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Software Installation and Maintenance GPOs can be configured from the General tab of the Software Installation Properties dialog box, with specific settings that affect the installation, maintenance and any subsequent removal of Group Policy deployed applications. To do this the Administrator would open the Group Policy snap-in and open the Software Settings in Computer or […]

Maintaining Software Deployments Through Removal There will be times when software is totally retired from use in the enterprise or a specific application or suite of applications are replace by another vendors brand. This can be done through Group Policy by selecting the Software Installation node in the Software Settings under either Computer or User […]

Setting Permission Levels You can allow or deny permissions for every object in Active Directory. Denied permissions take precedence over any other level of permission that is otherwise set for a user or group, even full control. If a specific user is denied access and is allowed full control from six other groups that user […]

Once the system comes up again the GUI will engage and display the current status of the final phases of setup. During this attended installation, the Setup program will pause for needed user input, such as the Regional and Language Option page as shown below. After making any changes or accepting the defaults, Setup will […]

ForestPrep Continued Now that we have that out of the way, lets go ahead and take a look at running setup with the ForestPrep switch. At this point, we will take it as a given that all the proper requirements have been met. The first thing that we will do is go to the “run” […]

But what exactly did we just do? Well, for starters we just created two groups, an Exchange 2000 Domain Servers domain global group that contains all computers running Exchange 2000 in the domain, and an Exchange 2000 Enterprise Servers domain local group that will contain all computers running Exchange 2000 in the enterprise. These two […]

Installation Continued Exchange 2000 requires that the NNTP service of IIS be installed. If you haven’t done so prior to starting the installation of Exchange 2000, you will have to exit the installation, install NNTP, and then restart the installation of Exchange 2000 again. Next up is another license agreement, but unlike the end-user license […]

Next, under naming context I would select Configuration Container and then select OK. My screen should look something like this; (Please note, I also have selected to view the Domain Naming Partition in this graphic; if you have not selected anything other than the Configuration Partition, you will only see one node listed under ADSI […]

As you can see, I have been successful in my endeavor. Next up will be a contact. A contact is simply a pointer to an external mail system. The user has neither a Windows 2000 account, nor an Exchange 2000 account. We simply include their e-mail address in our address list so that our internal […]

If you get to this stage and when you select Find Now, nothing appears in the results window, you need to refine your LDAP Filter. You might have defined the scope of your search too narrowly, or you could be attempting to filter based on a non-defined attribute. Once you redefine your LDAP Filter, try […]

What I am going to do is create a sample address list to give you some ideas on how to create one. Keep in mind that there are many different options for creating address lists, and this article is simply meant to serve as a starter, so to speak, for some of the different things […]

Tree In Windows 2000, multiple domains may still be necessary, especially in large organizations where companies want to remain tight control over their environments, their own identities (such as different business units), and distinct administrative control. In Active Directory, a collection of domains can be created that form a hierarchy referred to as a tree. […]