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Score Migrating windows server 2003 to new HDD
danb - 31 Mar 2007 8:32 PM - 6 messages
I have run out of disk space on my boot drive and I am trying to clone it to a new drive using Ghost. The clone appears to be successful and the system boots. Although I get an error about directory services not being able to ...
Score Default domain Policy gone?
Super Boobahlicious - 31 Mar 2007 10:52 AM - 7 messages
Hi: My Boss send me in the field to fix couple of issues in one of our Child domains of the Enterprise. child domain is a Window 2003 R2.. during my cleanup... I found out default domain group policy is not there.. ...
Score RecreateDefPol.EXE - Ok to run?
Michael - 31 Mar 2007 10:06 AM - 3 messages
Hi, My default domain policies are all messed up for a domain. I can't edit it. No permission and can't be found etc. I get errors like this below every 5 mins. Date: 01/08/2005   Source: Userenv ...
Score Call to DirectoryEntry.Invoke("SetPassword", new object[] {password} ) failing
Frank - 31 Mar 2007 5:40 AM - 2 messages
Hi, After creating a new user and committing, I am attempting to set the password. I create the user as: DirectoryEntry newUser = adUserFolder.Children.Add("CN=" + userInfo.username, "User"); // fill out properties, then commit Then when calling newUser.Invoke("SetPassword", new object[] {strPassword}); ...
Score ADAM RFC 2307 schema extension
Oscar P. - 31 Mar 2007 12:24 AM - 4 messages
I'm looking for an ldif file with only those RFC 2307 definitions appropriate for ADAM.  I spent a lot of time mucking with the R2 version but couldn't get it to work and haven't been able to find any relevant information out there. ...
Score What time does the account actually expire?
Jeff B. - 30 Mar 2007 10:26 PM - 9 messages
On the Account tab of an Active Directory User Account, the Account Expires is defined as End Of. Anybody know what is the specific time of day that the account actually expires? Anbody know if it can be customized to expire at a specifc time of the ...
Score nltest /dsgetsite error
Sander - 30 Mar 2007 8:50 PM - 3 messages
Hi, When I run nltest /dsgetsite on my Windows Server 2003 memberserver I receive the following errormessage: "DsGetSiteName failed: Status = 1919 0x77f ERROR_NO_SITENAME" Domain= Windows 2000 The subnet for the W2K3 server is listed in Sites and Services. Does anyone have some suggestions? ...
Score Questions regarding upgrading from Win 2000 to WIn 2003 domain
brad - 30 Mar 2007 7:38 PM - 10 messages
Hi, I'm working thru the preparation process for upgrading from a Windows 2000 to a Windows 2003 domain. I'm following articles 325379 and 555040. In the later article, step 8 mentions a disaster recovery plan. My questions are ...
Score Automating DCpromo
Chris D - 30 Mar 2007 7:19 PM - 5 messages
Can anyone point me to a good script for automatig dcpromo? TIA ...
Score "Simple" 2K to 2003 upgrade
gorahilly - 30 Mar 2007 7:10 PM - 3 messages
We have a very basic network. One domain. Two domain controllers. Exchange 2003. All servers in the domain are 2003 except one of the domain controllers. I want to upgrade that server and run in 2003 Native mode. Most articles I read are for more complex upgrades. Can anyone point me to a ...
Score How to check SItes Visited for many Workstations
R. Paulson - 30 Mar 2007 6:18 PM - 5 messages
Hi I have A Dept. Supervisor wants to check what sites her staff have been visiting on the Internet. This would be done from her own workstation. Thanks Guys I've been battling with this one for over a month now... ...
Score Missing "Server Operators" In active directory ?
Donald J. Lindstrom - 30 Mar 2007 5:08 PM - 4 messages
I have taken on a new client and came across this seraio (problem)? One of the vendors, Prolaw (legal calendaring) which uses a "agent" says their agent (an AD user account) needs to go into the "server operators" security group. However, this group, for what ever reason is NOT in active ...
Score net send
ZIDAC - 30 Mar 2007 4:38 PM - 3 messages
hi, i am from spain, excuse me my inglish I have a 2003 domain and i want to send mesagge to my client (to notify restart server, virus notification, restart services, etc) Are there any alternate to net send? Is net send secure? ...
