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Score Not Pulling an IP
Dave - 26 Mar 2009 10:21 AM - 10 messages
NEWBIE ALERT Yes I'm new at this.  I just setup a 2008 server running AD.  I just joined my first machine to the domain that was originally pulling an IP from the router.  It joined successfully.  After rebooting though ...
Score User authenticates, skips logon script
MC Murphy - 26 Mar 2009 2:29 PM - 7 messages
Server 2003 AD domain; GPO governs user logon; GPO includes a logon script.  I have a user, not sure if it's the only user, who today does not execute the logon script (drives aren't mapped, the log file the script writes to is not ...
Score Adding a new DC - win2k3 R2
Kyle BLake - 26 Mar 2009 10:38 PM - 4 messages
Very easy question. I have a domain working just fine but I want to add a new DC. I just run dcpromo from the start menu on my new server and that should do it? It won't serve as anything but an 2nd authentication server at our corporate ...
Score Command to add registry entry
Jasper Recto - 25 Mar 2009 2:06 PM - 5 messages
I would like to add a registry entry into every users HKCU registry.  Is that possible to do from a batch file? If so, what commands do I need to use?  I need to add this registry key: ...
Score Drive Mapping in Server 2008
Dave - 24 Mar 2009 4:12 PM - 7 messages
I haven't played with Server since 2000.  I'm trying to setup a machine for my neighbor and I'd like to map drives to specific shared folders.  In the past I would do this in a .BAT file.  If this is ...
Score Batch Script Text file parse
tator.usenet - 24 Mar 2009 5:13 PM - 6 messages
Newbie here. I am trying to get a single line of text from each file within a directory of text files. Example I have directory X that contains files: file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt Each text file is similar in structure, and contains lines like: ...
Score Query OU for disabled computers
rushtosri - 19 Mar 2009 12:03 PM - 6 messages
Hi Guys, I'm working on a script to enumerate OUs for disabled computer objects. Any idea how the query should look like? The following script can lookup for disabled user accounts. Any thoughts on how to modify this script to lookup for disabled computer accounts?? ...
Score Schedule Defrag through GPO (non admin)
twiggo - 16 Mar 2009 8:53 PM - 8 messages
Hi all, I'm searching for a script that can add a scheduled task running a silent defrag 1 day a month at 1 A.M. and when it's finished generate the log of the process and place it on a server's shared folder (for example in \\server\share). ...
Score Script AD remove all members groups OU
helena_carvalho - 17 Mar 2009 3:59 PM - 5 messages
Hi, I have more 5000 security groups in AD, and i need a script that remove all members to all groups in specified OU. can hep me. thanks. helena carvalho ...
Score help with logon vbs script
theunlikely - 12 Mar 2009 4:54 PM - 5 messages
I have the script below which works fine.. however when the DOS prompt opens up I get two error: access denied messages. Now the script completely works for the groups posted and attaches the drives and printers correctly... where am I getting these errors from? Can I ...
Score SBS 2003 VB Scripting - Help Needed!
un1c0rn - 10 Mar 2009 11:23 AM - 11 messages
Hello Gurus, I am currently working on a login script for a Small Business Server 2003 which maps drives and creates different default printers depending on which security group the users are in.  The drive mapping works ok but the default ...
Score Access protected folders using system account
Juan - 11 Mar 2009 1:55 PM - 10 messages
Hi, I'm developing a vbscript. The vbscript needs to access every file, or folder, in the local hard disks. I only need to access the name of the file. I'm using Windows XP and a NTFS partition, so it's possible to ...
Score !Around Variable Name!
Alan - 11 Mar 2009 7:24 PM - 4 messages
What does "!" around a variable name, as in if !LINECNT!==TEST mean?                             Thanks, Alan ...
Score If syntax for numeric values
Alan - 10 Mar 2009 8:41 PM - 8 messages
Hi.  I have a bonehead question.  I'm just trying to do a simple cmd script using an IF statement.  Why doesn't the code below work?                    Thanks, Alan ...
