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Score adprep advice
dlw - 21 Apr 2007 5:26 PM - 13 messages
I have an older windows 2000 AD, the win2k servers are all on sp2.  I want to add a windows 2003 server as an additional DC, and it told me to run adprep first. There is another win2003 server in the domain running exchange 2003. ...
Score Change local administrator password ? through GPO or push script ?
Pascal - 21 Apr 2007 3:29 PM - 10 messages
Hi, I would like to change the local administrator password of every computers member of my AD domain but I am not sure of the best method. Method 1 : Create a vbs script that points to the local computer (".") and then deploy this script by GPO. ...
Score DFS/AD Migration
jmp13 - 21 Apr 2007 12:10 PM - 3 messages
Currently running an NT to AD migration along with a server consolidation implementing DFS. When the DFS teams move the folders/files to DFS the accounts have the NT\username for permissions instead of AD\username. The users have already been migrated but the servers have not. Do we need to ...
Score 2003 R2 SP2 problem (DNS?)
PMK - 21 Apr 2007 11:31 AM - 3 messages
Hi, I've done this countless times on 2000 server but it is not working on 2003 Enterprise Server R2 SP2. Set up a DC for a new domain, east.test.net, 192.168.1.254 including DNS server with reverse lookup zone. DCDIAG and NETDIAG don't show any ...
Score ntp serverresponding is not the Good DC
lucbft - 21 Apr 2007 10:20 AM - 2 messages
Hello, When I send net time on a station of my major site, the respond is : current time on \\server_agency is ... I'd like to know why it's not a local DC, which is at the top of the AD ...
Score Delegate "rename computer"
Flarnhare - 21 Apr 2007 9:42 AM - 2 messages
Hi Community, My name is Peter and this is my first post ever in a newsgroup. I would like to try and get an answer to the following question if possible. - Is there a way to delegate users to rename their own computers in the ...
Score AD User multiple logons on domain
Colonelu - 21 Apr 2007 7:56 AM - 7 messages
Hi, I have this problem: I need that a user can logon to a machine with his/her username/password and cannot logon on other machines with the same username/password at the same time. That means that the user can't make ...
Score cannot connect to domain controller.
Wudong Liu - 21 Apr 2007 7:31 AM - 3 messages
Hi, everybody: I have a strange problem: As I login with my domain account, it says the either the domain account is not existed or the domain controller is down or cannot connect to it. However, if i unplug the network cable and tried again, ...
Score Missing NTDS Settings object
Geni - 21 Apr 2007 12:48 AM - 5 messages
I have a really peculiar problem.  I have approximately 30 sites (most map to domains), all W2K3 functional level.  One of the sites no longer shows the servers under the Servers object, and obviously, no longer shows the NTDS ...
Score ADMT and SID's
WadeBart - 20 Apr 2007 9:20 PM - 7 messages
Why would SID's be different for an account that was migrated with the ADMT.  I compared a source account SID to the migrated account SID and their different.  I have a trust establed, without SID filtering and I tell the ...
Score Single Label Domain Name problem with replicating!!
joegreentea - 20 Apr 2007 8:17 PM - 2 messages
Hi, I have this old PDC serving as DC, DNS, and DHCP. It was upgraded from windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 many years ago. That PDC is the only Domain Controller in the Network and serves 12 other member ...
Score Any Advise on W2K3 SP2 for Domain Controllers?
R.J.H. - 20 Apr 2007 6:20 PM - 3 messages
We are Running W2K3 SP1 currently (AD in Windows 2003 Server Mode) and I am just inquiring if anyone has had any issues with SP2. Thanks in advance! ...
Score custom mmc - users and computers
Bad Beagle - 20 Apr 2007 5:57 PM - 3 messages
I want to create a custom mmc for my helpdesk staff but do not want them to be able to view everything in the OU.  I understand how to delegate the rights and create a custom MMC but do I actually have to install the ...
Score lastModifiedBy attribute
Kemal Erdogan - 20 Apr 2007 5:40 PM - 3 messages
Hello, Most LDAP servers support "lastModifiedBy" property, but I could not find an equivalent one for Active Directory. Is it possible to get value of that attribute thru directory services or by any other means. Thank you, ...
