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Wow, another good question in the newsgroups that makes for good Blog fodder….
Question:

We are running W2k3 AD and Exchange 2003 SP1 in a multiple child domain environment. When we create a Universal Distribution Group in say domain A and add a user in domain B to the Manager tab (we also check ‘Manager can [...]

I encounter questions like this on a fairly regular basis. Just a few minutes ago I hit it in the newsgroups and I responded, I thought, you know, that would make a good blog entry… So here it is….
The question was
Does anyone have a set of queries that I can use to re-construct the GAL [...]

I was playing around with GPO’s and Security Configuration and Analysis yesterday to verify a process I previously figured out where someone without GPO permissions but with OU permissions could override the domain policy for user password/lockout settings on local computers so that each computer in an OU could have its own policy defined [...]