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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...

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Active 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...

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Configuring 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...

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Change 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...

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W2k 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...

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recovering 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'...

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2080 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...

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DNS 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?

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Third 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...

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how 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 . . . . . . . :...

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I 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...

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LsaSvr 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...

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Replacing 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...

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ADAM 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...

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organization 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...

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How 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.

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DHCP and DNS Migration

How to migrate the DNS and DHCP servers from 2003 to 2008R2

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user and system authentication

How user account and system accounts gets authenticated in AD environment.

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DNS queries works

How DNS queries works in AD  environment.

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