AD Test Environment - how to refresh AD from Production Environment
We want to be able to refresh the active directory on our test environment as it is about 1 year old.How can we restore the AD from our production environment over to test.Our production environment is...
View Articlerepadmin /bridgeheads show many sites without a bridgehead server
Not sure if I should be worried about this, but when I run repadmin /bridgeheads it shows only about half of our 80 some odd sites have a bridgehead server. Or maybe I'm reading the output wrong?I am...
View ArticleUnlock sign in account
Hello.I would like to know if I can simply go into my account without providing a password. Is this possible?
View ArticleWays to access,explore,create,delete and do other operations on objects in AD
Hi ppl,I am a newbie and have been creating, exploring and deleting objects in AD via ADUC. Is there a different way without using ADUC to do these operations ?Anand Kumar DThis posting is provided "AS...
View ArticleSite not using local domain controller
Hello,I could use a little help with a slight problem. I have 6 Server 2003 domain controllers and sites set up. Five of the sites are using the local controller to process the logon requests. I...
View ArticleEvent ID 4625 not getting logged with username
Hello, I'm currently managing windows server 2008 DC's.Schema master and Infra master are at other location. I only have a primary and sec. server for my site. For security purpose, i need to monitor...
View ArticleRemoving a child domain in windows server 2003 : error 0x2162_The requested...
Good morning,I want to remove a child domain in windows server 2003 in order to raise the forest functional level from windows 2000 native to windows 2003 to create an interforest trust. Using the...
View ArticleClient Authentication Issue...
Guys, Is MaxConcurrentAPI will be the resolution of NETLOGON error found at Domain Contoller - increasing and adding this to Windows Registry domain controller to resolved the issue of Client...
View ArticleInstall Domain Controller from backup media when DC is down
Is it possible to use "dcpromo /adv" install from media option of a Windows 2003 Domain Controller on a new Windows 2008 computer? I have the System Backup backup available from the Windows 2003...
View ArticleTrouble creating Forest Trust between Windows 2000 Forest and Windows 2012...
I've got an old AD that I am attempting to transition off of. I am attempting to establish a two-way transitive trust between the new (Windows 2012) forest running on Windows Server 2012, and the old...
View ArticleServer 2008 on 2003 functional domain reporting a second Domain GUID that is...
We have a remote server running 2008 R2 standard that has been connected to an existing domain running at the 2003 functional levelon doing a DCDiag /test:dns the 2 2003 servers report everything is...
View ArticleSetting up server 2008 AD in an 2003 network.
Hello, and thanks for your assistance in advance. I have setup a windows 2008R2 server and am trying to implement it into an existing windows 2003 domain. As per my understanding, the first step is...
View ArticleAD account unlock
Is there any method to automate AD account unlocking.. Some Script to find locked account and unlocked them....
View ArticleMaking users to access ADUC
Hi ppl,I see that only administrator users are allowed access to ADUC. And more deeply, I found out from my threads that Backup Operators are also allowed permissions to access ADUC. So, I guess there...
View ArticleDo We need to Run the ADPREP32.exe /DomainPrep /gpprep on Child Domain...
Hello DS Experts!I have got one forest with one child domain (forest:xyz.com and child is abc.xyz.com) which has 2003R2.I have ran adprep32.exe /forestprep and adprep32.exe /Domainprep /Gpprep on...
View ArticleWhat should be the scope of the group ?
Hi ppl,I would like to create 3 different groups for 3 different operations. The 3 operations are listed below. Please suggest the scope of the 3 groups to be created and the reasons to choose those...
View ArticleAD/DNS not working after following steps in article 875495
Two Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers. One was cloned, and the clone was introduced into the network. This created AD problems - group policy did not run, users could not access network drives,...
View ArticleFRS errors 13552 & 13555. SYSVOL not replicating.
Hi All, looking for a little help here...Here is the scenario. My (new) client has ONLY 1 domain controller (Windows Server 2003 which I will call SERVER1). I recently installed a new 2008 R2 server...
View ArticleDomain Admin Account Lockout Issue - Authentication
First, I've tried all the norm checks, services, updates, misc map drives and so forth. Ran MS Lockout tools as well as Netwrix Account Lockout tracer, but this one has me stuck. Have a Domain Admin...
View Articleusers accounts is getting lockout with out attempts
Dear All, we implemented GPO for Account lockout policy in our domain with the below setting.Setting details.Account lockout threshold : 3 invalid logon attemptsAccount lockout duration: 0 Reset...
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