Does anyone know how to get the "Profile Path" for a user to act the same within Active Directory Administrative Center as it does in ADUC? Another words in AD Users and Computers one can enter "\\domain\folder\%username%" and it will automatically repopulate the field with "\\domain\folder\actual.username". ADAC seems to treat this field strictly as all text, leaving the field as "\\domain\folder\%username%". No variable accepted.
-Eric
Is there anyway you can force our IT techs to create new workstations using pre-staging? For example, an IT tech will create a new workstation in AD, go to the new workstation add it to the domain.
We want to stop the IT techs from adding new workstations onto the domain from the workstation before it being pre-staged?
Hello, we are having an issue with a single issue not being able to log into any 3rd party application that uses LDAP to connect to our AD server. All other users can log into these applications with no issues. We have a website that is coded in PHP and uses LDAP to authenticate and our Billing system that uses LDAP to authenticate. When this user tries to log into either one they receive a username and password incorrect error. They can log into anything Microsoft that uses AD authentication just fine, for example, Exchange, SharePoint, and any computer.
We have gone so far as deleting the user and adding it back with the same username and the same issue exists. Can anyone shed some light on where we should be looking or why it might be only effecting one user? Thanks for your time and help.
Hi
is it possible to have User Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000) and Domain Name with different value?
Exemple:
domain name domain1.com
and User Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000) Domain2\user
Dear Team,
We have domain controller configure don windows 2003 machine.I Have added one windows 2003 machine to this domain without any error.But getting some while trying to login to domain using domain users....I have run the dcdiag utility to test the connectivity between client and domain controller,it also getting failed ..DCDIAG results gives the below mentioned error.
"
TEST: Authentication (Auth)
Authentication test: Successfully completed
TEST: Basic (Basc)
Error: No WMI connectivity
[Error details: 0x800706ba (Type: HRESULT - Facility: Win32, Description: The RPC server is unavailable.) - Connection to WMI server failed]
Summary of DNS test results:
Auth Basc Forw Del Dyn RReg Ext
________________________________________________________________
Domain: TEST.NET
abcd PASS FAIL n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
......................... TEST.NET failed test DNS"
By Anurag
hii all,,
In my office we are using AD in server 2012, and we have two new branches are going to start in different places. we are planning to keep a ADS in each office and will create OU for each office and will give permission to two users to create users in each OU.
My question is is it possible to hide OU and its object from each other OU admin.
Or is it possible to replicate only OU, from branches to main office. ( branch OU admins shouldn't see any other user or computer other than there own OU)
Hi, thank you for reading this. I have a little design question about AD FS. The current situation is like this:
Customer wants an extra AD FS instance for testing purposes.
I do find some recommendations on the internet, but I still have a few questions:
Thanks!
Regards,
Baksteen
I rarely work with domain trust relationships but do have an understanding.
one of my clients has bought another company and ultimately want to integrate them into the current directory.
Company A is the existing client, Company B is the small company that was purchased
company B is a flat .local domain, the person who setup the domains and subdomains for Company A set their parent domain up as .net, notcompanyname.net but actually as "net"
to get around the inability to resolve external .net domains all users in Company A access the internet through a proxy and their mail server relays through messagelabs.
to achieve the goal of moving AD accounts and mailboxes i believe the best way would be to establish a trust and use the ADMT and then perform a mailbox migration.
If i were to setup a trust between the two forests at top level would Company B suffer the issue of not being able to resolve other .net domains? some of the infrastructure of company B is going to take a long while (months) to migrate, and some of their applications cant work through a proxy, so what i'm worried about is establishing a trust and breaking Company B.
It seems that within company A, all the user accounts, computers and servers that matter are members of a subdomain though, which may help
Would I be able to setup a two way external trust from the company B .local forest to a subdomain within company A (e.g. subdomain.net), therefore avoiding any potential issues with resolving external .net domains, and then perform the cross forest migration of users and mailboxes?
thanks in advance
Iain
I would like to map a network drive from NAS storage by GPO policy (user configuration -> preferences -> windows settings -> drive maps). I would like to enter alternate credentials to authenticate as remote user, however, username and password fields are grayed out. Why? How can i make them editable?
Windows server 2008 R2.