Score Script to set share permissions on home directories
Greenmynci - 23 Feb 2009 2:23 AM - 5 messages
I have a directory with ~1600 home folders in it that have incorrect share permissions - currently set to : Administrators - full control Everyone - Read whereas i need them all to be Administrators - full control Everyone - Change / Read NTFS permissions are fine, its just the share permissions that need changing.  Does anyone know of a script or method to set these permission en masse ? ...
Score Script for Thunderbird configuration
coolguy123 - 5 Mar 2009 7:01 AM - 5 messages
We are going to use thunderbird as email client in our comapny. I have got msi file for the software deployment. but i would like to know is there any way to automate client configuration ( such as logon script) based upon the windows login. ...
Score Change Password
Tom - 4 Mar 2009 1:54 PM - 5 messages
Hi all, I am trying to write vb script to change the local admin password. As of now I have this and it does the job. strComputer = "."     Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrator")     objUser.SetPassword "1234" ...
Score LDAP query fails... because of parentheses?
Highlander - 24 Feb 2009 4:45 PM - 5 messages
(watch for word wrap below) Hello all. I'm using the script found here: [link] When I run it, as it cycles through all the members of the Group, if ...
Score Script to find the presence of a software
coolguy123 - 24 Feb 2009 6:37 AM - 3 messages
Hi, I need a script that finds the presence of a particular software (let us say MS Office ) in all the machines listed in a text file. I have a script which gives the output of all installed softwares in local computer. Can someone tell me what are the modifications i must do in this script to get the result for my scenario. ...
Score Undefined variable in login script
prezpwns - 19 Feb 2009 5:04 PM - 6 messages
Hello all, The following script consistently generates an error every time the (test) user logs in. My syntax, as far as I am concerned, is correct. ************************************* Dim objShell Dim Shell Dim objURLShortcut Dim strDesktopfld 'Create 'IT Support' shortcut to Desktops ...
Score modify incremental_backup
Joe King - 16 Feb 2009 9:41 PM - 15 messages
this code (by Mark Minasi) creates a batch file to run ntbackup: ================================================================ Option Explicit Dim objFileSystem Dim objOutputFile Dim strOutputFile : strOutputFile = "C:\BatchFiles\NetworkBackup\Auto- NetBackup.bat" Dim strDayOfWeekText Dim strMyDate Dim strstrMyMonth Dim oWSH Dim sCommand Dim strDelBackup Dim strMoveBackup ...
Score Enable/Disable Network connection at once
Fabio Rosa - 28 Apr 2007 10:48 PM - 7 messages
Hi, in my line of work I have to do a tedious task quite a number of times every day: enable one network connection and disable the other. What I actually refer to is that on a laptop - where I have one wired and one ...
Score Scruot to check user rights on folders/subfolders
stefan - 16 Feb 2009 7:54 AM - 4 messages
Hi, I'm looking for a powershell script to check if theres a specified user authorized on all subfolders and files in a directory... I tried get-acl but I'm not a scripting guy... Any help would be appreciated. ...
Score Drop leading zeros in a variable
jntoner1 - 13 Feb 2009 4:59 PM - 6 messages
I'm using a variable that is a random hex number in my batch file. I'm using this value to search some registry keys, but the registry keys don't use the leading zeros. So, I'm looking for a way to drop only ...
Score Echo to column position
jntoner1 - 6 Feb 2009 4:18 PM - 6 messages
I'm using windows batch scripts. Is there a way to echo variables to specific column positions consistently? I've got VAR1 & VAR2 that can vary from 5 to 40 characters in length that I'm echoing on the same ...
Score WMI Script, access denied?
Linn Kubler - 23 Jan 2009 9:22 PM - 6 messages
Hi, I've got a little script here that I can use to get some information out of a computer.  This works fine with computers that are attached to my domain but I can't get it to work with a computer that is not in my domain but ...
Score Sync AD computer description field with local computer description field.
Michael - 11 May 2007 9:06 PM - 6 messages
Hello Is there a way to sync the computer description field in AD with the computer description field on the my computer properties computername tab. FROM:  XP PRO ( Local  computer description field)   >>>>>>>>> TO:  SRV 2003 ...
