Late Friday I realized where the lockouts where coming from. We have a Windows VM that has a suite of applications that folks need to use every blue moon or so, and they access the VM via RDP. Of course, users don't log out, they just close the RDP client (I am going to fix this). The user in question had an old logon session on this VM. Killing the user's session (I just rebooted the VM) seems to have done the trick. Now the goal is to better position myself for the next time this happens. I also figure it's probably not a bad idea to have more visibility on account lockouts and where they are coming from in general.

@dbeato said in GPO for compatibility mode: @Grey said in GPO for compatibility mode: A previous admin created a gpo to alter and add an entry under the hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER in Key path Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Ranges\Range66 which forces a single entry for compatibility mode. I've spent a lot of time testing and, while the setting is to apply once and not again, it doesn't seem to allow a user to add more sites to compatibility mode and keep that addition after a reboot. Has anyone successfully created a GPO for IE11 to enable CM for users to add items, while also pushing a list of our own? Is there a best method around for achieving this goal? I have not, I only keep adding it through GPO (In the medical field which they have many sites as this). Ditto - Just have to keep adding them via GPO. So glad we barely use IE 11 anymore.

@NerdyDad You can use Loopback Processing also. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2013/02/08/circle-back-to-loopback/

Thank you for the help. By posting the screenshots, I realized I had a typo in the file extension. .png vs .jpg Once I double checked them all it now works.

@eddiejennings said in Logging Domain user authentication failures: @travisdh1 said in Logging Domain user authentication failures: @eddiejennings No OSSEC, Wazuh, or some other security monitoring available? All of them monitor logins by default that I've looked at. Should be easy to customize a report for whatever you need. I haven't had to set this up in a Windows environment yet, so I'm also curious as to what you end up doing. We do have ExtraHop; however, it's not capturing all the traffic it should (and another team is in charge of its configuration), so using auditing on the domain controllers is a bit of a stop-gap measure. Ah. What an ..... effective use of resources. Good luck, ExtraHop is very nice, but like every other tool, it's useless untill deployed properly.

@scottalanmiller said in Deleting a GPO: @rojoloco said in Deleting a GPO: @dave247 I have a few ideas about who they are specifically... but after they decided to be a bunch of dicks about anyone here posting links to their site that shall not be named, they created an account here to spy, presumably. Lot of former folks here... Lots of for their informers. It's a public site, doesn't take much for someone to inform, lol. It's a bit like tattling on a billboard. That sounds a lot like calling out your Husband by doing this to his ride.

As long as it is on the SysVol\Policies\PolicyDefinitions folder then you should be fine.

@thwr said in Flushing GPOs: @dbeato said in Flushing GPOs: You need to setup the settings to Delete or changed to not configured, wait until it applies and then delete the GPOs after confirming they are not applied any longer. Get-Content c:\temp\gpos.txt | foreach { Get-GPO -Name "$_" | Remove-GPO } http://jeffwouters.nl/index.php/2013/08/remove-group-policy-objects-through-powershell/ I bet you could do something like this to set all GPOs to "on delete remove from client" too This assumes a txt file with all GPO names. You could also just use Get-GPO

@Tim_G said in GPO Path?: @Grey said in GPO Path?: So, what's the current method to add a single trusted site to my intranet zone in GPO, eh? And where do I modify all of the trusted sites/zones and activex now? I was answering the above question. Of course these will say not configured, because you haven't configured them yet. That's the thing though; there is configuration from the previous IT Team. I should be able to edit that and I just can't. The path shown isn't there for me.

@Dashrender said in Windows Offline Files query: I'm guessing those 8 people didn't make any offline updates to files in that folder, so Windows never checked to see if there were new versions. They have Read-Only access to the network folder. Another group is tasked of updating it.

