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Score Active Directort Due diligence
Babu VT - 21 Feb 2009 5:05 AM - 3 messages
Hi, My company is acquiring a another smaller company which has Active Directory Setup.I'm asked to prepare a "Due diligence" document for the Active Directory.Can someone show me some pointers on how to go about it.Any ...
Score what would happen if???
James - 20 Feb 2009 11:21 PM - 8 messages
heres the scenario: a windows server 2008 sp1 server configured as a domain controller, the one and only DC in the forest, its running DHCP/DNS/WDS and hosts a distribution and deployment share for MDT 2008 I need to setup another server at another location with the exact same ...
Score Restore missing Group Policy
Just Guessing - 20 Feb 2009 9:41 PM - 3 messages
On a new Windows Small Business Server 2003 installation, I noticed certain SBS group policies were not being enforced (folder redirection, Windows Firewall lockdown, etc.).  I looked at the Group Policy editor that comes with SBS 2003 and noticed that I couldn't edit several of the group policies. ...
Score Enabling an audit trail for Administrator Functions
Kyle Blake - 20 Feb 2009 9:07 PM - 11 messages
Hi, We want to track what admin functions are performed by what employee.  The auditting is enabled using default windows 2003 domain gpo. So instead of handing out the administrator password to all employees in the computer department and the audit trail(event log) just saying ...
Score problem with NIS
seth - 20 Feb 2009 8:45 PM - 2 messages
I'm having problems managing services for unix on my network.  There are 2 locations with 2 domain controllers each.  All four servers are Windows 2003 SP2 and running SFU 3.5.  I have all my Linux boxes configured to ...
Score Profile corruption
Pat - 20 Feb 2009 8:26 PM - 6 messages
Hello, we are starting to notice alot of the xp computers  have multiple profiles from the same user. example jdoe and jdoe.domain aon the local pc but the  shared directory where the roaming profile are stored is fine. ...
Score disable users while user is logged into the domain
JR - 20 Feb 2009 7:01 PM - 31 messages
Im noticing the users who are logged into webmail can still send mail if there account gets disabled when they are logged into webmail. I want to be able to disable accounts and instantly stop them from accessing company resources even if they are logged into the domain at the time they are ...
Score Create account called network
ace95hockey - 20 Feb 2009 6:47 PM - 5 messages
When trying to create an account called network I get an error "Windows cannot create the new user object because the pre-Windows 2000 logon name network is already in use.  Select another name, and then try again." I cannot find the account that is using this.  I beleive that it is "Network ...
Score Completly New Forest/Domains, looking for suggestions
Alan Fisher - 20 Feb 2009 5:23 PM - 5 messages
I'm preparing for a new network rollout, this is the first of this Magnitude for me, and while I am familure with the forest and domain structure fo AD I would like some imput form others that may have ideas or suggestions. ...
Score Need to change user SELF permissions on their account
Mygposts - 20 Feb 2009 5:15 PM - 5 messages
We would like to have users update their own personal info such as office location and telephone number by using the built in Windows Address Book connection to  Active Directory. We gave the users instructions on how to use it WAB and it works fine for ...
Score AD change management
NGReader - 20 Feb 2009 5:03 PM - 8 messages
What would be a good fit for a small single forest/domain AD network (3 DCs, exchange,SQL,2 sites about 70 clients) I would prefer freeware/open source if possible but we would spend a little($200+-) if it were worthy. ...
Score LDAP Query to show all users within multiple OUs
RBoyle - 20 Feb 2009 4:54 PM - 3 messages
Hey everyone, I want to write the following LDAP query against my 03 Active Directory. I want to write it so that it lists all of the servers within the directory. Here are the components that I want to list (so I can do an export of ...
Score Multiple external NTP time sources??
EPGeek - 20 Feb 2009 4:53 PM - 3 messages
I have been running an AD with an external NTP source with no problems for several years.  Then in the past 2 weeks I began to get failures from my NTP queries.  The outside source was tock.usno.navy.mil and the problems may ...
