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In this post, I am sharing a recent experience with Roaming profile and group policy.

Let’s assume the following scenario

UserA exists in OU OrgA

Group Policy applied on OrgA with c: drive blocked

UserA moved to OU OrgB

OrgB do not have any GPO which blocks c: drive

In a normal case, if you will update group policy on client or logoff and login, you should be able to see the the changes. In above example, c: should have been accessible.

However, the problem sometime may come that you still see that old GPOs/settings are getting applied. If you will run GPResult and look at the RSOP result, you find that GPOs from the new OU are being applied. Still, why we have settings from the GPOs on the old OU? Read the rest of this entry »

In this post, I will list down the links to the websites where I found interesting and useful information for techies.

• Below is the link which list commands to start various programs/mmc from command line, which is sometime very much needed and is also interesting.

http://www.websecurity.mobi/starting-snap-in-from-the-command-line/

• Below is the link to the excellent tool that can be used to troubleshoot MOC/Lync connectivity.

Roaming profile is a very good feature, most of us use it for years now and also face issues with it. Most of the times we get profile errors on client, very irritating “You have been logged on with temporary profile”.

Well, there are number of reasons for this and number of ways to correct this. However, all troubleshooting methods are waste if the basics are not in place. In this post, I will put together some of the best practices of configuring roaming profiles which can help you to avoid these issues.

Roaming profile Folder/Parent Folder

First step you do when configuring roaming profile Read the rest of this entry »

An IT professional in daily life comes across a lot of small IT queries from self and from others, I chosen this place to write them down, You can use if you want!!

And if you have a better option post a comment…

How Can I relock a Bit-locker protected drive without restarting?

Start Command Prompt as Administrator. Run the following command. Replace the drive letter with the letter of drive which you want to lock and is Bit-locker enabled. You can also save this command as a bat or cmd file for your ease and run as an administrator.

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