Active Directory Replication Errors - help and advice please...
Hi All, We seem to have developed quite a major fault in our Active Directory Services. Picking on one server for starters, which was recently re-installed, we have the following errors: EVENT ID...
View ArticleSchedule tasks/ Account lock out/ Powershell/
Hi, we have a few accounts that keep getting locked out. we have 6 DC's, 2 of which are server 2008 R2 the rest are server 2008. i have created a scheduled task on the 2 R2 servers to look for event ID...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 DNS server lost _msdcs. records
We have a single AD domain controller running Windows Server 2008. Late last week, I could no longer add any more clients to the domain and started to get this error: - The DNS SRV records required...
View ArticleMinimal elevation to query AD
Hi I have an application that needs to access Active Directory. The application uses the logged in account on the Windows computer to access Active Directory. I would rather not log it in as a domain...
View ArticleShow disabled accounts in group with many accounts
I have a security group in Active Directory wich contains 3100 user accounts. 107 accounts are disabled. If I open the members of the group I can't see if the user is enabled or disabled. If I open a...
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LDAP connection string, receiving error
Here is my string, LDAP://[serverFQDN]/OU=IT,OU=Employees,DC=domain,DC=Com When entering that in a browser I get this error.
View ArticlePreparing new forest with Windows 2008 R2 domain controller
Hi, I'm preparing the New Forest including first domain on Windows 2008 R2 server with using 2003 domain and forest functional level, so do I need to do foresestpreap and domainprep? Appreciate your...
View ArticleAD Users Disabled Date
I have around 200 disconnected AD users from their mailboxes. I want to delete these mailbox disconnected AD user Accounts which are older than one year. I checked the Object tab of these...
View ArticleDomain User can not logon to thier Domain computer in Windows 2008 Server...
Hi dears, kindly I have below issue: 1. The Message I get : "You can not log on because the method you are using is not allowed on this computer. Please see your network administrator for more...
View ArticleMoving Primary site to a data center
I'm looking for the most recommended solution here. Here's the task. We are moving our current HQ site to a datacenter and the current site will then become more like a branch office. I trying to...
View Articleerror: C:\Windows\NTDS does not refer to a valid hard disk
I'm setting up Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2012 Standard and I'm receiving the following errors: "Specified paths are invalid. Verification of directory paths failed. The folder...
View ArticleParent-Child AD Replication Broke for 3 Years
I have a child domain hanging off our root domain and unfortunately the AD replication between the two has been down since 2009, whoops. I was wondering if anyone had successfully recovered from this...
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NTLM authentication failed
DCs: Windows Server 2008 R2 File server: Windows Server 2008 R2 Clients: Windows 7/Windows XP/Non-Windows OS Clients are able to access the file server by name, but unable to access by IP address. I...
View ArticleDFSR with Static port
Hello All, I read an article http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/07/16/configuring-dfsr-to-a-static-port-the-rest-of-the-story.aspx to configure DFSR with static EPM port. I read about...
View ArticleHide mobile attribute for all Domain Users
Is it possible to hide the mobile (mobile number) attribute for all Domain Users? We don't want that all user see the mobile number in GAL.
View ArticlePublic access computers and user profiles
We're looking to set up a public access in an area where the physical networking is rather sub-par. Between being open to the Domain Users group and having slow networking, we really don't want the...
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Sub-OUs not listing in Alphabetical order
This is happening when using AD remote Admin tools for Windows Server 2003 from Windows 7, or Windows 2008 server. When directly on a Windows 2003 DC, they display as expected. Console version is...
View ArticleUser profiles on two domain controlers
Hi all, I have two branch offices A and B, each of which have dedicated domain controller. There are users in each office who have set up their profiles on appropriate domain controller. Now, I have...
View ArticleHow to check for LDAP problems? (logs, events etc)
We have many applications in our company that use LDAP binding to authenticate and authorize users. Most often these applications are sitting on non-windows systems, but there are windows servers as...
View Article"Trust relationship between this workstation and primary domain failed"
We are in the process of deploying Windows 7 and started getting this error: ""Trust relationship between this workstation and primary domain failed". FYI - We started getting this error after our...
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