Score why can not authenticate agains Domain Controller
Carlos Costa - 30 Mar 2007 4:20 PM - 5 messages
I have a Windows structure based in master domain ( company.local - that hold only administrative objects) and child domain (office.company.local that holds the rest - users, printers ...). sudently the domain controller (company.local) stops authenticating users. i rebooted it but now i can not authenticate administrator. ...
Score Need to Specify Default Logon Server
irleevis - 30 Mar 2007 4:10 PM - 4 messages
Thanks in advance for your input. I hope I can get this issue resolved soon since it will relieve me of my daily morning headache. Here's a brief history of what has happened. Our company was recently bought by a bigger corporation. We have since been in the process of ...
Score Block Messenger in Nt Server 2003
Fábio Farias - 30 Mar 2007 3:50 PM - 6 messages
Anybody know how to configure nt server 2003 to block messenger in all computers in my network? Sorry if it's not in this group, i'm new here. Best regards Fábio Farias ...
Score Permissions
dlw - 30 Mar 2007 2:44 PM - 3 messages
On a 2003 server, I set up a shared folder in Windows Explorer and right clicked on it and set some permissions- everyone full access.  That did not give everyone full access. Then I right-clicked on My computer/Manage/shared folders/shares Share ...
Score RAM not showing up correctly
IT - 30 Mar 2007 2:27 PM - 3 messages
Wondering if anyone can help me with this mystery I have 4 GB of RAM installed in my Server but when I pull up msinfo32 it is only showing 3,583.47 MB Total Physical Memory. Where is the other 420 MB of RAM?????? ...
Score users not able to logon to the network...
davisr65 - 30 Mar 2007 2:10 PM - 2 messages
at least 3 or 4 times a day i get user that are unable to logon to the 2003 AD domain..  the message they get 'unable to login, the domain is unavailable, or the computer is no registered... After a couple reboots, the user can log in fine...  I ran dcdiag and this ...
Score weird replications
Titofk00006 - 30 Mar 2007 1:08 PM - 4 messages
Hello, DC1 and DC2 are in the same site A in Swizterland. DC3 and DC4 are in the same site B in Hong Kong. In the Sites and Services, I can see that DC1 has replications with DC2 (intrasite A) and with DC3 (intersite). ...
Score Last Login Message
Jon - 30 Mar 2007 12:56 PM - 2 messages
Hi Everyone, May I know if possible when a user login to the domain the person will receive a welcome screen notification telling of his/her last login date and time? Thanks ...
Score fo
Rajeev Dhungel - 30 Mar 2007 10:52 AM - 3 messages
Hi all, My workstation is in windows xp pro.  I used to login windows 2003 domain controller. Right now active directory policy in windows 2003 isn’t customized, so default policy is as it is. Now my problem is I can’t share my local workstation folder. It is better to ...
Score Archive - Event logs
Zeno - 30 Mar 2007 10:31 AM - 3 messages
Hi there......... Are there any tools out there for archiving Windows events logs I saw Microsoft had release something like that recently which archives the event logs to SQL Servers but I can't find the details or much infor. ...
Score GPMC Weird Problem After Import
Pasi Heino - 30 Mar 2007 9:43 AM - 3 messages
Company is starting to use SMS 2003 and at same time OU structure and gpo's are planned to build again. I have created eight sample GPO's on one domain and now I have created same gpo's to all other subdomains and Imported those ...
Score Wallpaper not loading fully - pushed via GP
Jim - 30 Mar 2007 9:18 AM - 3 messages
I have a corperate jpeg loading as the wallpaper - pushed via a group policy object. All seemed well - until I noticed on a few PCs and servers where the wallpaper doesn't load properly. Have the screen is covered by the wallpaper and half not - the second half ...
Score DSAccess LDAP search times exceed 100ms
Eugen - 30 Mar 2007 8:58 AM - 2 messages
Hello, I have a MOM alert which says: Excessive MOM DSAccess:LDAP Search Time > 100 ms avg. over 5 minutes warnings. It looks like long LDAP search and read times are potentially affecting the performance of XCHG servers. On further investigation of the XCHG srvs, I have determined that LDAP ...
Score unable to create users
Will - 30 Mar 2007 6:48 AM - 6 messages
Hi all, I am having an issue creating users and resetting password for users  in active directory users and computers, using windows 2003 server.  Here are the errors: (creating user) Windows cannot set the password for test because: ...