Score Lost DC - getting AD errors
John - 20 Apr 2007 4:34 PM - 5 messages
Hello, We are running Windows 2000 Server We had one primary DC and one secondary DC The primary DC machine crashed and died - it will not be coming back (there is another W2K server that will be promoted after we get these problems ...
Score Check compliance before add to domain
Vinicius Moura Santos - 20 Apr 2007 4:28 PM - 4 messages
Hello, I'd like to know if exists some automatic mean able to check if a new domain member meets some minimum security requirements, before join to domain? ...
Score AD and DNS moving
Li - 20 Apr 2007 3:58 PM - 7 messages
Can someone tell me if AD migration includes DNS database move? If not, what shall I do with DNS moving to the new Windows 2003 DC from the old Windows 2003 DC other than changing preferred DNS to point to the new ...
Score Security Groups/Distribution Groups
JC Creque - 20 Apr 2007 3:04 PM - 2 messages
Is there any way to link a the memebers of a security group to a distribution group? ...
Score Local account and printer in AD
Alfred - 20 Apr 2007 2:28 PM - 7 messages
Configuration :   Server = Windows 2003 Server (and printer published in AD)   Client = Windows XP Is it possible to access to a AD published printer from a PC Client with a local account ? Regards Alfred ...
Score A good Active Directory Book
DAiuto - 20 Apr 2007 2:06 PM - 3 messages
AD has been installed at my site but not really taken advantage of. Does anyone know of a good book to get that will help me out. Easily read, not like the Microsoft Press Infrastructure book I recently purchased. I'm not a ...
Score How can my admin allow us to just add computers to the domain???
jhardin80 - 20 Apr 2007 1:56 PM - 6 messages
I would like to know if there is a way for our domain admin to allow us to be able to just add computers to the domain without giving us any other permissions? Thanks Jason ...
Score My Documents folder redirection to shared folder
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 20 Apr 2007 12:48 PM - 9 messages
Hi - in a W2003 / WinXP Pro environment, I've configured folder redirection for My Documents. This particular client wants it all redirected to the same shared folder, without individual subfolders for each user, even. This works fine, except there's all the usual stuff like "My Pictures" and "My Ebooks" ...
Score Orphaned GC-records in DNS
Yuri Palagin - 20 Apr 2007 11:57 AM - 6 messages
Hi group. If a Windows 2003 domain controller is NOT a global catalog in its Windows 2003 domain (there are other GC-enabled DCs), is it right that there are still its SRV- and A-records in: mydomain.local (SRV-record at port 3268); ...
Score Copier le contenu d'un domaine sur un serveur
lemonnip - 20 Apr 2007 11:56 AM - 8 messages
Bonjour, Sur la demande d'une société extérieure et pour tester leur logiciel, il m'est demandé de faire une copie de notre domaine et de la faire tourner sur ...
Score List of Currently Logged in Users on DOmain
DHamblin - 20 Apr 2007 11:42 AM - 8 messages
I thought this would be easy but after searching here and other places maybe not? Is there a way to get a list of currently logged in users on a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain?  I found ways to get a list of all user accounts; ...
Score Migrate objects to Child Domains
Andy Smith - 20 Apr 2007 10:04 AM - 7 messages
Hi, We may have a requirement to move over to a parent and at least 3 child domains in the future. I have suggested an implementation of 4 DC's to begin with - 2 for the parent domain, and 2 for the first child domain (which would ...
Score Sync Windows SBS 2003 Server AD to Windows XP SP2 ADAM instance
Erwin Bauwens - 20 Apr 2007 7:45 AM - 4 messages
(I hope that Lee Flight will read this message and reply to it :-) ) Hi, I'm reading the very very VERY good book of Joe Kaplan & Ryan Dunn, but at a certain point, you - well, I - just WANT to start playing with ...
Score How to connect to ADC server
hari.b.krishna - 20 Apr 2007 3:22 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I want to access the ADC server 2003 from windows XP client system. How can I access and control the ADC from windows XP? Anyone, please provide the solution to control the server from client. Thanks in advance, Kris ...
Score Disable AutoUpdates - [WP]
WILDPACKET - 19 Apr 2007 8:06 PM - 5 messages
Hi, Want to disable Automatic Updates for Member servers using a GPO. Created a Security Group and added just 2 member servers for now. Created a new GPO at the default domain.com container. In the properties of that GPO under Security Tab added the Security Group ...
