Users And Computers

The subject of users and computers encompasses a wide range of important elements. Active Directory in SBS users/computers found in different locations. Yes if you donot create users/computers using sbs wizard's then they donot land in SBSUSERS/SBSCOMPUTERS OU. Also if you remove any computer object or demote a dc it go's back to the top.

Wizards put the stuff in right place.You can use the search feature in AD Users And Computers to look for an object if you have difficulty finding it manually. AD CAL - social.technet.microsoft.com. Per User is mostly used when you have more computers than users.

Then user has CAL and can log on to any of those machines. When your environment contains similar amount of users/computers then it's up to you what you choose. Block user settings in a GPO to a group of computers. We would block a group of computers to apply GPO.

We could use security filter and delegate to filter this group of computers. As per the default setting, when a new GPO (Group Policy Object) is created, it applies to all user and computer accounts where it is linked. NPS Policy 802.x and Domain users/computers-group. Now users can logon to the wifi using their domain-account.

With this setup it is possible to connect to the wifi with smartphones using the domain-credentials. I have tried different combination of conditions to create a situation that only domain-users logged on with a domain-computer can logon to the wifi --> without a good result. Maximum password age for domain users (not computers). Because the password policy applies to the computer and not the users, there's no granular way of differentiating between accounts on a computer, which means that if you apply a password policy to a domain controller, all domain users will receive it. Building on this, so if you want to apply different policies to different users...

Opening ADMINISTRATOR mailbox in EAC (or any other mailbox of user in .... Additionally, when I go into Active Directory Users & Computers and drag the ADMINISTRATOR user account from the USERS folder up a level to the domain name the problem goes away. In relation to this, drag it back and it returns. Clearly EAC does not like users in the USERS folder.

I never noticed this issue before so I am wondering if it is a new issue and a result of an update. What happens to Local Users and Groups after a computer joined a domain?. In relation to this, in addition, any permissions that had been assigned to the local users, such as, NTFS permissions, are retained when the users are migrated to the Active Directory database. Domain joined computer will be the member of Domain Computers global group by default. Similarly, a user account is a member of Domain Admins in GUI but doesn't appear ....

When I open the user account by Active Directory Users and Computers, I can see the user account which is under Domain Admins group. When I try to use PowerShell script, ADSIEdit and LDP to locate the members of the Domain Admins group and " member of " of the user account properties.