AD LDS simple bind of LDS Principal using DN or userPrincipalName works with...
Hi,I have created a stand alone AD LDS instance on a machine belonging to a workgroup.The DN for the user is CN=UserInsideOU,OU=OUNumber1,o=Microsoft,c=USI also have added a userPrincipalName of Moe...
View ArticleOne Domain two domain controllers ldap string
Hello Everyone,I am currently setting up some user impersonation in a c# website to query active directory as an admin user. I am a little confused about Domain names and controllers in regards to the...
View ArticleRaise Forest/Domain function levels
Plan to raise functional level on Windows 2008 domain to 2008 from 2003.Exchange has been updated to SP2.Should this be transparent to the users?Dave Kozlowski
View ArticleDoes a Domain Password Policy apply to a domain-joined member server's local...
Hello,In an Active Directory Domain, does the Domain Password Policy settings such as password history, lockout duration, lockout reset counter apply to a domain-joined member server's local accounts...
View ArticleNeed a VB script to export member of AD group to XLS/CSV file
Hi,I am looking for a VBscript which will export below user attributes of a AD group for e.g. DL_APP_TM_CTX...THis is domain local group.. users from different child domain are member of this group.I...
View ArticleAD Object Picker cannot resolve FQDN well
Hi, I am using AD Object picker to select machines. eg. FQDN of my selected machine is test-pc1.test1.contoso.com If I entered the following format (test-pc1, test-pc1@test1, test1\test-pc1 or...
View ArticleList of user's nested groups
Hi, My user X is member of domain groups "Domain User" and "Group1". "Group1" is member of "Group2". If I share any folder and assign rights for "Group2", that means user X can access it. It is normal...
View ArticleImpact of disabled KCC/Intersite & Intrasite Topology Generator but Bridge...
Hello, strange question where. I'm not the domain admin, owner or person that setup this AD environment and I'm trying to determine any issues with replication convergence it might have.The main thing...
View ArticleActiveSync not working for me
Hey guys how you going Im an IT technician at a school, my boss gave me a new phone for work Ive been trying to add my exchange account to it, but it doesnt work Ive had this problem for a long time,...
View ArticleKeeping getting "adprep /forestprep" message after running the command
We currently have 2 sites and 3 domain controllers. 2 DC's on one site and 1 on the other. I'm trying to add one more DC to the site with only 1 DC. When upgrading the server via DCPROMO, I keep...
View ArticleAD Cross forest access token creation and resource access
Dear all!Could someone explain me an access token creation process for user with two AD forests (2003 - 2008R2) that are joined by forest trust.Domain and Forest functional levels are 2003 native and...
View ArticleAudting Domain Admins
In our (4 DCs ) active directory environments we have 5 domain admin. There is some disaster happened in DC .Somebody disabled replication in one DC and this caused lots of issues.How can find out the...
View ArticleDo I need to run Schema update for 64bin DC?
Currently we are using x86 Windows 2008. Due to performance issue, we would like to install x64 Windows 2008 as domain controllerDo we need to run the schema update or just dcpromo should fineThanks
View ArticleLast error: 8457 (0x2109): The destination server is currently rejecting...
Last error: 8457 (0x2109): The destination server is currently rejecting replication requests Hi All, recently i have migrated my Primary Domain Controller from ESXi server to Hyper-V server, when i...
View ArticleWhat happens to the AD domain computer object when that computer is renamed?
Hi all,To make my question clear, I'd like to give an example environment setup.AD domain: domaintest.com test client computer name: TEST1 DC computer name: DOMAIN-DCNow, join TEST1 to domaintest.com,...
View ArticleReverse Lookup on AD DS 2012
So I just installed 2012 AD DS. I noticed when I went to nslookup that the server showed up as Unknown:, so I checked out the DNS. It seems that AD DS does not create reverse lookup zones...
View ArticleEvent ID 1039 directory server 2008 r2
Hi All,We have a mix environment of 2003 R2 and 2008 R2. In some our 2008 R2 DC, we are contineously that event ID 1039 is getting logged. Details given below. All Server 2008 R2 has 96 GB of RAM and...
View ArticleUpdate Windows 2008 R2 server to Domain Controller
Have 2 Windows 2008 (32 bit) servers as Domain Controllers. Running Windows 2008 Functional levelHave a Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit) server I want to add as a domain controller.When I run dcpromo it says...
View ArticleBulk update 'manager' AD attribute from CSV containing samAccountNames (of...
Hi,I have a CSV. Contents are...
View ArticleRan manual scavenge - deleted more than expected
Hello everyone! Recently embarked on the task of getting ready to scavenge a pretty established, yet heavily stale, DNS zone. The AD integrated zone for the domain to be exact. I've poured though all...
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