I’m using remote desktop on Windows Server 2008 r2 and I’m trying to find a way to prevent users from kicking off admin users. I understand that according to MS a regular user should not be able to kick off an admin user however if a user attempts to log in while the admin user is on (and all other sessions are in use) the admin user has 30 seconds to click the box telling [...]

ISSUE: I have a Windows 2008 R2 VM that runs a 3rd party ERP system. They have a utility that will run scheduled jobs to backup the Oracle database and their app data nightly with a 7 day rotation. The problem is that it must run as a desktop app interactively within a session. It can’t run as a service. While I’m not thrilled about leaving an account logged in, I’ve learned to allow it. [...]

For a proof of concept I am building a server which will host 2 users. Both users are local admin, and both users are domain users. User1 will encrypt the files with EFS so he can get transparent access. Is it possible to for User2 to get access to those files? If so, are there other ways to prevent access to those files? Thanks! Asked by Snake No. EFS encryption doesn’t occur at the application [...]

My work is going to roll out a new application (HR, Payroll, etc.) called springbrook to our remote employees. The application runs on one of our physical servers (Win 2008 R2) and to use it locally, I had to map a network drive to the server on the local employee’s computer. I created a desktop shortcut to the app so the user doesn’t have to go inside the mapped drive and run it that way. [...]

We’re experiencing some weird stuff with our roaming user profiles. We use folder redirection for Documents/Pictures/Music/Destkop/Downloads, yet these folders are being created in the roaming user profile (they shouldn’t). Looking at the dates for these folders it’s quite obvious that we’re hitting some kind of bug with NTFS. How else is this possible (pic)? Asked by pauska The folder was copied on 18.01.2013 (1/18/13) from one that was last modified 14.07.2009 (7/14/09). Answered by Chris [...]

Is there a way to find out when user was added to distribution group and by who? Probably thru AD or Exchange Management Console? Or such information is not stored anywhere? Asked by MadBoy If you have Directory Service Change auditing enabled, there would be a 5136 event in the security event log on the domain controller where the change was made. You can also identify when the member attribute was last changed. If the [...]

I have several shares on a server running 08r2 that I have users dumping files to. I would like to limit each user to be able to use only a specific amount of the space (quota) Any help on how to configure this is appreciated. Thanks. Asked by Joe JMC IT You would use the File Server Resource Manager and make per-user quotas. You can use templates to enforce queries per-user or per-folder. In your [...]

I would like to have one rule that allows Internet Explorer to connect to my proxy-server, but block all other applications to connect to the proxy-server. Is that possible? I’ve tried one rule that opens “Internet-Explorer” -> “Proxy” and a second rule that blocks any “any application” -> “Proxy” but that is not working because deny-rules are higher prioritized than allow-rules. Is there any way to do this? Asked by user154327 Not out of the [...]

Wondering if someone could help me, i want to query active directory. My aim is to produce a list of users and a total number of users, now our AD is full of meeting rooms, auto users, test users etc. So i thought if add a word into these auto users descriptions i could write a script that excluded all users that have a “description = auto”. Only problem is im not the best programmer, [...]

I have a very powerful PC that is capable of running several environments. This computer is running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V feature I want to allow a user to physically use the computer while Hyper-V is running, to do so I created another user account. Is there any option to disable, restart or shutdown and still let the user have admin privileges? Are there any other possibilities that I can do with the [...]