ADMT : group membership
Hi,I plan to move some users accounts /groups using ADMT (cross forest). I have some questions about the migration process:Does ADMT migrate group membership?What happens if there is SID conflict?Thanks!
View ArticleChange delegation on an OU
Hi all,We have an OU where we need to increase rights for a group.I was thinking to use Delegation Wizard, but i am not sure if by delegating the new rights will affect previous rights.Any...
View Articleorder to which I should promote with these 2 OSes
note: I'm new to domainsI have 2 licenses: 2008 R2 and 2012 Server. We use a custom piece of software in terminal services all day in my office. It cannot run on 2012, so I have to install it on a...
View ArticleQuestion about changing domain name
I am trying to clean up some AD issues I inherited, including an internal domain name being the same as our external domain name. Because of some DNS issues I would like to change the internal domain...
View ArticleWindows server 2008 unable to recieve promote from win2k12 or win 2k8 r2 only...
This was the error when i tried to join win2k12 to DC on win2k8"ADPrep execution failed --> Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Deployment.ADPrepLdapException: No Such Object. Server extended error: 8333....
View ArticleKerberos authentication errors
I am getting the following errors in our logs. Prior to me taking over the IT infrastructure we use to have our public domain .com as our internal domain. We have since changed over to a .net for...
View ArticleActive Directory naming on a public web server
Our very small company is leasing a dedicated Windows 2008 R2 server from Hostgator. We host ASP.NET websites there and I have also set up RDS Remote Apps. I have come to discover that I must have AD...
View ArticleBest DNS Approach?
Greetings, we have two-way forest trusts between our domain and a few companies we have aquired and host VDI for. We utilize XenDesktop 5.6 which relies heavily on DNS. The Win7 VMs all use static IPs....
View ArticleAD LDS Problem with User Proxy
Questions based on following the article: Understanding Proxy Authentication in AD LDS by Ken St Cyr (Please google it since this forum complains about links in submissions)Here is where I get stuck...
View ArticleMust AD LDS be installed on a server that is part of a domain?
Must AD LDS be installed on a server that is part of a domain?If not, what is the distinguished name of a server (running an AD LDS instance) that is not on a domain?Thanks
View ArticleWho made a change to a domain acounts privileges?
HiA domain account was sabotaged in my environment and I have been tasked to discover who did it.I have about 60 DC's in a geographically dispersed private cloud running WIN2K3. Admins are granted a...
View ArticleProblem: new account register through remote site
Hi,I have problem which new computer account register through remote site.How can I change it so when I new computer account will be add to the Domain through local DC's at its site?Thanks in advance
View ArticleWhy use domain.local?
In the next 3 months we have to build a AD (net network) for our school. We have a domain "grundel.nl" that we what to use. Two people told me to use grundel.local instead of grundel.nl for the domain...
View ArticleUpdating DC functional level from 2008 R2 to 2012 problem with RODC DC
Hello,We upgraded our lab today from dc functional level 2008 r2 to 2012. We were getting an error (below) stating we couldn't raise it. We proceeded by demoting/removing our one 2008 R2 RODC DC...
View ArticleTrusts, NETBIOS Names and the Microsoft Best Practice
I have a question regarding the best practice for naming Active Directory domains. I believe it is MS best practice to use a subdomain of your companies registered domain name so as an example...
View Articlehow to limit number of users on each Organization Unit
hi guysi want to limit the number of users on each OU so our User admins cannot create more users than the threshold we set for every OUis there any Script or 3rd Party Tools which can help us ?what...
View Articleconverting p2p network to ADDS
I already have a P2P network that is working well. I want to convert it to a domain network. Would I have to redo all of the users or will the server convert them when I promote it?
View ArticleDNS Server error Event ID 4015 after replacing domain controller with another...
After demoting a Server 2008 R2 domain controller, renaming it, and then creating and promoting a new Server 2012 Domain Controller with the same name (DC6) I am seeing this error intermittently on the...
View ArticleWhy does MSAD_ReplNeighbor return multiple connections for the same DC?
I am playing with the AD WMI classes and I am confused about something.I have a DC which has 4 connection objects to 4 other DCs which I can view under its NTDS Settings in sites and services.But this...
View ArticleADFS 2.0 move configuration database from one SQL to another SQL server
Hi,I saw this useful article on how to move your ADFS 2.0 configuration database from WID to...
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