Score How can I connect to another domain with MMC using specific user?
jmDesktop - 19 Apr 2007 7:02 PM - 2 messages
I have two accounts that can connect to another domain.  One is my current Windows account and I have another. In AD Users and Computers I right click on the domain and connect to another domain.  It uses my integrated account, the one I am logged in ...
Score More DNS problems
Jeff Metcalf - 19 Apr 2007 6:22 PM - 3 messages
3 DNS servers DC1, DC2, DC3 All are domain controllers.  All are up and pass dcdiag and netdiag.  All are setup the same way.  Replication is fine.  All three have the same IP addresses as forwarders to my upstream ISP.  We are not running ISA or any ...
Score DNS Linux with AD
AlexZamora - 19 Apr 2007 5:58 PM - 7 messages
Hi, Can the DNS of linux  interact with AD? Because I have my DNS and DHCP in Linux and I implemnting a windows domain environment. Yes, like this. I have my DC with its own DNS and the users' computer point to a linux DNS. ...
Score AD replication between Parent and child
AlexZamora - 19 Apr 2007 5:42 PM - 12 messages
Hi, I have a problem. My AD doesn't replicate between the parent and child. I have my DC comimsa.com where I have all my users and I installed other domain like child domain (srvtest.comimsa.com) of my DC. So, They have the ...
Score extensionAttributes
MrGimper - 19 Apr 2007 5:27 PM - 2 messages
Hi, Do the extensionAttributes exist on computer and user objects in a vanilla Win2003 R2 schema, or do they only appear when the exchange schema updates are applied? Thanks ...
Score How to change restore mode password?
Marlon Brown - 19 Apr 2007 4:52 PM - 3 messages
Hi, How can I change password of directory service restore mode ? ...
Score Active Directory & Browser Settings
soneill - 19 Apr 2007 3:46 PM - 2 messages
Is there a way, through AD, to force particular browser/search engine settings for all the users in my network? Example:  when users use google to search a particular topic, the settings for that search engine will be preset. ...
Score Ldap for query
wmb - 19 Apr 2007 3:15 PM - 4 messages
We have a outside company filtering all our emails for spam. I would like to set up and account so they can have permissions to query ad for email address within our organisation.  What permission would I need to give to ...
Score Add pictures to AD users and computers
Gonzo - 19 Apr 2007 2:21 PM - 6 messages
Ho can I add pictures to AD Users and Computers?  I have an Intranet contacts age setup and would like to have users pictures too? ...
Score Default Domain User Profile
John W. - 19 Apr 2007 2:06 PM - 12 messages
I've followed the instructions from [link] However everytime I logon a pc with a user who doesn't have a profile none of the settings I made in the profile are there so I am led to believe it's ...
Score email address in AD
Ponch - 19 Apr 2007 2:01 PM - 9 messages
Hello, I have a windows 2003 server with exchange server2003 I want to create a new email address for one of my users, but i get the message that it already exists. In spite of that, i cannot find this address in my active directory. ...
Score servers migration
Li - 19 Apr 2007 1:51 PM - 9 messages
We have set up new Windows 2003 servers into SAN volumes and have all of them boot into SAN. Right now we are trying to figure out the best practice to migrate everything from the current Windows 2003 servers on ...
Score Kerberos errors after swapping domain controller IPs
Frank - 19 Apr 2007 1:10 PM - 5 messages
I have four domain controllers in my domain - 2 older dcs and 2 newer dcs.  The two older dcs were the DNS and WINS servers that all network devices were pointed to.  I moved the IP addresses from the older two dcs to the newer two ...
Score One bad DC?
Jeff Metcalf - 19 Apr 2007 12:50 PM - 9 messages
One of my DC is continually getting this error in the log: Event ID 4015 The DNS server has encountered a critical error from the Active Directory. Check that the Active Directory is functioning properly. The extended error debug information (which may be empty) is "000020E3: SvcErr: DSID-031B063D, ...
Score ADFS Development Issues
CJ - 19 Apr 2007 12:41 PM - 10 messages
Hi, I am looking for some advice on how to develop a certain type of ADFS Authenticating application. Let me try expalin how the application must work! I will simplify it for the purpose of this post. Firstly, we have a client - windows xp (and possibly some vista) ...
Score Domain Controller/Exchange outlook client loosing connections.
