Error While Joining a domain.| Adding a virtual box machine to host machine's...
Dear All, I have a Virtual Box(guest) Where Windows Server 2008 r2 is installed.Virtual box is hosted by a machine which Uses Windows Server 2008 r2. Host machine is a domain controller.I...
View ArticleAD Forest Design When Expanding to the EU
Hello,Our company is attempting to aggressively expand into the EU from here in the States. Our IT team is trying to determine the best course of action when it comes to our Active Directory Forest...
View ArticleRenaming 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 ArticleAD password change for users not joined in the domain
We are currently in the middle of migration to o365. We have 2010Exhange Hybrid and ADFS 3.0 in Win 2012 R2. Most of our users are not domain joined and we are trying to figure out what is the best...
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DCPROMO FAILS -The directory service is missing mandatory configuration...
Hi Experts, We have 4 AD sites and working properly. Due to some requirement we need to decommission DCs in one site. We are trying to demote DC roles in 2 servers but they...
View ArticleDisable option " user must change password at next login"
Hi Team,can any one help me to achieve the task. we have one OU suppose it is test OU , and in this this OU we have 100 users.we have to implement a policy like when we trying to reset password of any...
View ArticleFRS 13508 (No instance of 13509) - Diagnosing
Hello!We have two 2008 R2 DCs and our second DC has been getting the 13508 for months. I have checked the logs and have found no instance of 13509. I have ran ntfrsutl version and got this: NtFrsApi...
View ArticleLocal user account is trying to autenticating against domain controller
Hi all. I am seeing a weird user logon issue on one of my laptop and on another user's PC. Both of the laptop and the PC is a member of our domain. However, on this particular laptop and PC, we are...
View ArticleDFS
I keep getting a DFSR Event ID 5014(stopping communicate with partner), immediately followed by 5008 (failed to communicate with partner), a minute or two later 5004 (successfully established...
View ArticleHow to quickly create a test ADAM instance in the QA environment that is a...
I have restored from file backup an ADAM instance onto our QA server that was backedup from a production ADAM instance.The instance functions fine except that for stuff like FSMO roles, it still thinks...
View ArticleHow to backup and restore Windows 2012R2 ADFS
I am looking for the "Official" instructions for backing up and restoring an ADFS server which uses Full Remote SQL 2012. I know the database is backed up but what are the procedures for DR on the ADFS...
View ArticleOld DC Servers still reporting in dcdiag after demoting 2003 R2 servers in...
I demoted two 2003 R2 servers and turnded off the servers one of which was FSMO. Now when I run "DCDIAG /c /v /f:dcdiag.txt" on the new FSMO server ma-file1 it still shows the two demoted domain...
View ArticleDisbale change password at next logon for group in AD
Hello Team,I wants to disable the access for a group in AD to the checkbox which asks for “change password at next logon” to prevent users from retaining Generic Passwords after a password reset.This...
View ArticleFacing Certificate issue while installing ADFS - Windows Server 2012.
Team, Facing Certificate issue while installing ADFS - Windows Server 2012. Error: The certificates with the CNG private key are not supported. Based on BING, found Article:...
View ArticleKRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED 4 Random on Member Server in upgraded Domain 2003 to 2012 R2
Hi all By one ouf oure customer we migrated a 2003 domain to 2012 R2 (3 DCs, 2 AD Sites), now native all 2012 R2 Dc in 2008 AD and Forest Mode. All was ok until a view weeks after depromoting the last...
View ArticleDC - 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...
View ArticleCustom AD Attributes using powershell
Hi,Is it possible to create custom attributes using powershell v2/v3 ?Marcel
View ArticleCannot DNS resolve across networks using host name only (not fqdn)
Evening all, I currently run domain network (MS Server 08 - dhcp) on my firewall interface1 and WiFi network on interface2 (dhcp provided by router itself). On my Wifi dhcp I am advertising as DNS...
View ArticleMultiple Event ID 4015 - Windows Server 2012 DC
Hi all, I have been seeing a large number of event ID 4015 in the DNS Server logs of a newly installed server 2012 DC that I look after. The exact event is:Log Name: DNS Server Source:...
View ArticleCertificate Authority - pkiEnrollmentService and cerdat.inc missmatch
Hello,This question has never been answered directly.Q: Do the pkiEnrollmentService object field 'dNSHostName' and the value for 'sServerConfig' set in the certdat.inc file located in...
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