Reset Group Policy Replication
I have 2 domain servers. They both, when configured, were set to replicate to one another. Changes on one get changed on the other and vice versa. It would appear now that my Group Policy is not...
View ArticleError occured joining the domain. The specified network name is no longer...
Hi!We have two companies in our building, Company A and Company B. Company A has 50 client computers and one brand new DC (Win 2012 R2 Std). Company B has 5 clients and one established DC (Win 2008 R2...
View ArticleInter-Site Change Notification Not Working
I made the change in ADSIEDIT to enable Inter-site change notification after adding a second AD site on our domain.The domain level and the old domain controllers in the main site are Server 2008 and...
View ArticleYou do not have sufficient privileges to delete etc. - but this is different
When i try to delete a user, which i often do as administrator, i get this message:You do not have sufficient privileges to delete CN=htcbravo§HTCAnd685e1deb,CN=ExchangeActiveSyncDevices,CN=Jan R....
View ArticleRetrieving Deleted User from AD By Using LDAP query.
I've been grinding away on this one for at least 3 hours and need to make some progress. So maybe someone else can help me out. I've been all over google, MSDN, and internet forums, etc. Can't quite...
View ArticleSYSVOL Replication Failing - 13508
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 recently set up a third DC (server 2012 R2) and am...
View ArticleExternal dns record for adfs 3.0(windows 2012 R2 )
DNS Requirement • Internal DNS DNS Record Record Type Value Comments sts.mydomain.com...
View ArticleActive Directory Cleanup Activity
I woul like to know some general practices/technical steps for performing and AD cleanup.I have in my list1. Stale user and computer account cleanup2. Lingering objects cleanup3. DNS scavenging4. DC...
View Articlemigrate enterprise ca to another domain controller
How to migrate enterprise root CA from 2008 R2 DC to another 2008 R2 domain controller?
View ArticleADFS HttpSamlMessageException: MSIS7015
Hello,We are using ADFS to logon to an external website. That is working fine, except for one user. The following error is logged:- System - Provider [ Name] AD FS 2.0 Tracing [ Guid]...
View ArticleError in ADFS server
We have 2 ADFS 3.0 server farm & 2 ADFS proxy servers, Recently Token signing & Token decrypting self signed certiifcates are renewed. After the renewal we can able to see many 342 events on...
View ArticleDemoting Domain Controller
HieWas hoping you could assist me. i installed ADDS on a server. i am running an accounting package that makes use of certain services that use the Administrator password. but after i changed the...
View Articlesome computers in the domain do not accept my account as administrator
I was granted administrator privileges in my job, but some computers in the domain do not accept my account as administrator meanwhile my account works perfectly in most computers. please help me to...
View ArticleDNS/DFS in branch offices
Hi there,I have two issues with a resolution of a domain name in different sites.My Windows infrastructure is pretty simple - we have main office with 2 AD controllers and DFS/file server on another VM...
View ArticleADFS 2.0 service does not automatically start after reboot
Hello,We have two ADFS 2.0 servers in a farm. Any time these servers reboot, the ADFS service does not automatically start, even though the service is set to auto start. If I manually start the...
View ArticleTracing Account Logon Location
Hi ThereI'm having an issue where logon events for certain accounts, functioning as "service accounts" are not registered\recorded in the security event log on Domain Controllers.When viewing the...
View ArticleDisabled Account generates Account lockout events 4740
I have disabled and renamed my guest in account in Active Directory. I am seeing account lockouts for this renamed guest account throughout the day even after renaming. I have validated I don't have...
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Backing Up Hyper-V Nodes that have ADDS vm on them
hiI did a loots of research before I post this article for the second time but none of them are so clear to meI have the above in my environment:all servers are running W2K12R2I will use [wbAdmin start...
View ArticleFast User Switching + logged off User
HiWe have a need to use fast user switching for our users but also require to log off the logged in user when switching. This function is required due to an application that needs to be logged in by...
View ArticlePassword Settings Container
I created a PSO with the following:10 character mincomplex enabledmax length 90 daysenforce history 12I then applied it to 10 test users.On 5 users it worked perfectly, they had not changed their...
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