Forest trust validation - error - "windows cannot find an active directory dc...
veryify that an ad dc is available and try again." That happens when I try and validate one side of a forest trust.Here's my scenario: I'm trying to setup a two way, transitive forest trust between...
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....
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DHCP Users group can not Access DHCP Server Console
hi,i ve got DHCP Server installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core...it is separate from DC..i want to grant access to user Limited accessas i read on technet, during the creation there is created...
View ArticleCleaning up old exchange on a DC
I was cleaning up a DC after having to seize FSMO roles. In the process of the cleanup I found there use to be an old certificate server on the network and an old exchange server on the network. Both...
View ArticleActive Directory Certificates
I understand AD uses certificates to do replication, client authentication and such (a link to details would be nice to broaden my KB on AD certs). I can find the cert that AD uses by going to the...
View ArticleRedundancy in Win 2008 DHCP Server ?
I have windows 2008 R2 Active Directory environment with 2 Domain controllers and the PDC is serving as DHCP .we have around 300 win 7 clients . Now I am asked to make another DC as Secondary or...
View ArticleLAN Issues when the WAN link is down - with RODC
Hi all,I have a really strange issue. One of my customer site has a domain controller and additional domain controller in the Head Office. Branch offices has RODCs. There are 6 sites with head office...
View ArticleThe directory service was unable to allocate a relative identifier
Hi All,We are getting the following error message on our Small Business Server 2003 running Active Directory"Windows cannot create the new object because:the directory service was unable to allocate a...
View ArticleComputer permissions
My brother who is an admin and i'm not on our computer has put sharing permissions on literally every relevant folder/game and made most programs run as administrator because he is a real P**** so I...
View ArticleRoaming Profile Migration from Celerra to Isilon in windows 2003
We are trying to migrate the roaming profiles from Celerra to Isilon, We have tried to use the robocopy but permissions are not maintained as source. Please suggest any method to copy the roaming...
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Best Practice UPN
Hello Technet! :) I have a question about how to use UPN in the best way, with new stuff like office365, remoteapp, workfolders? etc where i guess UPN is used. Is it best to let the UPN match the users...
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Netlogon/sysvol not sharing error
Hi,I have two DCs in a WS2012 domain. Unfortunately, one DC (not PDCe) is not sharing netlogon and sysvol folders (as verified by net share).I have even demoted this DC and rebuilt it (on the same...
View ArticleADReplicationStatus error 8542
Hi ALL,We are planning to migrate the email server to exchange 2010.After we use command (.\Setup.com /pl) and (.\setup.com /PrepareSchema) to extend the schema, we found the error code "8542" in AD...
View ArticleForgot Administrator Password on Windows Server 2008 Domain, How to Reset?
How to reset Windows server 2008 password when forgot domain administrator password? Is there any easy and effective way available?
View ArticleUsing Active Directory
As part of my regular job, I was asked to do a few things in our corporate AD (based on Win2008 R2), that require the use of groups policy.(like allowing access to certain user to certain functions on...
View ArticleMy AD Name in our small Company is vbsi.com, it NATs Internet and has an...
HiI have a small network at my company with 50 clients, and one AD Server which runs DNS, DHCP and Internet Sharing via NAT, my DHCP IP Range is 172.17.2.1 to 172.17.2.100.My AD Domain Name is:...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 (Rebuilt) can not contect to Windows 2003 ADC.
So a Windows 20003 SP2 server OS HDD failed. I replace it and installed the OS and all updates. I can not join the Domain. Using same SID, NIC, IP address. Computer Browser is working. I can ping the...
View ArticleActive Directory user don't inherit permission from a security group
Hello,I am not sure how to write this question.I have a windows server 2008 R2 with Active directory.I share a folder to a group (ftpgroup) and my user user1 is a member of this group.When user1 try to...
View ArticleData corruption between Parent and Child domains
Hello,At first I thought this was an IIS problem, then I thought it was a File Server problem, now I have narrowed it down to being a problem transferring data between the Parent domain and Child...
View Articlefederation metadata URL fails with 404 or 500 error
I am building a standalone adfs server to connect CRM which is hosted by Microsoft. The problem I'm having is whenever I go to https://example.mycompany.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/ I receive 404...
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