Calling out all Active Directory experts! Share your Active Directory expertise and help fellow IT admins manage their day-to-day Active Directory tasks easily. Fill out the below form and submit your entries.

Best entries will get 20% off on the next purchase or renewal of any ADSolutions products and will be featured in our next month’s ADSolutions Newsletter.

Sample: When you are using a third-party password management and self-service password tool, you want to ensure that the users can’t bypass the tool to change their domain user password. So you can remove the Change Password option (available when you press Ctrl-Alt-Del) by hacking the registry. Here’s how:

The path to the setting is:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.

The name of the value you want to change is DisableChangePassword and the data should be 1.

You can also modify this by using the local policy or a Group Policy Object in Active Directory. That path is User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Ctrl-Alt-Del Options\Remove Change Password. Set this policy to Enabled.

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• Entries submitted till 30-06-2014 will be considered.
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