Active Directory forest function level 2016 downwards compatability to...
hi,my company is planning to update Active Directory forest function level to 2016 but we are wondering if it is downwards comparable to intergated windows authentication(IWA) service 2003. what are...
View ArticleControl which DC a server/app talks to
I have a pair of DCs in one location (Azure) and another DC in another location. All are replicating correctly, dcdiag is confirming everything is good. Replication between sites is set to USE_NOTIFY,...
View Articledomain controller has wrong time please help
how do i fix the time on my PDC??? C:\Windows\system32>w32tm /query /status Leap Indicator: 0(no warning) Stratum: 1 (primary reference - syncd by radio clock) Precision: -6 (15.625ms per tick) Root...
View ArticleSites and services Issue
Greetings,I am working as Infrastructure Engineer for Microsoft partner and currently working on a project for one of our customers to built AD, DFS and Exchange in DR site.I am facing some issues for...
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GPO Question
Hi All,I have been trying to understand the Group Policy Modelling wizard. There seems to be an awful lot of good information that it displays but I don't necessarily understand what it all stands...
View ArticleUnable to start CA-Services after migration (Current log file missing...
Hello everybody!I'm currently trying to migrate our Root Certification Authority (CA) from Windows Server 2008 (x86) to Windows Server 2016 (x64). I followed the migration guide under...
View ArticleDecommission DC
Hi Guy's,We have 2 physical DC and both are 2008 R2. we have to remove both of the DC's becuse both servers have problem with one of thier none OS drives and we cannot backup the systemstate anymore.I...
View ArticleMigrating Directory Service Servers to a New Server
Hi all,I'm planning to migrate one of my clients directory servers to windows server 2016. At the moments there is a mix of Server 2008R2 and Server 2012. Customer got 3 sites. 2 sites got separate...
View ArticleThe Directory Service is unavailable + The DNS server has encountered a...
So something is broken on my AD. I have two servers one being removed and one new one. All services have been moved from Old to new (DNS, DHCP and FSMO Roles) no errors. When both servers are powered...
View ArticleCCertRequest::Submit: The RPC server is unavailable.
Hi, I getting stuck when testing Windows Certificate authority. I am getting following error when running command from non domain joined computerscertutil -ping -config "test.domain.tld\Test_CA"...
View ArticleSending Windows Events to a Linux Syslog Server
I am trying to configure Windows Domain Controllers to send all events to a Linux syslog server (syslog-ng). Configured the Subscription Manager group policy to point to the URL of the syslog server to...
View Articlenetlogon logs
Hi,Last week we did move the FSMO roles from a server 2008 R2 DC to a server 2012 R2. I have enable the netlogon debugging logs on both Dc's. From what I can see in the netlogon logs it looks like that...
View ArticleConnect to Active Directory Database via mySQL
I'm trying to create a script either as a .bat file or stored procedure. The script would look at all the users of Active Directory with a particular attribute and I can then import or update those...
View ArticleWhat will be the impact on production users\authentication etc..if FRS to...
I am planning to migrate sysvol FRS to DFSr directly in production, could you pls share what could be worse impact if migration gets stucked on any stage eg. 1, 2, 3 (Prepared, redirected,...
View ArticleCannot access to SYSVOL folder from domain controllers and some client computers
Hi,I have two domain controllers that are windows server 2019. The first one is primary dc and second one is secondary(additional) dc. The problem is that I can't access to SYSVOL share folder of...
View ArticleDNS?
Hi All,I have just noticed I am getting various errors on our Active Directory servers. The error we are getting is below.Unsure what is causing this issue at the moment and keen to get it resolved as...
View Articleadding a note for OU
Hi,Is it possible to add a note to a OU in DC?I am asking this because we have many OU's and users in each OU have different requirements e.g. logon hours, etc.We would like to know if it is possible...
View ArticleVM DC restore
Hi,I am writing a document for a disaster recovery for our DC's.We have 2 server 2019 Hyper-v hosts and each have 1 VM DC. we backup each DC with Backup exect and hyper-v agent.My question is, How to...
View ArticleAADConnect - How to list orphaned user objects from O365/Azure AD
Sometimes the deleted objects from On premises AD is not getting deleted from Azure AD. So how do we find the list of orphaned user objects from Azure AD so that we can delete the same.Regards, Nidhin.CK
View ArticleUnable to Remove Child Domains (Windows 2008 R2 Functional Level)
Hi All,I'm running into an issue when deleting (3) child domains on a Windows 2008 R2 functional level domain. The child domains have been severed for several years and the child domain DCs have been...
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