Merge Different Domain or Joining Different Domains
We have about 10 Different Domains on Sites and one Domain (Main.local) in Head Quarter.All 10 Sites have 2 Dot net base Application Servers ( High Availability) + SQL database (Cluster) + 1 Domain...
View ArticleBare Metal Restore of AD
I have inherited a domain setup at my new company and unfortunately a few of the 2008 R2 domain controllers only have 1 hard drive installed so if that drive fails the server is gone. I am going to...
View ArticleProblems after unsuccessful DC demotion
I've been reading technet and KB articles for about a month. After some problems in my domain, I had to demote the new server I had been working to add to the domain. I wasn't able to do it with...
View ArticleDomain controller at my DR (Disaster recovery) site
Hello Expert,I already have a domain controller at my DC (data center), now we are planning to implement our DRC (Disaster recovery center) at a remote site, now my question is, can I integrate my DRC...
View ArticleConfigure AD Sites
Hi Guys,i have got a question about AD Sites and Subnets configuration.In our environment we have 3 geographical physical locations:Site A = HQ Site B = DatacenterSite C = Branch officeWe are running...
View ArticleGlobal query block is causing a DNS server to fail a query with error code...
Global query block is causing a DNS server to fail a query with error code Name Error exists in the DNS database for WPAD on a Windows 2008 server.
View ArticleHow to get DirSync cookies directly without syncing with Active directory ?
I was referring to following 2 links to trace changes happened since last time sync with AD. 1.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms677626(v=vs.85).aspx2....
View ArticleWhen will AD member computers sync after DC time correction?
Today I discovered that about 6 months ago, someone had reconfigured our PDC emulator to sync from non-existent time servers, causing it (and in effect everything else in AD) to be off by 37 seconds...
View ArticleDirectorySynchronization tombstone expired objects
Hi,I am using DirectorySearcher to search for changes made to AD using DirectorySynchronization. I know that if we set tombstone property to true , search will return objects which were deleted too. I...
View ArticleADFS Setup Error
Scenario:New physical DC running Server 2012 R2 (AD DS and DNS) with no other roles. Installed and configured AD FS. First server in a new farm. Service account created in AD for the farm servers....
View ArticleIDMU Password synchronisation crash Windows 2012
Hello,I've got a Windows 2012 standard server with IDMU Password synchronization.I've configured password synchronization from the Windows Server To A Unix Server.When the Unix Server is up everything...
View ArticleProblems after shutting down secondary DC
Hi,I have a 2003 server running AD services and I added a 2008R2 DC. Now the 2008 DC has all the FSMO roles (I think so) as well acts as DHCP. The 2003 is now a backup DC.All computers on the LAN...
View Articlereplica domain controller installation windows server 2012 unattended
How we can have unattended answer file for replica domain controller installation in windows server 2012 in windows 2008 it was easy do from the IFM . in windows server 2012 dcpromo is deprecated how...
View ArticleChanging IP Scheme - Multiple Sites
The network I just inherited has a 192.168.1.0 scheme that causes no end of headaches for VPN users. I've been tasked with getting this changed sooner than later - but I've never touched true...
View Article8453 Replication access was denied
HiI have root domain contoso.dom (DC1 and DC2) and subdomain sub.contoso.dom (DC3).I see error event 2896 on DC3A client made a DirSync LDAP request for a directory partition. Access was denied due to...
View ArticleDoes Active Directory Support Non English Languages?
Hi,I want to know that does Active Directory Support Non English Languages like japanes, Arabian?I think we can have domain name in non english languages also. How active directory handles it.Sandeep...
View ArticleAuditing of Administrator account use
Hi, is event 4624 on all Domain Controllers (where targetusername is administrator) enought for knowledge of using domain Admin account in organization?or maybe toy have better way to check when , who...
View ArticlePulling the manager of a group
Is there a way to pull a list of Security Groups and/or E-Mail Distro Group from AD that would include the Group manager? Something like:Group Name: Team1 Manager: George WashingtonGroup Name: Team2...
View ArticleUsers from an external organization authenticating to a Remote Dekstop App
Hi,We have set up Remote Desktop Apps using Remote Desktop Services The apps are permissioned with AD user accounts in our forestWhen an external company that has network access (i.e. routable...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 AD auth for computer account
I am trying to use new computer account created in Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory from my external LDAP client. The LDAP client connection fails to connect displaying error "AcceptSecurityContext...
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