Active directory group membership not replicated on RODC
Hello,We've a domain with 2 writable DC in head office and one Read-Only DC in branch office. We've some logon batches which mount the "network drives" to domain user profiles. Everything was working...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Metadata cleanup in Server 2008 , Child domain Server 2012
Hello,We have got a domain controller in server 2008. Forest is example.com. Recently added a child domain 'child.example.com' which is in server 2012. Due to some reasons we demoted server 2012 and...
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 DNS for client DHCP
I have a weird problem. I have a client with a small network (less than 20 PC's and 1 server). I use DHCP from the server to pass out IP/DNS information. The first DHCP server in the line up is the...
View ArticleDomain Controller 2012 Multihomed
Hi to all.I've installed 2 Hyper-v 2012. Now, I want toinstall 2domaincontrolleron the respectivehyper-v.TheseDCmust however have2 network cardswith2different ip.There are problemsto have...
View ArticleSynchronizing Forests Without Using Trusts
Hi,My company has multiple Active Directory (AD) forests for security reasons. We can't have trust relationships between the forests for the same reasons that caused us to divide our AD infrastructure...
View ArticleHow to list and remove inactive or disabled computers from Active Directory...
Hello forum users,I have a cust. who is looking for a nice and easy way to list and remove inactive or disabled computer accounts from his Active Directory (recently upgraded on 2008 R2).I have found...
View ArticleNot all Active Directory DNS Servers will resolve a new DNS record
Problem: Not all Active Directory DNS Servers will resolve a new DNS record. A new CNAME or A record is added to the DNS of one server and even after replication time allotment the other DNS servers...
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 ArticleUnable to Load database in ADFS 2.0 After Transfer the Primary role on...
I was using two ADFS 2.0 server (Primary and Secondary ) with WID (Windows internal Database). Primary ADFS Server was Crashed. So I transfer the Primary role on my Secondary ADFS Server. this server...
View ArticleCannot ping and/or lose connectivity to some 2008r2 servers
Hi, We have a bunch of 2008r2 servers that on occasion we cannot ping from certain domian PCs (Win7 Professional). DNS on the servers that we can't ping is set as expected and the Firewall is off.One...
View Articlenltest /sc_query can check the trust relationship ?
There was domain trust issue.I heard here that to just check if domain trust is valid or not , it needs DomainAdmins right.I tried nltest /sc_query and it return like the below. Does it mean the trust...
View ArticleSysvol Replication not working
I need to rebuild my current DC so I setup a second DC but there seems to be an issue with replication. Here are the results of dcdiag ran on the new server, SERVER2. This is also a single label domain...
View ArticleAD LDS attribute value character encoding
I just modify replace opeartion in AD LDS attribute cn and sn values, I see some strange value during update:Ldif one save with notepad++ with setting ANSI encoding dn: uid=x1234y,ou=people,o=com...
View ArticleProblems adding secondary DC (2008 R2) to an existing 2003 domain.
Hi all, I'm having trouble with the domain functionality level when trying to add the 2008 server as a secondary DC. Went through the process of adprep ( /forestprep /rodcprep etc.)...
View Articleauthentication process - first tries DC's within the site the request...
Hello,I believe this is true but my knowledge on such details comes from long ago and is a bit foggy...when a user is authenticated in a domain, that process would first try to use a domain controller...
View ArticleEvent ID no's for DFSR running win2k8 R2
Hi experts,could someone help me to get the event id list of DFSR running in win2k8r2. This will help me to add these events id's in monitoring tool.Regards, Nidhin.CK
View Articleexpert in AD
Hi all,Can anyone help me out in what extensive area which makes people to be expert in AD?Thank you.
View Article"Deny this user permissions to log on to Remote Desktop Session Host server"
Hi,if we click the properties of an Active Directory User, there is a option named "Deny this user permissions to log on to Remote Desktop Session Host server" under the "Remote Desktop Services...
View ArticleWindows 8 Pro tablet - Certificate enrollment for user certificates
We have an up and running NPS and certificate solution running EAP-TLS for machine and user authentication with PC.We recently added several Windows 8 Professional tablets - they're domain joined and...
View ArticleAudit failure 4776, blank workstation
I have a user who gets locked out occasionally (been a few weeks since the last time). The bad password attempts show as a time where he was successfully logged into his computer and working. I...
View Article