IT - 19 Apr 2007 12:35 PM - 2 messages
One of our exchange servers has been having problems lately. When the user is using outlook it often hangs up and looses connection with the exchange server / domain controllers. I constantly get the messages outlooks cant find the Microsoft exchange server when I open up the ...
Score Demoting Domain controllers and raising level
Matteo - 19 Apr 2007 11:48 AM - 7 messages
Dear all, I am working on a Windows Server 2003 interim mode domain, with 2 domain controllers windows 2003 server r2, 2 NT domain controllers and 1 2003 server sp1 domain controller. My target is to demote the 2003 server sp1 to a member ...
Score netlogon event id 5723
Paul - 19 Apr 2007 11:44 AM - 7 messages
Hi, I am getting repeated errors on my AD 2003 DC's as follows: The session setup from computer 'york' failed because the security database does not contain a trust account 'york$' referenced by the specified computer.  York was a computer that was disjoined and since be rebuilt with a different ...
Score account locked out
Osyris - 19 Apr 2007 11:04 AM - 3 messages
dear friends i have this problem.. i have some pc's which are member of o domain.. but one of the accounts is continiusly locked out in Active Directory.. the user can log on to the domain but after a while his account locked out ...
Score Renaming allowed, Deleting denied
Niko - 19 Apr 2007 10:12 AM - 3 messages
Is there a way to separate the right to rename a file/folder from the right to delete a file/folder on Windows Server AD / Client XP-Environment? Thanks in advance. ...
Score Netlogon, cannot create share
Stuart - 19 Apr 2007 9:16 AM - 5 messages
Hi, Please could someone help. I have a newly built Windows 2003 R2 Server that I have DCPROMO'ed. All went well apart from the following error; Event Type:    Error Event Source:    NETLOGON Event Category:    None ...
Score Active Directory User Recording
Matt - 19 Apr 2007 7:13 AM - 16 messages
Hi There, There must be some sofware out there that acts on a client/server basis to record user activity on the local machine for the user logged into AD, i have some very trying people that are always trying to find new ways to hack ...
Score Restricting the Site Group Policy for a single computer
Partha - 19 Apr 2007 5:06 AM - 8 messages
Hi, I have a group policy that is configured at the Site level. I do not want my site group policy to be applied to only one computer in the site.How can I achieve this? I do not want to create a Seperate OU for only one computer. ...
Score ClearVirtual Mem PgFile Shutdown
al - 19 Apr 2007 1:20 AM - 4 messages
I am wondering what folks thing of enabling this GPO setting on workstations (mobiles): Computer Configuration         Windows Settings             Security Settings                 Local Policies ...
Score vbs script running problem even though allowed in group policy
Double B - 18 Apr 2007 11:42 PM - 3 messages
I have a problem while trying to run a login script.  I have a simple vbs script that adds a printer to a computer.  I also use a group policy that only allows certain programs to run (the "run only allowed windows ...
Score gpo not applying
L. - 18 Apr 2007 9:58 PM - 4 messages
I am not that experienced in gpo. But what I want is a policy for IE security (done as a user settings). The thing is I want to apply it only to certain users. I thought the only thing therefore is to the group to the security ...
Score DHCP on a Domain Controller.
Thomas Curcio - 18 Apr 2007 9:08 PM - 7 messages
I was recently told is was not advisable to setup and configure DHCP on a W2k3 domain controller, is there any truth to this? Is there a Microsoft recommendation discouraging this practice? Thanks. ...
Score Workstations permissions to its own AD computer object
MrGimper - 18 Apr 2007 8:36 PM - 4 messages
Hi, I wish to store some information in the extensionAttributes of a computer object. I want to use a login script to read the value of the extensionAttribute of the computer object which relates to the workstation the user logs on to. ...
Score Exchange Distribution Lists
jtdrummerboy - 18 Apr 2007 8:10 PM - 2 messages
Wondering if there is a way to hide certain distribution lists/users from exchange GAL.  We have some users who send fwd's, misc. emails to corporate and need to tighetn this policy.  Perhaps a 3rd party app or is there a ...
Score AD Password customization question...
obrienjf - 18 Apr 2007 7:53 PM - 3 messages
Hey all...we have a client that want to know if we can force our passwords to contain numbers but make sure they are not the first or last character in the password (to avoid password patterns like Larry1, Larry2, etc.). Is there any way to "force" passwords in AD ...
