Renaming Computers with least priviledge
We are in the process of implementing least privilege rights in Active Directory for our desktop team, and cannot find authoritative information on what rights are required for facilitating this...
View ArticleGlobal Catalog Reporting unavailable
One of our domain controllers recently started reported Event ID 1126 stating that it was unable to establish a connection with the global catalog. It also errors when I try to load the Powershell...
View ArticleHow to Find Which Programs running in my Domain Computers
How to Find Which Programs running in my Domain Computers.
View Article”msDFSR-ContentSetGuid” corrupt?
I have a domain with two DC's. I cannot browse to \\dc1\sysvol from any member server or DC2 on the network. While trying to troubleshoot this error I came across a value that I think is incorrect...
View ArticleDNS 4004 and 4015 events
Hello,I am on a SBS 2011 system, and I am not an expert on server management. Before this server people where on a 2003 server. I have try to make during the periode of change speaking the 2 servers...
View ArticleActive Directory replication and login errors (Plz HELP !!)
Hi All,We have one forest domain (XXXX.LOCAL)and lots of child domains (XXX.XXXX.LOCAL).We are facing issue that child domains are not able to login with forest administrator account and there are also...
View ArticleADTD- Way to filter by specific AD site names
Looking for options to filter by specific site names to eliminate the need to manually remove AD sites not needed in Visio. Very large complex AD architecture so filtering by site name for diagram...
View ArticleNew-ADComputer how to change who can join to domain
Hello! I am trying to script my join to domain process as much as possible with powershell! I have everything down to a working point on it's own, but i'm having issues bringing them all together.My...
View ArticleRODC does not receive all User and Groups
Dear NC, i have one RODC in a Branch Office Site. I have selected several Usergroups to be replicated to the RODC with nearly 800 Users. But when i have a look into the RODC i can see that only 400...
View ArticleDNS servers configuration after AD/DC replication.
Good day all.I understand that this issue might have been repeated several times in the previous posts/questions but nevertheless I feel the need to explain the situation I have thoroughly in order to...
View ArticleDC GUID mismatch
Hello Everyone I did the transition from windows server 2003DC to Windows Server 2012 R2 DC. In windows server 2003 i was having issues with DNS as earlier admin made many changes which i am not aware...
View ArticleMigrating from WID to SQL2012 error when setting the ArtifactDbConnection
We're deploying an ADFS 2.0 farm on 2008R2 servers utilizing mirrored SQL 2012 databases and getting an error when attempting to 'migrate' the ArtifactDbConnection database to SQL. Being unable to run...
View ArticleChanged DC IP address, still wrong in DNS
HiI've been banging my head for a few hours on this and can't seem to correct it. Here's what's going on:We have 2 domains in our forest. The DC with the problem is part of the child domain. It's IP...
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Why does changing AD group "Managedby" in ADUC give strange error?
Hello all,My question centers around the following error when setting the Managedby attribute in ADUCwithout checking the "Manager can update membership list" checkbox:What I think is strange about...
View Articledcdiag dns error
I have a small test lab currently with 1 DC (srvr2012a). I previously had 2 DCs but I have demoted srvr2012b and it no longer runs the DNS role. When I run dcdiag /test:dns /v /e, I get the following...
View ArticleAD FS in Forest Root Domain
I have a AD FS 2.0 server (Server 2012) in my forest root domain. My user domain is a child domain within that forest. I am unable to find any documentation that tells me if I need to do any further...
View ArticleLDAP Password Communication
Hi,In my Infrastructure some Application server are using ldap to authenticate user to active directory. My Question is how password communication works and is it secure. For Example Application...
View ArticleDegraded DFSR on production - advice requested
Given a degraded production situation, where we have one chance and one chance only, what would be the correct and proven remedy for the following situation? Windows Server 2012 Standard (No R2!)...
View ArticleEvent ID 1863 and 1864 after in-place DC refresh from 2008 R2 to 2012
Our environment is quite simple, we have 3 DCs and one site.DC1 (FSMO holder)DC2DC3They were all 2008 R2 servers with the DFL and FFL both on 2008 R2. Recently I have been upgrading one at a time to...
View Articlehow to configure DNS to support ipv4 and ipv6
I have a 2008 r2 domain controller in my lab.i'm doing Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013. I have mix Windows 2008 r2 servers for other applications.i'm running into issues where i'm thinking it is time to...
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