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Score Regular Expression for Password Policy Validation
Frank Miverk - 14 Apr 2007 4:39 PM - 4 messages
Hi, I'm looking for sample C# code that will validate a user entered password against the default Active Directory password policy for "Users". I'm not sure where to look to find out what the policy might be? Thanks for any tips, ...
Score Group Policy settings correct only for new accounts??
cbass - 14 Apr 2007 1:54 PM - 3 messages
I have an OU w/ a group policy linked to it.  If I log in w/ any of the existing user accounts in that OU, it does not pull the correct IE settings, it pulls settings that were in place months ago.  If I do a gpupdate /force, ...
Score CERTSVC_DCOM_ACCESS missing...
Billingsley - 13 Apr 2007 10:22 PM - 3 messages
Where can I find this group?  I have checked in ADUC but it isn't there. All (3) of my domain controllers are running Windows 2003 Server Standard R2 with SP2.  I have read around that this is a domain local group but it isn't ...
Score win2k3 local policy settings
pblack - 13 Apr 2007 9:44 PM - 3 messages
Once we have joined a win2k3 server(as a member server only)  to our win2k domain and the gpo propagates to the server we are unable to add or remove users from the local security policy in the log on as a ...
Score Unblock files copied from another server
Joshua Graham - 13 Apr 2007 9:26 PM - 4 messages
This is the first time this has happened to me. I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 domain environment and I used DFS to replicate files from one server to another. The server that received the files has the Security: This file came ...
Score ISA AD authentication failure
Jason - 13 Apr 2007 9:14 PM - 5 messages
I have a computer running ISA server that has recently begun having problems authenticating users that have domain accounts.  Access to the internet is only allowed to authenticated users.  When trying to go to a website in IE, ...
Score One laptop, multiple domains
Syd Barrett - 13 Apr 2007 8:36 PM - 2 messages
Hi all,    I have a laptop that I use for work. Is there some utility I can use to join the laptop to two domains (work and my home AD domain) *without* having to create a trust relationship between them? ...
Score Moving NTDS and SYSVOL folders
Luiz - 13 Apr 2007 8:34 PM - 3 messages
Hi, I have installed my AD and put NTDS and SYSVOL folders in Volume C. I would like to know how can I move those folders to another Volume. Thanks. Luiz ...
Score DC Kerberos Errors
Zachary Dundore - 13 Apr 2007 6:41 PM - 5 messages
I am running a Windows 2003 Server in a single domain enviroment. We have two main DCs in our home office and 7 remote DCs in our branch plants. One of our branch plant DC is triggering errors in our main DC ...
Score MS Advisory 935964 : DNS server vulnerability
Roger Abell - 13 Apr 2007 5:04 PM - 3 messages
(x-post includes AD NGs as DNS often resides there) Microsoft Security Advisory (935964) Vulnerability in RPC on Windows DNS Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution. see: [link] for workaround info on disabling Rmt Mgmt over RCP if the DNS ...
Score Group Policy Best Practices - Many vs Few?
River - 13 Apr 2007 4:46 PM - 3 messages
Is it better to have many single action group policies or to use as few Group Policies as possible with a many action GP. For Example I am currently in the process of deploying printers via GP. I have a Desktop OU and a User OU both with many departmental sub OUs. I have ...
Score Audit changes in a Group Policy
Igor L. Kravchenko - 13 Apr 2007 3:32 PM - 9 messages
Is there any way to setup auditing that will allow me to see if a new group policy was created or one of existing policies was modified in the domain or in the forest? ...
Score Event ID 1083 & 1955 and account locks
jmp13 - 13 Apr 2007 3:02 PM - 6 messages
Experiencing user accounts getting locked out for no reason. The default domain policy has no restrictions. Trying to troubleshoot the problem so it was turned off. It used to be set to 3 for the account lockout policy for bad ...
Score SYSVOL replication problem
Jeremy - 13 Apr 2007 2:56 PM - 3 messages
I'm having a hard time promoting a BDC to PDC.  I think i've isolated the problem and i'm trying to rebuild my SYSVOL tree.  I've gone to [link] which is a great step by step ...
Score Access-based Enumeration not working
Li - 13 Apr 2007 2:41 PM - 4 messages
We have all the users set as local administrators. After I installed Access-based enumeration, the users should only see the shared folders that have been assigned to. But for some reason, they are still able to see all the shared folders. ...
