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Pre-Creating Computer Accounts When you create a machine account in Active Directory via ADUC (DSA.MSC), by default Windows generates a random (possibly, perhaps even probably non-printable) password for the computer account. If you select the “Assign this computer account as a pre-Windows 2000 computer” it takes the sAMAccountName, removes the trailing $ and then takes […]

If you have a Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine that goes really slow for GPO application (like tens of minutes or even hours) and the network trace looks something like   I.E. Read AndX Request and Response with small values like 2-4 bytes over and over again until it gets through […]