<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Updated Policies &amp; LSU Specific Information Articles</title><link>https://grok.lsu.edu/</link><description>Updated Policies &amp; LSU Specific Information articles!</description><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Active Directory: Creating and Locking Down File Shares</title><link>https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5273</link><description> 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 s</description><guid>5273 Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:40:04 GMT</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:40:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Active Directory: Maintaining Organizational Units</title><link>https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5269</link><description> 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 ho</description><guid>5269 Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:09:18 GMT</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:09:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Active Directory: Group Policies in Windows</title><link>https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5271</link><description> 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</description><guid>5271 Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:08:13 GMT</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:08:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Active Directory: Policies</title><link>https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=12838</link><description>  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 organizatio</description><guid>12838 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:22:44 GMT</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:22:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sustainability: Apply the LSU Power Management Schema (Active Directory)</title><link>https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=14844</link><description> 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 . 

 </description><guid>14844 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:40:56 GMT</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:40:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Active Directory: Louisiana State University Active Directory Project</title><link>https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=5267</link><description>   Louisiana State University Active Directory Project    

  
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 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 res</description><guid>5267 Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:46:05 GMT</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:46:05 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>