Windows Server Active Directory

A friend's very small business has a flat domain, e.g.; smallbiz.com.  They want to migrate to something like local.smallbiz.com for internal use and retain their public IP and FQDN of mail.smallbiz.com.  Can this be done?  My ...

Can ADMT 3.1 perform resource updation of a Windows Server 2008 Server Core machine? both x86 & x64 ...

Hi all, I have one empty root domain with two windows 2003 R2 domain controllers and one child domain with two windows 2003 R2 domain controllers and all servers and users are located in child domain. Now, I need to run adprep on the schema master for exchange 2010.  Since ...

Im admin handling domain controller for all sites. We have one PDC and 11 ADC. Two days back due to hardware issue, my PDC got crashed. I had assigned FDMO Roles to one of my ADC which is there in my same location. Now i want to restore the crashed PDC to as it is. COuld i able to do this? Please help me. Due to PDC crash, im experincing slow replication (nearly 3 hours for password reset) and performance issue -- sanushi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sanushi's Profile: [link] View this thread: [link][link] ...

I have 2 domain 2003 forest that I recently dcpromed a 2008 r2 into the forestroot domain.  I did all the adprep commands but may not have ran adprep /domainprep /gprep on the infrastructure master.    There are 4 domain ...

We have an ADAM instance (Windows Server 2003 sp2) on an old server and would like to migrate it to AD LDS (Windows Server 2008 sp1) on a new server.  It contains about 6 million entries and takes uses about ...

I have two domains across two offices each with their own subnet with a working two-way trust. I believe DNS is configured correctly. However, we have a need for users of one domain to be included in groups of the other. ...

Hi, i have a 2003 domain and XP pro SP2 clients Where can i found adm for IE8 for manage my XP clientes from GPMC? Thanks ...

Hi, I have 2 w2003 Dcs - both DNS servers Primary and secondary. I have Clients running XP static Ip and in both DNS servers IP is configured as Primary and Secondary DNS. My Primary DNS server went down, all clients are not quering the secondary! ...

It started off every 3 days this issue happened but after removing unused programs to free up RAM this issue seems to happen every 20 days. Setup: 1 - Windows 2003 Server Small business edition. with all the latest Updates. I removed Exchange, WSUS, and Sharepoint as they are not needed and using ...

Hi Lee, I want to replicate two distinct AD Databases in my ADAM instance but I can´t  convert the users into userProxy. When I syncronize only users (don´t convert in .xml file to userProxy)  it works. ...

ok - Windows 2003. I setup an additional DC on my network and installed DNS. It has replicated all users and this morning I changed the global catalog server setting on the DC. NOW: what else do I have to do insure everything I need is on the new DC and then what do I do to demote the old DC to a subserviant role? ...

Hello, We have a windows server 2003 std installed in the office of one of our client. After some troubleshooting, the server was reformatted and reinstalled. Since 2 weeks when he used the remote desktop the session is closed automatically after a time between 2 and 20 min... ...

In my AD networks (N.1 Windows server 2003 DC and N. 5 Windows XP domain clients) there is a shared folder on a NAS server (Synology DS 101). The access to this shared folder is restricted to some users defined on the ...

Our forest is a single domain with two Windows 2003 domain controllers. The domain controller that held all the primary roles had its system drive enlarged, and during that process an image of the disk was restored and apparently this caused an "illegal" restoration of the AD database.   Now I ...

Hello, I would like to ask you what is the minimum packet size for AD (ldap) authentication between WinXP Pro and Win2003 R2. I am working in the brancj office and we are connected with main company  through VPN - here is located ...

I am posting this in hopes that it will help the next poor soul that will try to migrate from 2000 AD to 2008 AD and face the same issue. After searching for almost a day I found the solution to be to move the FSMO roles from the 2000 AD server to the 2008 AD server and restart the NETLOGON service. -- Shemar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shemar's Profile: [link] View this thread: [link][link] ...

Dear We are using windows server 2008 Ent and few months back I implemented the policy to disable or deactivate task scheduler on the whole domain because our network was attached by virus which make tasks through task scheduler. Now we wanted to enable the task scheduler so I just deleted the policy from ...

I receive the following message when I use GPMC. Any ideas on what is causing it? "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation" Cheers, Cosmo ...

Are there any special considerations in migrating/upgrading a Windows Server 2003 domain controller running on a VM server? Is P2V process a recommended approach if yes Why? if noy why? ...

We need to use an application that runs as a number of windows services. Those services run under a local user account that was created when the application was installed. We need those accounts to be Windows 2008 Domain level accounts (the ...

What is the difference between restoring Sysvol (Authoritative Restore & Non-Authoritative Restore) when FRS is used and when DFSR is used. Are there any changes to the restore process? ...

I beleive that in Windows Server 2008, the dc locator periodically searches for the domain controller in the domain. Where does this information get updated..any registry value? Can the name of a dc be modified using a registry key? ...

Hola grupo, Tengo un forest con dos dominios 2003, el padre y el hijo. De momento no queremos migrar los DCs a 2008, unicamente poder empezar a tener servidores miembro 2008 en el dominio hijo. Necesitaria que me indicarais que pasos he de realizar tanto en el forest, ...

We just upgraded a 2003 server to 2008r2 , AD tells me it is a 2003 server. Should we reset the account? Carl ...