Years ago when administering a school network there was a requirement for teachers to access student home directories (redirected folders e.g documents, pictures, videos, music ). In theory this was no problem as teachers had full NTFS permissions over student home folders, however in practice this didn’t work because: Teachers didn’t know the UNC paths … Read more
This post follows on from my earlier post about AD login logging where we covered how to create a .csv log file containing all your user logins on your machines. Building on that script, wouldn’t it be handy if we could have that information sent to us via an email or text every time a … Read more
Recently I was tasked with setting up an Active Directory environment as the Radius authentication backend for a VPN solution, allowing users in the correct AD group to access the VPN using their AD credentials. Sounds easy enough….. right? Well, then this wouldn’t be a good read would it 🙂 It seems the built-in Windows … Read more
Login auditing is an extremely important factor to be considered, especially in larger environments where you may have hundreds of PCs and different users logging into them frequently. One such good example of a use case for a login log solution is a school and in fact the script I am going to reference below … Read more
Often in large active directory environments administrators will redirect users data to a share on the network commonly referred to as a homefolder. This data usually includes the users documents, pictures, music and videos folders and can include user downloads and app data although this is less common due to a lesser need of having … Read more