ADFS 2016 failing to add a node to farm - missing SPNs
Hi all,Pulling my hair out over this, as I truly feel it shouldn't be this hard!Background:New ADFS deployment on Server 2016 (I believe that makes it ADFS 4.0)Staged all required service accountsOpted...
View ArticleForce logoff users from computers
Hello,we use in our organisation mobile profiles. Users very often login to one computer and go to another and there login to...We have a lot problems with synchronization files. There is any solution...
View ArticleNameServers for a DNS Zone not working
Hello,We have a Windows Server 2016 running AD, we added a new Zone to its DNS server and configure that Zone to have not only the internal NameServers, but also its external NameServers, but for some...
View ArticleEvent ID 4776 failure events on the domain controller, even username and...
Hi Team,I am observing failure event ID 4776 (The computer attempted to validate the credentials for an account with code 0xc000006a) is getting generated on my domain controller, even i am entering...
View ArticlePDC Crashed now No access to any AD tools or ADSIEDIT from SecondaryAD
Hi, Need urgent help guys... I know not a Good setup.. but thats what our budget allowed us...I had I physical server AD and on top of it I had HyperV with SecondaryAD, Exchange. A normal iCore5...
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View ArticleWhy do I need a secure-pipes connection to use Kerberos authentication to a DC
Can someone please help me with the following as I have never found an answer to this questionAs far as I know/have heard/read etc.In a Windows Active Directory Domain environment, if I (the user) want...
View ArticleDFSR fails with partner that no longer exists.
Short version: one of our domain controllers has DFSR Event 5008 errors, regarding a domain controller that has be demoted and removed from our domain. It is the only domain controller, of five, to...
View ArticleLinux computer lost trusted relationship
Hello,Linux administrators use ADDS for user authentication and provide roaming profiles using samba. But for some reason computer broke trust with AD (or AD broke trust with PC). Linux administrator...
View ArticleHow to disable/Uninstall built in windows 10 app " Microsoft Edge" via gPO or...
Hi Team, I want to disable Microsoft Edge and want to use default browser IE . i tried some few links for removal but not working For removal ,getting error: PS C:\Windows\system32> get-appxpackage...
View ArticleRansomware encrypted GPT.ini
In a Server 2003 setting, the gpt.ini file in our SYSVOL folder has been encrypted across all our DCs. I have a backup of the "system state" on the DCs made using NTBackup and was going to just...
View Articleadprep.exe /DomainPrep /GPPrep
when i try to excute adprep in my Ad i have this error ,please some help C:\adprep>adprep.exe /DomainPrep /GPPrep Running domainprep ... Adprep was unable to modify the security descriptor on...
View ArticleInstallation of new 2016 servers to replace the 2008.
Hi, We have a domain that already has a 2016 server in the forest and there are still two servers 2008 left. I want to remove these 2008 and install new 2016 servers. I will do the promotion myself and...
View ArticleAccount policy settings not being enforced
Hello, we have a Password policy defined in the Default Domain Policy enforced in AD which is working on all our Windows 2008+ machines except recently deployed Windows 2016 machines.On those machines...
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FSMOcheckFail
Hello Everyone, We are running one script for our Active directory health Check and in that health check we are getting most of the things fine but only one thing is showing fail as below.Can anyone...
View ArticleUnexpected issue with GPO
Hi,I have created one GPO with some security settings suggested by our security team. The GPO contains only Computer Settings. I had to apply it to the OU with 80 computer accounts (Hyper-V servers). I...
View ArticleActive Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard Script
Hello,When installing AD, almost at the end one gets a script, the so called active directory DSC script. One can even see it script. is it somehow possible to see this script after closing the ADDS...
View ArticleIs NIC Teaming supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controllers?
I have a site with one Domain Controller, but for redundancy they have 2 switches. Are we able to NIC team on the said domain controller, so that if one of the switches goes down, the domain controller...
View ArticlePublishing certificates on Microsoft ADDS
While generating certificates through MS-CA web enrollment services, certificates are getting published in Microsoft ADDS against CAADMIN user. How to publish these certificates against respective user?
View ArticleWhich inbound ports that a client desktop has to open in order to join AD domain
For security concerns, in our environment we block all the inbound ports of our desktops. However, seems I can't AD domain. However, if I add the following firewall rule:Source: domain controller...
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