Score list user who has particular terminal service home directory value
strongline - 13 Apr 2007 2:24 PM - 3 messages
Sorry I posted this in terminal service group already while I should have cross-posted at the first place. There are enough sample on how to set terminalServiceHomeDirectory for a particular user, now I want the reverse: I have a path value, I want to find out who is using it as its ...
Score LDAPS connection error on 636
Shon Miles - 13 Apr 2007 1:50 PM - 11 messages
I just followed this article, [link], and I have the cert back and installed and rebooted but when I do the connection attempt I get this message: ld = ldap_open("ourDCname here", 636); ...
Score Which rights to create users?
Vide - 13 Apr 2007 1:32 PM - 7 messages
Hello I'm trying to give the acces rights to manage AD users to a group of no adrministrators. I've granted them the create/delete users and OUs but still I can't create a user as if I were administrator. Which are the ...
Score Binding machines to AD with command line or script
Andrew Zirkel - 13 Apr 2007 12:52 PM - 2 messages
I'm looking for a way to bind my machines to active directory with a command line or script, so that they do this automatically after a machine is imaged.  I'm doing this with my Mac clients and it works very well.  I have ...
Score event id error 1791 ntds replication
Junaid Mahomed - 13 Apr 2007 12:30 PM - 3 messages
Hi Guys I need assistance i am getting this error on windows 2003 R2 sp1 DC. I have tried this MS Article but has not resolved the problem. Can anyone assist further thanks Junaid [link] ...
Score Server's Migration
Kim - 13 Apr 2007 10:11 AM - 4 messages
Dear all, Currently, we have 3 offices located in different location (China, HK and US). Our AD structure is 1 forest (root) and 3 Childs (domain). Now we are running windows and exchange 2000 & 2003. Server 2003 is only member server ...
Score Write Only Permissions on a folder
Vish - 13 Apr 2007 9:02 AM - 12 messages
Hello, Wierd question but bear with me. What I want to do is setup a shared folder where people (EVeryone) can save files to but can niether Read or List any of them. Essentially I want them to be able so save files here but only a select number of people should be able ...
Score Multilple logons for a DN possible ?
mjwalsh - 13 Apr 2007 8:43 AM - 5 messages
I am currently working on using AD to authenticate logons to our Sybase ASE. All is configured and working successfully. However for historical reasons each Person has multilple Sybase logons to each server and there are multiple servers. In phase one of the project I was using a generic LDAP directory and I ...
Score What is the best for desktops ? Local policies or domain policies ?
Pascal - 13 Apr 2007 8:37 AM - 3 messages
Hi, I would like to deploy some security settings on the desktops for security reason. For existing desktops, I should have to create a GPO on the domain for this security settings but do you think it would be a nice idea to ...
Score DHCP SERVER - Authorization
DaveG70 - 13 Apr 2007 7:12 AM - 3 messages
Hi All,   I have an authorized DHCP server on a remote site and I have to re ip the whole site. The DHCP server is changing IP , mask and gateway I am wondering will the server need to be authorized again in AD or will it continue to ...
Score Authorize DHCP windows 2003
DaveG70 - 13 Apr 2007 7:10 AM - 2 messages
Hi All,   I have an authorized DHCP server on a remote site and I have to re ip the whole site. The DHCP server is changing IP , mask and gateway I am wondering will the server need to be authorized again in AD or will it continue to ...
Score Replication Problem
CaKA!! - 13 Apr 2007 3:04 AM - 19 messages
Hi everyone, I am having a 2 windows server , and during a blackout, a server is down, and cannot be repair. two server are running windows server 2003 with AD replication. Problem: Cannot Add users on server(dc01) ...
Score International AD
Tim - 13 Apr 2007 2:57 AM - 2 messages
First, if a single forest/domain AD infrastructure was extended overseas, with replication secured via IPsec between domain controllers, would it be best practice to have a DC in a perimiter network (not public facing) to act as a stopping point for replication?  In other words, the international and ...
Score Can i delete these folders (scripts_NTFRS_32cssks)
Luca - 13 Apr 2007 2:32 AM - 2 messages
Had a bunch of problems recently with sysvol not replicating.  To fix had to do authoritative restores and non-authoritative restores.  Problem is now fixed however in the \sysvol\domain folder i now have 2 copies of the policies and scripts folders.  They are named ...
