Windows Server Active Directory

I am running Server 2003 and my server and backups got fried from dirty power.  Beside this major mess up I recovered most of the data, but have started a reinstall to fix the problems still left (I couldn't start the AD).  Anyway due to a some quirk Windows was setup ...

Does anyone know what to do or a link to help me troubleshoot this problem? C:\Documents and Settings\drservice>repadmin /replicate DC2.DNS DC1.DNS DC=DRS44,DC=drs Sync from DRS-44-9A.drs44.drs to DRS-44-9B.drs44.drs completed successfully. ...

Hello. I have a server running Windows Server 2008 and need to have a security policy to ask for the password change users every 3 months, how I can do? and How does affect the Administrator user? Thank you. ...

Hi everyone, here is the scenario that I am having problems with: There are two seperate forests with domains, coffee (internal) and cola (external).  I can set cola up with a one way outgoing trust so that the coffee people can access all the cola files that I grant them rights to ...

Hi all, We have windows 2003 SP2 32bit Domain controller with windows 2003 functional level. I need to run exchange 2010 prep on the 32 bit schema master, can I run it since the exchange 2010 i only have 64bit?  Is there a way to get around? ...

Hello, I am learning about AD sites and I am confused about how to link two sites together. As a practice I have created two sites, Columbus and KC, and when I created them I assigned them the DEFAULTIPSITELINK object. ...

Hello, One of my DC was disconnected from the network for quite a long time and cannot be synchronized with AD anymore. I have been trying to apply the [link] procedure to reset the machine account password. ...

We are running Windows 2003 domain on 32-bit system. I am trying to promote my first Windows 2008R2 to Windows 2003 domain but I keep getting the message saying that I need to adprep, which I already ran "adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep" on the primary domain ...

Hi, we are planning on upgrading our Win Server 2003 primary DC to Windows Server 2008. I have a few questions that I need to clear up and hope anyone out there can shed some light on them. -Firstly, will upgrading the PDC to Win2008 mean that secondary DC's need to ...

I’ve seem to have ran into a snag in trying to work through a design for modification of our corporate AD Schema (before anyone responds it’s a small change w/o token bloat effects, but we are a large company and being our ...

Hello, I have a forest and a domain with 3 Windows 2003 Server DCs. In order to make a test during 2 weeks, I have to install and promote a Windows 2008 Server R2 into DC (without  particulary role). ...

Hello If a 2008 DC is restarted into directory service restore mode, can the DC still process authentication requests, and service DNS queries? ...

We have a single 2003 forest/domain env't. We'll have 2 sites (currently only 1). The HQ site has a few DCs (also a GC) and an Exchange mail server. The remote site will have a dedicated DC for the users there to authenticate ...

Hi all, We are going to introduce the new windows 2008 R2 DC to our windows 2003 32bit DCs with windows 2003 functional level.  I need to run forestprep and domainprep in the windows 2003 schema master. Can I run the R2 64bit forestprep and domainprep on the windows 2003 32bit ...

Hi For past 2-3 months we are facing issues with editing GPOs applied at domain level including Default Domain Policy (at the same time Default Domain Controller Policy is fine). Finally we found there are many permanent sessions to Gpttmpl.ini from Windows Vista machines. Most of the machines ...