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patch management Tested, chose, and implemented a patch management solution. Here are some notes I took. Domain Migration w\ADMT and BitLocker ADMT migration of 170 remote users and their BitLocker-encrypted Windows 7 machines into an existing domain with an SCCM-integrated MBAM infrastructure. Windows Phone Deployment Replacing Blackberry with Windows Phone TECHNOLOGY IN THIS DISCUSSION Join the Community! Creating your account only takes a few minutes. Join Now Hi guys. First day, new company. They have one Srv2k3 that https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23097626/MMC-cannot-open-the-file-C-WINDOWS-SYSTEM32-dsa-msc.html runs everything. So. trying to make myself an admin account but every account I create has a weird error. I can perform privileged tasks, but as soon as I try open any of the administrative tools I get an error along the lines of could not open ###.msc. It either doesn't exist, was created by different version of MMC or https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/127420-active-directory-administrator-doesn-t-have-permissions you do not have access. The built-in admin account works just fine, however any other account seems to have this problem. Any ideas? Thanks! Reply Subscribe View Best Answer RELATED TOPICS: Active Directory Any way to easily remove permissions across Active Directory? Active Directory Problems   1 2 Next ► 25 Replies Mace OP Nick-C Feb 7, 2011 at 4:46 UTC Are you part of the domain admins group? 0 Thai Pepper OP Chris128 Feb 7, 2011 at 5:06 UTC Do they have a GPO that blocks access to certain MMC snap-ins? We used to do this for anyone not in the domain admins group so its possible they have done the same thing and your account just needs adding to whichever group (or OU) that this does not get applied to. 0 Datil OP Robert.P Feb 7, 2011 at 5:48 UTC @Nick-C: Yup. Tried creating brand new account, manually adding to domain admin. Didn't work. Then tried copying default admin account, also gives
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