Windows Server Active Directory

I have a single domain environment and 9 sites. apparently, 5 days ago, when booting one DC in one site, a 'Preparing Network Connection" message displayed on the screen and it stayed for long and the DC didn’t start, 2 days ago, I had the same issue on another DC in ...

Hi all, I scheduled a down time to patch all my servers as well as AD servers. My AD servers are spread across 3 sites(2 subsidiary and 1 HQ). The 2 subsidiary sites are linked to my HQ using a 2Mbps MetroEthernet line. After patching, i ...

we've got one main domain we use for 95% of things and a couple really small domains with a trust relationship. there are no hierarchical domains, but our domain name is ""USCO.PARENTCO.COM" right now and we're most likely going to rename ...

Hi all, Today, I just had a big discussion with AD design team: they propose that our internal domain name should be xy.net and our compnay's external domain name is xy.com.  I just wonder why use xy.net for ...

Hi all: I have this issue: in my domain i need restrict the use of one computer by some domain users. I tried resolve this situation creating a new separate OU, then create in it a new group wich contatins the user will allowed to ...

This is an unusual problem and I'm hoping someone will have come across something similar before. Before I start I should state that I've hardly used Windows Server or Active Directory, so go easy on me if this is something obvious! ...

Dear all, I have Parent domain and a child domain as follow; company.local production.company.local Domain functional level: Windows 2000 native. Forest functional level: Windows 2000 native. Parent domain has 2 X Windows 2003 DC's Child domain has 13 X Windows 2003 DC's due to the geographical locations we ...

Domain A and B need to make Trust relationship, both domains separated. Domain A is Parent Top Domain, Domain B i s Domain C's is child domain. Network access/firewall fully open between domain A and B. Domain A doesn't have routing access to B's parent Domain C. Both ...

I need some help with user accounts and profiles. Here's the mess I'm in. I have a notebook PC that was until 2 days ago running Vista Business SP1. When I had a job I was a member of a domain called SSK, and I had a user account called RowanB (which is also the name of my PC). I used to log on using the built in finger print reader (managed by HP Credentials Manager), and since I lost my job 1 year ago I've continued to use this account, but without being able to connect to my old company's network or the domain controller. This is the account where I have many thousand documents, favourites, hundreds of applications, my Outlook e-mail accounts, calendar etc. none of which I can afford to lose. ...

Hello, I am researching how to properly join a 2008 R2 domain in an automated fashion from a re-imaged XP SP3 computer; either through Sysprep, or through a script after sysprep has finished and mini-setup is concluded; I have a utility that renames my XP SP3 machines after sysprep is finished, so I am guessing I will need to have the machine join the domain after that happens. ...

How do you setup in Active Directory for Windows 2003 server a group policy for an OU whose users are located on the east coast when the AD is located in Phoenix so that their time zones are reflective of their location ...

Hello All, We are looking to introduce some 2008 R2 DC's into our 2003 domain and are in the process of testing this with the thinking that we will remain in domain mixed mode for quite awhile. I have backups of all my current dc's. ...

I have an exisitng domain that was W2K, I have added 2 x W2K3 DCs to it. I want to install Exchange 2K7 and am having problems with the setup.com /prepareschema command. It fails stating that the dc is W2K and not W2K3. I am aware that I can use the /dc command to specify the DC to use but this is not working and I cannot find information on the exact use and syntax to do what i want. ...

Hi, After I retrieved data from my companies AD, done in less then 1 sec, I want to read that data into a dataset. I do that with: Dim cn() As Object       For Each src As SearchResult In sr ...

Hi, sorry to ask the question here but I did not find anywhere else. How to install MSCS on a windows 2003 server ? Can we install it on a stand alone server ? Or it should be a Domain controller ? Thank you. ...

Hi, It is possible to shorten synchronization time to same object? I want to synchronize changes in some OU like passwords without delay between sites. If I good remember I passwords are synchronized at once. Best regards, Xentri ...

Hi, In our current environment we have DC1 and DC2. DC1 being the 'master' DC. We have successfullly migrated to a new DC (transferred DHCP, AD, FSMO roles and DNS) as follows: DC1 (Win Server 2003) -> migrated to new DC3 (Win Server 2008 R2) ...

I am trying to export the Member Of attribute value a Global Group which is a member of Domain Local groups in multiple domains in the same AD Forest. While the export contains list of all objects within the same domain in ...

I'm having a strange issue with a user. He came into his machine on Monday morning and upon rebooting received the error: Windows-Registry Recovery One of the files containing the system's Registry data had to be recovered ...

We want to allow our helpdesk the ability to reset our users passwords to a default value (which will mostly be a random value).  Will these random password values get populated into the password history? thx ...

I understand - and do backup - the backup process for a domain controller but have some questions about what others do.  I'm trying to make sure I'm doing what needs to be done when I need to recover. ...

Hello, How can I sync *displayName* property for all users in a container (ADLDS) with AD? I have all users synchronized successfully from AD to LDS, but the displayName attribute is not set (I have about 700 users to set this up for, so I'd prefer some automatic way if possible). ...

I have two questions: 1.I have a 2003 native multi-domain model. DomA and DomB. Users in Dom A have to be granted rights to access a shared Folder in Dom B. I want to know if i hv to follow the MS recommendation if 1.Create a GG in source domain ...

Earlier this year, we upgraded our DC's and forest to 2008 (from '03). Recently, when I ran a "gpresult" against a machine I noticed that the Domain Type said "Windows 2000". Is this a fluke or did something go wrong with our ...

Hi, we have a Win2003 AD with one server acting as the PDC and a small bunch of GPOs. All clients are running WinXP SP3. The whole network / AD is well working. Our management now wants Windows 7, but only on their computers, we're ...

Hello, Somebody knows a way to disponibilize only autentication for users in AD without beeing in the domain? We have a domain (domain.int for example) with several server in windows 2003 arquitecture with hundreads acounts in the AD-LDAP witch ...