Score How to allow program instillation for certain groups only
James - 13 Apr 2007 2:12 AM - 2 messages
I am new to WS 2000 and would like to allow certain groups the right to install downloaded programs and updates. Currently this right is restricted to Admins only. After endless Google searching I have not found an answer that directly addresses this issue. Can anyone please point me in the right ...
Score There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request - how to fix this error?
Daniel - 12 Apr 2007 10:02 PM - 3 messages
There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request - how to fix this error? i get it when trying to access a share one hop away. here is port scan from the machine i am using to try to access the share of ...
Score Setting up a trust in a Seperate Forest
Donnie Barnes - 12 Apr 2007 8:34 PM - 2 messages
When I try to validate the trust it gives me a "The Secure channel reset failed with error 1311: there are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request." We are having to redirect the IP to a different IP through our router ...
Score duplicate AD in lab
Chris - 12 Apr 2007 8:24 PM - 10 messages
I want to set up a lab running the same AD as in our production.  The lab is in a isolated network, not connection to production.  I backed up (ntbackup) System State from our of the production DC (not FSMO).  Then installed a new ...
Score GOP with AC
Jack - 12 Apr 2007 7:40 PM - 4 messages
Hello, We have very simple environment with one DC/AC Win2003, and 3 XP Pro computers. I started read about GP more and tried to implement it. I created GPO on OU level and noticed that it effects on the local DC level only. When ...
Score Workstations not auto-locking via Group Policy
Andrew - 12 Apr 2007 7:02 PM - 4 messages
I have a group policy that is defined to startup a pre-defined company screen saver after 10 minutes of the workstation being idle.  This has always worked without any issues until recently when we went through all of our ...
Score Replication of 2003 AD to 2000 server: viable for LDAP?
dm63 - 12 Apr 2007 5:48 PM - 5 messages
We have a single domain 2003 AD structure. There is a single DC at each of our two physical locations, connected by a fractional T1 circuit. Each DC is Windows 2003 Standard Server (SP1). Replication functions properly. We added a SPAM filter appliance at our office facility. This appliance uses LDAP ...
Score DC Promo
Kathy - 12 Apr 2007 3:52 PM - 4 messages
I am running all Windows Server 2003.  In a new Dc, been in place 2 months, I found the following event this morning: Event Type:    Warning Event Source:    MSDTC Event Category:    SVC ...
Score Windows 2000 Native mode upgrade to Windows 2003 mode
ALL - 12 Apr 2007 3:46 PM - 4 messages
I'm going to upgrade our domain and forest from windows 2000 native mode to windows 2003 level. What problems will I encounter? We have around 20 nt servers still in use, 120  2000 servers and 90 2003 servers, plus a small number of unix boxes, and ...
Score Domain Controller Usage
Triage - 12 Apr 2007 3:12 PM - 5 messages
I have a single site, single domain AD W2K03 structure. There are 3 domain controllers across the domain. What tool or method is available to determine how many domain users logins each DC is authenticating? Thanks! ...
Score Modifying Assistant Field
shanediaz - 12 Apr 2007 2:40 PM - 2 messages
Hi Everyone, I'm sure this is something that you're all aware of, but there is no way to modify the Assistant field for a user account (which shows up in the GAL) through AD Users & Computers.  We would like to be able to edit this field ...
Score user not authenticating correctly
tlachaussie - 12 Apr 2007 2:05 PM - 5 messages
I have a user in our office that is not authenticating correctly. They log into their PC as "John" but when they log into our sharepoint site it shows that they are "Administrator".  The user with the problems is the owner so I am not so much worried about him seeing ...
Score unable to publish printer in directory
RobG - 12 Apr 2007 1:42 PM - 2 messages
I installed the printer as a domain admin user on our print server, gave domain admins the "manage printers" permission on the printer, shared it out and checked off "list in directory". But now it still won't show up in my list.  I have 12 other printers that ...
Score Kerberos Errors - Windows 2003 Domain
IT - 12 Apr 2007 1:33 PM - 2 messages
I keep getting the following Kerberos errors on one of my DC. I have use kerbtray to check for errors and scoured the net looking for solutions but can't seem to find any answers. Has anyone ever had this ...