Using AD on Server 2003
When a new user is added and their home folder is entered in the user profile, the home folder is created with two permission entries for Administrator, one is the inherited permission from the parent folder and one is a non-inherited permission.
Is there a setting that controls this? I would like to have only the inherited permissions and the user default user permissions.
Hi all,
Forgive me if this has been answered, but I have searched and can't find what I am looking for. I work for a university and our students are not always able to login to a domain computer so we can't use "Reset password on next login" on these accounts.
Our Helpdesk team usually resets these passwords over the phone, but when resetting the password in ADUC the complexity requirements are not enforced. The issue we are running into is, passwords are being reset to the previous expired password and we have no way of knowing. We will be adding SSPR software sometime in the future, but it's not in the budget for us right now.
So the questions I have is - Can we enforce password complexity when changing these passwords in ADUC?
we are having issues where our DC is intermittently not able to resolve a external host record which is normally resolved through a forwarder configured on the DC. it keeps failing for about 15 mins and then works fine after that.
Could any one please shed light on what could be causing this issue and how to get it fixed?
Could someone please sanity check this task sequence? I need to upgrade a 2003 domain to 2012 R2 and would appreciate a second set of eyes. thx.
Goal:
1. standup two new 2012 R2 DCs
2. decomm three old DCs
3. raise DFL/FFL to 2012 R2
Current DFL/FFL = 2003 (one site, one domain, 3 DCs, 400 users)
3 Existing DCs (all to be decommed):
OldDC1 = Svr2003 Std Ed SP2 x64 (holds all FSMO roles, GC=yes)
OldDC2 = Svr2003 Ent Ed SP1 x86 (holds no FSMO roles, GC=yes)
OldDC3 = Svr2003 Std Ed SP2 x64 (holds no FSMO roles, GC=no)
New DCs to be added:
NewDC1 Svr2012 R2
NewDC2 Svr2012 R2
Proposed task Sequence:
* build and patch OS, then add ADDS role to NewDC1 and NewDC2 (do not yet add servers to existing domain)
* in the network config of new DCs, set the DNS server IP to the IP of OldDC1
* when installing ADDS, I will be prompted to run Adprep.exe - it will be run as part of installing ADDS - this will update existing domain schema as needed.
* add NewDC1 and NewDC2 to existing domain
* in the network config of the new DCs, set the DNS server IP to that of the local server
* make both GCs, make both DNS servers
* distribute FSMO roles thusly:
* DC1 = PDCE, RID (more frequently used roles)
* DC2 = SM, DNM, IM (rarely used roles)
* run dcdiag.exe commands to verify functionality
* power off OldDCs one at a time, waiting 24 hours between each shut down
* raise DFL/FFL to 2012 R2 after all old DCs are decommed
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Hello,
In my Server 2008 R2 environment, I noticed in ADUC an OU (Microsoft Exchange System Objects) that looks like it is corrupted and it contains a bunch of object that also look corrupted. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what might be the cause of this or if it is normal?
I just noticed it today, but it could have been like that for awhile. I am just wondering if there is any meaning to it since it doesn't look like my other OUs. I cant find anything on the Internet that explains why this OU looks like this or what could cause it. I was hoping someone here might know why.
Thanks
Cheston
I am having a problem with cross forest migration with ADMT. I have a source domain which is Win 2003 R2 and target domain is Win 2008 R2. I've already created a two-way external trust and also added the target domain administrator to the administrators group of the source domain.
I need to move mailboxes from source domain exchange 2010 to target domain exchange 2010.
The ADMT 3.2 is installed on a member server in target domain with sql express 2008 sp1.
However when I try to migrate any user using ADMT it starts to run but gives me the following error,
"ERR3:7585 The account replicator is unable to continue. An operations error occurred."
I already have forwarders in DNS servers for each domain to resolve the other and I get the correct response when I ping the target domain from the source domain dc and also vice versa. Also I've checked that auditing is enabled on both sides.
what's the problem now and how do I resolve it?
Is there anyway you can force our IT techs to create new workstations using pre-staging? For example, an IT tech will create a new workstation in AD, go to the new workstation add it to the domain.
We want to stop the IT techs from adding new workstations onto the domain from the workstation before it being pre-staged?