Score GPO applying to W2K3 but not W2K
jtdrummerboy - 18 Apr 2007 7:50 PM - 5 messages
I have 8 servers that I would like to block access to across the network.  Each of these servers resides in the parent domain.  I would like to block the child domain from accessing them.  I have tried to apply a GPO that ...
Score NTDSUtil question
Dan - 18 Apr 2007 5:18 PM - 4 messages
Hey everyone,   Is it possible to create a setting on one GC but not on others for an LDAP policy?  Normally, I would do this through NTDSUtil using the following commands: NTDSUtil LDAP Policies Connections Connect to server "servername" ...
Score Some questions on FSMO and AD BridgeHead transfer...
Bobson - 18 Apr 2007 4:56 PM - 8 messages
Hi everyone, Thank you for your help in advance... My questions are: 1.) Any DCs in a site can be chosen a bridgehead server? It does not have to be GC, holding FSMO roles (in the main site)...? 2.) I would like to transfer all the FSMO roles from one old DC to a new ...
Score Group policy
Fabio - 18 Apr 2007 4:28 PM - 10 messages
Is there a policy that I can let users add computers to a domain.  and if there is?  what is the name of it under active directory group policy? most appreciate, ...
Score VB Scripts for Profiles?
John W. - 18 Apr 2007 3:02 PM - 6 messages
I'm setting up a new domain and we have about 500 users.  I do not wish to set up roaming profiles for all these users, however there are some basic settings for everyone's profile I'd like to have set.  Is there a way to set ...
Score new account won't pull old account settings
Terin - 18 Apr 2007 2:54 PM - 3 messages
I created a new user account in AD and pointed its profile path to an older account. The problem is that when I log into the new account, it doesn’t pull down all of the settings of old account. ...
Score Active Directory User Account Activity
Matt - 18 Apr 2007 2:36 PM - 11 messages
Hi There, Is there a piece of software about that can effectivly act as a user account activity logger in conjunction with AD, so i can get the login and log out times recorded and also application usage etc. Im sure someone must know of ...
Score Security group rights
Burleyman - 18 Apr 2007 2:18 PM - 5 messages
I have a security group created and would like that group to be able to rename a computer in the domain without them having any other administrative rights. Where can I find information on this? ...
Score Sites & Services
Adrian - 18 Apr 2007 11:34 AM - 4 messages
Hello all, 2003 Domain with 7 DCs, 2 in Main office with 5 in Regional Offices. S&S in has a Site & Subnet for each of the offices with a DC server in each one. This part all appears to be working correctly, no errors, no trouble. ...
Score Remote site authentication
jdr.smith - 18 Apr 2007 11:30 AM - 5 messages
Hi, I've got one domain, three sites on different subnets routed across hardware VPN's One site has the master DC and is a GC. Second site has an additional DC and is also a GC Third site has only PC's..no server.. ...
Score Grant a domain user read-only access to AD 2003
Joe.Mobley - 18 Apr 2007 10:14 AM - 4 messages
I've created a new user who is a member of the "Domain users" group only.  I want to grant this user read only permissions to the whole of the Active Directory structure. I've tried to achieve this by running the Delegate control wizard from ...
Score Slow login to AD
Lasse - 18 Apr 2007 8:30 AM - 10 messages
Hey I am having problems with some client computers that are very slow to login to our AD. The DNS settings are working fine because it's not all the computers that have the problem. All the computers have two DNS servers that ...
Score AD site and services - How do I speed up replication time?
cyborg - 18 Apr 2007 7:28 AM - 10 messages
In AD sites and services I have 2 sites, one which is the head office which has 2 DC's and an offsite site which has 1.  I have a good link (100mb) to this offsite location, it's probably simple and I just want to know how I ...
Score New office needs a DC
Gonzo - 18 Apr 2007 6:44 AM - 6 messages
We have a new office being planned.  We currently have a single Forest with 3 Windows 2003 DC in AD integrated DNS mode.  Our new office will be large and we feel that a they will benefit having a local DC in their office to ...
Score ADAM on WS03 SP2
Dennis - 18 Apr 2007 6:32 AM - 2 messages
Hi, I have a new installed server, Windows Server 2003 SP2 Enterprise Edition, that I want to install ADAM on. Is that possible without problem or do I have to reinstall SP2, install ADAM SP1 and there after reinstall SP2? ...
