Active Directory 2008 domain and Windows 7 workstations. Unusually high...
Active Directory 2008 domain and Windows 7 workstations. Unusually high amount of user account lockouts today. 30 times more than normal.
View ArticleTroubleshooting Windows 2008 AD and Active directory replication between 3...
I need to check active directory replication between my 3 domain controllers in a Windows 2008 AD environment.How do I check if replication healthy?Is DCdiag the best approach? If so what switches are...
View ArticleLogin information based on particular security group
Hello,Trying to create a report based on the users that access our systems remotely due to belonging to a particular security group, "Remote Users"In AD I can generate a report on when they last logged...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Domain Rename - Clarification on DNS Preparation Step
I have tried searching for the answer to my question, but am not having luck.I am doing a Windows 2008 R2 domain rename. I have ready every thing I can on the process from the MS Technet pages, the MS...
View ArticleGPResult - Nom du site et choix du DC pour l'application de la Stratégie de...
Bonjour,Pourriez-vous m'expliquer comment un client membre d'un domaine fait-il pour faire partie d'un site et choisir son DC pour l'application des GPO (résultat de la commande gpresult /r...
View ArticleCreating a trust between internal and perimiter forest ADDS or ADFS for...
I was wondering if anyone could point me to some guidance on whether to use an ADDS or and ADFS trust between my internal AD forest and my External/DMZ forest?We have internal users and external users...
View Articleuse adaminstall and install from dsdbutil backup file
I am using adaminstall.exe with advanced switch'adaminstall.exe /adv' to install a adlds replica from a backup.the backup is a dsdbutil backup ( ifw create new backupfile )I want to verify that the...
View ArticleAccessing shares across non-trusted domains
Workstation 1 is in domain A Server is in domain BThere is full network connectivity between both just no domain trust. UserA has the exact same username and password in domains A and B and can access...
View ArticleIP changes not reflected on Dynamic DNS records
Hi All,We have Windows 2008 R2 DHCP server, and seprate AD integrated DNS server in our environment. One of our non windows client has recived IP from scope X.X.74.0 and later the same machine has...
View ArticleROCD
Hi Dears,I am planning deploy RODC in my Branch office, I have the following doubts:Can I enable Bit locker on RODC?(is it supproted)?Can I enable Shadow copy with Bitlocker on my RODC?(is it...
View ArticleNeed Help on DirectorySearcher.DirSync
I am using DirSync to get the changes from active directory...Its working fine if the directoryEntry is binded to the root (LDAP://DCNAME/DC=domain,DC=com)... If i change the directoryEntry path to...
View ArticleActive Directory 2008 R2 Disaster Recovery Fail
Hi,I am trying to recover one of our Active Directory 2008 R2 Servers for DR purposes. I need to be able to restore Active Directory to different hardware.I have 2 x 2008 R2 AD servers on my network,...
View ArticleDC update to 2008R2 from 2k3, Group Policy failed issues
Hello all,Just as a heads up I did review many posts in the forums but I still have not been able to resolve this. Here's a little background of what I've done and where I am now.I recently installed...
View ArticleW2k8 : Active Directory Replication Issues
Hello all,I have issues with my Active directory domain network with a single domain controller. I needed to add a new DC but i keep having issues due to Sysvol not replicating.Please see DCDIAG result...
View ArticleCan i delete the ADFS token
For kerberos, i have the application KERBTRAY which shows where I have been authenticated using Kerberos and it also allows me to delete the tickets for those sites.Is there a similar tool where i can...
View ArticleWhich service handle password expiry in windows?
Hi,Does someone know which service handle password expiry on Windows 7/2008 ?I was wondering if that's one of the service running with network service account that checking that user's password...
View ArticleHow to force ADFS to pass all credentials as lowercase
Hi,I have a relying trust in ADFS setup for a SAML 2.0 application.The issue I have is that the NameID attribute required for the claims rule relies on the Name field in AD. Some of the Name fields...
View ArticleWhat causes USN value to increase fairly quickly?
I was just monitoring USN values using the repadmin /showutdvec dc1 dc=mydomain,dc=com and noticed that over a period of 1 hour and about 20 minutes the USN number increased by around 574 for DC2 and...
View ArticleActive Directory self-service password reset and scheduled task tools
I heard new Adaxes 2011.3 has a powerful self-service password reset and scheduled task tools, has anyone tried it? I need full-service Identity Management tool which has this feature. But the tool is...
View ArticleAdprep \ domainprep fails
The below is occurring when we are trying to prepare the Windows 2003 domain for the addition of a Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller.PleaseAdprep was about to call the following LDAP API....
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