Score Strange XP Firewall issue with GPO
colin.laurie@googlemail.com - 20 Feb 2009 4:26 PM - 8 messages
Hi, I am having some issues with deploying XP firewall with GPO. The GPO is applied, gpresult on the client shows this. FW settings in control panel are greyed out as expected and cant be edited. So it looks like everything is applying ok, but the actual FW exceptions are ...
Score HOW TO UNLOCK ENCRIPTED FILES
Francisco Rugamas - 20 Feb 2009 4:07 PM - 4 messages
Hello ! Some user encripted office files y then the machine was fomated, right now he can't unlock these files, some one knows if Active Directory or ohter way to unlock these files or we can´t. Thank you foy your answers. ...
Score Restoring an ADAM Instance
jskalicky - 20 Feb 2009 2:14 PM - 3 messages
I have ADAM running on a member server and it is not part of a configuration set. If I backup just the ADAM instance via NT Backup and need to restore the instance can I just stop the ADAM instance and restore the instance to it's ...
Score Download of ACCTINFO.dll
Federico Moschini - 20 Feb 2009 1:07 PM - 3 messages
Hello, Where I can find a public download of the following dll? ACCTINFO.dll (v2) On internet I've found only (V1) edition. Thank you for your kind attention. Best regards, Federico Moschini ...
Score Script to move computers to another OU
binuthomas - 20 Feb 2009 7:59 AM - 3 messages
Can some one provide me a script that can move computers from a text file to another OU. Thanks, -- binuthomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ binuthomas's Profile: [link] View this thread: [link][link] ...
Score Disabling services in domain controllers and member servers
Domon - 20 Feb 2009 1:42 AM - 3 messages
Hi guys Assuming that I have a domain with single site running in a LAN evironment, will the active directory functionality be affected if I disable the following services on my domain controllers and member servers? 1) DHCP client ( Read that it is used to register host records to DNS servers for servers) ...
Score Certificate Server is gone !
Personne - 20 Feb 2009 1:34 AM - 2 messages
Hi, This is my first post in the forum, and hopefully I'll be pleased by your numerous answers :) Here is my issue: - I have a single AD Domain, with many replicas on different remote sites. - I know that there was a Windows Certificate server, but this server ...
Score Offer Remote Assistance Shortcut From ADUC?
Mygposts - 20 Feb 2009 12:01 AM - 8 messages
I remember being on someone else's domain and they had an option when you right clicked on any computer account in Active Directory Users and Computers to Office Remote Assistance. We don't have it on our domain even though we have a working Remote ...
Score Trust
Pat - 19 Feb 2009 10:57 PM - 3 messages
tHello, we recentley set up a trust and now the help desk is swamped wit call from users loging into the wrong domain and getting thier mapped drives. Is there any way to prevent the users from loging into the wrong domain? ...
Score Replacing a CA server
baefed@gmail.com - 19 Feb 2009 10:36 PM - 3 messages
A little  background.  We have a Domain with several child domains. We installed a CA server when we rolled out Exchange 2007.  The CA server is in the top level domain and it is a standalone standard 2003 ...
Score Enforce user account restrictions policy
Ondrej Sevecek - 19 Feb 2009 9:47 PM - 9 messages
Hello, there is this Kerberos policy. What does it do exactly from Kerberos point of view? I have tried to obtain a TGT for a user account first. Ticket received. Then modified some account properties - disabled the account and modified its ...
Score New Domain/Server
Todd Bennett - 19 Feb 2009 7:12 PM - 5 messages
I currently have a small network, 2 servers, both Windows 2000. 1st server is the AD domain controller, exchange server, and application server. 2nd server is an application server. We want to add a new Windows 2008 server with Exchange 2007 which will be on ...
Score Any way to recover?
Ed - 19 Feb 2009 5:36 PM - 3 messages
Hi all, This is windows 2003 R2 envir.  My empty root domain controller is dead and I do not have any backup.  The child domain controllers are running fine.  I can still log on to the child domain.  Is there a way to recover this empty ...
Score Domain Error
Sukhwinder Singh - 19 Feb 2009 4:22 PM - 9 messages
Dear All, We have applied the IPsec policy on the Domain Controllers OU to block the ICMP traffic to the Domain controllers. The policy is applied on all the DC's but we are getting the below errors whenever we are trying to update the GP ...