Score Prevent deletion
Chris - 18 Apr 2007 4:54 AM - 5 messages
Is there a way with group polocies to prevent the deletion of files and folders?  ...
Score Renaming Domains
Luiz - 17 Apr 2007 10:04 PM - 3 messages
Hi, one question, I intend rename my W2k3 domain from test.net to test.local. What kind steps must I do? Must I re-joining the machines? Anyone can tell me if there is a paper about that procedure? Thanks. ...
Score Question about moving to Windows Server 2003 Domain Functional Level
Max C - 17 Apr 2007 9:10 PM - 9 messages
We've been running in the Windows Server 2003 Interim domain functional level ever since we migrated from NT 4 to Windows 2003 AD. We'd like to go ahead and move up to the full 2003 domain functional level, but I have 2 concerns: ...
Score Determine which DC is checking the credential/authenticating
tnt - 17 Apr 2007 9:10 PM - 3 messages
Guys, I recently took down one of the domain controllers(for 12 hours, we had hardware issue).  It is up now.  How can I tell which server is authenticating when users are logging in?  Also, where can view to determine ...
Score DC Past Tombstone Lifetime
Zachary Dundore - 17 Apr 2007 8:00 PM - 21 messages
I am running Windows 2003 Server in a single domain environment.  We have two main DCs in our home office and 7 remote DCs in our branch plants.  One of our branch plant DCs hasn't been replicating since January 17, 2007. ...
Score Duplicating a pair of DC into Virtual PC (not Virtual Server)
Phillip Windell - 17 Apr 2007 7:36 PM - 8 messages
I'd like to duplicate my two DCs into a VM Lab in Virtual PC.  I assume I would approach it the same way as if I had lost both of my DC and they were unrecoverable and all I had in my hands were the System State Backups from each ...
Score ADFS and Certificate Services
nboothe - 17 Apr 2007 6:54 PM - 4 messages
I posted a few weeks ago about the basics of ADFS and Joe was gracious enough to help me.  I've made some progress, but am beginning to think my concept might not even be possible and I'm hoping someone can ...
Score Upgrade windows 2000 domain to windows 2003 domain
Shijo Michael - 17 Apr 2007 3:26 PM - 2 messages
can anyone help me with the following please? Our forest has two child domains. (Domain1.Ezone,Domain2.ezone) The root domain  (Ezone) and one of the child domain (Domain1.ezone) was already been upgraded to windows 2003 , the other child domain (Domain2.ezone) has only two DCs and they are both ...
Score Delegate User Access to radius server on domain controller
Joe - 17 Apr 2007 1:38 PM - 4 messages
Greetings all, I would like to give a Cisco Engineer access to our Radius server. The problem is the Radius server is on a Domain Controller. How can give him access only to the Radius server without giving him full admin rights? ...
Score "Directory Services cannot start" and Directory Services Restore Mode
mjblay - 17 Apr 2007 1:08 PM - 3 messages
Hello, I'm looking for help on a problem that's essentially disabled one of my servers.  The inciting event was a hard-drive upgrade.  The system had two drives -- the first (C:) had all the windows system ...
Score script not updating ad
Scott - 17 Apr 2007 12:56 PM - 3 messages
Hi!  I was trying out this example script to update an account in AD.  It appears to find and update the test account, at least with no errors, however when I look at the actual account in  ADUC, the information is not updated.  ...
Score AD account display
Dean - 17 Apr 2007 11:42 AM - 2 messages
Hi I hope someone can help.. I would like to ammend the way that "AD users and computers" displays user information. Basically like you can within Exchange by editing the user details template. For Example i have an AD account "User1", when i look at the details of the ...
Score Single session login
DD - 17 Apr 2007 8:56 AM - 3 messages
Can I control single network login session? means user only can login one session at any of the pc. ...
Score LDAP Connect to ADAM failed
drs - 17 Apr 2007 8:47 AM - 10 messages
Hello, I am syncing my MS AD (dc=firm,dc=net) to an equal ADAM instance (dc=firm,dc=net). Syncing works fine and I am able to change users in ADAM via ADSI edit. Every try to connect remotely to ADAM via LDAP browsers (SOFTERRA, ...