Score ADAM: upper-/lowercase behaviour of entry DNs
dj.psd - 12 Apr 2007 12:46 PM - 2 messages
When querying ADAM entry DNs: - When querying DNs of entrys, "CN", "OU" or "DC" is always uppercase: DN: OU=test,DC=test,DC=com -> "OU=" is always returned uppercase - When custom attributes are involved (e.g. "id"),  those custom ...
Score 2003 Domain Controller
John McC - 12 Apr 2007 9:32 AM - 4 messages
Hi, Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. At the moment we have 3 Windows 2000 SP4 domain controllers and 2 Windows 2000 SP4 member servers running Exchange 2000 (all in the same AD site).  Our ...
Score Change IP address privilege delegation
vashi - 12 Apr 2007 7:34 AM - 12 messages
Hi, We have windows 2003 AD. We have static IP adressing for clients. Users are NOT part of local admin group of their desktop/laptop However some laptop users will move from location to location. When they move to new location they will need to change their IP address manually.  ...
Score ADAM instance
alicewonderl - 12 Apr 2007 7:28 AM - 9 messages
Hi, I've created a new ADAM instance, added a new container object and added some user objects to the container. I wish to create more ADAM instances, containing the same container and users as this instance. I thought I should use ldifde and export this into a file, and then ...
Score CA how to get specific information
p.o - 12 Apr 2007 6:40 AM - 3 messages
Hi I want to get some information from microsoft CA but  I don't know completely how to do it. I want to create schedule job which get information about expired certificates. I think some vbs (wmi) script could be suitable. ...
Score Tool for modifying a limited set of user attributes
Erik Anderson - 12 Apr 2007 4:18 AM - 2 messages
I've been looking high and low for a tool that will: 1) let me grant a few staff members permission to modify attributes like  name, address, phone number for objects in AD. and 2) a tool that will allow them to edit these attributes. ...
Score Can't find the "surname" attribute under User Objects
logiboy123 - 12 Apr 2007 3:50 AM - 5 messages
Hello, I'm trying to build a "Rename Users" group in AD for delegation of this task. I have been able to find the following attributes for the User Objects; First Name, Initials, Display Name, Middle Name, Logon Name, Logon name ...
Score CSVDE File Format
supersonic_oasis - 12 Apr 2007 2:48 AM - 2 messages
Hi all, I wanted to do a mass import of AD users on a win 2003 machine.  I wish to import their First Name, Last Name, Display Name, User Name,  and User Name (pre Win 2000).  The problem is, I don't know the format for the CSVDE import ...
Score Is it possible to change the AD Domain without uninstall and reinstall?
Frank Miverk - 12 Apr 2007 12:29 AM - 5 messages
Hi, Is it possible to change the domain without uninstalling / reinstalling AD? thx for any tips. Frank ...
Score Adding users to AD using vb
danflip - 11 Apr 2007 11:58 PM - 4 messages
hello all, i am really new to web programming and this question will probably show how new i am. i want to create an easier way to create users in our domain. i would like a webpage to fill out and have it submit to another page that write the info to ...
Score Cannot join WinXP Pro client to AD domain
Jay Caplan - 11 Apr 2007 11:06 PM - 2 messages
When I try to join a WinXP Pro SP2 client to our company's AD domain (Win2k Mixed mode with 2 DCs - 1 Win2k server and 1 Win2003 Server) I get the following error: "Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the ...
Score Active Directory Administration Tools
nightstar@gmail.com - 11 Apr 2007 10:36 PM - 3 messages
Are there any good free AD administration tools that can query objects.  On instance I can think of is a tool that will traverse the whole AD and retrurn all user/computer accounts that have not logged in for X amount of time.  Also if there are no free tools is there a ...
Score site replication using bridgehead servers
Paul - 11 Apr 2007 9:38 PM - 9 messages
Hi, I have a single forest multi domain multi site 2003 AD setup. I am trying to setup site replication through a site bridgehead server. I have created site links and nominated a server to act as a bridgehead server in each site using ...
Score Single policy stopped applying to only one machine
TwistedPair - 11 Apr 2007 9:22 PM - 5 messages
We've set up Active Directory, to deploy software through group policy. We've set this functionality up with OfficeXP (I know old version) and it works fine with everyone except this one specific case.  We had a user get ...
