Account lockout through LDAP connection
We have various applications that do a bind to our DCs using a certain LDAP account we create for them. Lets call the account LDAP01. This account has read privs in the domain and is only used to...
View ArticleForest tree restructure
Hi All,I have a scenario where, Our company have one forest eg. ABC.COM & one tree ABCINDIA.com,Now we want transfer all Forest FSMO roles from ABC.COM DC to ABCINDIA.com DC & remove ABC.COM...
View ArticleHome site GPO's
Hello, A little history:We have an active GPO on the domain setting a specific home page (User config/Windows settings/Internet Explorer Maint/URLs/Important URLs) . The need arises to set up a...
View ArticleWhy authenticated users group is member of "Pre-Windows 2000 Compatibility...
HiI my environment, we have found that authenticated users group is member of "Pre-Windows 2000 Compatibility Access" I want to know why or its default member of this group. And if I remove...
View ArticleBest possible way to deploye RODC on remote location
HiWhat is the best possible way to deploye RODC on remote office?Scenario 1. Remote office have 2Mbps lease line2. HEad office have 2Mbps leass line.3. Head office have one DC with windows server 2008...
View Articleadding computer to root domain
Hi,I have my user account in child domain. I need to add computers to the root domain. I think asking infrastructure team to delegate permissions on some OU for this won't be a problem. I need to know...
View ArticleConflict objects in CN=OID,CN=Public Key...
I have found some CNF objects in my OID list; 3 have matching original objects whilst 2 do not.Whilst I am happy purging CNF copies of simple security principals, OIDs are uncharted waters for me.......
View Articlelogon failure: the target account name is incorrect
HiI am getting “logon failure: the target account name is incorrect” error when trying to add a computer to the domainOffice network runs on windows 2003 server and we have to DC both 2003. Client...
View ArticleShare Access for Non Domain Machine
hello AllWe have 2008 DC's with 2003 DFL. We have a share hosted on member server.Now there is an application that runs on workgroup machine. This application access the share on member server.User...
View Articlelogon script doesn't always run durring logon process
We are having some network issues where our logon script does not always run when users log on to the network. I am running Windows Server 2012 Standard, and I have the logon script located at...
View ArticleDC's not able to communicate using GUID.
Hi All.I am having trouble with replication in my forest and I am struggling to get this resolved. The forest is made up of 1 parent with 4 child domains, site.domain.local. We recently changed data...
View ArticleActive Directory object Attributes too slow
Hello Champs,Caught in a slow situation.Just Migrated from 2003 to 2008 domain but my ADDS service opens slow.The attributes of object are also slow to appear even on the DC itself while on 2003 member...
View ArticleDNS Error - 4015 in Windows server 2012
Hi , I have three RWDC , two of them are located in HQ and one is in our DR site.These three servers as PSLGIDC-01(10.4.10.10), PSLGIDC-02( 10.4.10.11) & DRLGIDC-03 ( 10.4.110.10). After that...
View ArticleStrange behaviour with a new WS2012 DC
hi there, recently i had the following situation: windows domain in domain and forrest functional level 2008 r2 with domain controllers all with os ws2008r2. then we added a windows server 2012 and...
View ArticleAD LDS How to create a user on an empty app partition
I created a stand alone AD LDS instance using the setup wizard. Then I used ADSI Edit to create a Users container. Next I created a user, set the password and set MsDS_UserAccount Disabled to False....
View ArticleNaming information cannot be located because: The Specified Domain either...
Hi All,This is not anymore a new question here but it seems others do have different issues on arriving to this problem.I installed AD before and everything worked out fine until i decided to demote...
View ArticleHow to rename massively security groups on AD? [SOLVED with SOLUTION]
I need to rename massively security groups on OU.Is there any way to do it faster? Tools or something?The security groups are all most 5000 entries.DPM 2010 with latest roll-up (KB2615782) | DELL...
View ArticleThe following error occured attempting to join the domain "mydomainname.com"....
Hi,I have a hyper-V machine which has been set up the following way - Hyper-V Host Machine Machine Name - Computer1 IP - 192.168.1.2 Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway - none because this...
View ArticleError 2148074306 The encryption type requested is not supported by the KDC
Our domain is Windows 2008 Native. I ran repadmin /replsummary and noticed an odd error that I cannot get to the bottom of. Error 2148074306 The encryption type requested is not support by the KDC....
View ArticleBacking Up System State
ok so, when i had server standard 2003, i used to backup Sysstate every month and it was around 1 gig....we are now server 2008 standard. and when i launch the server backup it calculates sys state and...
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