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The GPDBPA tool is a stand-alone program that an administrator can run
from a Windows Server 2003-based system or from a Windows XP-based
system. You can use the tool to do the following:

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Perform
a proactive health check on the Group Policy environment to detect
common configuration errors that frequently generate support incidents.

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Collect diagnostic information and initial data from an […]

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It will unjoin a machine from a Windows domain and not even start to ask the domain for permission or even tell it it did so, zip, out of the domain, have a nice day. You will find that this will likely be faster than NETDOM for any unjoin ops. It allows you to specify […]

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Active Directory Explorer AD Explorer is an advanced Active Directory AD viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer to easily navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit permissions, view an objects schema, and execute sophisticated searches that you can save and re-execute.
AD […]

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Moving a large group of terminal server user home folders from one clustered hard drive share to another on a SAN. If you try to manually copy or “move” the home folders, the NTFS permissions on the new home folders are not retained and users are not able to access their directories on the new […]

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This article provides a step-by-step guide to making bulk changes to users in Active Directory using the ADModify.NET tool.
Making bulk changes to Active Directory users with ADModify.NET

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Having difficulty locating the Admodify.net utility? Try the URL link below.
Admodify - Download

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If you’re creating and troubleshooting the effects of group policies (GPO) on your computer, there is a command line utility you can download and install called GPTime.exe. It’s one simple executable that I unzipped and copied into the same folder as the Win2k3 Resource Kit tools. The resource kit folder is already included in the […]

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In Windows XP or Windows 2003, open an entire command window and type -> GPUpdate <enter>. All of the current policy settings affecting your computer (or server) and your account are displayed.
You can also see a history of the application of group policies by inspecting the registry.
To inspect the group policies applied to your local […]

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