Odd connection issue with Active Direcrory from Server 2008
I have a custom membership provider that uses active directory. When the application is installed on a windows server 2008 SP1 machine the users request to login to AD fails exactly 3 times and is...
View ArticleRestoring DC systemstate in test environment
I have production dc system state and trying to restore in a test DC Virtual machine. I have been able to restore it successfully but Sysvol folder does not look shared and moreover i am unable to open...
View ArticleIs it possible to turn this Domain Controller into a PDC?
BACKGROUND:1) Some time ago, a colleague did a clean install of Windows Server 2008 R2, promoted it to Domain Controller from an old Windows Server 2003, and life seemed to be good. In the meantime, a...
View ArticleError HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component
Hi,I just want to get the count of all members in the directory in my organization. I'm doing the following:DirectoryEntry dir = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://CN=users,DC=<company-name>,DC=com");...
View ArticleFew DC status is showing Unavailable in Change Directory Server mmc
Hi Experts,In our environment while changing the DC from ADUC, few DC's status is showing as unavailable.. sometimes it will change to Online then again it will change to Unavailable. Few blogs says...
View ArticleMigration from 2000 domain to 2008 R2 domain
Hello,I have an existing windows server 2000 active directory (domain controller) with a PDC and a BDC and few server 2003, I want to replace both PDC and BDC 2000 to windows 2008 r2 domain controller...
View ArticleCreating Security Groups withthe help of Script
Is it possible to create security Grops with the help of script , In our environment we have to create lagre number of security groups on daily basis where we are following naming conventions ex :...
View ArticleTwo DHCP Server in Two Diffrent Site Separated by Routers need Failover Setup...
I am New to Server 2008,Have Environment Site 1:a. Server 2008 ADDS and DNSSubnet :192.168.0.1.....192.168.0.254b. Planing for DHCPSite 2:a.Planing for Server 2008 ADDS,DNS,DHCP SetupSubnet...
View ArticleI am not able to create or login the domain users on adc when my pdc fails.
Dear Team,I am having parent domain controller in data center name AUCBDC & also having Additional domain Controller in the same location name AUCBADC. whenever i shutdown my pdc for maintanance my...
View ArticleDomain got corrupted after one DC removal
Cut long story short: I couldn´t unpromote and remove one of my DCs (DC0), and I did a force remove with GUI. All DCs are Server 2012 based. Other DC, DC6 holds all fsmo roles. After force removal of...
View ArticleAD on SBS2003 issue, horrible issue please help. do not want to restore.
Have an sbs2003 server only dc in the org. has all the latest updates. ipconfig is fine so i didnt copy it in below.when i do a dcdiag it fails on fsmo check says it cant find a GC or PDC, when i do...
View Article2008AD domain controller not working correctly
Hi.I have two 2008AD domain controllers the primary failed last week and transferred the FSMO roles to the secondary.While the primary was still powered up, all credentials and file access was not...
View Articlewindows 2012 r2 adprep /forestprep fails
HiI cant seem to get Windows 2012 R2 adprep /forestprep to run on my Windows 2012 DC. Adprep detected that the supplied or default user is not a member of the following group: Enterprise Admins group...
View ArticleDsquery user
HiIs there a way i can expand dsquery users dc=contoso,dc=com, to include user's first name, last name, description etc
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Additional domain controller
Hi,We have Active Directory Domain Controller installed on Windows Server 2008R2 in our office with domain name jbboda.local, where hostname JBBDC-1 IP 172.16.0.2 is primary domain controller and...
View ArticleIs that possible that DC stop authenticating the user at ADC when connection...
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View ArticleSupernet multiple Class C reverse lookup zones
Hi There,We currently have mutliple class C subnets all on 192.168.x (approximately 50). Currently we have Reverse lookup zones for a number of these but not all. Rather than create 50 reverse lookup...
View ArticleDifference between lastlogon and lastlogontimestamp
Just wondering what is the Difference between lastlogon and lastlogontimestamp? Thanks Biswajit MCTS ,MCP 2K3, MCSA 2K3, MCSA:M 2K3, CCNA
View ArticleインフラストラクチャマスタDC降格について
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4fc167a9-45ef-4755-9dcf-802b7fc91892/fsmo- とまったく同じ症状になり、困っております。 DC1（FSMO）, DC2 のうち DC2が不調になり、DC2をオフラインにしてから、DC1にてntdsutil にて m etadata...
View ArticleRDP using an account without admin rights
hello, for testing purposes I need to logon to a computer from a server as a staff user to test that softwares etc i install from the server are working as the staff user and not just as the admin. i...
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