Score Management Tools
nightstar@gmail.com - 11 Apr 2007 9:20 PM - 3 messages
Are there any good free management tools for Active Directory (mixed 2000 and 2003)?  If not are there any good resources to learn the query language that can be used through the Microsoft AD tools. Microsoft's tools seem limited without knowing the query language. ...
Score ad and sp2
Rodge - 11 Apr 2007 8:46 PM - 3 messages
I have a server which has server 2003 ent ed with sp1 installed from a cd(sp1 was on the cd as well). This server now has sp2 installed. If I decide to make this server a domain controller and install ad from the cd, do I need to ...
Score AD with child Domain Setup
Ricus - 11 Apr 2007 7:08 PM - 4 messages
I have a relatively Simple AD setup that we are in the process of setting up and I would like some DNS related info please. My company is expanding so we have to setup a new AD structure that will ...
Score Multi Forest Administration
Chuck - 11 Apr 2007 6:08 PM - 8 messages
I work for an ASP in Minnesota.  We are in need of consolidating the administration of the multi client Forests.  Each client is installed into their Own Windows 2003 Forest.  I, as an administrator, have an admin account ...
Score Authenticate to local ADAM instance with local Windows credentials
LM - 11 Apr 2007 5:54 PM - 6 messages
Folks, I'm trying to develop a JAAS Pluggable Authentication Module that will let us bind to a local instance of ADAM using the Windows credentials of the currently logged on user.  I've been fooling around some with ...
Score Screensaves
psereno - 11 Apr 2007 5:46 PM - 2 messages
Hi, On my organization we define in Domain Policies that all the PCs clients (Win XP Professional) will have the Screensaver active if have 15 minutes without being used. It happens that we have two clients that we want that they have the Domain ...
Score Wrong subnets returned by AD system discovery.
Mas - 11 Apr 2007 5:40 PM - 4 messages
We have an open call with MS about this but was hoping to get addtn'l info. We use sms 2003, which queries AD for computer information.  SMS then uses the information to decide whether a machine is or is not a ...
Score Link to the official AD 2003 Disaster Recovery doc?
Chris Lukowski - 11 Apr 2007 4:26 PM - 3 messages
I've been trying to find an official Microsoft document detailing how to deal with Active Directory disaster recovery situations. I've found the one for Exchange 2003 easy enough and also found some old documents pertaining to Windows 2000 AD, but nothing on 2003 AD. Could somebody point me in the right ...
Score Computers not taking WSUS Settings from GP
dan - 11 Apr 2007 3:09 PM - 2 messages
Hey guys, I am coming here as a last resort because I do not know how to use Google Groups that well.  My message boards really haven't been of use to me to helping me with this problem, so I'm trying here.  I am one ...
Score How do I test Netbios Domain Name Resolution?
quentinmacdougall - 11 Apr 2007 2:43 PM - 5 messages
I am having problems with an in-house custom built piece of software which I believe may be related to NetBios Domain Name Resolution.  I want to know if there is a proper way to test Netbios Domain Name ...
Score Kerberos error trying to talk to a server that no longer exists
Larry - 11 Apr 2007 2:20 PM - 4 messages
Hey guys, Here is the event log error I am getting: Event Type:    Error Event Source:    Kerberos Event Category:    None Event ID:    4 Date:        4/11/2007 ...
Score How To Redirect IE Favorites Without Roaming Profiles
Scott - 11 Apr 2007 1:14 PM - 5 messages
Following a multi-year unsuccessful trial fraught with problems (playing "whack-a-mole" with long logon times, apps not working sporadically, etc.), we have decided to abandon the use of roaming profiles on our network. We will redirect My Documents and Desktop to the users' home directories and ...
Score RIS Installtion
Syed Ali - 11 Apr 2007 12:48 PM - 5 messages
Dear all in continuation of my previous question i have read the article regarding RIS unattanded installation i want to know in RIS do i format only c drive i mean first partition of drive and the others parttions still remain same with ...
Score Will domain name without root domain be problem for upgrade to 200
Keli - 11 Apr 2007 11:04 AM - 4 messages
long time ago (~ 7 years) I setup our domain, and for domain name I put: something without root domain name....! I made mistake, and I hope to rename domain with 2003 Controller. But I know that I had some problem with automaticlly adding new computers XP ...
Score Book Recommendation
bordersquirrel - 11 Apr 2007 8:22 AM - 3 messages
I've been using AD for a while now on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. I'm familiar with the concepts and have worked with both new setups and upgrades. Recently, I've been working in more of a troubleshooting ...
