Active Directory Group Cleanup - Help Needed
Hi All,I need to clean up our Active Directory and the first stage of this is to remove any unused groups. I have been trying to work out what these are using powershell. Can anyone please provide me...
View ArticleError message while joining domain
All,We encounter a problem while joining a Windows 2012 R2 server into an existing domainThis domain (forest) need to be extend within 2 locations around the world. This domain contains already 2...
View ArticleActive Directory backup before installing Exchange Server 2010/installing...
I want to eliminate any dilemma related to whether Active Directory backup is a MUST before doing anything that modifies AD schema (installing Exchange Server, it's service packs, SCCM, . . .) Since...
View ArticleUser getting access denied .................
Hi,In one group with modify rights to a share, it has 3 users.All the three users are getting access denied when trying to access that share.Checked the effective permission for the users, they are...
View ArticleActive Directory Certificate Services
I configured a Signing Code certificate and when i try to enroll the certificate from the mmc i see this message "more nformation is required to enroll for this certificate" when i press this message a...
View ArticleHow to find out: Domain Administrator or Not?
Hello, I have an account e.g. (MyDomain\User1) which has ONLY an access to a VM that has Windows Server 2008 R2 installed and nothing else. I have no access at all to the Active Directory (AD) nor the...
View ArticleNetBios Name Change
Hello All,I need to change the NetBios name of Active Directory 2012. Can you please anyone give suggest regarding this issue that how can i change NetBios name of Active Directory 2012Thanks
View ArticleDNS Registration Issues when using DHCP Server in Other Domain
We have an issue where we have 2 domains with an external trust between and a set of DHCP servers that are only located in Domain A.Clients in Domain B receive the DHCP information from Domain A which...
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GPO - Windows Firewall with Advanced Security not full apply on PCs
Hi,the scenario is the following:AD on Windows Server 2012. 2 DCs. 1 site.PCs are Windows 8.1 Enterprise.only 1 windows firewall with advanced security GPO applied to all of the PCs.The settings for...
View ArticleDSQuery Question
I am trying to get a list of all users of a group by first name and last name (and all subgroups if possible)When I type in the following I get the inline error about formatting.C:\Windows>dsquery...
View ArticleAD Site Over WAN
hello guys, if we want to setup a remote AD site which is located miles away from main office.How do we configure the AD site for WAN replication?Does it need VPN? Or how to configure the router for...
View ArticleBest Practice for 2008R2 DC off site backup
hello.at the request of the management i am trying to finalize a plan that covers off different potential events that could afflict our domain controllers.we currently have 2 DC's in our environment 1...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 DC Recovery Test BSOD on boot
Hello everyone.first off i have a perfectly healthy production domain with 2 domain controllers and replication occurring between them, the only issue is there on the same site.i am in a test...
View ArticleQuery all uers in an OU, Get group membership, and export as CSV to the...
I want to query each user object in an OU, than go through each user and get group membership, and lastly export that group membership data to a CSV in their home directory. This is what I have so far;...
View ArticleADFS 2012 R2 versus ACS 2.0
We're currently using ACS as an authentication broker to Facebook, Twitter etc with those services configured as identity providers.Since ACS seems to be on containment (no PowerShell cmdlets, new...
View ArticleDNS question
My company has 2 DNS servers on the network for redundancy. We had some issues, so I was making some changes and I noticed something strange: the SOA is reverting back after I make changes and log out....
View ArticlePuzzled - parent domain user as administrator in child domain cannot add printer
I've got a bare domain at the forest with 3 users and several "child" domains. I'm trying to set it up so that the user (let's call it EA-Service) in the forest can do administrative work in each of...
View ArticleAugust Windows Server Guru - Festival of the Awesome Windows Server
It's here at last!The August round of the TechNet Technical Guru Competition!The quality and quantity of entries has been beyond our wildest expectations lately, with epic posts and useful snippets...
View ArticleMigrating from 2003 to 2012
We have a 2003 server that has a web application that talks to an ADAM instance. The task is to move the site from 2003 to 2012. No problems so far, except for this ADAM thing. I've read enough about...
View ArticleDecommissioning ADDS 2012
Hi everyone,I have 3 domain controller one 2012 and two 2012 R2 all are GC and 2012 R2 servers are DNS server (not the 2012 one)but when I am trying to uninstall AD from the 2012 Server it is telling...
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