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Not sure if this helps, but you could try to set Group Policy Preferences which defines your initial user environment and have it configured to apply once and do not re-apply.

Yes, it's official, the 2010 Scripting Games has commenced. Time to put on your scripting caps and try out the exciting scripting challenges. Grab this badge here! Btw, be on the lookout for a couple of scripts I've contributed (as a guest commentator). =)

One of the major pains during an OS migration or rollout is users' data backup. Much of this concern has been addressed by Microsoft's USMT tool (an excellent tool, imho, but for brevity's sake, I will not discuss this in details). Users will be users, however, and there will be instances when we, the IT support heroes staff, have to go

Here's the scenario: Is there a way for me to hide entries from a specific user in Event Viewer on W2K3? I know I can filter so that only the entries of 1 user are showing, but how to I invert that? See all entries, except the ones made by a specific user? (This one was actually taken from the General Forum (Server) of the Technet Forums. Here's

The lastLogonTimeStamp attribute indicates the time a user last logged on to the domain. This information is useful for systems administrators to identify inactive or idle accounts. With this information, the sys admins can determine if an account is still needed and if not, to take appropriate actions (deleting the account, perhaps). A comprehensive

You will have to extract your AD SAM and run password cracking tools against it to identify weak passwords. However, this would cause a helluva bigger hoo haa from your users/management. I would suggest you read through this comprehensive Technet article on Enforcing Strong Password Usage Throughout Your Organization : http://technet.microsoft.com/en

Here's another scripting exercise I would like to share with my fellow IT pros: Scenario: You have a number of DNS pointer (A) records in your DNS zone referring to computers in your domain. For example, the A record RECEPTION is pointing to the computer with hostname WIN7_0100 with the fixed IP address 10.10.10.100 . You are tasked to write a script

I ran across a post in The Official Official Scripting Guys Forum in Technet which asks about generating a report of all services installed on all computers in the domain (whew!). I posted a reply to the query but the script I posted queries only the local computer. Extending this further, the following script queries a list of all computers (initially

Can you be more specific with the errors you are facing? Can you post your logon script here (remove any confidential/sensitive info inside)?

Try right-clicking on the installation executable and choose "Run as Administrator" from the context menu.