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To Join the LSU Domain on Mac OS X: 1. Select the Apple icon on the top left of the screen. 2. Select System Preferences . 3. Select Users and Groups . 4. Click Login Options and then click Join . To allow changes, click the Lock at the bottom left corner and enter the admin password. 5. Click Open Directory Utility .
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To Join the LSU Domain on a OS X Mountain Lion Operating System: 1. Select the Apple icon on the top left of the screen. 2. Select System Preferences from the dropdown menu. 3. Select Users and Groups in the bottom left of the window. 4. Click Join in the middle of the window. 5. Click Open Directory Utility in the middle of the...
Article Id: 16698

The following is a guide to accessing the LSU E-mail directory through non-Exchange programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird. To Link to the LSU Address Book through the LDAP Server: 1. Open Thunderbird . 2. Select Tools from the taskbar at the top of the screen, and then scroll down to Options . 3. Select the Composition & Addressing tab. 4.
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Opting in Procedure: All registered Campus Technology Support Professionals (TSPs) can “opt-in” by linking their machines with the IT power management policy. 1. Open Active Directory Group Policy Management . 2. Under lsu.edu , open Departments and Organizations . 3. Open the Organizational Unit (OU) for your department to view the computer and user...
Article Id: 14844

Naming Conventions Everything in the Active Directory must have a unique name. Since all resources in the directory are shared, the names must be distinguishable as well as unique. To accomplish this, the following naming scheme has been put into place. All objects start with the organization’s organizational code; except for the organization’s Organizational Unit (OU) which is just the...
Article Id: 12838

Louisiana State University Active Directory Project Preface In 1997 LSU implemented a domain model using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. The model consisted of one master domain called LSU_NT that would be used for authentication only, along with this domain would be multiple resource domains. This plan met with limited success, some departments and colleges on campus began...
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Active Directory provides central authentication and authorization services for Windows based computers. Active Directory also allows administrators to assign policies, deploy software, and apply critical updates to an entire organization according to Wikipedia. The Group policy is similar to the "Local Security Policy" available on all Windows NT workstations, the Group policy sets a layer...
Article Id: 6940

General Information A Domain Name Server contains information that is part of the Domain Name Service (DNS) distributed database, which makes computer names available to client programs querying for name resolution on the Internet. Domain Name Servers are computers that run a program called BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) which relates decimal internet addresses to names which...
Article Id: 5085

General Information The following is a guide to maintaining organizational units in the LSU ITS Active Directory system. Organizational Units allow organizations on campus to maintain control over their resources, like: computers, servers, printers and file shares. Below are instructions on how to maintain OU's. Creating Objects in an Organizational Unit By creating...
Article Id: 5269

The following is a guide to Group Policies in Windows regarding the LSU OCS Active Directory system. Group Policies allow Organizational Unit administrators to define procedures and set restrictions on computers and user objects within an OU. In the LSU Active Directory, Group Policy Objects are defined at the Organization Unit level, filtering down to child objects like Organizational...
Article Id: 5271

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