Issue with AD
Morning all.I have a very strange one that I am struggling to get my head around. We are using PaperCut to monitor printing and pick all users up from a group, nothing strange here, all working...
View ArticleAD Migration - Merging Forests
I've done some searching but because of the oddity of this the search results have been less than helpful. I've been tasked with merging two AD forests together.One we will call dev.domain.edu and the...
View ArticleSites and Services Event ID 5807 ?
2008 R2 Domain. Getting this error in Sites and Services. I’ve done some reading on this and understand the "why" but have a couple of questions. "During the past 4.01 hours there have been 11543...
View ArticleADFS 1.0 with AD at 2012 functional level?
We have ADFS 1.0 set up with our domain functional level being at 2003 but have replaced the domain controllers on our end with Server 2012.Can we raise the functional level of our domain to 2012...
View ArticleADFS: Multiple Sign-on Pages?
Hello,We are using ADFS with multiple companies. They all end up at the same ADFS sign-on page for authentication. One company wants to customize the page for the application that its using. Is there...
View ArticleThe Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard (Dcpromo) was unable...
Hi.Windows 2012 attempting to join a Windows 2003 domain hosted on a Windows 2012 DC. DNS error. However, DNS resolutions seems fine. The two servers can ping each other by name and can also ping...
View Articleports open
Hi all,We have one domain controller behind firewall. We have several different sites which have domain controllers. Do I need to configure firewall to let every other DC at different site can...
View ArticleOops. Updated forest schema to 2012 (AD version 56) but have Exchange 2003 in...
Did I just do something bad? I did not research enough and didn't look at Exchange 2003 supportability matrix. It says "Server 2012 Domain Controllers not supported". So I will not install the new DC...
View ArticleList all DNS servers in an AD Forest
Is there a way (preferably powershell, of course!) to find all DNS servers in an AD forest? Not domain controllers running DNS but ANY Windows servers running DNS.Here is the situation...I have one...
View ArticleAD backup question/confusion (systemstatebackup vs. backup -allcritical vs....
I have read a lot of threads about DC backups, and am still a little confused. We have 2008 R2 DCs. We currently use a daily scheduled task to save a backup to a non-system local drive using...
View ArticleSID to Name is not showing the details
Hi All,I have migrate Windows 2003 R2 File server using ADMT tool and found that some folders got SID and no name. I need to know the people or how do I fix this ?When I run following command I got...
View ArticleActive Directory - Clone VMDK containing Windows Server Backup
If I backed up BMR/System State of a domain controller on another drive (virtual -> VMDK), has anyone tried cloning individual vmdk disk containing the backup (look at VMWare KB Article for VMDK...
View ArticleExchange 2010 OWA Issue
I recently installed Exchange 2010 on a Windows 2008 R2 Standard. I have hosting with Godaddy. I cannot get to the https://mail.domainname.com. I can access owa locally using https://localhost/owa....
View Articleemail notification after active directory password has been changed
hello.thanks for the time. i was wondering if it is possible to somehow setup an email alert after a user's password has been changed. I see a lot of articles point to email alerts when a password is...
View ArticlePC Cannot Join to the domain Windows 2008 R2
I just recently setup a Windows 2008 R2 and setup the domain name. I cannot join to the domain. Is there something I need to setup in the DNS for the PC to see the server? For example, the domain name...
View ArticleThe requested object has a non-unique identifier and cannot be retrieved
Please help. I get this error message every time I try to add a new user in AD. This all started after we moved from server 2003 to server 2008. Everything seemed to be working alright. I can add...
View ArticleWorkflow System to add AD accounts
HI All,Currently we are using paper base form to fill the AD user details and send to Managers to approved and then to helpdesk to create users.So how do we automate this process using online Workflow...
View ArticleGetting errors running dcdiag.
I followed this tutorial to upgrade active directory 2003 to 2013. But when i run the dcdiag tool I get a lot of errors in the log. I filtered all of the errors and here is the...
View ArticleBug with Get-Aduser on Windows 8.1 RSAT
PowerShell version 4.[4.0] 29/10/2013 4:31 PM PS C:\> get-aduser USERNAME -Properties * get-aduser : One or more properties are invalid. Parameter name: msDS-AssignedAuthNPolicy At line:1 char:1+...
View ArticleDifficulties adding 2012 DC to existing 2003 Domain.
Been trying to add a 2012 DC to a 2003 Domain and having multiple issues.Background: Lost one of three domain controllers (irrecoverable crash) few months ago. Successfully siezed FSMO roles onto one...
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