Applications impact when upgrading the windows 2003 to windows 2012 and FFL...
I have 52 Win 2003 DCs & will upgrade those in win 2012.Wondering the applications impact when migration done. I don't have paralal test env. I am using almost 316 applications.Fews are 3rd party -...
View ArticleMicrosoftDNS Container Conflict Resolution - Creation times are the same
Everyone,I am trying to resolve an AD conflict for the MicrosoftDNS container. From my research the general rule appears to be "delete the newer object". The problem I have is that the creation time of...
View ArticleHowto query (normal) users in Active Directory?
Hi, I use the following domain path and filter to query the users in a domain in Active Directory (using C#):dn:"DC=mydomain,DC=com"...
View ArticleHardware Requirements Domain Controller
Hi,I was wondering which hardware is required for my domain controller. I have 1500 users, 300 of them are using Folder redirection because they run photoshop, all of the others have Roaming...
View ArticleAD on brand new fully virtualized environment
Hi everyone,I've been tasked with building a brand new environment which will be based on a 4 node HyperV cluster.Every host and guest will be running Windows 2012 R2.I did not design this environment...
View ArticleActive directory over WAN
I have 2 sites, main office and remote office. I would like to be able to use active directory over WAN for my remote office. The office is not large enough to have a RODC so I would like to...
View Articleunknown failure audit
Hi all,on my DC mydc1 failure audit Event Type: Failure Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Account Logon Event ID: 675 Date: 09/04/2015 Time: 16:36:26 User:...
View ArticleBackup DC past tombstone and need help replacing it with another DC with the...
Hey EveryoneWe have a single domain in a forest with 2 DCs with AD integrated DNS configured. The primary DC with all the FSMO roles is a VM (Server 2008 R2) and the backup DC is a physical server...
View ArticleEdition of Windows? Sais 7????????? TY..
HI!!Sorry for cast On Tight Hand,, But You say I Have windows 7,, I Recieved this Brand New from HP,Its a Win 8m,mand Never gooked Up to Net, a watched a 46 Min DVD,,and POOOOF, Comp Dead,, I sent it...
View ArticlePrivate properties in Userobject?
Hello all,We are in the middle of studying a Sharepoint environment. We want to use the user profile page, and later on MySite, for a companies adress book. In the present company adress book users can...
View ArticleADFS 3.0 & SharePoint 2013 - can't authenicate when using AD security groups
We are running ADFS 3.0 on Windows 2012 R2 integrating with AD. When adding a user with adfs claims account, we are able to access the SharePoint site but when adding a security group where the same...
View ArticleFind out inactive computers based on Server Operating System
HiIn our active directory there are a lot of inactive computers almost 10.000 but I want to try to see first server operating systemsI used dsquery but it gives me list of all computers regardless of...
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Kerberos pre-authentication failed
Hi,I have a customer has the below issue:After he changed their administrator account password on domain, event ID 4771 is continuously thrown in the security log in DCs. Below is a snapshot:Also the...
View ArticleHelp Planing for Active Directory over the wan mutiple location
Hello All,I working for company that have 9 different location Europ , USA(east,west coast), Israel, and korea ,each location except 3 major location host 10 ~20 users.The 3 mention major location...
View Articlentdsutil snapshot AD backup
HiIf I use ntdsutil to snapshot my AD daily for backup. How do I delete the old snapshots, for eg, snapshots over 3 days old?Is it possible to copy snapshot offsite?If my whole AD environment is...
View ArticleWhat is the powershell command to get the user count in Active Directory
What is the powershell command to get the user count in Active Directory
View ArticleADGMS error. Need KB969166 and cannot download it from Microsoft's site
Basically I have several 2008 R2 servers that I need that have the issue referenced in this article when attempting to install ADGMS:...
View Articlesysvol was not shared\replicating after the DCpromo windows 2012 R2 datacenter
SYSVOL does not shared\replicating after the DCpromo windows 2012 R2 datacenter, and the partner DC is 2008 R2 Standard.both the forest & domain level is Windows2008R2.
View ArticleWhy does the promotion of a 2012 R2 server to a Domain Controller want to...
Hi,We have 2 DCs in a classic Forest Root and 10 DCs in a child domain. Both domain's DCs all have 2008 R2 DCs with a schema version of 47.In prep for an upgrade in both domains to 2012 R2 DCs, I...
View Article"following domains are not available" error - functionally trusted domains...
For SCOM monitoring and user permissions I am trying to add the Action Account from HQ.local domain to some other domains like DOMAIN1.local, TEST1.local and TEST2.local. (a trust persists between the...
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