Score Batch file to delete files dynamically
freelancer24 - 20 Jan 2009 12:27 AM - 4 messages
Hello All, I read the threads here but they did not quite answer my question: [link] [link] [link] ...
Score Deleting and re-installing printer with new name using login scrip
Ronnie - 4 Feb 2009 12:26 PM - 6 messages
Hi all, I want to change the naming standard for all printers in my company. This goes for both the sharenames and printer names. The idea is that I'll do this outside normal working hours and then for a period of time update the login ...
Score Script to set user permissions
NZSchoolTech - 30 Jan 2009 7:07 AM - 5 messages
I've had to set up a new server after a disk crash. We had backups of all of the home directories of our users, but we lost all of the ACLs because these were not backed up in any form. ...
Score Script for deleting folders + content in root of D:\ after # days
lca1630 - 29 Jan 2009 10:56 PM - 6 messages
Hello, I am wondering of one of you scripting wizards could help me with a cleanup script that delete all folders older than # days in the root of d:\. I am making backups of my live virtual servers and do not have enough room ...
Score Reset child permissions / inheritance of folder with script
Thomas - 19 Jan 2007 9:41 AM - 9 messages
Hello everyone, is there any possibility to set inheritance settings with a command line tool on windos server 2003? I´d like to set de checkbox "Replace permission entries on all child objects with entires shown here that apply to child objects" on command line! ...
Score send mail if ping faile
skepper - 28 Jan 2009 3:12 PM - 5 messages
hello to all! i need script do it : ping to server if pink ok - ping again (loop) if ping fail - send mail via telnet [link] Server 2003 R2 ...
Score Get attributes of user list from AD
sriramna - 22 Jan 2009 4:55 PM - 7 messages
I have managed to generate a text file of the SAMIDs of users whose attributes I need to get, one line per user. I need to query Active Directory for the corresponding attributes (telephone, email, department...) and generate a report for further ...
Score Batch Script to parse lines in text file
jntoner1 - 23 Jan 2009 3:00 PM - 9 messages
Hello, I'm trying to write a batch script that performs actions on each value within a text file. The text file (myfile.txt) contains a string similar to: aa\bb\cc\dd\ee My goal is to have a for loop that perfoms a set of actions on each of ...
Score Monitor redundent processes running on the Windows Server
ash - 20 Jan 2009 11:43 PM - 8 messages
Hi Everyone, I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent processes and send me an email alert when that happens. Your help would be much appreciated. Cheers, Ash. ...
Score Command line parameters?
Linn Kubler - 22 Jan 2009 5:35 PM - 11 messages
Hi, I have a boot floppy for booting my computer to connect to the network so I can run Ghost and image my machine.  I wrote a little batch file called logoff.bat for loging off the network when I'm finished. ...
Score Continued xcopy script
Bond - 12 Jan 2009 4:08 PM - 12 messages
Hi again! ....Continuing from my previous post. Since it spawned such a good conversation :)  I can't figure out how I can add a loop counter to my checking for an empty folder (which BTW I already had in my original code) ...
Score File monitoring
John - 6 Jan 2009 1:03 PM - 10 messages
Hello everyone, I've a a script that every hour move files inside several directories to a diferent server that is outside of our newtwork, this is done with a schedule batch file that runs every 30 minutes. The problem is that sometimes this ...
Score run once script
James Brister - 21 Jan 2009 2:06 AM - 9 messages
I have been searching around the internet and I can't find a consensus on this topic.  I have a batch file (.bat)  that does a silent install of a software program we use.  I am able to run this batch file computer by ...
Score CSVD export of SMTP addresses
randy - 15 Nov 2007 9:44 PM - 7 messages
I am attempting to export a list of all usernames and smtp email addresses fromt LDAP. I have the following command which works, except for the fact that it keeps exporting the Distinguished name, even though I don't ask it to ...
Score Scheduled Shutdown Win2k3
Mike - 10 Aug 2005 11:05 AM - 4 messages
I'm trying to schedule a shutdown of a Windows Server 2003 Standard (SP1, console logged in and locked). I can't seem to get it to work? Using task scheduler gives the "0x4f7" as the result code when running: ...
