New AD Domain Controller and DNS client setting
Hello,I have three existing domain controllers in two sites. DC1 and DC2 are in SiteA. DC3 is in SiteB. I have recently added a new DC4 to SiteA, replicated and transferred all FSMO roles to it....
View ArticleUnable to use network resources when one DC shut down
We are a fairly small business with 2 DC's serving our internal network. Both our DC's are now virtualised (Windows 2012 Hyper-V), and one is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Ent (SP1) and the...
View ArticleIE8 GPO for hiding and presenting the address bar
Hi Team,We have windows server 2003 domain with one of the business unit servers kept in an OU just upgraded with Internet explorer 8. Previously in IE 6 there was a GPO to hide the address bar for all...
View ArticleAfter changing the Domain controller IP I am getting event id 1256 and 1908
We changed the ip addresses of all of our domain controllers. Now when I run repadmin /showrepl I get a lot of 1908,1726 and 1256. What can I do to repair that?Cris
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 ArticleUnable to browse \\domain.local - Ping ok - Can browse \\domain.local\sysvol...
Hi,From one of the windows 2008 R2 Server (Server1) I can not browse \\domain.local but i can browse \\domain.local\sysvol or \\domain.local\netlogon I can ping domain.local, join etc from Server1Error...
View ArticleUnable to login on domain server using administrator credential
Hi, We are having Primary domain controller in Mumbai and created Additional domain controller in Bangalore.Operating system in both server : Windows 2008 Server STD SP2 64BitFew months ago this ADC in...
View ArticleAD user's account email change audit
Hi,We need to audit email attribute changes of user account in Active Directory. Event 4738 does not audit this attribute. Is any way to get event into event viewer then email attribute is changed in...
View ArticleAttribute group for user?
Hi all,We're trying to migrate user data from an LDAP server to Active Directory running on Windows Server 2012. Besides users objects, there are multi-value attribute "groups" objects in the LDAP...
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 ArticleDHCP creating DNS entries in domain root.
Hello,I have a Windows DHCP server in a child domain that serves leases to Windows and Linux clients. It also create DNS records for all current leases as well. Recently I noticed it it was creating...
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...
View ArticleCan't access Subomain file server from 2nd Site
Hello TechNet-Forum,i have a security issuse accessing a file server in a Subdomain.This is my configuation:1st Site:2 DC's / Domain A - A global security group that is allowed to access the file...
View ArticleDomain User gets "Read-Only" on all shared files
I have a single user that when accessing shared Office files (Word, Excel,..), They get[Protected View], and when they [Enable Editing], it turns to [Read-Only]. I went to the root of the share and...
View ArticleBuiltin Administrators group membership auditing
Greetings,Could please tell me what event ID in the security event log that refers to who changed the membership of the AD Builting Administrators group.Thanks.Redouane SARRA
View ArticleHow to deny ADFS access of non domain-joined pc
Hello.I deployed ADFS service on Windows Server 2012R2 for sso Google Apps.All pc can sign on with ADFS from intranet. How can I deny access of non domain-joined pc?Best regards,Arashi-yama.
View ArticleRetrieve AD managedby attribute for computer
Greetings,I am trying to retrieve just the managedby field of computers in AD. I need to use vbscript and not powershell. I just need the value, but it comes back as a DN. Here is the script I...
View ArticleAdding membership into a trusted forest fail
Hi all, I have two separate forest, first forest is named ABC.COM, this is a windows 2003 server. And inside this forest there is a child domain called ZZZ, so the FQDN for this child domain is...
View ArticleCan Demote 2003 Domain Controller after USN Rollback Occurred
I'm trying to demote a 2003 domain controller after USN rollback occurred on this DC. However, when I'm trying to demote the DC, I get this error message:The operation failed because:Active Directory...
View ArticleWhy can't I, a Domain Admin, see certain attributes of certain users.
I'm trying to run a powershell command that lets me figure out the last time users have set their password (on a Server 2008 R2 domain)PS C:\Users\me> get-aduser -credential MDX\me -filter *...
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