Tag Archives: AD

Forcing Active Directory Photos with Lync 2010

Posted by dave on December 7, 2010 4 comments

With Lync 2010 setup (all be it very basic right now) it was time to take control. I started exploring what was possible via various policys for the clients. One of the features allows users to choose their own profile …

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Script to import user photos into Active Directory

Posted by dave on December 7, 2010 No comments

After recently installing Lync 2010, I soon realised that I should probably have already imported user photos into Active Directory, seeing as Outlook 2010 also supports user thumbnails and it would be a nice little feature to add in. I …

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Forcing the removal of active directory from a domain controller

Posted by dave on December 2, 2010 No comments

You can force the removal of AD from a machine by running: dcpromo /forceremoval It’s not the best way to do it of course, but if all else fails you can run this.

Missing and Inaccurate DomainDnsZones and ForestDnsZones in AD

Posted by dave on November 30, 2010 No comments

I was doing a bit of an AD spring clean today and came across a few errors which had me stumped for a little while. The short of the story is, when running DCDIAG, I was getting a couple of …

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You do not have sufficient privileges to delete ‘OU’, or this object is protected from accidental deletion

Posted by dave on July 26, 2010 2 comments

I got this error when trying to delete a ‘test’ OU called ‘x’ from AD the other day: “You do not have sufficient privileges to delete ‘OU’, or this object is protected from accidental deletion” The fix is quite simple, …

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Using PsExec and SpecOps to Force Group Policy Updates via ADUC

Posted by dave on July 23, 2010 6 comments

Group Policy. It’s pretty awesome, you can fix and everything via few little clicks, but, you can also break everything with a few little clicks so care must be taken. I generally setup test OU’s and stick one or two …

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An Active directory Domain controller for the domain domain.dom could not be contacted

Posted by dave on July 13, 2010 No comments

I recently setup a new domain for a client. Everything was going well, and we were ready to start adding the machines to the domain. Everything went without a hitch until a Vista machine was coming back with “An Active …

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