Redirecting the computers container in Windows Server 2003 domains

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324949

 

Normally the Computers ends up in the Computers Container, this is normally ok, but there are some things that you can’t do (like apply GPOsettings etc), after you moved your computers that you are not sure where they stand and if they get their settings correctly. After this you can apply settings to these computers as well, and new computers that are added will also have a possibility to run GPOs on.

 

Excerpt from the page:

3.
Create the organizational unit container where you want computers that are created with earlier-version APIs to reside (if the desired OU container does not already exist).

4.
Run Redircmp.exe from a command prompt by using the following syntax, where container-dn is the distinguished name of the organizational unit that will become the default location for newly-created computer objects that are created by down-level APIs:

redircmp container-dn container-dn

Redircmp.exe is installed in the %Systemroot%\System32 folder on new and upgraded Windows Server 2003-based computers. For example, to change the default location for a computer that is created with earlier-version APIs such as Net User to the OU=mycomputers container in the CORP.COM domain, use the following syntax:

redircmp ou=mycomputers,DC=company,dc=com

Timesync using Domain controllers

The domain can be synchronized using the DCs built in capability , if the DCs are synced the clients will also benefit from it.

 

http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/autosetup_w2k3.en.html

 

These are snippets that I used to set it up.

Start /wait w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:swisstime.ethz.ch
Start /wait w32tm /config /update
Start /wait w32tm /resync
w32tm /monitor

w32tm /stripchart /computer:serverdc01

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) for Windows XP (KB925876)

Windows XP – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=26f11f0c-0d18-4306-abcf-d4f18c8f5df9&DisplayLang=en

Windows 2003 – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cc148041-577f-4201-b62c-d71adc98adb1&DisplayLang=en

There is a new version of the RDP client out. Im not sure what it adds for funtionality yet. But it says it’s the Vista version…

 

Quoted from the page.

Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) provides a way to use any new Terminal Services features introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” from a computer running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1.