Score Adding user fax information to Active directory
paider - 30 Mar 2007 2:46 AM - 5 messages
I need a script or an easy way to add fax numbers to approx 500 existing AD user accounts. Does anyone have an idea of how I could do this without adding each number manually to each account? Thanks ...
Score System Disk and System Files on AD backup
William A. J. - 30 Mar 2007 1:54 AM - 3 messages
Hi experts! I have a question regarding Active Directory backup. When it says that we have to backup System State, System Disk and System Files, there is something I am not sure about. Suppose a server has only 1 disk, which has a drive ...
Score New domain controller
jsteves - 29 Mar 2007 11:06 PM - 6 messages
We are currently in the midst of a possible roof collapse in our company and have to put a new network up ASAP. My question is how to go about setting up a new server as a parent domain controller. ...
Score Determining Computer Group Membership
Jeff Patton - 29 Mar 2007 9:22 PM - 8 messages
sorry for crossposting memberof is listed as an attribute for computer objects but returns an automation error when attempting to access it using the following code:             For Each strGroupName In objComputer.memberOf ...
Score Group policy, firewall settings
Jon - 29 Mar 2007 8:41 PM - 2 messages
When I enabled some settings in a computer group policy that added some firewall settings I needed to push to all workstation it locked the firewall from allowing user settings to work.  A couple examples are activesync and ICQ (the old groupware version)  Is there not a way to push settings to the ...
Score AD Disaster recovery setup
Barrycuda - 29 Mar 2007 7:18 PM - 4 messages
I am setting up a test lab to validate a disaster recovery plan. As part of the test I successfully recreated 1 of the DC's and seized all the roles. I was getting the 16650 account-identifier allocator errors.  According to ...
Score Password Filter Issue
Brian Clayton - 29 Mar 2007 7:05 PM - 4 messages
I am using a custom password filter (in addition to the default) on Windows Server 2003 DCs to push password changes to an OpenLDAP server for purposes of password syncronization. I have Windows password complexity and history enabled. The problem I am having is that history checking seems to occur ...
Score need to change all AD Terminal Services Profile Path's
pam - 29 Mar 2007 6:56 PM - 5 messages
I need to change the Termianal Server profile path on all our user accounts.  If I select mulitple users and then properties It will let me change only the following  "General" "Account" "Address" "Profile" and "Organization".  does ...
Score Completely remove second DC from AD
Mary M - 29 Mar 2007 6:40 PM - 4 messages
What are the steps to completely remove a GC DC from AD? I suspect something may have happened that caused the server not to be added correctly. Instead of fixing the errors, though removing it completely and starting over may be quicker. ...
Score Limit internet access
ITDUDE27 - 29 Mar 2007 6:02 PM - 5 messages
Hello world, I was wondering if it's possible to limit a group of user which are in a specific OU access to a hand full of websites and block the rest? SBS 2003 environment. Thanks. Ramy ...
Score Retrive information from Active Directory by C#
ibn tachfine - 29 Mar 2007 4:32 PM - 2 messages
Hello I m trying to retrive information from active directory using C#, i m using this code but it dose not work:             string path = "LDAP://Directoey.main.ma"; DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry( ...
Score Default GPO error - Help
Idris - 29 Mar 2007 4:11 PM - 4 messages
Hi, I can't edit my default GPO. I can't do anything to it. Can't delete it etc. I'm following the KB: [link] as those are the event log errors i keep getting every 5 minutes. ...
Score LDAP Query Empty Groups
RLGx - 29 Mar 2007 4:08 PM - 6 messages
I'm trying to create a query on AD 2003 DC that lists any group that has no members. I found this but it doesn't saeem valid: (&(objCategory=group)(!memberof=*)") Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. ...
Score Event ID 8003
Titofk00006 - 29 Mar 2007 3:46 PM - 4 messages
Hi, I still have these errors message on one of my DC. Event Type:    Error Event Source:    MRxSmb Event Category:    None Event ID:    8003 Date:        3/29/2007 ...
