Minimal name resolution for forest trust
Hi, We are creating a one way trust where DomA.com trusts DomB.com. To improve security, rather than allow full name resolution for all computers in DomA, we would like to create a forward lookup...
View ArticleActive Directory Web Services Service will not start
The Active Directory Web Services service will not start on a 2008 R2 server with Exchange 2010. System Specs: Dell PowerEdge T310 Dual Xeon 2.67GHz X3450 24Gb DDR3 RAM Perc h700/1Gb BBWC 8 disks/ 3...
View ArticleConfiguring Active Directory users authentication on Cent-OS boxes using LDAP
Hello, I am trying to authenticate AD users on Cent-OS box.I have installed AD on my test machine. From Cent-OS, I can do ldapsearch on that. However when I try to authenticate using users it gives...
View ArticleChange user account name with minimum impact
Hi All, I want to change user logon name to AD and smtp email due to standardization on our company. When we change the login name what is the impact ? is it gonna change the user profiles on each...
View ArticleW2k 2008 Trusts
Back Round: ok, i have inherited a 3 site company... site meaning physical properties in one comapny. One site no dc just a shared file server which imnot worried about well call site 3. Site one and...
View Articlerecovering from bad upgrade from Server 2003 (64) to Server 2008 R2
Old server was a 2003 (64), running Exchange 2007 - PDC, no workstations connected. 100+ users accessing email using http/rpc. We had some other services on this server as well. very small 'webpage'...
View Article2080 MsExchange ADAccess
Hi, My exchange server is reporting the following: Process MAD.EXE (PID=5028). Exchange Active Directory Provider has discovered the following servers with the following characteristics: (Server...
View ArticleDNS Scavenging
Guys, whats the difference between the "set Scavenging for All Zones" and the enable auto scavenging of stale records in the advanced settings of dns?
View ArticleThird Party Application requires LDAP through firewall - Suggested Best...
Hello all! Thank you for looking at my question. As the title suggests we are rolling out a new software that is hosted offsite. And requires an LDAP connection to to our Active Directory store for...
View Articlehow to generate or change automatically generated connections
Windows 2008 DCs we have three sites site1;site2;site3 and site2 is down (all three sites can connect each other) we have sitelink site1site2; site2site3 created and ntds connections automatically...
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Trust between 2008 R2 and 2012
Hi. I testing trust betwen 2008 R2 and 2012. Ip settings of 2012: C:\Users\user>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : 2012-DC2 Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :...
View ArticleI can't demote a DC
Hi. I have installed a DC1 on a physical server (this is the first server of my domain and forest) and a secondary DC2 on a clustered VM. I've installed DPM on the first DC1 (physical server), because...
View ArticleLsaSvr Event ID 40960 when rebooting R2 DC
We recently migrated from our two Server 2008 DCs to Server 2008 R2 DCs. I noticed that the DC that holds all FSMO roles (DC1) shows the following messages in Event Log: The Security System detected...
View ArticleReplacing a non-functional domain controller, which is the ONLY DC.
I have an issue at a client site which I need to try to resolve. The client has a Server 2003 DC, which when we attempt to join a new computer to the domain, the join fails. The error (which I do not...
View ArticleADAM Schema Sync Question
Hello All I am currently working on migrating some Schema Attributes to our ADAM server and I had a request come through that has me a bit stump. We have a scenario where the application owner is...
View Articleorganization unit property msExchRecipientValidatorCookies used for?
Hello, in Active Directory under the organizational Units there is a property "msExchRecipientValidatorCookies". Does someone know what this property is used for ? We want to use this property to store...
View ArticleHow client reach nearest DC
Hi How the windows client pc and servers are reaching the nearest domain controller. How it gets quickly contacting the repective DCs. please explain.
View Articleuser and system authentication
How user account and system accounts gets authenticated in AD environment.
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