DC Time sync
Greetings,One of my remote DC stoped due to a power outage, when it restarts i noticed that it could not sync its time from the PDC Emulator which is pointing to an external NTP time server, so i had...
View Article2012 R2 DC crashes when user account is renamed using RSAT Tools on Windows 7
Hello Everyone,we have a forest and a domain both running in 2003 native mode. We have a mixture of domain controllers running 2003 and 2008 R2 and just recently deployed two new domain controllers...
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problem during migrate server 2003 x86 to 2008 R2
hello every one!We have 8 server 2003 x86 ; enterprise , SP2. the topology of network is like this : 3 seperate city with 1 Main DC and 2 Additional DC,one in Boston and one in Texas.They are connected...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 - AD Schema Update
Hello,There is an AD Forest running on Windows 2008 R2 platform, i have Windows Server 2012 R2 which i want to use as additional DC in the forest.During the AD DS setup it prompts me this.Why does the...
View ArticleUsing Dsquery in Active Directory server for getting a list of all the...
Hi,I have an IP range (10.67.190.1 to 10.67.190.255) for my lab. I want to query the Active Directory server to get a list of all the machines within that IP range which have been added to the domain....
View ArticleHow to equally distribute the number of workstations among Active Directory...
I am working on AD design for a bank. It has only 3 sites and has more than 3000 branches across the country. There are about 35000 users and equal amount of workstations. I want to distribute the...
View ArticleAdding a 3rd 2012 DC to 2 working DCs fails to populate SYSVOL and NETLOGON...
Hello Technet,Have read into nearly every thread that deals with this issue from technet to some guys blog in Japanese and so on ... each instance is a little different, most of them contain a lot more...
View ArticleUser created Active Directory Groups- What do they do in AD?
I have a number of user created Active Directory groups with the Notes field filled out with the function. However, this is inaccurate so how can I determine what the group is for? Which application...
View ArticleActive Directory - password expiration not applied
Hi all. I've noticed a very strange behavior in my AD domain. Our password policy forces the users to change passwords every 3 months. I ran in my AD this LDAP query:...
View Articlesmartcardrequire.vbs AND high CPU Usage
one of our AD servers occasionally gets bogged down due to 100percent CPU usage.Upon investigating, we have discovered that cscript.exe is calling a VBS file "smarcardrequire.vbs" which is hogging up...
View ArticleActive Directory Dies
We have 3 Active Directory Controllers. Two our on one side of our network (A+B) and one is on the other side of a VPN connection (C). When the VPN connection goes down A and B lose all information...
View ArticleDNS Tool for Reporting and Comparing Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones
Is there a tool, application, or script someone could recommend that would generate a report from my Windows 2008 - DNS Server and compare the DNS Forward and Reverse Lookup zones? I know I can do...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 - Domain Login issues
I am running vSphere 5.5 and have a Windows Server 2003 Domain.Pretty much every new Windows Server 2012 R2 server I add to the Domain will fault with the following error at some point after a couple...
View ArticleUpdated version of Active Directory in Networks Segmented by Firewalls document
Hi,is there a newer version of this document available? Active Directory in Networks Segmented by Firewallshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16797The document in the link above...
View ArticleServer 2012 restrict active directory dynamic ports
Hello,Has anyone encountered issues with restricting the Active Directory dynamic ports for Netlogon and NTDS in Server 2012? I have followed the added the typical registry entries as described below...
View ArticleLDAP / SSL - CA for Domain Controllers
Hello, Current environment:Single forest domain both internal and external domain as abs-qx.comWindows server 2008 R2 Enterprise Primary domain controller which has all the FSMO Roles and NTP server...
View Articlewhere do I find the ADFS web interface url
Hello,I am new to ADFS and have set it up for a vendor to connect to for SSO. They are asking for the ADFS web interface url so that they can point users to this server for authentication. I'm not...
View ArticleWeb Application Proxy Service with no AD FS?
I am trying to set up Web Application Proxy on my network, but stumped by the configuration wizard requiring AD FS info. I have half a dozen internal apps, each with Windows Authentication set on...
View ArticleDS for Campus (several small comapnies)
We are a small IT department, and managing our HP Lefthand Storage | vmware cluster | Citrix environment with alot servers. This was just the basic idea for us to manage . . . but now we are getting...
View ArticleNew Domain account Users password must be changed before signing in
HelloAfter i create a new domain user account in the AD , i define a temp password and check the flag user must change password in next login , and when i go to windows 8.1 it accepts fine the tmp...
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