Personal IT Experiences

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.
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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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