AD/DNS problems
Pretty generic domain: Two DC's, ServerA and ServerB. Server B crashed one night, and it turned out to be the On/Off switch. Once I replaced that, it came back up, but there is a problem with DNS...
View ArticleBackup Restore of ADRMS Database
Hello All.............I have ADRMS Database on Physical SQL Cluster on a separate instance, but we need to move the Instance along with Database to a new Virtual SQL Cluster. The approach I am looking...
View ArticleInformation on restoring a deleted object from Active Directory
Hi Team,My name is Suresh. I need an information with regards to object restore in Active directory.When I am restoring an deleted object using LDP.exe, what changes will happen to the object ?1. Will...
View ArticleLogon Server N/A
Ok, So here is the dilemma, which i honestly have been on for the past month, and can't seem to track down the issue. It hasn't been just me either, there was a support case from Microsoft created, and...
View ArticleUnable to pre-create RODC account
Hello everyone!I have one domain controller on windows 2012. Recently upgrade it to Windows 2012R2. Now i unable to create RODC account. After i specify info about name, site and etc install is...
View ArticleMSA Account Naming Rules?
Hi, this is originally from https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/f15bd9f3-2e14-42e1-a6d0-576f7dd74ded/msa-account-naming-rules?forum=sqlsetupandupgrade. Does anybody know of any...
View ArticleWhat Microsoft recommend on installing a SIEM agent on AD and Exchange ?
Can you please advise what Microsoft best practices are on installing SIEM agents on AD and Exchange for log collection.For Instance Qradar solution insists to install WinCollect on AD and Exchange,...
View ArticleDiscussion on Windows Server Active Directory services
Please find the below Replication report ,domain partition is not replicated showing as never replicated and other 2 is replicated and finally domain dns zone and forest domain zone is failing with...
View ArticleMigrating ADFS 2.0 from win server 2008R2 to new Win 2008 R2 server
Hi,I would like to know if there are any instructions available on how to migrate ADFS 2.0 service to a Win 2008R2 server. The only guides I have found are about migrating from 2008R2 to 2012R2.I would...
View ArticleCommunicating with DCs on their NAT address
Hi,I've recently been asked to manage a small 2003 domain, called “school-dom”. The DCs are on a 192.168.2.xx address and hosted at the HQ site. Several satellite sites have PCs which remotely connect...
View ArticleRandom Kerberos error KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED on boot up of Windows 7
Hello,For a few weeks now we have been stuck on a problem with kerberos errors randomly showing up on boot up of our Windows 7 clients. We have concluded that these random errors show up far more...
View ArticleRegarding Active directory configuration
We have one PDC and one backup PDC and 272 ADC in our Organization .all server will communicate to PDC for replication as per the design. we are facing the the issue in replication domain dns zone and...
View ArticleDomain Controller not replicating
Hi Guys,I have a VM that's a DC but it runs a demo server 2012...I would like to create another DC and license it properly, but I have tried creating another VM and it doesn't replicate. As soon I...
View ArticleActive Directory Sites configuration
hello All,We have 4 sites in AD and each site has 2-3 domain controllers. These sites are physical and represented correctly in AD sites and service with correct subnets associated to each site name.My...
View ArticleAD account keeps locking out every 10-15 minutes references tmg server
a. Issue began last Thursday (office 2003, xp), pc has been since replaced with windows 7/office 2010 (new pc, new pc name)b. password has been changed multiple times and forced on different DCs, also...
View ArticleWorkplace Join Device Authentication Issues
In my test environment, I have created an ADFS 3.0 infrastructure to test out the Workplace Join feature set. I have been able to successfully "workplace join" both an iOS device and a Windows 10...
View ArticleDNS issues from one domain controller to another (but not the other way)...
Hi AllI've been trying to trudge my way through an issue our client is having but I'm getting nowhere fast. This issue was discovered when searching for why users at our second site were experiencing...
View ArticleAdd AD DS Role to Server 2012R2 fails 0x800f0831
Windows Server 2012 R2 on ESXi 5.5 10GB RAM 200GB HDAdd Role AD DS failsUsing the Server Manager to install AD DS, fails with error:0x800f0831. I can add DHCP role as a test that worked fine. and...
View ArticleActive Directory forest which need to be sync with Office 365 E1 plan
we have multiple local Active Directory forest which need to be sync with Office 365 E1 plan, how we can do that?
View ArticlePrimary Admin account in AD locked out
Hi,The primary admin account (account used to create this forest) on the domain contoller is showing locked out. We have admin tools installed on a different computer and we can just see the account is...
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