Archive for January, 2008

Why aren’t policy settings removed when I remove an ADM template from Group Policy Editor?

This is a question that a fellow-admin asked me. She was configuring some test settings on a test-OU and was messing around with a custom ADM template she wrote for a third party application. After she had tested the template and the client would reflect the changes that she made, she removed the template from […]

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Delegating permission for Group Policy creation and editing

Permission that is needed to create and link Group Policy to an OU are split into two components: permission to create the Group Policy itself and permission on the target OU where the policy shall be linked to.
The first one is clear: you need permission to create the policy within the directory in the Polcies-container. […]

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How Active Directory replication is encrypted

Okay, I wanted to share this with you since I’m currently writing a paper for my university, I had to look into some security settings regarding Active Directory in a default installation. One of those things was how the AD replication is secured.
It basically all relies on kerberos, as the encryption is based on the […]

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