Windows Server Active Directory

Hi there, I just went into sites and services and noticed all the servers are missing. Have I disabled an option that shows the server or could it be a permissions thing (although I'm domain admin with all extras... enterprise and schema ...

currently i have a 2003 domain controler running all roles, I've added a 2008 ad server have not moved the roles to this server yet, however it is running DNS. I also have a 2000 sp4 server domain controler as our Exchange server which ...

We follow a two tier backup solution in our organization for backing up our AD DC's, where first we back up all our DC;s using NTBackup and store the backup files on the DC;s local Disk and then their is a second level Ent backup solution which backs up the system state backup onto a network locations. Given the above scenario, i would like to know how it works in windows 2008/2008r2: ...

Hi.  Is there a way to automate the deployment of Auditing settings to the OU's in AD?  I only have a handful so it doesn't have to be TOO efficient.  These have to be deployed automatically (via script, ...

Hi , I have a 2003 Server with DNS installed How can i backup DNS (non Active Directory-integrated)? Thanks ...

Hi all, We have a small branch office in another city.  They use a local IT contractor to maintain the server (updates/patches, monitoring).  That server is a duplicate 2003 DC of the domain in head office.  All our domain servers are on 2003. ...

Hi, I have a computer with windows 2003 like terminal server. I would like customize the desktop for groups, how could configure it using GPO? The issue is that I want configure shortcuts for groups, some users will have its ...

We have 2 domains (W2k3 native), each with 2 DCs: CORPORATE.COMPANY.NET  (2 DCs: CORPDC1 and CORPDC2) RETAILSTORES.COMPANY.NET  (2 DCs: RETAILDC1 and RETAILDC2) All are in the same site (SITE-HQ) and were assigned 6 subnets: ...

I need to start creating individual accounts for our help desk personnel. I believe I have the AD Delegation working, but how do I control or give these users the ability to logon remotely using RDP and log on deskside with admin ...

Hello, I have a problem with the authentication of users to access services. I have a domain with Windows 2008 R2 and all servers are W2008 R2. I want to add a domain user as local administrator into the server and not appears on ...

On our network, we only want a select group of desktop managers joining PCs to the domain.  In addition to that, we want those managers REQUESTING to have those machines joined before they actually do so.  This is because we ...

Hi, I have asked this question before but didn't really get anywhere. I am running 8 Windows 2003 servers, I am slowly migrating all of our companies work stations to authenticate against the domain. On the workstations that are now showing up in my list of Computers on the ...

I am trying to know whether following performance counter of NTDS are available in windows 2008 onwards or not ? XDS Searches , XDS Client session , XDS Reads  , XDS Writes . Microsoft window 2003  document claims availability of XDS counters in ...

Hello all I recently installed ADRMS running on windows 2008 sp2. Currently the server has powershell version 1.0 on it, and in order to use the ADRMS modules I need Powershell 2.0. When I try and install powershell 2.0 over 1.0 I get an ...

I have created a new AD environment, NTDS.Dit is approx 13 MB and Sysvol is 10 MB, however when i take system state backup using wbadmin, the backup file is over 9 GB. I wonder what all is getting backed up? Why is the backup ...

I'm working on adding 2008 R2 DCs into my 2003 domain.  I've done all the adprep steps and everything checks out health-wise.  I'm running the 2008 DC wizard and I get to the screen that talks about the "new more secure default ...

I would like to use group policy to restrict user function on one server within my domain while not restricting the users on other servers or workstations. For example when logging into “Server A” users will not be able to access the run command but would be able to do on their own workstations. I have been looking for tips on the best way to accomplish this but have not been overly lucky in my searching so far. ...

Hi, I have a replication error at one site. As the possible cause might have been a dns problem I decided to have the DC point to another dns server for it's dns information. After that change and a renewed attempt to replicate I got: ...

Hi Guru's We have a large OU restructure coming up. Our AD is a single domain with reasonably good network links between our DC's. The OU's we want to restructure have approx 2000 objects each. The OU restructure does not involve adding or deleting any of the existing ...

I use java program ldap to accept active directory i have two question,please help me, thanks i want update user informatoin, if i don't update user name or cn attribute, it can run sucess.  but when i want update name or cn attribute it error.  ...