Hotfixes to deploy to new 2012 R2 DC
So I see there is a large volume of hotfixes for 2012 R2 Domain...
View Article2003 domain controller to 2012 domain controller
Hello,I have yet to pull the plug on upgrading 2003 to 2012 domain. From my research and previous posted questions, it appears pretty straight forward, running the wizard in 2012, couple of...
View ArticleAny preparations besides setting up the correct DHCP settings to get a...
For my machine the Autoconnection IPv4 Address by default is 169.254.xxx.yyy so in the server setup DHCP with that default with adding its scope and Reservation(inactive). Is there anything else in...
View ArticleHow do I disable trust relationship resets in Active Directory?
Hi there,I'm running some simple network tests with virtual machines connected to a parent and child domain in Active Directory. I'm attempting to test cross-domain communication, but whenever I revert...
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Calling all Windows Server Gurus! Technet August Results and September Call...
All the votes are in! And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, August 2015 !!!!The TechNet Guru Awards celebrate the technical articles on TechNet, contributed from valued wiki authors...
View ArticleWe used Fine Grained Password Policy to rollout a new policy by Office
But, can we now switch folks back to the "default" domain password policy which has been updated with our newer requirements?We are having a problem with Citrix 7.6 where people on the FGPP don't get...
View ArticleRPC Error 1753 There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper
Hello Everyone,I am having an issue with my primary domain controller. The issue i am having is that the secondary domain controller is not replicating to the primary domain controller. There is an...
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Can't create a local user by Group Policy Preference
Hi, I want to create a local user in my domain computer by Group Policy but I can't create it. When I create it, it totally disable as below:My Domain Controller server is Windows 2012 R2 Standard...
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ADFS Server 2012 R2
All.I have set up a Server 2012 R2 ADFS server. Everything has been setup and seems to be working. I have a question.If i open a webpage and go to https://sso.domain.com/adfs/ls/idpinitiatedsignon then...
View ArticleSYSVOL not sharing or replicating data after promoting Server 2012 to DC in...
We have a SBS 2011 environment and just added a Windows 2012 R2 server and promoted to a DC. The SBS 2011 and WS2012 are on different subnets. All the AD objects seem to be replicating ok but the...
View ArticleUnkown Service Tickets
Hi Everyone,I have seen a very weird scenario, which I hope you could explain.I have few windows 7 32bit\64bit machines in a domain environment.I create interactive sessions in the remote systems using...
View Articleduplicate domain dc sid
Hello all. I installed windows 2008 server and I clone it this server , then I created a domain with first copy of windows 2008. The second windows 2008 had the same SID than first one and joined it...
View ArticleNTFRS topology replication issues in 2008 R2 domain
Dear all experts,I have an ongoing issue that has been plaguing me for a long time. Basically my FRS is partially broken and I'm not 100% sure it's because of incorrect connection topology...
View Articleneed to know the default LdapSrv Priority and Weight registry settings
I have the following DC's in my environment:2003 R220082008 R2 2012 R2When the 2012 r2 DC's were introduced the LdapSrv registry records were also changed... I want to set them back to default...
View ArticleSecuring Active Directory Database
Hi All,I want to secure the AD Database by encrypting it. I just wanted to check , if there is other than SYSKEY tool (preferably a third party tool) that can do the same.Thanks
View ArticleDomain Password History
Hi Admins, this might be a simple question but I cannot find the answer when searching. I am working with PCIDSS Certification and one item asks for users to be forced in changing the password every 90...
View ArticleHow to find out which applications are hard coded with domain controller name...
We are running a migration project and we are going to migrate the domain controllers from one data center to another ( hence there will be domain controllers with new name and ip address). We have a...
View ArticleDeleted DNS record keep coming back
Hi, I had a Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller that was successfully demoted. Now I want to reinstall the server with Windows Server 2012 R2, using the same hostname. When the server was a DC...
View ArticleHow to test TCP port access to a Domain Controller from a Linux server
Hello,We need to test if a specific TCP port is open to a Domain Controller from a Linux box, however we don't have the ability to logon to the Linux box. In other words, while on a Domain Controller,...
View ArticleDC versus RODC in remote locations
We have 12 remote offices on our WAN. Each remote office has a single server with about 12-20 PCs and 5 printers. Most of the servers are RODCs with DNS, File and Print services. In addition, we have...
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