Score This script doesn't work i don't know why
mosquito_hippy - 20 Dec 2008 12:48 AM - 10 messages
I wrote this machine script to apply a patch to the computers of a OU in a Windows 2003 Server Domain. if exist C:\patchs\kbxxxxxx.dat goto end if exist C:\patchs\. goto label1 md c:\patchs \\mcse-01\patchs\WindowsXP-KBxxxxxx-x86-enu.exe /norestart /log:C:\patchs\ ...
Score xcopy errorlevel problem in script
Bond - 7 Jan 2009 7:18 PM - 19 messages
Please forgive me if this question is not appropriate to post here, I've exhausted all my research and troubleshooting on this silly process so I hope you don't mind me posting this question here.  I need to copy some ...
Score Help with VBscript
smoki - 6 Jan 2009 2:01 PM - 4 messages
Hi there Looking for a VB script to change local Administrator password to be something specific to include part of mac address and model name etc. I have found scripts to change it to something random or even a single ...
Score Re: lastLogonTimestamp not set!
Richard Mueller [MVP] - 27 Dec 2008 4:55 AM - 5 messages
When the functional level is first raised, user objects have this attribute updated randomly over the next 14 days (to avoid too much replication traffic all at once). After that, the value is updated during logon if the old value is more than 14 days (by default) in the past. Does that account ...
Score Is this the last step we need to do?
ed - 23 Mar 2009 2:50 PM - 9 messages
Hi all, Finally, we demote all windows 2000 domain controllers and we have all windows 2003 domain controllers running.  We introduced windows 2003 DCs to windows 2000 envir.  Now, according to KB817470( [link])  Do I ...
Score AD Container
naguaramipana - 25 Mar 2009 1:38 PM - 10 messages
Hi gurus Here is my problem, I have two containers on my AD, one name computers and the other one named workstation. workstation has a GPO attached to it, no matter who the user is , when logged into a computer that is within this container a bunch of policy ...
Score Add User to group through comparison to other user's memberships
SecurityGuy - 26 Mar 2009 7:56 PM - 3 messages
I have a "New User" script which is very complex and handles adding most AD properties upon creation, address tab, phones, profile tab, organisation tab, etc. It also will use any existing user as a template for group membership addition.  I was using the WinNT method in this script, and am now changing that to the LDAP method since the WinNT method doesn't pick up distribution groups.  However, I am now getting a "bad path" error when I try to add the groups to the new user.  Can someone assist me here please.  I will paste the pertinent section in here, as the original script is nearly 1000 lines of code ...
Score problem with NIS and AD user attributes
seth - 18 Mar 2009 10:21 PM - 7 messages
I still have an issue with my NIS management console and have had no success in trying to resolve that.  However, there is a separate issue that i need help with. It seems that on my linux boxes when it tries to get user info from NIS it ...
Score VB Script returns all group memberships for a user EXCEPT Exchange Dist groups
SecurityGuy - 25 Mar 2009 6:48 PM - 9 messages
I have a VB script which queries AD and returns all the groups a user is a member of.  This works great, except as it turns out, it is only returning the groups which are "security" groups, and not "distribution" groups.  Not sure what the difference here would be from the investigations I've done using LDIFDE. ...
Score Errors from dcdiag
Johnsp - 26 Mar 2009 2:05 PM - 4 messages
Hello I m seeking advice on the follwong errors 1. A recent replication attempt failed:             From x to y             Naming Context: DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=    ...
Score Recovery GPOs
Edu - 26 Mar 2009 1:31 AM - 4 messages
Hello, a little doubt, Can I rebuild the GPOs which are allocated in the sysvol folder? I want to load some GPO in ADUC having only an old copy of sysvol folder off another domain. Thanks, Eduardo Argentina - Buenos Aires ...
Score disabling 3g modems that connect to PCs via usb and pcmcia
inenewbl - 25 Mar 2009 9:38 AM - 5 messages
Hi all. I would like to know if it is possible to use group policy to disable all 3g modems that connect to PCs via usb or pcmcia. The reason for this is because i do not want my users to connect to the internet while connected to ...
