Using native tools for your Active Directory backup and recovery solution ?
If wanting to cover all AD related disaster recovery scenarios such as a forest restore, domain restore, GPO restore, Sysvol restore, major OU restore and so on. Is there one backup type and process...
View Articledns server is still requested?
We are going to retire this server and just want to find out whether this server is still queryed by other servers or any device. I am going to use DNS logging to find out: I have questions on...
View ArticleExtending Schema - How to create GUI to view/edit custom attributes?
I´ve extended the schema, adding 5 new custom atributes as string and i would like to know, how can i create a GUI to make level1 support or maybe end users, to imput data in the new fields, without...
View ArticleProperly setting up sites and services
I have inherited a single forest domain. The company has 4 offices located throughout various parts of the country. When I look in Active Directory Sites and Services there is only 1 site and subnets...
View Articlecreating users for a school
hi , I have a school and they want to run the computer lab. They got more then 1200 students, Now i need to create users for all 1200 ( hope to use the excel csv file to import) but the requirement is...
View ArticleFSMO roles and the siezure of them
I am currently upgrading a domain from Windows Server 2003 R2 DC to Windows Server 2012 Standard. When I ran Adprep, it failed due to Schema Master has not replicated since last restart. I researched...
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Ad Authentication issues
Hi Guy'sSmall issue I have here, every 7days my Domain controllers (Server 2008r2) give up on me and will not authenticate users on the domain. when opening ADUC I get the following error:"Naming...
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 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 ArticleDowngrading Domain From 2008 R2 to 2003
Thanks for reading:I recently built an isolated 2008 R2 domain for a client out of the country. The domain consists of 2 DC's, several Win7 clients, and a few Linux clients. The client informed me...
View Articleroot forest?
Hi all,I had on client which has int.internal and corp.internal forests. When I check domain trust and service, it shows forest int.internal and corp.internal. But, they told me they had root forest....
View ArticleThe file cannot be loaded in GPME
This is a NT2003 domain. I have 2 NT2003 and 1 2012 R2 DCs. The error appears on both OSs.In one of my OUs GP I'm getting an error when I edit it. In NT2003 the error appears immediately and in 2012...
View ArticleJoin to a replicated Domain Controller
We are moving our existing Domain controller to AWS EC2.I have done the following action:created an AWS virtual machine windows 2012 serverconnected to the old domain controller via VPNReplicated the...
View ArticleNeed to know who removed someone from a group
Hi, the other day one of our vp's was removed from an AD group which caused issues and then the vp was placed back in the group. we are being asked to find out who made this change.does anyone know...
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Add-KdsRootKey failing with "The process cannot access the file..."
Hello community,Environment Mixed with one (1) domain controller running Windows Server 2008 and one (1) domain controller running Windows Server 2012.Steps to Produce the Problem These steps produce...
View ArticleReplication does not work anymore.
We have our servers in two datacenters which are connected with a redundant 100 Mbit/s connection. In both datacenters we have the same IP subnet and therefore both datacenters belong to the same site....
View ArticleReplication status
I have 2 DC in the org. I done adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep on the DC1 server. All was successful. When i dorepadmin /showreps /v , it showed error below:C:\>repadmin /showreps /v...
View ArticleHow to set a specific password policy to one user in AD 2008 R2?
Hi,My Active Directory is at 2008 R2 level (domain and forest). I have a domain-wide password policy:-password changeable at 80th daypassword expires at 90th dayNow, I need a specific password policy...
View ArticleWhere should i create groups in active directory?
Should i create the group in its OU, for instance in my accounting OU, which has the members of the acct in it, should i also create the group accounting and put it in that OU as well?
View ArticleDNS suffix twice
I have new forest root domain test.domain.com suffix. After first domain controller has been deployed there is a strange behaviorAfter I have executed nslookup hostname1.test.domain.comIm...
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