Wednesday 20 February 2013

How to Make a Domain User the Local Administrator for all PCs

I got lot's of queries from system administrators & tech support 

engineer's ,like how to allow domain user's to install software or 

make any configuration changes on the client's without prompting 

for password. & How to make a user group to allow performing

system changes on client's but they should not be able to perform

any changes on domain controller & Server Computer's.

So here I am sharing this article with you so you can solve this 

issue:-

So Let's Start:

We are going to Complete this demand using GPO & I am using 

Windows Server 2K8 R2

First go to Group Policy Management

Navigate to 

Forest>YourDomain>Group Policy Objects

Right click Group Policy Objects & select New , now type 

any name to your policy & press OK (in this case I am naming it 

Local administrators)




















Now right click policy & select edit & it will open Group Policy 

Management editor.

now navigate to


Computer Configuration>Policies>Windows Settings>Security 

Settings>Restricted Groups 



Right click Restricted Groups & click Add group 

Friday 15 February 2013

How to allow local user group to login on domain controller

If you had try to log in on Domain controller with domain user 

account then you will not able log in & you will get the error :-

You can not log on because  the method you are using is not 

allowed on this computer. Please see your network 

administrator for more detail. 









So Let's Fix It

First go to Group Policy Management

Navigate to 

Forest>Domain>Group Policy Object

At right side you will see Default Domain Controller Policy

Right click it & select Edit 




















now it will open Group Policy Management editor

now navigate to 

Computer Configuration>Policies>Windows Settings>Security 

Settings>Local Policies>User Rights Assignment 

Saturday 2 February 2013

Solved:Windows Explorer not working on Startup

Today I am sharing article on how to fix Windows explorer missing 

on Startup , Many end users asked me that after login in to 

Windows 7 then there is no Icons & Taskbar.

So not to worry because after reading this article you will able to 

Fix it...

So let's start fixing it...

First log in into windows 7 

now press CTRL+ALT+DEL  

& select option Start Task Manager

now click on file > new task (RUN)

Regedit <press enter>


Navigate to 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]





at right side you will see the String value called SHELL

Double click it & type EXPLORER.EXE 

& press ok;now close Regedit

Again go to RUN & type SYSDM.CPL

now tou will see System Poperties window

Click on Environmental Variables

now into System Variables Click & highlight Path & click on edit 

option (Like shown in below image)


























Now type the following line & press ok

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;

Press OK & now Restart your computer & you have done...

Work Smarter...