Score GPO to block inheritance in my OU
Super Boobahlicious - 11 Apr 2007 6:56 AM - 3 messages
Hi MS: I have a domain which has a domain Policy Applied for passwords, lockout policy etc.. I have one special user and he doesnt want to apply any policy related to passwords (lenght, complexity etc)... Is  it possible to put him in one OU ...
Score DNS resolution problem
Magnus Kirkerud - 11 Apr 2007 6:24 AM - 4 messages
Hi I have a Active Directory infrastructure with a few domain controllers segregated by a firewall. All DC’s are running Active Directory integrated DNS and round robin is enabled. When clients resolve <mydomain>.com they receive the IP address for one ...
Score AD Restructure Plan
jprstokato - 11 Apr 2007 4:46 AM - 9 messages
I am tasked with restructuring Active Directory for a large company. The growth of the company AD has been granular (before I recently joined), and as a result, its components (Users, Groups, Resources, OUs, GPOs) are subsequently in disarray! Although we are a single domain, we have several ...
Score Active Directory Security Delegation - Rename User
logiboy123 - 11 Apr 2007 3:26 AM - 4 messages
Hello all, I'm currently trying to implement a very granular security delegation model for AD in our environment. I'm trying to find out what the minimum permissions are that I need to grant to a group, for that group to be able to ...
Score map some directories to 1 letter
ads - 11 Apr 2007 3:11 AM - 5 messages
Hello All, I want to map a lot of directories in a particular computer, Its not possible mapping them to lots of letters, so I'd like to map all of directories to one lettert. what can I do ? ...
Score Domain controller recover
Lcouto - 11 Apr 2007 2:07 AM - 3 messages
I  have a windows 2003 Server infrastruture with 2 central Domain controlers & 3 remote Domain controlers: One of the remote DCs lose the boot and I can´t boot the server. Can I do a Repair from the windows server 2003 RTM boot CD without lose the Active ...
Score Active Directory Federation Service install issues
CJ - 11 Apr 2007 12:38 AM - 4 messages
Hi, I'm having a strange issue when trying to install ADFS on a server. I'm new to this so would be pretty sure that my lack of knowledge may be a key factor! To give you all a quick low down, the server is a VM and is setup as ...
Score Help Designing Active Directory for 2 Remote Stores
allan - 11 Apr 2007 12:28 AM - 4 messages
Hi there, I am trying to build a server for my company. We are a car dealership with 2 stores.. 50 users each. how should i name my servers? the sole purpose of the servers is to provide active directory (to enfource ...
Score active directory suffix problem
Aaron - 11 Apr 2007 12:14 AM - 2 messages
When my computer is added to my active directory and I type nslookup [link] I get the result below which tags on mycompany.net to the end of each query as seen below and I don't get the correct nslookup info. But if ...
Score Computer based software installation
Steve - 10 Apr 2007 9:52 PM - 2 messages
Group, I have not done this for a while, so I think that I have forgotten a step.  I am setting up a msi to be installed via a computer based GPO.  I have set the installation pointer to the file share and set the policy, however, it is ...
Score Server CALs
Dimitri Ayrapetov - 10 Apr 2007 8:22 PM - 11 messages
Hi, this is a question regarding windows server licenseing. I'm designing a prototype for a new ASP.Net product, and I plan on using the AD / NTLM Autentication to give users access to secure portion of the site. Now would I require a CAL for every user that I add to the AD? Also, would I ...
Score Added user but user cannot access company intranet
KBJM - 10 Apr 2007 8:10 PM - 2 messages
First question someone asked me was did i have the user in the proper groups.....I went into the AD…..found the user in the SBS Users folder……open his properties….looked in the Member Of section and compared his to ...
Score Migrating from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 Active Directory
WO - 10 Apr 2007 7:06 PM - 3 messages
Hello, We have two domains A.org and B.org, both are Windows 2000 Native Active Directory they are connected through a two way trust relationship. Doman A.org is hosting the e-mail for domain B.org users, domain B users have ...
Score What ports to open?
supersonic_oasis - 10 Apr 2007 6:58 PM - 2 messages
Hi all, I am going to  be setting up two active directory servers running Windows 2003.  I was planning on using the Windows Firewall on both servers. What ports I need to keep open to ensure that AD traffic flows fine between the ...