Score Need explanation on URL vs. Server name access and AD
darrel - 29 Mar 2007 3:45 PM - 2 messages
I really know nothing about Active Directory other than we use it as authentication for some of our ASP.net applications and, of course, Sharepoint uses it. What we're frustrated with is the seemingly random issue where sometimes, when accessing one of these AD authenticated apps, you get prompted for your ...
Score Prevent group from being added to other groups
GLD - 29 Mar 2007 3:18 PM - 2 messages
Is there a way to prevent a group (Domain Computers group specifically) from being added to other groups in Active Directory? ...
Score domain rename
Nick Domukhovsky - 29 Mar 2007 1:16 PM - 2 messages
Hello. Recently I'm tried to use domain rename tool in my testing environment (one DC, no CA, no DFS, one client - also a control station (Win XP SP2) and thats all). All went well, until last step: gpfixup. When I try to ...
Score Copying ADAM to Another Computer
John Trask - 29 Mar 2007 12:50 PM - 2 messages
I have an application that uses ADAM.  I am going to create a dev environment for this application on another server. I would like to be able to periodically copy the ADAM environment from production to the dev server.  What's the best way to do this?  From what ...
Score Can I batch rename files via script?
Chris Lukowski - 29 Mar 2007 12:32 PM - 3 messages
Not exactly AD related but something I'm dying to know. Every day I download two dozen PDF reports into a local folder and I have to rename them all which is a real PITA. The file names come over long and cryptic because they're ...
Score How to add OS Domain?
Adnan Yildirim - 29 Mar 2007 11:34 AM - 3 messages
Hi All, When I want to add a pc to domain, I am getting the error below. Computer Name Changes The following error occurred attemting to join the domain "local": The directory service was unable to allocate a relative identifier ...
Score ADPrep question
Idris - 29 Mar 2007 9:37 AM - 6 messages
Hi, I want to install and promote a new 2003 DC in a domain. It currently has 2 Win 2000 DCs in it. Trying to promote it says run adprep. Am i right in saying i don't need to run forest prep? We already have ...
Score Re: Disable anonymous enumeration of SAM on a domain ?
iautran - 29 Mar 2007 9:37 AM - 2 messages
Finally do you think there is a solution to stop anonymous enumeration from any computers not joined to the domain? Thank you ...
Score Software for users to change their AD password (password self-serv
Terence - 29 Mar 2007 7:34 AM - 4 messages
Is there a software product in market for AD users to change their AD password (password self-service)?   The software I need is just for password changing and self-serve, no other features are required. AD users can change their password from any web based machine. ...
Score Active Directory Client Logon Processing Time
MIIS Query - 29 Mar 2007 7:04 AM - 6 messages
Hi all Is there any tool / Scrip / possible approach to calculte the Logon Processing Time from CTL+ATL+DEL to till the Desktop appears on the  WorkStation. Thank in Advance Venkat ...
Score Automatically send email if any server fails in the same network
Arun - 29 Mar 2007 6:40 AM - 3 messages
Hi We are having around 10 servers in the same network listed in Windows Server 2003 AD Servers. In that Exchange 2003 also there. If any one of the server fails then can we set to send emails to the ...
Score Creating a trust with another company
Jack - 29 Mar 2007 4:39 AM - 2 messages
Hello, I currently have my exchange outsourced by another company and am looking to bring exchange in house.  I'd like to use move mailbox to bring my users mailboxes in-house.  Would it be possible to create an external trust with ...
Score Authenicating Outside of Home Site
Mr. JYC - 29 Mar 2007 4:08 AM - 3 messages
Hi, Could someone tell me possible reasons why users would authenicate outside of their site to another site particularly when that site as fewer DCs (1) than the one that they normally authenticate to (3)?  Is this normal behavior?  All sites that I have are part of a single domain forest. ...
Score Foreign Security Principal Group Membership Question
Brixie - 29 Mar 2007 3:07 AM - 2 messages
I have added a group from AD to a group in ADAM. A user (me) in the AD group can bind to ADAM with no difficulties. However, after I have bound to ADAM, I cannot figure out how to easily find the the ADAM ...
Score How to Publish Active Directory to users
The_JAT - 29 Mar 2007 1:52 AM - 4 messages
We are running a 13 Site Windows 2003 AD infrastructure across a very large geographical area. All the IT Operations are centralised at the Head Office. We operate a reasonably sophisticated Intranet Portal that is available to all users for workflow collaboration. ...
