Posts made by G I Jones

@dbeato 2012 R2

@dbeato I don't have that under Windows settings. Just Scripts, Security Settings, Folder Redirection, Policy-based Qos.

Mostly what I see on how to deploy a printer to a specific user via Group Policy is to actually use Print Management instead and right click the printer in question and "Deploy with Group Policy", do a little dance, and voila.

My question is where is that change at on that GPO it creates?

I looked under User Configuration>Preferences>Control Panel Settings>Printers but no rule is there.

Additionally I looked under Computer Configuration>Preferences>Control Panel Settings>Printers and nothing there either.

Any ideas?

@dashrender thanks, bro.

@jaredbusch quick question. How did you take what it output and make it so fancy looking on this comment thread?

@jaredbusch Hey I appreciate you providing me with this. I'm kind of new to Windows Powershell as well.

I right clicked this file on the Exchange Server and selected "Run with Powershell". It prompts me that "Export-ExchangeURL_time_date_etc file doesn't exist, do you want to create it?"

I say yes.

Then it opens up a text document that's blank. that's all that happens. There is no file created.

Then tried it on DC instead of Exchange Server. Same thing, only this time it made the file, but it's still blank.

Having issues with DNS records for an Exchange 2013 server build in Windows 2012 environment. My boss gave me a 5 minute crash course on DNS and then I was left to my own devices. I watched some videos, read some articles, but ultimately my inexperience led me to make these records, and I'm not sure they are correct as the Exchange services are not functioning. I'm not so concerned with getting help to make the Exchange server work, I'd just like a little insight from the bright minds of MangoLassi on if and how I messed up here. The goal here is to get a better understanding of DNS.

*EDIT: AD and DNS reside on same server. Exchange is separate.

~ON DNS SERVER
Record Type - Record Name - Record Value (Data)

CNAME - autodiscover - mail.contoso.com
A - mail - ExchangeServerIP
MX - ExchangeServerName - mail.contoso.com
CNAME - owa - mail.contoso.com

~ON HOST (PUBLIC FACING)
Record Type - Record Name - Record Value (Points to)

CNAME - autodiscover - mail.contoso.com
A - mail - OutwardFacingIPofExchangeServer
MX - ExchangeServerIP - mail.contoso.com
CNAME - owa - mail.contoso.com

@kelly Thanks. Things are starting to pan out that way it seems.

@Dashrender roughly 100 cpu's, 10 servers, website, helpdesk, testing center, etc.

@scottalanmiller damn. Yea too many things already ride on our current domain, so we're trying to dodge a migration to a new domain if we can. Still thinking about our best course of action.

@scottalanmiller roughtly 300 cpu's, 100 users.

If I made a new sub domain of say abc.alphabet.com and my current was abc.alphabet.net, but I NEEDED the .net could I set up the new DC on .com and then after unplugging the old DC from .net, then change the new DC to the .net? Or is that more of a pain than it's worth?

@tim_g Our old DC is corrupt, and it was a replication of an even older corrupt DC. We've opted to go with a new build entirely. I'm trying to figure out how to stand this new DC up, manually input the Users, Group Policy, all that, and transfer FSMO roles to it while simultaneously taking down the old DC.

@travisdh1 yea, my boss did so we could remote into it and set it up.

@tim_g I gather it's not possible on the same domain then? Am I correct in assuming the replication would be that of/including the AD?

I have a new DC I'm building in VMware. It's on the domain and I'm trying to set up AD.

Two things:
For one, it's pulling AD users from the soon to be retired DC, and I'd like that to go away.

Secondly, upon doing post-deployment checklist: Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard to get AD services up, at the "Additional Options" page, it's asking where to replicate from. Problem is, I don't want to replicate anything, and there isn't an option to select "none". I don't honestly know what it's replicating, but my goal here is a fresh start and rebuild on every front. Can anyone advise?

Old DC: Server 2012
New DC: Server 2012

@dbeato yes.

@scottalanmiller Going to dust off our Barracuda and give that a go. It's been plugged in but not working like is should have.

As far as HR and reprimanding employees for breaches against policy... my issue isn't with employees, it's with residents. My organization is an academy, so we can't have kids browsing freely during residency. While it's not exactly my job to patch holes and monitor web traffic all day, I did set these labs up by myself, and I hold great pride in things that have my name on them, so I need them to be refined for me. Anything that I can refine to be better, makes me better because I have to learn how to refine it. I'm just trying to learn all I can, guys.

@Tim_G said it best, I know what needs to be done now. Thank you, gentlemen.

Hey guys, hope everyone enjoyed their 3 day weekend (if it applies).

I've been polishing up our Group policy the best I've learned how, but I've hit a snag.

I've used User Config>Administrative Templates>System>Don't run specified Windows applications, and adding iexplore.exe as well as firefox.exe in an attempt to completely lock down web access for one of our labs. We had a breach to social media, and now I'm trying to figure out how to patch that hole.

Basically, when using Microsoft Word 2013, you can use the Insert Tab to insert "Online Video". Once inserted, all you have to do is right click the video, and select "open in browser" and even with the previously mentioned GPO in place, it'll open the default browser (Firefox or IE in my case).

I'm looking to disable this in any way that I can, but haven't found anything within the Office 2013 admx files to the likeness of disabling it.

Any experience/ideas on the matter? I'd be okay with completely disabling the insertion of media if need be.

@shuey So I just figured this out this morning, and came back on here to tell you all I figured it out.

I did have to set that registry value to 1. The confusion came when all those 60+ machines I was applying the change to were already set up from factory as having the oobe\info\backgrounds directory made and registry value was already 1 on those machines. So when I encountered a machine that didn't have it already, I thought something was wrong.

Thanks for the reply!