How does Kerberos authentication work from a RODC in Forest A to a R/W DC in...
Hello,Can someone plz validate Kerberos auth works as follows or not:Forest A - Server 2008 R2Forest B - Server 2008 R2An RODC in Forest A has its AD Ports open to a R/W DC in Forest A. Forest A has a...
View ArticleSHA1 certificate deprecation effect on auto-enrollment certificates.
Hi All,We have an internal CA infrastuture built on server 2008 R2. We had enabled autoenrollment for users and computer certificates. The CA is issuing certificates with SHA1 algorthim with vailidity...
View ArticleIssue creating AD-integrated DNS zones
Hi allI have a bit of a strange issue with the creation of AD-Integrated DNS zones where I receive an error message "The zone cannot be created. There was a server failure". The same error occurs for...
View ArticleActive Directory Domain Services could not resolve the following DNS host...
Hi,I have added a new DC (W2k8) to a domain. I want to transfer roles from original w2k3 DC to the new server but want to resolve the issues first. I have done dcpromo but have errors in AD DS and...
View ArticleMember server failed to join domain, "Changing the primary domain dns name of...
Hi all,When I trying to join domain for my member servers - Windows Server 2012 R2 (different site), we hitting the below errorChanging the primary domain dns name of this computer to "" failed.The...
View Articleforgot outlook pst file password
is there a safe pst password tool/site? i got $100,000s lost product keys and business data in older emails with forgoten password! HELP!!!!
View ArticleLostAndFound
Hi,I have looked in our lost and found folder in active directory and have found an entry from a laptop gone long ago... It says it is a dnsNode.... Can this be safely deleted?Kind Regards,John
View ArticleADFS 2.0 - Application certificate change - how update metadata
Hello,I have a SaaS application which work with ADFS 2.0. The SaaS app will change its SSL Certificate. What is the process to update the metadata in the ADFS 2.0 ? Have I to recreate the trust or...
View ArticleGroup policy not replicating after sbs2003 migration to Server 2012
We performed a migration of sbs2003 to Server 2012 with the essentials experience enabled. Everything went fine until we went to demote the sbs2003 server. We received an error using dcpromo that no...
View ArticleChild Domain Controller Migration to New DC
Hi,We are running our active directory with parent and child domain controller like -yahoo.com (Parent Domain Controller) - mail.yahoo.com (Child Domain Controller) - Location 1messenger.yahoo.com...
View Articleis anybody can help for New ADFS Service 2.0 Cofiguration steps for Windows...
i am new to ADFS Configuration , can anybody help mon this is more helpful for me. if any manuals/documentation for this please share me .
View ArticleDCDiag Error 53
Testing server: Site\DC01 Starting test: NetLogons [DC01] An net use or LsaPolicy operation failed with error 53, The network path was not found.. ......................... DC01 failed...
View ArticleWhy is password history not enforced while resetting a password of a user in...
An administrator account can reset a password of a user in Active directory.why is password history not enforced during resetting meaning we can keep a password in the history as the new password . but...
View Articledns server could not be contacted access denied
Hi,DC was shutdown during maintenance and after that started problems with replication, dns etc. First problem what I need to debug is so I cannotload DNS console and dns is not working.Theres is error...
View ArticleTrying to decommission an active directory server and getting an error in...
I'm trying to decommission an active directory server and when I used the dcpomo wizard it I get the error "The directory service is missing mandatory configuration information, and is unable to...
View Articledcpromo remove domain controller failed
Hello everyoneWhen trying toremovea forestdchad thefollowing error"The operation failed because:Active Directory Domain Services could not transfer the remaining data in directory partition...
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IE "Green" Group Policy Preferences
There is an older article here that describes really nice how the GP Preferences work for IE. In there it's specified that "To ensure you aren’t pushing out unwanted settings, settings are ignored by...
View ArticleCopy Active Directory Accounts from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2
Hello,I am working on a solution to have Lync work in multidomains where Lync lives in one domain and some users exist in another. The domains have a two way transitive trust. I used the following...
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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 ArticleIs it possible to copy password from one user to other?
Hi,I have one person who make your own job and it's ok, but for security and audit reasons sometimes he do his colleague job when he is out of office but he must to have own separated user login.Can I...
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