Yet another blog about Monkeys and IT
Archive for May, 2010
Creating a User Template in Active Directory
May 21st
When you are creating several users with similar account options and group membership creating those users would be a repetitive and time consuming task. However, in Active Directory you may be able to reduce some of the repetition by creating a USER TEMPLATE.
User template simply an inactive user account (disabled account) that can be copied to create users with common attributes. Copying from the User Template Account will run the same wizard for creating a new user account so you can fill in the missing fields such as username and password, as well as you can make some changes on those in common attributes fields. (more…)
Change UAC behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators
May 11th
User Account Control (UAC) is enabled in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista and Windows 7 by default. Every time an Administrator trying to configure, change or apply different configuration tasks this service will prompt for permission to continue. By clicking Continue in the dialog box the Administrator would grant this permission. (more…)
