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Windows 2012 admin account was disabled: why?

It is the second time I have problems with a Windows 2012 server. For unknown reasons it stopped working, console and remote desktop access was not possible, so it was restarted with a forced power off. Security is not a concern (nobody took care…
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Domain Password change causes Outlook saved POP passwords to fail

I have a user that repeatedly has this issue. A 3 month password change is enforced on the domain, but when the user changes his, Office 2003 will re-ask for the POP account password, even though it has not changed. Entering the correct POP account…
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Prompt users to reset their passwords in Ubuntu?

I have a bunch of new users to deploy on our system, and as a part of the initial login I want to give them an opportunity to reset their password. How can I best do this so that we don't have to instruct them specifically to do so?
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Migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 - remove old 03 computer account?

Migrated from Exchange 2003 to 2007 back in February of this year. I've still got the old exchange computer account in AD. Can I simply delete the computer account or will bad things start happening? I've looked in the Exchange 07 console and…
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Creating e-mail accounts, understanding the system logic

I'm relatively new to Debian and still learning a lot of things. This said, I would like to make what is probably a really novice question: how do I manually add e-mail accounts and how can I give them a storage limit? I ask this because I'm trying…
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Stumped: Accessing Win2008 from Win2003 -- domain or not

Sorry about the odd title, can't think of a good way to paraphrase this one. I have a Win2008 server that is not in a domain. I have two Win2003 machines, one in the domain, one not. All of them have a local account named "testAdmin" with the same…
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incorrect password when computer is locked

I have running a Windows XP SP3 Machine and I can't login after I have locked my Workstation. I changed my password and installed last Updates from Microsoft last Friday. When Windows comes up, there is no problem to login. But after I locked it,…
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How can I generate a private key for an account set up by yum?

I am using EC2 and am new to the world of Linux, and I've looked for an answer to this but I think I'm just not sure how to ask the question correctly. I have installed Jenkins and git using yum, under the account ec2-user, and they install fine. …
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How to access an account with the su-command?

Problem: to access an account in MacOS with the su-command, more here. I can access my other accounts, but not the one created according to the intructions. The command does not change the user: su postgres Question: Why can I not access an account…
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Exchange Email Delete / Recreation Issue

So I was having issues with a users mailbox to the point where I couldn't solve what was wrong so I deleted the account. I recreated the account with the same email address. Now users trying to email the address are getting odd returns Generating…
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service account - prevent misuse via drive mappings

I am deploying an application which scans files. Our systems access management team will provide a Windows non interactive service account so the app can access file shares. They've just told me that there is no way to prevent a user from using the…
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Domain connection becomes flaky, but why?

I just had a server in our lab disallow me from adding it as a host in Windows Load Balancing. Suddenly, out of the blue (cause this has been working fine), when I tried to re-add the machine into the load balanced cluster, it requested credentials.…
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Any way to allow local computer login to access domain network remotely?

I am setting up a laptop for a customer (Windows 7). He needs to be able to access SQL server on his office network while on the road. What we are trying to do: Since he will be out of the office, he will need to start his laptop with his local…
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change account's main domain in directadmin

Before anything I should acknowledge that my question was not understandable enough. So I totally edited that I have a VPS with DirectAdmin control panel. One of my users had registered with domain1.com. Now he had decided to change his domain.…
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Creating a forwarding account in Postfix

I have to create a forwarding mail account on a Ubuntu system using Postfix. I have scoured Google and everything I've found seems to point at doing all of this work through MySQL. According to ps -aux | grep mysql, MySQL is not even running. Hence,…
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