Score Sysvol folder at domain
Hong Jin - 29 Mar 2007 1:40 AM - 2 messages
Hi, Recently, i found out that the share folder Sysvol has a default permission of allowing Authenticated Users Full Control on that share folder. That means if an authorised user successfully access Sysvol, he/she could delete the server's policies & scripts? ...
Score How to give access to AD users and computers to user
basenjibob - 28 Mar 2007 11:24 PM - 6 messages
How do I give access to AD Users and Computers (help desk position that needs to be able to create new user accounts) from a XP SP2 system. They are in the Account operators group but I can't find away to see Users and computers. ...
Score GPO to limit net send access
Jeremy - 28 Mar 2007 10:24 PM - 10 messages
If I create a startup script GPO that denys a group access to the net.exe file so they can't use the net send command, will that also cause mapping during a logoin script (using net use) not to work? ...
Score IE7, GPO and Proxy Configuration
L A Garza - 28 Mar 2007 9:22 PM - 3 messages
Does anyone know how to set the proxy config in IE7 with a GPO?  We are trying to set a bogus proxy, the setting works in IE6, but not in IE7. Any help would be appreciated. -luis ...
Score Trying to validate trust between two domains in one forest.
Steve - 28 Mar 2007 8:24 PM - 2 messages
I was trying to add a printer to a Windows 2000 Advanced server domain controller that is shared on a Windows 2003 server by finding it in a different domain in the same forest directory. I couldn't see anything after ...
Score ADAM permissions to AD
GLD - 28 Mar 2007 7:36 PM - 7 messages
What permissions are required for an ADAM instance to pull a read only copy and sync with AD(2003)? ...
Score Removing a Decommissioned DC
SK-TECH - 28 Mar 2007 5:50 PM - 6 messages
What is the best practice to remove a decommissioned DC from AD? Thanks in advance, sK ...
Score Moving Active directory user along with exchange mail boxes
Jagannath - 28 Mar 2007 5:34 PM - 10 messages
Hi paul, Actually the problem is in my current server and domain exchange server 2003 is installed lets say abc.com. I want to move user account as well as mail box to another domain which let say xyz.com. Both the domain are in different ...
Score Shell Hardware Detection service cannot start completely
Bobson - 28 Mar 2007 5:12 PM - 3 messages
Hi, Thank you for your help in advance. Some of the XP PCs here could not start the ShellHWDetection service completely. The status said "starting". I would like to ask what can cause this? And how to fix it? I checked on our GPO and the service was set to "Automatically", which is ...
Score Questions about DHCP and DNS migration
Bobson - 28 Mar 2007 5:06 PM - 7 messages
Hi all, Thank you again for your help in advance! I would like move a DNS, and a DHCP server from one old DC to another new DC. Some DNS zones on the old DC are "primary" zones. The new DC DNS has been ...
Score Installing 2003 R2 as DC on 2003 SP1 network
server21 - 28 Mar 2007 4:16 PM - 2 messages
OK we currently have 4 locations, each with its own DC. All of the servers are running Windows 2003 SP1. I am having to replace one with new hardware and it will be running 2003 R2. When I tried to run DCPROMO on the 2003 R@ ...
Score Retrive information from Active Directory via URL
ibn tachfine - 28 Mar 2007 3:44 PM - 3 messages
Hello Is it possible to Retrive information from Active Directory via URL ? ...
Score DCDIAG confusion
CK - 28 Mar 2007 3:38 PM - 3 messages
I like to regularly run DCDIAG /V on my dc's however i'm confused about some of the output. When testing Replications I get the following: Latency information for 49 entries in the vector were ignored.                   49 were retired Invocations.  0 were either: read-only ...
Score Confuse with GPMC Security Filter
Linuz - 28 Mar 2007 3:15 PM - 7 messages
Hi all, I have some questions on security filter. Here is my case: (<-- mean under this OU) 2 OU: - [Citrix Users] <---hk_users - [Citrix Server] <--serverA 1) I have linked a GPO to [Citrix Server] OU. As I know in Windows2000, ...
Score File not found referencing Remote Instance of Adam
HB1994 - 28 Mar 2007 2:20 PM - 2 messages
We have an instance of Adam setup on a XP pro wrk station and it's working fine with a test web application written in c# 2.0 that's local to the machine.  When we attempt to run another web applicaiton that's on a remote ...