@scotth said in Rolling Out Scale Driver Updates with Group Policy on Windows Server 2012 R2: @scottalanmiller said in Rolling Out Scale Driver Updates with Group Policy on Windows Server 2012 R2: @scotth said in Rolling Out Scale Driver Updates with Group Policy on Windows Server 2012 R2: We are just starting to plan our hardware refresh. I'm seriously considering Scale. I like the info that I've seen so far. We love ours, it has been great. I'm still pulling down information..... I need a vibrant DR plan in place or decided on before I commit to a platform. It always seems to be overlooked as an afterthought. Common approach is to get something like a Synology or a ReadyNAS and use the Scale HC3 built in snapshot and export backup functionality to push full image backups on a schedule out to the NAS.

Boy I remember when I came to the understanding that MS really wanted you to build completely separate GPs for users vs devices...

We use Cisco Any Connect that authenticates against AD, but is not tied to any kind of GPS and it works for us just fine. Except for deployment, I see no need in using GPS. If we use GPS for anything, it's with RADIUS for our wireless network. That works in one location but not the other. And this is only because both locations have different wireless systems and in how each system implements RADIUS and authenticates a laptop against an OU.

@coliver said in Best Way to Deploy EXE Packages via Group Policy: @coliver said in Best Way to Deploy EXE Packages via Group Policy: If the EXE has a silent installer flag I would run it as a startup or login task the first time. Just add a check in there to see if it has already been installed. Meant to say I would put it on a share and have a startup script execute it with the silent flag. Drop a installcomplete.txt file somewhere on the local disk and query for that at startup. Cool, that's the direction that I was headed.

@Mike-Davis said in What should be in Powershell 101 and Group Policy 101 Sessions at MangoCon 2016?: In the WPA2-Enterprise deployment session, I'll hit on how you push the cert and SSID to your domain joined devices to have the connect automatically to your WPA2-Enterprise SSID. I like this idea.

yes, i'd like to apply this to all remote users. Note: the users ONLY use Excel as a published remote app and its the Office/Excel date format that is in US when we'd like it to be UK. Yes, i have changed as admin on the RDS server both the server time/date/regional settings and also Office Language settings. I'd like the GPO to apply to ALL & ANYONE who logs onto the server or uses the remote app Excel.

@Dashrender said in Rename Desktop Icon via GPP: @IRJ said in Rename Desktop Icon via GPP: Duh!!! I can just delete and create a new one... LOL This just means you have two entries in your GPO for while. Yeah. I actually deleted some really old shortcut GPOs that are about a year old while I was in there. I can probably safely remove this after a month.

6 of one. It accomplishes what you wanted without having to go to each system and do it manually. Is it a full-on GPO setting? No. Will it work? Probably.

Yes, I think that RSAT might actually care as if it does the wrong thing it won't see the files.

Cached mode for 2016 is disabled just like all the rest, yeah! I do this because calendars don't play nice when you're opening up 12 other people calendars regularly, and so are 80 other people. No cached mode means you're working live on the system at all times, or your not working at all.

My first thought was finding the file on the server and manually editing it, but damn.. that would be dangerous.

I love ninite for personal use. Nuke/pave times drop dramatically.

@g.jacobse said: How does Group Policy affect AD memberships or does it? It does not. AD and GPO are separate things.

$computers = Get-Content -path C:\fso\computers.txt $user = "aUser" $password = "MyNewPassword!" Foreach($computer in $computers) { $user = [adsi]"WinNT://$computer/$user,user" $user.SetPassword($Password) $user.SetInfo() } http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/03/25/how-can-i-change-the-passwords-of-multiple-local-computer-accounts.aspx

It was super easy to do. I just created the folder and dropped the new ADMX files in.

@IRJ said: Note: This script only works when installing VNC. That was no problem for us since we were a couple revisions behind. I just stopped the VNC service on each PC and pushed down the MSI and installed using the new password. I knew once I pointed you in the right direction you would get it

That will get you, it got me back in the day. lol

@Dashrender said: I'm trying to impress my boss with Windows 8 Good luck - I'm not sure I'm impressed too much. As far as Metro apps go, there's a number of little widgets in there for things like news and weather that constantly update themselves, along with a Reader app. Just wondered if anyone was able to integrate any of them into their productivity routine.

@IRJ said: Ok. The GPO says it will work for versions 8,9,10, and 11. So one GPO should work As long as it just looks for whatever IE is on the machine and not for a specific version.