Windows Server Active Directory

Active Directory Query

Nik - 9 Apr 2010 5:34 PM - 4 messages

Guys, I have a list of users in a .csv file. The users are listed via firstName, lastName Is there anyway I can use dsquery or any other tools to grab the user's login id after it's compared to the name? ...

Windows Server 2008 R2

Charle - 9 Apr 2010 4:00 PM - 2 messages

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 share the same code? how is that possible when Windows 7 has both 32 bit and 64 bit versions and windows server 2008 r2 is only 64 bit ...

[offtopic] DNS is automatically changed

James - 8 Apr 2010 9:02 PM - 18 messages

216.146.35.35 216.146.35.36 Hi, I have Server 2008 (not R2) with Hyper-V role installed. There are two NICs - for internal and external network (there is also virtual SBS 2003 as main server). Everything worked fine 8 months and few days ago I had an ...

OU

Mike - 8 Apr 2010 8:37 AM - 6 messages

We are currently restructuring our OU Model and would like to know if there is any limitation on the number of levels of nesting that we can have. Also what are the drawbacks of having nested OU;s?? I know group policy ...

Script logon

Gianluca - 8 Apr 2010 7:51 AM - 8 messages

hello everyone, i have a doamin controller with windows 2003 standard edition SP1, I want manage the access to shares folders with membership to group of domain controller, but I don't rebember the syntax of the command. Can yuo help please? ...

Synchronize or copy certain files from my documents to a server

Nehemoth - 8 Apr 2010 2:50 AM - 2 messages

Hello People. I want a solution to copy certain files (xls,docs,pdf, etc) from a known path (my documents) to a remote folder or a mapped disk. I want that this copy/synchronization happens when the user do a log ...

Schema Update

Russel - 7 Apr 2010 8:22 PM - 3 messages

What are the features that i get just by upgrading the schema to either Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2? i.e. without actually installing any 2008/2008R2 domain controllers. ...

Possible to get rid of without rebuilding everything?

ed - 7 Apr 2010 5:42 PM - 15 messages

Hi all, Back to years ago, the consultant set up our forest with empty root domain and one child domain. Right now, the forest functional level is windows 2003. and all DCs are windows 2003 domain controller. All users ...

joining domain

dkblee - 7 Apr 2010 4:55 PM - 5 messages

hi! Is it possible to have the users rejoin xp,win7 to win2003 AD with the computer object already exist in the AD? i know that this can be done through administrator group, but can this be done by the user without adding them ...

schema update

Mike Brester - 7 Apr 2010 4:28 PM - 4 messages

My schema is currently 2003 R2. Well one of my DC's in a satelite office is end of life so I want to put 2008 R2 on it. I have read a couple different articles now. One saying that I do not need to do a schema update and another ...

shortcut permissions confusion

steve - 7 Apr 2010 3:40 PM - 4 messages

The basic goal of my questions is to understand the permissions of shortcuts when created by administrator, in trying to get end users to run programs linked to the shortcuts. While I have taken server courses etc and use the runas command often, ...

Trust problem: DNS name resolution works, nltest /dsgetdc fails

Rainer - 7 Apr 2010 3:00 PM - 5 messages

Hello, one AD ist 2003 forest level, the second AD is in the 2008R2 forest level. The connection between the two locations is not limited, all traffic will be forwarded to the remote location. We want to establish a forest trust between both AD's. ...

DSRestore Error <ID:997>

Andrew - 7 Apr 2010 4:43 AM - 6 messages

I'm getting the DSRestore error event in the logs of my PDC Emulator. I found the steps to reset the dsrestore password here: [link] My question is, if I follow those instructions and reset the dsrestore ...

AD PDC Emulation

Andrew - 7 Apr 2010 3:54 AM - 6 messages

I'm having an issue with PDC Emulation. I have two domain controllers in an AD Integrated Zone. Both DC's are set as Global Catalogs yet for some reason if the PDC Emulator goes offline, all authentication in the domain goes dead ...

DNS suffix Search list

Elvis - 6 Apr 2010 9:26 PM - 8 messages

Hi, I have a computer that is using a DNS suffix search list that is entered manually using the TCPIP properties under DNS. If I create a computer GPO with a new DNS suffix Search list will it overwrite the manually configured ...

Duplicate computer objects ($Duplicate-)

Dan Thomson - 6 Apr 2010 2:51 PM - 5 messages

We are finding some duplicate computer objects in AD. Some have $Duplicate-... in the pre-Windows 2000 attirbute. Can someone point me to material that explains why/how these are created and if we can get rid of ...

AD Sites and Authentication

tkutil - 6 Apr 2010 2:22 PM - 15 messages

I just set up 3 remote sites all in one domain. I assumed that by setting up sites, links, and subnets my authentication would be contained to the local site, but I have computers authenicating to the remote sites. Should this be ...

references to old servers

Saucer Man - 6 Apr 2010 1:08 PM - 3 messages

In ADUC, I see references to old servers. I have Advanced Features checked, and I am looking under SYSTEM - RpcServices. There are 2 references to Arcserve backup in the format BrightStorEB@Oldserver1 and BrightStorEB@Oldserver2. What is the proper way to remove these references? ...

Error DSASTAT

ZIDAC - 6 Apr 2010 10:55 AM - 4 messages

Hi, I run dsastat and this is the fail: Checking for missing replies... No missing replies!INFO: Server sizes are not equal (min=672112, max=662723). *** Different Directory Information Trees. 1 errors (see above). *** FAIL: -=>> FAIL <<=- ...

Create Exchange 2007 Mailbox

Waldy - 6 Apr 2010 10:30 AM - 3 messages

Hi there, is it possible to set the extended properties of a mailbox on Exchange 2007 to make it a full 2007 mailbox rather than a Legacy mailbox? ...

Standalone v's Enterprise Root CA's

Cosmo - 5 Apr 2010 8:03 PM - 3 messages

I'm new to W2K8 CA's and was wondering if someone could please answer my below questions: 1) What are the pro's and con's between a Standalone and an Enterprise Root CA? 2) Does a Root CA always has to been online for NAP with IPsec to work? ...

Ask your advice on mixed DCs

ed - 5 Apr 2010 2:00 PM - 12 messages

Hi all, We have win2k3 DCs and exchange 2003 Sp2 envir. and the functional level is windows 2003. We want to introduce the one windows 2008 R2 domain controller. Is there any problem when windows 2008 R2 domain controller and windows 2003 domain ...