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Windows 2012 Domain Controller - Already a DC Shows Post Deployment task to...

I have a 2012 Domain Controller. Appears to be functioning as expected. I can force replications to and from the server with no problems. But, there is a post deployment task pending with a prompt to...

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DC - refuses administrator log on

History:  I migrated a 2003 domain to 2012 R2 (2 DCs), now native.  All was ok until my 1st reboot of the 2nd DC.  It lost its ability to communicate w/the domain.  I've demoted/removed it and am now...

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Automatically change AD User's password hourly

HiI was wonder if there was a script or some kind of way which could reset a specific user's password every hour and save the password to a .txt file or maybe to a SQL table? I found one program...

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Performance impact of getting a computer's Active Directory Site Name??

Hello,I have a C# application that is installed on every workstation in our entire enterprise, so performance is of the utmost importance.  I'm trying to understand whether...

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Effects of changing an Active Directory user's User Logon Name?

We have a few users within AD, who had their AD accounts misspelled early on.  The previous admins cleaned up the user's display names but left their User Logon Name misspelled.What are the...

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DNS fowarder

Hi all,Already 3 month ++ i done a migration from 2003 to 2008. Below are the post before.http://goo.gl/ShqErGhttp://goo.gl/7iDP6XNow, 3 month past, i realize that there is some problem to sent email...

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20 minute time drift on WS2012 virtual DC

Very small 5 user system with 1 Hyper-V 2012R2 host & 2 WS2012 HV guests, one of which is the only DC for the domain, and thus, the PDC Emulator. (A physical DC is beyond their budget.)HV Time...

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AD DNS caching Teredo IPs - why?

At a high level: new AD forest (Forest A) with 3 child domains, all running AD DNS that has a forest trust to another forest (Forest B).  DNS in Forest B has stub zones in AD DNS to the forward and...

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Join network computers in the domain with same name

Hi all,This year we are replacing some 70 desktop & laptop according to company policy for aged hardware. The new machines must have the same name as the old. What would be the best way to remove...

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Why isn't there a TechNet forum for ADFS yet? They have been forwarding...

Why isn't there a TechNet forum for ADFS yet? They have been forwarding questions to the "Project Geneva" forum for years now.It would be nice if there was IT Pro specific forum. The MSDN Geneva forum...

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When does a newly promoted Domain Controller start responding to DNS?

I am investigating the root cause of a "DNS issue" we had while rebuilding a domain controller and looking for what the actual chain of events is for DNS when you promote a new domain controller. Does...

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is there a way to fix this?

I got this event 5723 and searched computer1 and it is not shown up in AD users and computers MMC. why did we get this event even the computer is not in AD database? is there a way to fix this...

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create a helpdesk account that can join pc's to the domin

Hi,I need to create a Active Directory user account that has the ability to join a pc to the domain, create user accounts and Exchange 2010 mailboxes.What groups would the user need to be a part of?We...

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Retrieve nested LDAP groups independent from the network env. (five different...

Hi all, I want to retrieve a list of nested LDAP groups per user from the Active Directory. I have been searching google for half a day now, but I'm still not sure what approach to use. I have the...

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Domain Controller In-Place Upgrade Feasability

Hi guys,I currently have 6 physical DCs running 2008 x64 SP2 with a single domain/forest at domain/forest functional level of 2003. I'd like ot get the functional level up to 2008 R2 ASAP. As all DCs...

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AD Security Inheritance Reversing (AdminSDHolder?)

Hi All,I've run into an issue where I'm delegating rights to an OU and it is not consistently applying to some user objects.  I enable inheritance on the user objects and it reverses after an hour...

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Domain Local groups v Global Groups

Running AD 2008, one domain. We have a finance application and we need to assign permissions to an object. For the people we want to assign these permissions to, there is already a Domain Local group...

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Does DPM allow restoring a host between two differnet clusters not physically...

Does DPM allow  restoring a host between two differnet clusters not physically connected but on the same networkany advise how to do this if possible is welcomeregardsDavid 

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Replication problem in domain controller

Last modified date in number of policies is different in Domain controllers.In a particular DC ,last modified date is 2011 and in other DC's the same policies last modified date is 2013.I ran repadmin...

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Restrict AD User and Local User access to AD LDS?

I have AD LDS installed on a domain joined server (2012 R2). By default, the instance allows AD LDS principal authentication, Windows principal (AD or local) authentication and, optionally, AD LDS...

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