Installing a 2012 DC in a all 2008R2 Domain - Keep Name of existing DC
Management wants me to install a new 2012 Domain Controller though keep the name of the Existing DC Server.The Existing DC had DNS, DHCP, WINS, Print Services, Trend Micro OfficeScan, and a few other...
View ArticleMoving all PCs in Security Group to a different OU
Hi,We have some student PCs that we sometimes need to change the internet settings for. To do this we move them to a different OU with a different GP. This works fine as long as I do it manually but...
View ArticleKerberos delegation does not work (IIS, file share, double hop)
I want to show a list of files in the browser of the user. This list is generated by an IIS7 ASP.NET web application.My scenario:Client => App Server => File Server Windows 7...
View ArticleSystem Center Data Protection 2012 and SQL 2012 Standard
Hi Expert,I encounter problem with deploy SCDPM 2012 with SQL 2012 Standard. This problem I encounter during SCDPM 2012 prerequisite checker. As software prerequisite for SCDPM 2012, I checked in...
View ArticleHow to Authenticate Lotus LDAP Directory in asp.net web Application
Dear All, I have requirement to authenticate my web application using LDAP Authentication against Lotus Notes(Not Active Directory). Besides get list of user from LDAP. I am able to get list of users...
View ArticleShould non-Windows machines be required to change their computer password...
Hello,In our 2008 R2 Active Directory domain, we have machines which are run a non Windows Operating System. The option is available to have the machine 'change' its machine password with the domain 1...
View ArticleAD, multiple DCs and DNS
We have a single domain, using the root of our FQDN (example.com) and the A record for the domain points to the IP of our first domain controller:example.com 86400 IN A 10.11.12.13What I am...
View ArticleDSMOD Help
Hi,I have been tasked with changing the followin attributes of Security and Distribution groups:- displayName - distinguishedName - name - sAMAccountNameBasically we have 70-80 groups that have a '.'...
View ArticleActive Directory Resource Domains
what technology has replaced Active Directory Resource Domains.If I want to integrate a service like back up solution between 4 organisations to save money and reduce costs what am i going to...
View ArticleReceiving a event ID 4098 when using a GPO preference to rename the local...
The computer 'Guest (built-in)' preference item in the 'Client Default Enviroment Settings {1BB7D5E2-B3AD-4A71-BA44-88452CB9DE96}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code...
View ArticleActive Directory account with read-only privliges
Hello,Our PDC is running windows server 2008 r2. A vendor is requiring an active directory server name, username and password to connect as read-only to pull in a specific security group for a 3rd...
View ArticleADDS Replication
Recently,in my test environment I just turned 1 of my 2 domain controller server back on after being off for quite a while. Each one is configured to replicate AD from one to another one. However...
View ArticleAdding UPN Suffix Question
My internal domain is foo.local and external domain is foo.com. Right now I can logon as FOO\USERNAME or USERNAME@FOO.LOCAL. If I add a new UPN suffix of foo.com and make that the default suffix for...
View ArticleCan Metadata be cleaned on an DC that has already been force demoted?
We had a 2003sp2 DC (no master roles, just a "secondary" DNS) go tombstone. The dcpromo /forceremoval was done with the idea of doing metadata cleanup afterward. However now of course it is in a...
View ArticleADFS Without Proxy
Hi ThereI'm new to ADFS. If I only need internal users on my network accessing an app on a 3rd party's Federation site do I need the Account Federation Server Proxy role by necessity or can I just let...
View ArticleHow do I list delegated controls after creating one?
Hi,When I delegate some control to someone, i.e operation on computer objects, how can I list these details?I didn't find a "summary" in the "AD Users And computers" mmc control.
View ArticleBought a company and want to move their 2008 DC to our domain
My company bought another company who has a single server and 5-7 employee/pcs. I am going to setup a site to site VPN and am planning on then making their domain controller a domain controller for my...
View ArticleDC died - what to do with subnet?
Noob here.We had a DC at a not too remote site die last week. As we have recently run fiber to this site the DC was/is no longer necessary. I was planning on using this:...
View ArticleAD Account Password Security - LanMan HASH
Greetings,How do I find all accounts in AD that are still using the old LANMAN HASH? I enabled the GPO to clear lanman hash on next password change for entire domain, but it looks like we still have...
View ArticleRepliction issues. Creating policy on 1 DC, not seen on another DCs.
HiI have inherited a very unhealthly AD environment comprising of 5 DCs with 1 2008 DC and 4 DC on 2003 R2 (2 are in a DMZ environment for our hosted Exchange 2007 setup)Whilst it works, there are...
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