Score Impact of Removing BDCs in Windows 2003 Interim Forest/Domain
Mr. JYC - 17 Apr 2007 2:44 AM - 3 messages
Hi, Could someone explain what the impact would be of removing Windows BDCs from a Windows 2003 Interim Forest/Domain?  The original PDC is now the primary Windows 2003 DC/GC for the Windows 2003 Interim Forest/Domain and it also ...
Score AD is down temporarily
tnt - 17 Apr 2007 1:34 AM - 12 messages
Guys, One of the disk in the raid 1 mirror failed.  After replacing the disk, my OS froze.  I can ping it from another server, but cannot access any drive. Seems like are the resources are taken. It looks like the rebuilding is taking place since the new drive is ...
Score Domain name required?
Chris Pirillo - 17 Apr 2007 12:10 AM - 6 messages
I'm running Server 2003 w/ SP1 in a single domain. I have an issue when trying to access recourses from outside the domain. For example, if I try to access a folder while on a laptop that is not joined I will have to specify ...
Score DHCP Reservations vs. Static IP Addressing
nate.sellers - 16 Apr 2007 10:57 PM - 18 messages
Guys, I am looking for feedback with pros and cons regarding implementing DHCP reservations as opposed to static IP addressing. Also, any references to articles addressing this issue would be helpful. ...
Score How to discover Win2003 Standard or Ent.
SK-TECH - 16 Apr 2007 10:12 PM - 3 messages
I have over 26 Win2003 server throughtout the network(LAN/WAN). I would like to know how to find out whether the server has Win2003 Standard or Enterprise installed on it without having to login to each server individually? Thanks in advance, ...
Score ADAM for application user authentication
wschmied - 16 Apr 2007 9:26 PM - 9 messages
Currently, we have many applications in our organization that contact a DC directly via LDAP for user authentication.  Most of these applications are only capable of having on LDAP bind string configured...none of them know how to query AD to locate a DC for LDAP ...
Score sp2 install with ADAM
Brian - 16 Apr 2007 8:38 PM - 4 messages
In reading the MS docs about installing sp2 on a W2k3 sp1 server I see something about AD App Mode.  How can one tell if ADAM is installed on a server?  Can you tell if it's ADAM sp1 or the initial version?  The docs say ...
Score Trouble promoting R2 Sever to a domain controller in a domain with two other DCs
Robeast - 16 Apr 2007 8:07 PM - 4 messages
I am trying to promote a Windows 2003 R2 Server to a domain controller in a domain with two servers that run Windows 2003 Server (not R2). When I try to promote it, it says "The version of the Active Directory ...
Score Disable Group Policy Remotely
bsach - 16 Apr 2007 6:58 PM - 6 messages
We have configured a group policy that turns off the user’s ability to change the firewall settings from within control panel across our network. The firewall control panel is visible but it is grayed out. The firewall is ...
Score ADAM Licensing
jskalicky - 16 Apr 2007 5:52 PM - 2 messages
We are going to potentially use ADAM for our Extranet. What are the licensing requirements for ADAM in this scenario? I have looked at MS licensing and it states that ADAM is covered by the server license and no incremental licenses ...
Score DNS: Domain Controller IP Address Loss
Fred Woodbridge - 16 Apr 2007 5:37 PM - 3 messages
Hello: I have a quick question, if someone would care to answer, I'd really appreciate it. I have a forest-root pair of DCs which are also DNS servers.  For a sub- or child-domain, I've got glue NS records for two DNS servers ...
Score LDAP query question
SonnyK - 16 Apr 2007 5:04 PM - 2 messages
(&(objectCategory=user)(company=VHA*)(employeeNumber>=1)(!department=Sooner Care One)(!department=VHA OK - HealthLink)(!department=Waterstone Benefit Admin)(!department=Managed Care Consulting)(!department=VHA OK Lifecare Health Svc)) I'm using the above to remove (not list) departments listed, but I need to ...
Creating Several Users in AD through scripts
Tool to create reports from AD
AD migration
Active Directory Remote Assistance Policy
Move stand alone CA from 2000 to 2003
Does Windows 2K3 Active Directory support IPv6?
Netlogon / Sysvol Locations
add printers button is not visible
Detailed process of AD password changes and account creation
Problem to join a server in domain
Users w\expired passwords(non-blank) + PASSWD_NOTREQD = Access ???
GP to computer
Message prior to Login On
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