DFL and FFL
Hi Guy's,Got a bit of a dilemma and was hoping for some advice. I need to Raise the Domain and Forest functional levels on our European domain. All is good with the initial checks for example there...
View ArticleUnable to access a specific site from windows 2008 R2 domain
Hi, I am using a Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller and for some reason I am unable to access a specific site www.iepwriter.com for our school district, I have never had any problems with any...
View Article2008r2 Ent. CA updated to SHA256. New ADFS Token-Signing cert is still SHA1....
The 2008r2 CA properties show the SHA256 cert. I disabled autocertrollover so I can manually add the certs. If I do a manual cert request from my workstation I get an SHA256 cert. If I do Add...
View ArticleApproach to prevent accounts from being added to AD Security groups
Dear ExpertsI am trying to find a way in which I would need to prevent the user accounts( standard)from getting added to restricted AD Security Groups,which are in certain OUs.We have accounts(that...
View ArticlePTR record won't get created or deleted or updated automatically
Currently the dns server is running on windows 2012 R2 and dhcp server is running on ASA. Whenever I join a new computer into domain, the computer only registered its dns in forwarder zone and nothing...
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ADUC Missing the unlock account option
Hi,Environment:Domain Functional Level: WS2003 Forest Functional Level: WS2003 Two DCs: Running WS2003When view ADUC from Domain Controller server - WS2003, noticed that it display (Account is locked...
View ArticleTrust Relationship between Server and DC Fails
I am having problems establishing a trust relationship between a server and a DC, so that certain operations on the domain are impossible(I am not trying to make a new domain, just join it to an...
View ArticleCAL licenses
Hi Guys,I have one question regarding CAL licenses. We have almost 700 Active Directory Users and 800 Office 365 Users.There is 100 Users deference.Do we have required additional CALs for 100 Users or...
View Articlenltest /trusted_domains reports no logon servers available
Here is the infrastructure: a fully patched Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller (virtual machine on ESXi hypervisor) running a single forest and a single domain, a fully patched Windows Server...
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User Logon Name is missing
HiAzure VMsDomain Functional Level: WS2012 R2 Forest Functional Level: WS2012 R2 ADUC Server OS: WS 2012 R2.We created new user accounts. However noticed that the "User Logon Name" value is missing for...
View Articleclean up the object which on longer available
Hi everyone,I wanna know how to clean up the object (user or computer) which on longer available .e.g. some people leaved or some computers were dis-commission but we didn't do anything on our AD. So...
View ArticleAD Replication in Server 2008R2
Set up New child DC in an existing forest. Having trouble replicating Active Directory, so it works All of the time.
View ArticlereplTopologyStayOfExecution
Greetings everyone,Suppose we delete an AD Object, however not moved to‘Deleted Objects’ container until after 14 days, by default, and keep all attributes fully populated.Now, we can change it by...
View ArticleUser name attributes
Could anyone please explain which username attribute was created in which server version, and was created to overcome which problem? Any detailed explanation or a link to an article would be extremely...
View ArticleAD LDAP best way to do this
We need few people to have the admin rights/capability to enable/disable users in a specific OU. (they should not be able to view any other users). Any existing LDAP/AD tool that can be customized to...
View ArticleTrust related issue
Hi All,We are part of ABC.com domain and all the users are migrated from the legacy domain XYZ.com. The legacy domain is having child domains Apac.xyz.com , Amer.xyz.com , EMEA.xyz.com. We have...
View ArticleLastlogon mystery
We've got a domain with a 60 day password expiration policy. An audit uncovered the following condition with a group of accounts and I'm having a hard time coming up with an explanation. (Names have...
View Articleforgot outlook pst file password
is there a safe pst password tool/site? i got $100,000s lost product keys and business data in older emails with forgoten password! HELP!!!!
View ArticleDomain Controller taking long time to login via Remote Session while another...
Dear All,we are facing a issue with our domain controller (windows 2012r2) when i was accessing the server via remote session its took long time to login after given credential and some time it got...
View ArticleGive user right to backup DC
HiI encountered this question online. I am unsure which is the correct answer.You have a Group Policy object (GPO) named DomainPolicy that is linked to the domain and a GPO named DCPolicy that is...
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