Score Demotion doesn't properly remove server from DNS
net_admin - 24 Mar 2009 8:51 AM - 5 messages
Hi, here the problem. After a successful demotion, DCs' names are not removed from the DNS AD-Integrated zones (Name Servers Tab). I've waited days to see if it was replication-related, but it doesn't seem to be. Also, I've checked that the ...
Score Domain functional level
Yba - 3 Feb 2009 7:09 PM - 10 messages
Hi, Running Windows Server 2003 AD domain in Windows 2000 mixed (single 2003 DC). We also have a single Exchange 2003 (configured for RPC over HTTPS) server and ISA 2004 at the primeter. I want to raise the domain functional level to Windows 2003.  What are the ...
Score redirected start menu not working
samotech - 25 Mar 2009 4:56 PM - 4 messages
hello, i have a issue, we have 2 XP labs here at the site where i work,and we also have 300+ 2k machines, well i have redirected start menu for both, i am running loop back processong on the labs for the redirecting of the start menu. Here the issue, certain students login and the redirected SM is crossing over OU policy, my question is any body have good tips on where to start trouble shooting? -- samotech ------------------------------------------------------------------------ samotech's Profile: [link] View this thread: [link][link] ...
Score Kerberos Tickets Renewal
Domon - 19 Mar 2009 6:37 AM - 9 messages
Hi guys I understand that for Kerberos authentication in a 2k3 domain, when a user successfully authenticated himself to the AD, the KDC will issue him a TGT and a session ticket. He will then use them to request for sevice tickets to access server resources. ...
Score GPO Version mismatch in Sysvol
Kevin Gallagher - 20 Mar 2009 4:43 PM - 6 messages
I am getting a Version mismatch error from gpotool telling me that the DS version number for a GPO is different to the Sysvol number. In fact the DS version number is higher. My AD and FRS replication is ok as I have used ADST ...
Score problem reading gpt.ini
argie01 - 19 Mar 2009 1:23 PM - 8 messages
Hello, one of my Active Directory server W2003 Standard R2 SP2 is giving a lot of this errors (id=1058): Windows no puede obtener acceso al archivo gpt.ini para GPO cn={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},cn=policies,cn=system,DC=cpd,DC=com. El archivo debe estar presente en la ubicación <\\cpd.com\sysvol\cpd.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\gpt.ini>. (Acceso denegado. ). Se ha anulado el proceso de Directiva de grupo. ...
Score After 2000 to 2003 upgrade sysvol is not accessable
whosmatt - 22 Mar 2009 2:48 AM - 9 messages
I did an upgrade of AD from windows 2000 to 2003.  There were 2 windows 2000 domain controllers in the domain and I first demoted one of them, then ran adprep on the other and upgraded it to 2003.  ...
Score ADAM UserProxy Authentication (Which Domain Controller?)
Marc - 23 Mar 2009 1:46 PM - 5 messages
Hello all, I'm using an ADAM LDAP server populated with userProxyFull objects for a number of web applications and I wanted to know how to know which of the many DCs in my company's system the ADAM server is using for ...
Score changing domain name
dkblee - 23 Mar 2009 4:40 PM - 11 messages
hi! How do i change my domain name in a Win2003 AD environment? What will the effect be in the dns and dhcp svrs? For those dhcp that's not an AD (no dcpromo, only joined domain), can i just ...
Score Best way to give local admin rights only across the domain
compu - 24 Mar 2009 4:49 AM - 5 messages
What is the best way to give a user admin rights on any workstation they will login to but not admin rights on the domain? I am thinking about putting them in group administrators, but I am afraid that will give them admin rights on the domain. ...
Score Event ID 1669
Steven L Chan - 16 Mar 2009 9:19 PM - 13 messages
Event ID 1669 Source NTDS General Type Warning Description The group membership cache refresh task has reached the maximum number of users for the local domain controller. Maximum number of users: 500 User Action Consider increasing the maximum limit by changing the following registry ...
Score Please Help.... Server 2003 and 2008 domain controller problems...
