David Vielmetter

Tag: active directory

  • Getting ready for single sign-on in a hybrid cloud environment

    I’m seeing a lot of small businesses change change their IT budgets from a CAPEX/ROI model to an OPEX/Subscription model. If you’re one of those businesses enticed by moving chunks of your IT infrastructure to the cloud to simplify your IT budget, then you may want to consider setting up a hybrid cloud environment. One of…

  • VMWare guest time is incorrect

    By default, VMWware ESX/ESXi hosts setup guest virtual machines to sync the time with the host (or hypervisor). This is great if you’ve remembered to set the host up to sync itself with an external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server or NTP pool like pool.ntp.org. If you forgot, however, then you can be in a…

  • Password reset delegation not working

    Whenever you’re working in an Active Directory domain you didn’t setup yourself, there’s a good chance someone has made changes that won’t be obvious. Therefore implementing further changes may not always have the expected results even if you’ve tested them thoroughly in a test environment. Active Directory is a complex system with many dependencies and…

  • Redirected folders and offline files

    In a Windows 2003 Active Directory forest with group policies disabling offline files, Windows 7 systems can have issues if you’ve redirected folders via GPO. In my experience new Windows 7 systems joined to the AD domain would automatically start syncing re-directed folders such as My Documents and Desktop as if they were made available…