AD LDS Question - Security Groups
First off let me apologize if this was submitted into the wrong forum. Please let me know what would be the best forum and I will try to move.I have recently setup a Server 2008 R2 AD LDS server. The...
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I have a domain my.domain.com in forest domain.com, that had a bad incident. The PDCE died, and so the role went to another DC, one that was behind a firewall from one of my remote DCs...
View ArticlePassword Sync issue
HI all,Recently couple users after changing the password , found that the password is not syncing with all the application, So we logged into the DC and checked and it was working fine, the next level...
View Articlerelationship between SPN notation and suffix routing
Hi all,Is there any relation between a FQDN that is used in a SPN and suffix routing that might be configured between two forests with the using the same 'domain' suffix as was used in the FQDN on the...
View ArticleRestrict use of ADAC
Hello AllWe recently had an issue where a Help Desk associate deleted the wrong computer account in Active Directory.So, I've created a module for all of our Help Desk staff to use and want to prevent...
View ArticleWindows 7 Lockout -- All Accounts Are Locked Out!?
Hi all, I'm having a terribly difficult problem to solve, trying to understand lockout issues with Windows 7 Ultimate. I have done vast amount of research on the topic, but to no avail, none of the...
View ArticleMultiple sites vs different domains?
I think I may have screwed up but I need advice from those more knowledgeable than myself.I do IT consulting work and one of my customers is a small manufacturing company, we will call CompanyA. This...
View ArticleDelegation for rebooting Domain Controller
Hello All,We have total 8 Domain, it almost contains approx. 150 Domain ControllersFor our Monitoring team, we want to provide a rights to reboot a Domain Controller after the monthly patches.I tried...
View Articlerestore users, groups, OU structure and group policy objects
Hi,I am currently building a small test isolated active directory environment. I have installed and deployed 2 DC's and my AD is up and running.Now I want to take a system state backup from my...
View ArticleReplication of updated .admx files in PolicyDefintions
Hi all,We're updating the .admx and .adml files within our PolicyDefinitions folder in SYSVOL for Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows 10. What we've noticed is that whilst new .admx / .adml files...
View ArticleFSMO Role Holder: Add a Secondary Failover Server?
I have one physical server that's holding my FSMO role for the entire company:C:\Ad>netdom query /domain:csaa.local fsmo Schema master CS-DC1.csaa.local Domain naming master...
View ArticleMigrating a domain out of a forest to a new forest
I need to migrate our domain out of a larger forest. Our domain name is old.domain.com. Looking for some guidance and advice. Let me describe our environment a bit.We are part of a large private...
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DCDIAG /test:VerifyEnerpriseReferences (problems reported)
Ran DCDIAG/test:VerifyEnerpriseReferences on a few DCs and same problems reported. Detailed below:Starting test: VerifyEnterpriseReferences The following problems were found while verifying various...
View ArticleJoin 2008R2 server to an AD domain with domain name suffix differ from...
In our production environment we use SINGLE AD domain for authentication. In our AD DNS system we use several sub-zones delegated to UNIX BIND servers. In other words: AD domain name is contoso.com,...
View ArticleDomain rename
I inherited a domain called abc.office.company.com. It is the forest root, with no subdomain. I want to rename it to abc.company.com, or preferably just company.com The forest is at 2008R2 functional...
View ArticleDNS and its related services not starting in the Domain controller...
Hi,In our test domain, found that one of the Domain controller with Windows Server 2008 R2 is having the problem of DNS and its related services not starting.When I restart the services related to DNS,...
View ArticleExchange Mailbox sent and received email count for a specific user mailbox...
My how do you query the message tracking log in exchange to give you the number of email sent and received in a given time period for a user mail boxI am using power shell with two different methods...
View ArticleProblems adding sites and subnets in a large environment
Hello everyone,Some time ago I was browsing security logs on one of our domain controllers and I found something like this showing up every now and then:During the past 4.00 hours there have been 50019...
View ArticleDNS between new Child DC's and Parent DC's misconfigured?
Hey everybody! In our environment I was running a single DC running DNS, AD, etc. We have gone through an engineering change which requires 3 Child domains to be spun up. I built the Child DCs, and...
View ArticleVerefiying the functionality of Additiona Domain Controller?!
Dears,I have 2 DCs, one PDC and one ADC, both are available, how can I verify that ADC is working fine without disconnecting the PDC?ThanksRegards
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