Creating a Group Using a graphical user interface Open the Active Directory Users and Computers . In the left pane, browse to the parent container of the new group, right-click on it, and select New Group. Enter the name of the group and select the group type (global, domain local, or universal) and group type (security or distribution). Click OK. Using dsadd in command-line interface dsadd group "<GroupDN>" -scope <GroupScope> -secgrp yes|no -desc "<GroupDesc>" Where <GroupDN> Read more

In Windows 2008 Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft activated new feature "Protect Container from accidential deletion" During OU creation you have the ability to mark OU as protected from accidental deletion , and if you try to delete OU you will receive the following error "You do not have sufficient privileges to delete "OU Name" , or this object is protected from accidential deletion" To unlock OU from accidential deleting protection do the following actions Open Active Directory Read more

How to add Employee ID to Active Directory Users and Computers 1. Open ADSI Edit 2. Expand the CN=Configuration node and go to CN=DisplaySpecifiers, CN=409. Select the 409 node in the left hand pane. 3.In the right-hand pane, select the CN=user-Display object. Right click and select Properties. 4.Select the adminContextMenu attribute and click Edit. 5. We now need to add the value that will be used to create the additional menu item and direct it to the employeeID.vbs script. The syntax is very important. Read more

In order to configure and use server query do the following. Go to Active Directory Users and Computers: Right click the Saved Queries folder and select New, Query. Enter an appropriate Name and Description. Make sure the query root is set to the domain level you want the query to pertain to. Select the Include subcontainers check box if you want the query to search all subcontainers. Click Define Query. In the Find dialog box, click the Find drop-down arrow and select Custom Search. On the Read more

First let’s understand when it happens. After move of mailboxes between 2 exchange stores some times duplicate mailboxes remain .. When you try to delete them you receive error "The operation cannot be performed because this mailbox was already reconnected to an existing user." ID no. c1034ad6. So to delete the annoying mailbox go to active directory users and computers , select the user that holds both mailboxes run “exchange tasks” and select “remove exchange attributes” then go to duplicate Read more

1. Run Active Directory Users and Computers. 2. Right-click the container holding the users (or the domain name if you want to delegate all) and hit Delegate Control. 3. Welcome Screen - hit Next. 4. Users or Groups screen - click Add and select the person or group to delegate this control to. Click Next. 5. Tasks to Delegate screen - select "Create a custom task to delegate". Click Next. 6. Active Directory Object Type screen - Select "Only the following objects in the folder:". Check "User objects". Read more

To disable the Security tab from Windows 2000/XP Professional-based workstations that are members of a Windows 2000/2003 domain: Start Active Directory Users and Computers. Right-click the domain, and then click Properties . Click the Group Policy tab on the domain properties dialog box to view the default domain policy. Click New . New Group Policy Object should appear in the list of objects. Rename this Policy to Remove Security Tab . Make sure this policy is positioned directly under Read more