Score adfs claim app
John M - 28 Mar 2007 2:07 PM - 4 messages
Hello, I setup the adfs claims app from the step by step guide.  From the client machine, is it normal to have to login again to access the claim app?  It makes me login again, then the page comes up fine. ...
Score Replication Error
Denis - 28 Mar 2007 1:44 PM - 3 messages
I had posted this in the SBS Board, but have had no responses. It is likely more applicable here, so I shall copy/paste. Please excuse the cross post. We have a SBS2K3 box and a W2K3R2 box. These systems are acting as PDC and ...
Score Single User/Group Deny Access
rwright142 - 28 Mar 2007 1:30 PM - 6 messages
Hi all, I'm new to this company and the previous IT guy did not setup any global policies. Since this company is full of developers, they all have local admin access. Now they have hired 1 subcontractor and want him to only have access to one ...
Score HELP - can't access domain!
Idris - 28 Mar 2007 1:20 PM - 12 messages
Hi, I don't know what i've done but i can't access a domain in my forest. I've been trying to get replication working correctly and i think i may have changed something? On my other domain i goto ADUC and i can't select the ...
Score Tools available to identify AD and DNS issues?
Bob - 28 Mar 2007 1:02 PM - 3 messages
I am inheiriting a Windows 2003 domain and want to run reports on any issues in it to determine a work flow to clean up AD and get it runnning at it's best. There are various event viewer errors concerning replication, etc, that ...
Score Test Lab set-up tutorial
Neil Harding - 28 Mar 2007 9:20 AM - 5 messages
Hi, I've set-up and administrated a few windows 2000/2003 domains in my past but all have been single standalone domains. Now i want to start looking at Forest and Child domains to bring our network together. This is what i've got ...
Score How can we monitor any machine join to the domain
Shijo Michael - 28 Mar 2007 8:24 AM - 2 messages
How can we track  if any machine joined to the domain? Is there any Event ID will create for this? Is there any tools availble for this to monitor and alert me. ...
Score Compatibility dcpromo on Windows 2003 server with W2K Advanced ser
Keli - 28 Mar 2007 8:18 AM - 4 messages
Can I install additional DC on Windows 2003 Server R2, in forst/domain where I have DC on Windows 2000 Advanced Server? Is there any compatibility :( ? ... I have already tried, I did prepere fores/domain, but installation failed: "The Active Directory Installation Wizard cannot continue because the forest ...
Score Windows 2003 AD gpresult
r.falken - 28 Mar 2007 8:10 AM - 3 messages
Hello Can anyone tell me why a result like this is coming when i run gpresult on a win2k3 dc COMPUTER SETTINGS ------------------     CN=TESTDC1,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=Andresen,DC=local     Last time Group Policy was applied: 28-03-2007 at 10:01:4 ...
Score Offloading authorization to ADAM
technoplague - 28 Mar 2007 7:02 AM - 6 messages
Hello! I have a requirement to offload authorization (groups lookup) to ADAM, while retaining the authentication in AD. It has to function like following: user should be able to bind AD for authentication, with this AD part is over. Then user groups have to be ...
Score Tools for detecting inactive computer account
ping - 28 Mar 2007 6:26 AM - 8 messages
Hi, There are quite some number of computer account that is no longer valid(workstation is reformatted without first disjoining AD). Is there a tools to filter out the computer account that has not been authenticated to AD for a period of time? Or is there a tools to scan ...
Score Is it possible to audit Domain Global Group in AD?
Mugen - 28 Mar 2007 2:06 AM - 7 messages
Hi, We have a Windows 2003 AD with Single domain here. I have created some Domain Global groups (Default setting when you create a group) for our QAs, Developers. They setup bunch of Windows servers and add our Domain Global ...
Score demoting and upgrading Domain Controllers
bassjace - 28 Mar 2007 2:00 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a question about domain Controllers, my situation is this.... I have a Domain Controller that has a SQL install on it, I want to seperate the roles to 2 seperate machines. I doing DC and the other SQL. ...
Score AD sites and services
r14edge - 28 Mar 2007 1:57 AM - 5 messages
Hello,   I have multiple DCs in a WAN that are in the same site "Default-first-site". I recently found a documentation on how to manage AD sites and services. I'm a bit scare of moving the DCs to others sites. ...