Score Steps to Add a Second DC to Single Domain - 2003
Rick K - 10 Apr 2007 6:36 PM - 8 messages
Hi, I have added a second Domain Controller to a Single Domain, Single FOrest environment and I need to know what the next steps are.  Do I need to run ADPrep or Domain / Forst Prep? If so what is the order? ...
Score Trust between 2 AD domains not working
Laurie - 10 Apr 2007 6:30 PM - 4 messages
Hi, I have 2 domains server1.net on Windows 2000 SP4 and server2.local on Windows 2003 R2 SP1.  Before creating the trust I am trying to get DNS working using secondary zones.  The secondary zone on server2.local (w2K3) is ...
Score Sync PW on two AD Domains
Ted B - 10 Apr 2007 6:22 PM - 5 messages
We have two AD's within our company and all of the ID's from AD2 are also in AD1. Now if we want to sync the PW on a automated basis for the ID's in AD2 with the exact same ID's in AD1 is IIFP the best choice to do this?? ...
Score Event ID 4 Source Kerberos
butter - 10 Apr 2007 6:18 PM - 2 messages
Any ideas how to resolve the error below? Thank you. Event Type:    Error Event Source:    Kerberos Event Category:    None Event ID:    4 Date:        4/10/2007 ...
Score Roaming Profile
Leo - 10 Apr 2007 6:10 PM - 3 messages
I have an windows server 2000 environment. I have configured roaming profiles for users. and here is my question:  Is there a way to have 'My documents' folder synchronize along with roaming profiles? I really don't want to use folder redirection on GPO. ...
Score Laptop and Domain membership
bgrabbe - 10 Apr 2007 6:05 PM - 2 messages
This might not be the correct group for this question, if not I apologize, and if you can point me to the correct group, I'll appreciate it. I'm setting up a laptop, Win XP. I want it to be a domain member, ...
Score DFS-Netbios root or FQDN root
Wayne - 10 Apr 2007 5:50 PM - 4 messages
In a Domain based DFS implementation, what are the advantages\drawbacks of using the Netbios name v.s. using the DNS fully qualified name e.g \\NetbiosDomainName\RootName v.s \\DNSDomainName\RootName ...
Score Delegate an user to create logon scripts for just one OU
wzhen - 10 Apr 2007 5:32 PM - 2 messages
Can you delegate an user to be able to create logon scripts for an OU? ...
Score Migration Users' home folders to a Win2003 AD domain from a NT 4 d
wzhen - 10 Apr 2007 5:24 PM - 3 messages
Our department is currently runnig on a NT 4 domain. Each user has a home folder hosted on the domain controller. Now we are planning to join the University Windows 2003 AD domain in which they will create an OU for our ...
Score Upgrading from NT4 Domain
topokin - 10 Apr 2007 4:00 PM - 3 messages
I am planning to upgrade our NT4 Domain to W2k3-AD soon. Actually our member servers are already either W2K3 or W2K Servers, the only NT4 systems are the DCs. Since I need to keep the present domain structure, I will be performing an ...
Score File server hangs, then takes one second per display line
Flick Olmsford - 10 Apr 2007 3:56 PM - 2 messages
I have a new server I am setting up.   The Windows System is on C: (RAID mirror) and the data for the students and staff will all be on E: (RAID-5).   I am setting it up for a small school, about 20 students and three ...
Score Group policy Creator Owners group
mart the bike rider - 10 Apr 2007 3:08 PM - 3 messages
- Having a conflict of information and experience.. We have an OU locked down to limit admin access - the person responsible for the OU can create group policy without issue.  They are in the Group policy Creator Owners group. Now the person responsible wants to rollout software and define a Category. ...
Score Finding If User Is A Member Of A Group
JimBob - 10 Apr 2007 1:24 PM - 2 messages
I am trying to find out using C# if a user is a member of an AD group, but can not seem to get this to work. Have tried various examples on the internet. Could any one possibly help? I have used the 2 following examples ...
Score Multiple people using one account
fuzzguy - 10 Apr 2007 12:47 PM - 3 messages
Hi all. Background: I am running 1 Win2003 R2 AD server in Mix Mode. I have XP and 2000 machines logging in to this one AD from a large area. Our network is distributed by our ISP through a sort of a VPN (They are ...
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