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FAQs

1. Active Directory – Account Administration
   1. How does a person affiliate his or her AD account with a particular OU?
   2. How do I create guest accounts?
   3. How can I allow specific people, who do not match my WebNew configuration, to run WebNew for my OU?
   4. Why do I get a 503 error when applying for an account?
   5. How should I create a service account?
   6. How can I request an administrator (-adm) account for my OU?
   7. How can I reset a person’s password?
2. Active Directory – Computer Administration
   1. How can I migrate a user’s profile from an old NT4 domain to the AD?
   2. How can I prevent user logon scripts from being executed on a specific workstation, e.g., in a lab environment?
   3. How can I deny a user from logging into my workstations and deny them from accessing any of my file shares?
   4. How can I add a machine to the domain?
   5. How can I map a network drive and/or printer share using group policy?
   6. How can I automatically add a specified group to the local administrators group?
3. Active Directory – Group Policy
   1. How can I deny a user from logging into my workstations and deny them from accessing any of my file shares?
   2. Why do my polices not apply on Windows XP during startup?
   3. How can I map a network drive and/or printer share using group policy?
   4. How can I add XP policy settings to my Group Policy?
   5. Why isn’t my group policy being applied?
4. Active Directory – Mac Support
   1. What versions of Mac OS are supported by AD?
   2. Where do I get the patch required to support NTLMv2 on Services for Mac?
   3. Why doesn’t Outlook for the Mac work with Exchange?
5. Active Directory – Windows Support
   1. What versions of Windows are supported by AD?
   2. Where can I get the Directory Service Client for down-level clients?
   3. How do I set my Win2K/XP machine to authenticate to the UNIX Kerberos realm bu.edu?
   4. Why should a person authenticate to the UNIX bu.edu Kerberos realm rather than the domain AD?
   5. How can people connect to a file share on a member server?
6. Active Directory – The GINA Hook
   1. What is the GINA hook, BUGina.dll?
   2. How do I install the BU Ginahook?
7. Active Directory – Terminal Services
   1. How can I change the default port that Terminal Services listens on?
   2. How can I connect to a Terminal Server that is running on a non-standard port?