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Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

Posted by Usman under Uncategorized

Hey Guys,

Now You can test your exchange server online using the following website.

https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

You can run the following tests.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta Released

Posted by Usman under Exchange 2010

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Overview

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/overview.aspx

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Trial Software

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/trial-software.aspx

Hide all drives except Z drive using group policy

Posted by under Active Directory

By Default You can hide drives with following combination Using GPO !

• Restrict A, B, C and D drives only
• Restrict A, B and C drives only
• Restrict A and B drives only
• Restrict all drives
• Restrict C drive only
• Restrict D drive only
• Do not restrict drives

Now if you will setup home drive (Z:) for a user , that drive will be hide like others. To resolve this issue we can create custom ADM template to show only home drive.

Craete a Note Pad file and  rename it to  HideDrives.adm , Paste the following code into

CLASS USER

CATEGORY !!CustomizedSettings
CATEGORY !!WindowsExplorer
KEYNAME “Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer”
POLICY !!NoDrives
EXPLAIN !!NoDrives_Help
PART !!NoDrivesDropdown DROPDOWNLIST NOSORT REQUIRED
VALUENAME “NoDrives”
ITEMLIST
NAME !!ABOnly VALUE NUMERIC 3
NAME !!COnly VALUE NUMERIC 4
NAME !!DOnly VALUE NUMERIC 8
NAME !!CDOnly VALUE NUMERIC 12
NAME !!ABConly VALUE NUMERIC 7
NAME !!ABCDOnly VALUE NUMERIC 15
NAME !!AllExceptZ VALUE NUMERIC 33554431
NAME !!ALLDrives VALUE NUMERIC 67108863 DEFAULT
; low 26 bits on (1 bit per drive)
NAME !!RestNoDrives VALUE NUMERIC 0
END ITEMLIST
END PART
END POLICY

POLICY !!NoViewOnDrive
EXPLAIN !!NoViewOnDrive_Help
PART !!NoDrivesDropdown DROPDOWNLIST NOSORT REQUIRED
VALUENAME “NoViewOnDrive”
ITEMLIST
NAME !!ABOnly VALUE NUMERIC 3
NAME !!COnly VALUE NUMERIC 4
NAME !!DOnly VALUE NUMERIC 8
NAME !!CDOnly VALUE NUMERIC 12
NAME !!ABConly VALUE NUMERIC 7
NAME !!ABCDOnly VALUE NUMERIC 15
NAME !!AllExceptZ VALUE NUMERIC 33554431
NAME !!ALLDrives VALUE NUMERIC 67108863 DEFAULT
; low 26 bits on (1 bit per drive)
NAME !!RestNoDrives VALUE NUMERIC 0
END ITEMLIST
END PART
END POLICY

END CATEGORY ; !!WindowsExplorer

END CATEGORY ; !!CustomizedSettings

[STRINGS]
ABCDOnly=”Restrict drives A, B, C and D only”
ABConly=”Restrict drives A, B and C only”
ABOnly=”Restrict drives A and B only”
AllExceptZ=”Restrict all drives except Z”
ALLDrives=”Restrict all drives”
COnly=”Restrict drive C only”
DOnly=”Restrict drive D only”
CDOnly=”Restrict drives C and D only”
NoDrives=”Hide these drives in Explorer”
NoDrivesDropdown=”Choose one of the following combinations:”
NoDrives_Help=”*** Copy and paste this entry from %SYSTEMROOT%\inf\system.adm! ***”
NoViewOnDrive=”Restrict access to these drives”
NoViewOnDrive_Help=”*** Copy and paste this entry from %SYSTEMROOT%\inf\system.adm! ***”
RestNoDrives=”Do not restrict any drives”

CustomizedSettings=”Customized Settings”
WindowsExplorer=”Windows Explorer”

; Pattern to hide drives; convert the binary to decimal:
; zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
; 00000000000000000000001100

Now place this file to on your DC in following location.

C:\windows\inf

Open Group Policy Editor.

Administrative Templates->Right Clik->Add/Remove Templates.
Click add and select HideDrives.adm file

User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Customized Settings –> Windows Explorer
Hide these drives in explorer - Properties - Select Enable and Restrict all drives except Z from Combo box

How to change the default location of new user accounts and computers

Posted by under Active Directory

When you create a new user in active directory , new user account and computer put in predefined Active Directory OUs “Users” and “Computers”. DCPROMO put all newly user accounts in  “Users” AD container and all computers in “Computers” AD container.

The Users and Computers containers aren’t AD organizational units (OUs), so you can’t link OU-level Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to them. If you want to apply GPO on OUs level You must create new OUs for users and computer objects, it will make easier management of Active Directory. Its a good practise to change the default location of newly created users and computer objects. You can change the default when creating users using scripts, You can use Redirusr and Redircmp command-line utilities

Example:

Organizational Unit: usersou

Domain                  : Contoso.com

redirusr ou=usersou,dc=contoso,dc=com

Before executing this command , please make sure that “usersou” must exist in active directory.This command is only compatible with windows 2003 server , you cant execute in windows 2000 server and NT 4.0.