An Active Directory Domain Controler for the domain cannot be contacted
Hello. I have a system down situation.We had our Windows Server 2003 domain controller die. We replaced the drive and reinstalled the OS. I created a domain based on the name the workstations (Windows...
View ArticleWhat is the best practice to connect 2 sites and replicate ADDS between 2...
I found that there is new features remote access inside windows server 2012 r2 which is much more easier. Is there anybody can suggest me how to connect 2 different sites and it will be the tunnel to...
View ArticlePromoting a Member Server of a Child Domain in AD to Read Only Domain Controller
I need to know if a member of the Enterprise Administrator's parent Domain Group can do DCPROMO on a member server of a Child Domain? There seems to be a lot of discussion about groups, but shouldn't...
View ArticleBroken root domain without a valid backup. Any chance to get it back to work...
Hi guys, i came across the following issue: Imagine a standard enterprise environment with a forest. The root domain is called contoso.com and there is a subdomain called company.contoso.com. There are...
View ArticleAD 2003 Tombstone Lifetime error
Dears,Site A (Main) : 2 DC (win 2003 R2 Sp2)Site B : 1 DC ( win 2003 R2 Sp2)On of my clients has a DC replication problem and after investigating using replmon we discovered that the DC on Site B is...
View ArticleWhile running dcdiag /test:dns getting Warning: The AAAA record for this DC...
DCDIAG /test:dns result is pested here.C:\Users\administrator.SUD>dcdiag /test:dnsDirectory Server DiagnosisPerforming initial setup: Trying to find home server... Home Server = MUM-ADS-01 *...
View ArticleAccess to all servers (except DC´s) without Domain Admins privilegies
Hi,We would like to allow some functional accounts (ITS Accounts)can access to all company´s servers but without be domain admin and neither add them manually on local admin group in each server. Could...
View ArticleDelay in passwrod changed in Active Directory 2012
hi, I need help with the following problem. I have an application which serves as A&A. Currently the application is running in old .net framework and active directory level 2003. Everything is...
View ArticleHow to use just one account in the domain to login to the right server having...
We have one domain with about 36 sites. On the sites we use (2008R2 / 2012R2) RODC's .All workstations have Windows 7.Some users work on several sites. We want the user to just be able to use one...
View ArticleReplication between DC and ADC
we all know that is there any changes happen in dc it will automatically replicate to ADC.some time quickly or some time very late. i just have a one query how should ADC knows that there have been...
View ArticlePasswordNeverExpires
Hello,I am trying to create a script for auditing purposes. For ease of use, I would like all the information in the same script, but I am strugling with PasswordNeverExpires property of the users...
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DCPromo error: The wizard cannot gain access to the list of domains in the...
Hello folks,I cant promote a member server to be a DC. This server was not even able to get added to the domain. I got that taken care of by offline join (djoin). I'm able to ping/nslookup any other...
View ArticleAre there any security risks in two-way trusts?
Hello!Can anybody enumerate security risks two-way trusts have? Security holes?I mean two-way trusts between two domains from different forests Windows 2003\2008.Thank you for any info.
View ArticleI opened all of these ports that i could find with few exceptions and I still...
Neither domain will trust from either end.The domain does not exist or network or other problems are preventing the connection.all the ports I could find in the technet articleDroid Hacker
View Articleprimary dns is down
in my environment i have a two dns server one is primary zone and another is secondary zone.as we know sencondary zone hold the copy of primary zone and its only readable not writable but if my primary...
View ArticleI'm confused
My computer is 2 months old. When I opened it and registered and connected to the FIOS router, I clicked to connect to devices, thinking I would only connect to the tv and vcr, however it downloaded an...
View ArticleDCDIAG question
I have 4 2003 DC's that i am running dcdiag on in preperation for an upgrade to a 2012 forest. The forest and domain are at a 2003 level. So far everything is looking good but i do not know what this...
View ArticleUtilising ADFS to authenticate a machine
Is there any way to utilize ADFS 3.0 to authenticate the machine connecting by the certificate it has? My Security Manager wants this to be part of the authentication of who is connecting
View ArticleWrong fSMORoleOwner attribute value
Hello, I have two Domain Controllers DC01 and DC02, members ofdomain.local and child.domain.local respectively.DC01 has all FSMO roles (netdom query fsmo). Looking at fSMORoleOwnerattribute under the...
View ArticleUsing AD authentication without "logon to" permission
HelloI want to authenticate users by Active Directory (from a web application). It works fine but it needs users to have "logon to" permission to the web server or the client they use.. I think there...
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