Score Windows 2003 domain controller
Michelle - 28 Mar 2007 1:55 AM - 2 messages
Hi All, I have a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server. It needs to be configured as a domain controller. However, it seems have to be a DNS server as well. What I want is just make it similar to a Windows NT domain controller, because we ...
Score single domain forest rename
uzado - 28 Mar 2007 1:44 AM - 2 messages
Hello, we're facing the following challenge. In one of our larger datacenters there is an existing forest, this is a single domain forest where forest&domain functional level are Windows 2003 . Our main problem is that the forest name ...
Score Change the computer account description via a script
jmp13 - 28 Mar 2007 1:18 AM - 2 messages
Is there a script available or tool that would read a text file that would change the computer account description? ...
Score User Policies not applying over Checkpoint VPN
Aidan - 28 Mar 2007 1:12 AM - 2 messages
Hello, I am having an issue with User policies failing to apply when connected over our Checkpoint Secure Client VPN (They apply perfectly on the LAN). So far I have tried the following. - I have ensured that I can ping the Domain Controllers ...
Score Reset users password history
Wayne - 28 Mar 2007 1:10 AM - 2 messages
Does anyone know how I can reset a particular users "password history" back to 0 in Active Directory. ...
Score Active Directory - Disaster Recovery
Jose Folha - 28 Mar 2007 1:10 AM - 3 messages
Hello, i have 2 windows 2003 server, with Active Directory. One of them had a faillure, and i will need to install everything again. I have the system state backup for this failed system. How can i restore the settings i had before? ...
Score Branch Office AD out of sync with Main Office
Doug in AK - 28 Mar 2007 1:10 AM - 4 messages
I have a branch office with 1 DC (named DC003) for a domain where there are 2 DCs (DC001 & DC002) at the main office, along with 2 DCs at another branch.  The single DC at my branch has not been replicating to the main office, ...
Score Managing Nested Groups sending Email
Kev - 28 Mar 2007 1:10 AM - 6 messages
Hello, I have a problem with Distribution Groups in my AD. I have a user who no longer wishes to receive emails from a particular Distr group. However when I look at that Dist group, she is not in there individualy, but in another ...
Score netlogon share - do not save desktop settings
softtrain - 28 Mar 2007 1:07 AM - 10 messages
Hi I work at a small school.  When I set up the lab and media-center I set up a default user profile and copied it to the netlogon share.  The default profile works fine.  In order to maintain the settings, I enabled the ...
Score GPO and IE Home pages
Mike - 28 Mar 2007 12:56 AM - 3 messages
I've created a GPO to force our internal intranet as the corporate default home page and I made sure that it was not allowable to change it. Well, that was great until someone figured out how to get around it.  They ...
Score Event ID 1311
Chriscng - 28 Mar 2007 12:52 AM - 3 messages
Hi Guys Recently I am getting the following error message with event Id 1311,1566 & 1865 The Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) has detected problems with the following directory partition.  Directory partition: CN=Configuration,DC=fuyucorp,DC=com  ...
Score Doamin Controllers
bassjace - 28 Mar 2007 12:15 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a situation where I want to put DC's into my company branches for users to authenticate to instead of the current situation of users authenticating over the WAN to the head office DC. Can anybody point me in the direction of information about what sort of data ...
Score SuperNet AD Sites Subnets
Carpadum - 27 Mar 2007 11:57 PM - 2 messages
We have a TON of subnets that have 27bit masks.  Can we just use 24 bit masks in AD subnets (under sites) to represent these smaller subnets if they are all a member of the same site?  i.e.  one location is 192.168.80.32/27 ...
Score Slow log ons
Manny - 27 Mar 2007 11:57 PM - 3 messages
Let me start by saying that all I know about a DNS server is that you have to have one. I just set up a Dell 1400 server with Windows 2000 and Active directory as a domain controller, my first time, no formal training, and I ...
Score Identity issue
Johnny Azuaje - 27 Mar 2007 11:56 PM - 2 messages
Hello everybody. I have a question. My organization is having problems with identity management. There are several applications that have validations methods that doesn't use my Active Directory platform. I don't want to use MIIS. It's possible to solve this problem with another ...
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