A user account is an access authorization to a restricted IT system. It consists mostly of a system wide unique user name an a password which are needed for authentication. IT systems use the user account to identify the individual user and grant him permissions which are associated with the user account.
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Join PCs that were on old Windows 2012 server to new server AND new domain without breaking SIDS and trust
Background: Had a small 4 PC office on Server 2012r2 with domain named OLD-DOMAIN. Server was old and wonky and had to restore from full system image backup that was recent (as in a few days old).
PCs ran fine with server disconnect to router as…
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"Password never expires" greyed out?
I have domain users in an Azure AD DS.
I need to set some of those users with passwords that don't expire.
When I go to "Active Directory Users and Computers" on a machine in the domain, the option "Password never expires" is greyed out.
When I go…
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Use of Account expiry, disable and lockout in Active directory
I am learning the concepts of active directory. Recently I learned the difference in Account lockout, expiry and disable. My question is all these types are doing the same thing but the purpose is different.
For example: Account expiry can be set as…
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I can't access my account after unmounting my home directory and doing lvremove (centos7)
I do not have an IT background. I am working things out on my own, so I would really appreciate your help on this as I am in a panic at the moment.
I wanted to increase the size of my /home directory (as a normal user).
I followed the steps provided…
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Logging SSH commands on Linux - is custom kernel the only way?
I've done some research and it looks like that the way linux keeps history is less about security and audit and more about helping the user.
Even after making changes to instantly log the command and space commands the command still wont log till…
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Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 - Reports Requesting User ID and Password When Clicked
I'm running Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 and restored a bunch of reports from the previous server that was running 10.2.2. A user mentioned that when she clicks a report on the 11 instance she is required to enter a user id and password for the data…
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Replacing GoDaddy Office 365 accounts with Exchange mailboxes
I'm currently working for a company that had an inefficient setup for their "department" mailboxes (i.e. mailboxes like info@company.com, queries@company.com, etc). I quickly realised that I can save the company a lot of money by simply using our…
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Expired Windows Account Password
I need to programatically change my windows admin password without using the login screen.
Essentially we deployed 50+ laptops across our business.
We setup 1 user account and 1 admin account (same password) on each laptop, they're not added to…
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One AD Account logging into 50+ machines simultaneously
I have an AD Domain set up specifically for running computer-based exams at multiple locations. One site sits 50-100 exams and needs to start them at the exact same time and they all login to the machines with the same AD account. Running on 2008…
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Active directory fears
I want to implement active directory in my organization but my major challenge is that i have already installed an application on the server(windows 2016 server standard) that uses sql 2012 and sql management studio already . Also there are about 50…
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How to enum user account and get detailed account message in Windows operating system?
I want to get all user account messages in Windows operating system from remote Linux machine. There are no any services or functions that can support it in Windows operating system. Now I connect to Windows operating system using WinRM. I remotely…
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Keyboard not working in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, running inside Oracle VirtualBox
I am considering to migrate my server to Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V. Currently I use Windows 10 with Oracle VirtualBox as HyperVisor. In order to test out Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V, I decided to create a new Virtual Machine and installed Windows…
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Windows 10 account no write access outside profile
Is there a way to create a Windows 10 user account that has no write access outside of its own user profile?
I created a firefox account to run Firefox in a seperate account.
I put it only in the Guests group, but firefox still can write to drive D:…
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Is it good practice to name an admin account 'admin' or 'administrator'?
I have seen on numerous occasions that organisations name their admin account anything but admin or administrator. Most often of course people in help desk would use their own account with different levels of admin rights for day to day tasks, but…
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How to delete bulk user accounts from a .txt list with VBS/PS2.0/CMD, depending on whether their accounts are disabled?
In short:
- I have a .txt list of sAMAccountNames that I need to delete from AD
- Before deleting the account, I need to perform a check to see whether they are disabled. If they are disabled, delete them, if they aren't, do nothing.
I don't have…
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