Windows Server 2012

This tutorial shows you how to add specific users to local Administrators group via Group Policy. This is very useful when you need to provide specific users Admin access on domain computers without providing them Domain Admin rights. There are two ways for achieving this: Adding users to local Administrators group via modifying members of Administrators group. This method overwrites the existing members of Administrators …

If you are an Active Directory admin in your organization, then you hold the responsibility of creating AD accounts for the employees joining the organization. Creating AD accounts is easy if you have to create only a few accounts a day. But in the big organizations, the number of people joining per day may be higher. You don’t want to spend your whole day creating …

This step-by-step tutorial explains how to change the administrator account name and password on client machines by using Group Policy in Windows Server 2012. This may be useful if you want to change the name of the administrator or guest user accounts to minimize the chance of misuse of these accounts. In this tutorial, we will be using two Group Policy Objects each for Renaming Administrator …