Window Servers 2003 upgrade process to Window Servers 2008 migrating active...
Saving and migrating all active directory in Window Servers 2003 R2 to Window Servers 2008 or 2008 R2...Just an OS upgrade but saving all the Active Directory contents.
View ArticleActive Directory Web Services
Does ADWS provide a web page interface to users that allows management of the active directory objects? The web services interface is somewhat confusing. Does it provide a web portal?
View ArticleOne way trust from 2012 domain to 2008
We have a 2008 native domain, non-R2.For a project, in a remote data center, a 2008R2 DC was setup specifically to create a trust between a customer domain and ours.We have VPN connectivity, wide open,...
View ArticleUpdate user
I have the above powershell script can do the attribute update every day , it works fine , can advise if I would like the windows server send the alert to my exchange email a/c to display what user...
View ArticleHow to join AD with LDS
Hi,We have kept our web server [Win 2012 OS] on different subnet and we want to join it to our AD Domain [Installed on Win 2012 OS] using LDS.Is it possible? If yes, please mention the steps for...
View Articleaccount lockout mechanism
Hi all,I want to know the lockout mechanism of wrong password attempt. For example, the Group Policy in our organization, the domain user account will be locked out if 3 times wrong password attempt. I...
View ArticleCan't open Active Directory Users and Computers console and DNS error 4000
Hi, we have seen Error log in the eventlog regarding DNS server, below is the message:************ The DNS server was unable to open Active Directory. This DNS server is configured to obtain and use...
View ArticleCreate domain users without admin rights in powershell
Forgive me if this has been answered in a different thread. I am not sure what I should be searching for. In vbscript, it was possible to hard code and pass the doman admin username and password in a...
View ArticleIs there any way to get Active directory Password in plain text format
Hi,Is there any way to get Active Directory user password in plain text format. I am using windows 2008 Server R2.Regards,Mangesh Bhanage
View ArticleGroup Policy not working on some users
I have a domain level a policy that restrige users to 3 fail atemps log on to block. But some users get block by first try. No enforce, not block enheritance and not overwritten policy(as far I See )is...
View ArticleOne single user needs admin rights for clients in domain
Is there anyway that I can give a single domain user administrator rights to the clients in our domain, but not the server? I got a superuser who could help his department with a lot of stuff and I'd...
View ArticleKerberos Token Size
Hello,As per MS KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938118, if you want to increaseKerberos Token Size, you should set following registry value: Entry: MaxTokenSizeData type: REG_DWORDValue:...
View ArticleOne single user needs admin rights for all clients in domain
Is there anyway that I can give a single domain user administrator rights to the clients in our domain, but not the server? I got a superuser who could help his department with a lot of stuff and I'd...
View ArticleHow To Move a User To a Different OU in Active Directory 2008 r2
Hello,We are trying to automate the process of disabling a user in Active Directory. One part of this process is moving the user from whatever OU it is currently in to another OU called 'Accounts...
View Articlew32tm /query /status Access is denied. (0x80070005) from elevated prompt
I am in the process of decomissioning the 2008 DC so I have moved all FSMO roles to another DC. The old DC is getting time from the newly promoted PDC as are the domain clients it seems.I have gone...
View ArticleAD User Attributes
Two questions1. What are User attributes in the context of Active Directory? 2. How does Active Directory differ from NT 4.0 in terms of User attributes?
View ArticleHow to deal with replication when we replace a 2k3 DC in a remote AD site...
At one AD (remote) site is a Windows 2003 domain controller. We want to place a Windows 2008R2 RODC in that site and later demote the Windows 2003 DC. All other domain controllers in our domain/forest...
View Articledomain admin account constantly locked out
My domain admin accpunt is constantly getting locked out. I am seeing numerous 4771 ids on the DC that shows the most lockouts. Any idea?Log Name: Security Source:...
View ArticleUser Creation Event Logs
Hi,I have DC and ADC. In ADC my client user name have access to create/delete user account. My doubt how i find out whether he only created that user account or not ? How to check the Particular User...
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