Presentation In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up roaming profiles for your users in an Active Directory environment. When I started working (already a few years ago), roaming profiles were all the rage. Roaming profiles store user (profile) data (C:\Users\) in a shared folder that is located on a server. This allows …
In this new tutorial dedicated to Nextcloud, I will explain to you how to link Nextcloud and an Active Directory or LDAP directory. Linking to an external directory allows Nextcloud to be used without the need to create accounts in the local database and it also allows users to use their Windows ID in the …
In this tutorial, we will see how to delegate actions to a user on a virtual machine using roles. Proxmox is a complete hypervisor that allows you to manage authorizations on virtual machines quite finely. We will assume that you need to authorize a person from the support service to be able to manage the …
In this tutorial, I will explain how to retrieve the base DN also called distinguishedName in an Active Directory. This attribute is often used to configure LDAP/Active Directory bindings for applications. All Active Directory objects (Users, Computers, Organizational Unit, etc.) have the attribute: distinguishedName and this is unique. I say that the base DN attribute …
The easiest and fastest way to display the list of users from the command line on Linux is to read the file /etc/passwd. We could simply use: The return of this command is not easy to read, to do this we cut the result to have only the first part of each line which corresponds …
Small memo to create a user on Ubuntu and add it to the sudo group: Enter the password for the current user (sudo) if necessary, then enter the password for the new account twice and enter additional information as required. Confirm the information by pressing Enter. Now we add the user to the sudo group. …
In this article, I’ll walk you through how to bulk import users into Office 365 with the use of PowerShell and the use of a csv file. In certain cases, it is not possible to do an Active Directory directory synchronization (refusal of the client, no AD …). Adding a large number of accounts (for …
This tutorial explains how to configure password policies in Active Directory with Password Setting Objects (PSO).
Presentation In this tutorial, we will see how to activate automatic session locking after a period of inactivity. This group policy increases the level of security, because many users do not lock their session when they leave their workstation. The parameters that we will configure apply to Users. Activate automatic session lock From a domain …
Presentation In this tutorial, I will explain how to allow users to change their passwords using the Web Access portal available in a deployment of an RDS farm. To allow password change, you must have RDWEB Access published This solution allows users working exclusively on an RDS environment to change their password when it has …