DKB - 26 Feb 2009 7:16 AM - 18 messages
Hi, I'm replacing servers on my network with with new servers running server 2008.  I'm removing the 2 old server 2003 domain controllers.  One of them crashed and I I seized all rolls and removed all records of that server with ...
Score Delegate ad workstations to domain
skip - 23 Mar 2009 6:11 PM - 5 messages
Hello all i am running in a windows 2003 native mode domain, all DC's are windows 2008 except for one, i have 4 DC's. I have configured the default domain GPO so the help desk staff can add workstations to the domain, and i have also ...
Score IE7 Trusted Sites Disabled
Dude - 19 Mar 2009 8:03 PM - 7 messages
We have Windows 2008 Server and all workstation have IE7. We need to set some Trusted Sites in IE7. Wanted to use group policy to set in all workstations. The option is greyed out every workstation and in group policy ...
Score Do Child DC's need unrestricted IP access to Root DC's?
michan318 - 23 Mar 2009 11:44 AM - 11 messages
Hello, Do all child DC's need unrestricted IP access to all root DC's for AD replication to work successfully?  I ask because I have a scenario in which a child DC isn't trying to replicate-in the "ForstDNS" parition from another ...
Score Single Sign On
MarineGeek - 17 Mar 2009 3:25 PM - 6 messages
I have a user who is having single sign on issues.  Here is what I have found so far: 1.  If anyone else logs into her PC, the single sign on works fine. 2.  If she go to someone else's PC, the single sign on works fine. ...
Score How to add an offline printer object in Active Directory
Kent - 23 Mar 2009 10:57 AM - 3 messages
Hi there, I would like to know whether is there any way to add an offline printer object in Active Directory? The solutions from Microsoft website requires all printers to be active before it can be publish in Active Directory. ...
Score DC's not Replicating
griffinwindows - 23 Mar 2009 3:38 PM - 7 messages
Hi I have 3 Dc's on my site and at the moment i cannot get the one server(Gamma) to replcate to the PDC (Beta) When i try to force the replciation i get the following error the following error occurred during the attempt to synchronize naming context Griffin.local from Domain Controller BETA to Domain Controller GAMMA ...
Score Transfering/seizig of PDC role
Domon - 23 Mar 2009 9:04 AM - 6 messages
Hi guys Let's say I have two DC, DC1 and DC2, running in a domain. DC1 is holding the PDC role and is configured to sync it's time with a extenal time source. If we transfer the PDC role to DC2, what else we will need to do to complete the process? We will need to configure DC2 to sync the time with the extenal time source rite? Then how about DC1? Do we need to do any NTP related configuration on DC1? ...
Score DNS during Domain Controller demotion
ShrikeAttack - 23 Mar 2009 9:05 PM - 7 messages
Windows Server 2003.  Does DNS get removed by the dcpromo wizard when demoting a domain contoller.  This is just one of many domain controllers in a domain. ...
Score offline KB 810859
Steven - 18 Mar 2009 1:46 PM - 14 messages
I found the KB article 810859 and it sounded perfect for my issue however after testing this is 3 different environments it still does not work. 1.) I downloaded the hotfix but my existing version was higher so it did not ...
Score Way to set using Active Directory, which ports for remote desktop?
ghurty - 23 Mar 2009 6:36 AM - 6 messages
Is there a way to set using Active Directory, which ports individual computers should use for Remote Desktop? Or even a VNC software? Thanks ...
Score DNS/DHCP problem while migrating computers using ADMT
Steve Kadish - 20 Mar 2009 9:25 PM - 5 messages
Hi all, We recently merged with another company and we are trying to merge their users and computers into our forest using the Active Directory Migration Tool.  So far the testing has mostly gone smoothly, but I had one problem ...
Score Validation for 2000 to 2003 upgrade
Guillaume Genest - 23 Mar 2009 3:08 AM - 5 messages
Hi,     Here is our situation, we have a windows 2000 Mixed mode Active Directory, on 4 physical site. We also have Microsoft Exchange 2000 but it is no longer use, we use Lotus Domino. The 5 FSMO role are on 2 DC located in ...