Score SetPassword access denied
systinte5 - 19 Feb 2009 3:18 PM - 7 messages
..NET 2.0 c# code running as a service (no, it does not use the system account). The service impersonates an OUAdmin account in order to create a user account in that OU. We are able to create an account through the ...
Score AD: Windows 2000 to Windows 2008 how to proceed
Paul - 19 Feb 2009 2:51 PM - 2 messages
Completely lost by this situation with migration of AD w2k to w2k8. Situation: I have: Physical server running Windows 2000 + AD + DNS - server.company.local Physical server(freshly installed) running Windows 2008 - server2k8 Physical server empty - for testing or other purposes which are required ...
Score Server listed in two sites
PeteL - 19 Feb 2009 1:01 PM - 9 messages
In the process of replacing a failed DC I built the server in the default first site, promoted the server, changed the ip to the destination site and switched off the server.  I then took the server to the destination site and ...
Score How to lock an Active Directory account without disabling it
FPA - 19 Feb 2009 9:29 AM - 5 messages
Hello, To face some application needs, we need to lock AD accounts but not disabled them. Is there any solution ? Thanks to anyone who will give me a tip. FPA ...
Score ADSI Contacts Object Scripting help
Babu VT - 19 Feb 2009 7:37 AM - 3 messages
Hi, I'm trying to add Groups to "members of" attribute of "Contacts" object in Active Directory but I'm unable to do it.Can someone help me with a code snippet.However I was able to do the same for a Active Directory User object ...
Score Event id 13568
DD - 19 Feb 2009 3:20 AM - 21 messages
I am getting this error msg from one of the DC. Any solution for this error ? Event Type:    Error Event Source:    NtFrs Event Category:    None Event ID:    13568 ...
Score Replacing old DC
RemyMaza - 19 Feb 2009 1:41 AM - 13 messages
I'd like an expert opinion on these logs.  I'm probably overthinking it, but I'd rather be safe.  I ran replmon and saved a status report: Active Directory Replication Monitor Printed on 2/18/2009 8:22:46 PM ...
Score Password confusion?
steve - 18 Feb 2009 7:53 PM - 8 messages
Recently we had to rebuild our windows 2003 server. This is the only server we have. Everything is up and running now, but it brought up a question which I dont know the answers too. The person who was doing it asked me for the DC password when he was ...
Score User Password Prompt
Lee - 18 Feb 2009 1:12 AM - 3 messages
On a consistent basis our users have to reboot the computer twice to get a password prompt before being able to change the password.  This happens even if we check “User must change password at next logon” in AD.  I don’t know if ...
Score Active Directory Forest Health Check
answrman - 17 Feb 2009 7:05 PM - 2 messages
Hello - Are there any tools, tests, or diagnostics that can be run specifically on the forest in Active Directory?  We're trying to figure out if any modifications have been made specifically to the forest, or a tool to test ...
Score Ultrasound Installation
Waryscat - 17 Feb 2009 5:56 PM - 8 messages
When installing ltrasound I get the error:- Setup could not install to the specified SQL Instance (servername\instance). Please verify that the instance is available and run set up again. This appears after the app tries to deploy the DB. ...
Score Windows 2008 LDAP and auth-conf
Stephane Delisle - 16 Feb 2009 3:58 PM - 2 messages
Hi, We are testing to migrate our Windows 2003 to 2008 64 bits active directory and we've found that our Linux system are unable to be authenticate using DIGEST-MD5 Here is the error : DIGEST-MD5: Unable to negotiate a strength level for ...
Score GPO desktop and files max size
jogvanp - 16 Feb 2009 11:21 AM - 8 messages
I'm working on GP for my company and can't find anything about maximum file size. Is there anyone who know this question: * DESKTOP SIZE I need a GPO that can set a maximum size to desktop (about 50 kb) ...
Score active directory project
rayc - 16 Feb 2009 4:47 AM - 16 messages
i have a project coming up soon that i have to figure out how to do. I have very little details on it so far. Converting to active directory copy user profiles from old environment (which i don't know what it is) ...
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