WS2012r2 - Cross-forest trust - Can add groups to user but when I open it...
Hello Everyone,I hope you can help me resolve this issue, I'm missing something but I don't know what.I have 2 ws2012r2 domain controllers, each one with it's own forest (Lets call them A.com and...
View ArticleAdding a second DC, within a 2008 environment
Hi, I hope someone can help me. I currently have a w2008 sp2 server which is the primary DC, and operations master for the domain, it is the only DC within the enviroment. There was a 2003 DC which...
View ArticleBuilt Forest, however not able to add users from other domain in forest
When i try to give security permission to users from other domain on shared folder it given below error."The Active Directory Domain Controllers required to find the selected objects in the following...
View ArticleFail logins
Windows 2008 R2 running Active Directory domain.We have configured our student informaiton system to utilize an LDAP Active Directory server for authentication.Authentication works well, users can log...
View ArticleNew Domain controller, DNS client settings before FSMO transfer
I recently promoted a new domain controller. It is the fourth domain controller and third in the site. I plan to decommission the other two domain controllers in the site leaving just the new one....
View Articledomain joining issue
Hi,following is the error while joining a 2008 R2 sp1 server to the domainNetpLdapBind: ldap_bind failed on <DC>: 86: Auth UnknownNetpJoinDomainOnDs: Function exits with status of: 0x52bAny clue?
View ArticleDeny permissions to disable computer account
Hey guys,This should be an easy one, but I go through and run scripts to disable old comp accounts that have not contacted the domain in certain number of days. It gets a little technical, but there...
View ArticleHelp with setting up active directory domain controller/DNS - need this for...
Disclaimer: I am new to Active Directory, so please dont rule out the obvious things I may have overlooked. I need to set up Active Directory Domain controller on at least one server so I can run...
View ArticleDCPromo was unable to remove DNS delegations...
Hello,I recently demoted a Server 2008 DC from our one site (we have two in total) and received this message:DCPromo was unable to remove DNS delegations from the parent zone: com. This could be...
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TestMode watermak appearing in Win2k8 R2
Hi Experts,In our FSMO role holder DC we could see "TestMode" watermark showing in Desktop. Its there for long time. As far as i know Win2k8 servers will automatically enable this mode if any driver...
View ArticleDC [FSMO master] failed to authenticate domain users during a major power...
We had a major power failure 3 weeks ago. The outage took long enough that APC couldn't keep server to alive before the power resume. So, all switches, firewall and servers were down.During the outage,...
View ArticleLingering Object and Replication problem on PDC, GC ROLE DC
I am having problem on my DC (OS-2008R2, Domain Funtional Level 2003) which runs FSMO, ... and all 5 roles, and run as GC and RDP License server.Looks like it contains Lingering object. Can i remove...
View ArticleUsers in an OU that are members of a group (CMD, not PS)
Hi,I need help finding the users in an OU that are in a specific group. What I have so far is:dsquery user "ou=users" -limit 300 | dsget user -memberof This happily shows the lists of groups each user...
View ArticleRun logon script from a different domain.
Hello!We have a forest with a domain controller Server1, in that domain (DomainA) the users are located. It contains its own logon script, and we are specifying the login script on the Profile tab of...
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Forest Trust Chain containing two forests claiming "contoso.local"
A customer has asked us to advise them about a challenge regarding an Exchange migration to a central Active Directory forest named shared.local. The customer forest is named contoso.local....
View ArticleThe trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.
I have one DC with Windows server 2008 STD name india.in and hostname is Mumbai.and one of my Domain Member 2008R2 name Client1.india.in is connected to this domain, when i tried to login on...
View ArticleUse of auxiliary class to add attributes to the schema
I need to add some attributes to the user class. What are the pros and cons of using an auxiliary class versus adding the attributes directly to user?Thanks, PaoloPaolo Tedesco - http://cern.ch/idm
View ArticleAuto-creation Attributes of AD Objects
Hi. Is there a way of creating attributes in the automatic mode? for example, through powershell.Or how i can to copy one set of attributes from one domain to another?Thank you!
View ArticleWindows 2003 DC - The File Replication Service is in an error state.
hello, i have been dealing with a new problem on our 2003 DC. i'm no longer able to see the \netlogon and the event log for FRS is showing a state of error. ID 13555this Server has been problematic...
View Articlehow to get NetBios name using login name
I want to query AD for the NetBios name of the computer given the login name of that user.objCommand.CommandText = "Select ADsPath, Name, Description from " & "'LDAP://dc=xyz,dc=xyz,dc=xyz' where...
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