https://grok.lsu.edu/New Active Directory (LSU Domain) articles!60https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18949 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain - Mac OS X Sierra (10.12) 1. Open System Preferences. 2. Click the Network icon. 3. Click the Advanced... button in the Network options window. 4. Under the WINS tab you should see a field entitled Work18949Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:41:05 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=18011 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain - Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) 1. Open System Preferences. 2. Click the Network icon, which is located under Internet & Wireless. 3. Click Advanced in the Network dialog box. 4. Under the WINS tab y18011Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:06:52 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17956 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain - Windows 10: 1. Click the Start button in the bottom left corner of the screen. 2. Type Control Panel and select Control Panel from the search bar at the bottom of the screen. 3. Choose System and Security from under17956Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:16:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17666 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 b17666Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:45:10 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17587 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain (mac OS 10.10 Yosemite): 1. Click the magnifying glass, which is located in the top right-hand corner of your desktop. 2. Type System Preferences , then press Enter . 3. Click the Network icon, which is located under Internet & Wireless . 17587Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:36:23 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17586 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain - Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) 1. Click the magnifying glass, which is located in the top right hand corner of your desktop. 2. Type: System Preferences 3. Click the Network icon. 4. Click Advanced in the Network dialog box. 17586Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:15:38 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17585 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain - Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) 1. Click the magnifying glass, which is located in the top right hand corner of your desktop. 2. Type: System Preferences 3. Click the Network icon, which is located under Internet & Wireless. 17585Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:09:38 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17580 Before joining the LSU Domain, you first need to Pre-Stage the Machine in Active Directory (AD). Windows Operating Systems How do I Pre-Stage a Windows Computer Windows 8: Windows 8: Join the LSU Domain Windows 8: Determine if you are on the LSU Domain 17580Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:34:21 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17578 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain 1. Click the Windows Start button, then right click Computer at the right-hand side. 2. Click Properties from the context menu. 3. In the section entitled Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings: If 17578Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:38:30 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=17577 Windows Operating Systems Windows 10: Determine if you are on the LSU Domain Windows 8/8.1: Determine if you are on the LSU Domain Windows 7: Determine if you are on the LSU Domain Mac Operating Systems Mac OS X: Determine if you are on the LSU Doma17577Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:16:18 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16698 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 in16698Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:28:33 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=15002 Determine if you are on the LSU Domain in Windows 8.1: 1. Mouse over the bottom right of your screen and click Settings . 2. Select PC info from the Settings panel that appears on the right. 3. In the section entitled Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings: 15002Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:07:33 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=14844 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 . 14844Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:40:56 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=12838 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 organizatio12838Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:22:44 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=6940 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 th6940Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:19:47 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5273 General Information: Shared resources should be secured so that only those who need to access the resource can access the resource. While there are many ways to secure your Windows box, this document will describe the methods normally used by the Office of Computing Services Active Directory s5273Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:40:04 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5271 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 Objects5271Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:08:13 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5269 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 ho5269Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:09:18 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5268 Active Directory FAQs What is an Active Directory (AD)? The Microsoft Windows Active Directory glossary defines an Active Directory as Microsoft's directory service database for Windows networks. Stores information about resources on the network and provides a means of centrally org5268Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:54:35 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5267 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 res5267Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:46:05 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5085 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 BI5085Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:24:24 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=4889 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 4889Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:24:45 GMThttps://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=3717 General Information The Information Technology Services uses Active Directory Service, using existing myLSU IDs for access to a campus-wide Windows-based directory. This service is available to all departments in order to create a safer and more reliable Microsoft Windows computing environment3717Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:30:52 GMT