Score Group Domain Admins cannot be found
SteveB - 20 Mar 2009 12:39 PM - 7 messages
I am trying to add a group (Global Security group) I have created in the Users container to the Domain Admins group which is is in the same container, but when I try to add it on the "Member of" tab, Check names is unable to find the group Domain Admins.  The group definitely exists. Object types it is looking for are Groups or Built in security principals.  Location is BLAHBLAH.dom.  I have tried changing the Location all the way down the tree to the actual Users container and it still cannot find the group. ...
Score Re: net logon service not running
csocci - 22 Mar 2009 9:37 PM - 4 messages
I'm having the same issue on Windows XP 64. Like Greg: I can't log in. I can't get an RPC or RDP connection. Therefore: I can't check logs - I can't get to services. Last Known Good is NOT an option because I successfully reach MS GINA - which *IS* the "last known good" in Window's terms... ...
Score Manually removing cert server from AD
MBernal - 22 Mar 2009 3:01 AM - 5 messages
Ok, so I have a simple AD 2003 network with 2 domain controller and 2 Terminal 2003 servers. I have inherited this AD environment and found that one of my domain controller has numerous Event ID 13 - AutoEnrollment errors (Automatic certification enrollment for local system failed to enroll for one ...
Score Logon script change
Candace - 20 Mar 2009 11:58 PM - 3 messages
I have a group policy that includes a logon script. I need to add another mapped drive to my logon script which is a .BAT file. I attempted to locate and edit the appropriate .BAT file by doing the following in the Group Policy ...
Score Add W2003 R2 to W2000 AD, adprep fails
myanissa - 9 Jun 2006 12:51 PM - 6 messages
Hi, I have 2 domain controller W2000 in Active Directory. First one: W2000 SP4 + Exchange SP3 Second one: W2000 SP4 I wanna add a W2003 R2 to my Active Directory. I use the command: adprep /forestprep from my cd2 of W2003 R2 on the ...
Score GPO to allow Active X, Java FLash
Kim K - 21 Mar 2009 12:18 AM - 6 messages
I have a new server (08) and the businesses website uses Active X, adn flash, they cannot see their site.  I am asusming that this is because they were recently joined to the domain and have not accepted the install of the Active ...
Score How to Switch domains without having admin rights?
ghurty - 19 Mar 2009 1:57 AM - 9 messages
Hi, I have a computer that was part of a domain. The administrator had limited login to the domain only, no local login. I have an account that has regular user rights, no administrator rights. I want to connect the workstation to a new domain. But I cant change the ...
Score What am I missing?
John - 19 Mar 2009 7:00 PM - 10 messages
I am duplicating production envir. to my test environment. In my production envir. we have one forest with empty root domain and one child domain.  All servers and users are sitting in the child domain. (windows 2003 R2 envir.) ...
Score DC fails when isolated from network
Mark Z. - 20 Mar 2009 4:48 PM - 4 messages
My 2003 R2 DC is a global catalog, and points to itself for DNS (via its own static IP and has all the AD forest-integrated zones w/records). It does not hold any FSMO roles. When it is shut down, disconnected from the production ...
Score Logon issue in a 2 domain trust - Win 2003
kgangulw - 20 Mar 2009 10:16 AM - 7 messages
Hello, I have two Windows 2003 DCs. named them as below for example: DC1: abc.com DC2: xyz.com Trust between the two has been created (Two way) and that went through fine. however the problem is this I'm trying to log into DC1 (abc.com) with a user created in (xyz.com) ...
Score What am I doing wrong? (Want to use Server 2003 R2 for Domain Cont
J.R. Raith - 18 Mar 2009 6:14 PM - 14 messages
Hi everyone, This is going to be extremely newbie-ish and probably long-winded. Sorry for both in advance. I have a server that used to be Server NT 4 running as a Domain Controller *purely* to manage user access to some computers. These computers run Win98, ...
Score Roamin Profiles
Tony L - 18 Mar 2009 1:16 PM - 5 messages
I work in a school so consequently roaming profiles are a must. over the last few weeks some users are not getting their profiles loaded on startup, they get a message saying that the profile on server cannot be found when clearly ...

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