MaxPageSize need to increased in one DC alone.
HelloI need to increase the MaxPageSize in DC and not for entire domain.Can anyone help with the instruction. I got from technet using ntdsutil command, however it will impact all the DC in domain,i...
View ArticleActive Directory Administrative Center - tabs missing in user properties
Hi,Over the last week or so, I've noticed that the tabs in the Extensions section of a users properties in ADAC are missing. The only displayed tab is the COM+ one. This has been fine for around a...
View ArticleRestrict directory browsing in domain trust
Dear allHopefully someone is able to help me. Let me first explain, what where doing right now.A business unit of our company was sold to another company. The other Company would like to migrate the...
View Article.bat to .exe
I have recently completed a personal assistant called Lily. I have figured out several things, and I don't want anyone to replicate the source code. It can be redistributed that way, and I don't want...
View ArticleActive Directory Forest Recovery white papers not available?
Hello,I'm unable to find TechNet white paper documentation for Active Directory Forest Recovery. These have been previously available, but can't find it anymore. Google search "Active Directory Forest...
View ArticleAD Trust setup between Other company
We need to setup a forest trust between another company Let say Forest A and Forest B,We have around 14DC in 7 different AD Sites, Can we control forest B need to contact which DC in Forest A, we don't...
View ArticleUsers account keeps getting locked out-2008 R2 Std
hello allwe have a user who is in a basic windows 2008 R2 Ad environment whose account keeps getting locked out for no reason every 5 minutes. Another engineer removed all passwords from her...
View ArticleAssigning the ability to change owner of an OU to a security group
<abbr class="_5ptz timestamp livetimestamp" data-shorten="1" data-utime="1475620826" title="Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 5:40pm"></abbr>I write powershell scripts for my campus that run...
View ArticleScripts run against a Domain Controller
Is there a way we can know who is running scripts (Powershell, VB, Python, WMI, etc.) and from which system are they running the same. If yes, please let us know if we can enable some auditing that...
View ArticleConnecting windows 2012 to a linux ADDC, running samba 4 with ldap as backend
Hi I have set up a Ubuntu server, running samba 4 and ldap, so it can act like a ADDC.I have connected linux and mac machine though ldap, and windows server 2003-2008 machines through the samba domain....
View ArticleADFS - wrong user getting authenticated
Hi,We have a simple setup - a single ADFS server running on Server 2012 authenticating users to Office 365. We are not using ADFS proxies, but traffic does pass through a reverse proxy.When a userA...
View ArticleAuthorized DHCP servers are not equal with servers in the domain group "DHCP...
Hi,in our domain we have many DHCP servers and I am cleaning up old DHCP servers. I have compaired the authorized DHCP servers with the servers, which are members of the group "DHCP Servers" and the...
View ArticleTask Scheduler logon failure error using gMSA
I have a domain controller running Server 2012 R2, and am trying to get a task scheduler event to run using a gMSA on it. I've created group Managed Service Account (gMSA) using the steps located at...
View ArticleDo I face USN rollback?
Guys,I would like ask you for a consultation. I have got 3 AD sites, FFL & DFL is 2008.AD Site 1 - contains 2x DC AD Site 2 - contains 1x RODC AD Site 3 - contains 1x RODCWhen I tried to install...
View ArticleADC Replication using 20 -30 GB in 24 Hours in a day
I've 186 ADC.In Replication it's using high bandwidth & the total utilization is approx 20 - 30 GB in a day.
View ArticleExporting AD user list to a text or excel document
I have been tasked with streamlining the AD user list for the various clients we support. Is there an easy way to export the user list to a text file or an excel document? Thanks!
View ArticleUpdate Active directory attributes using employee ID as a primary key.
I would like to update users attributes in bulk using employeeID as a primary key. Because employeeID never change so using employee ID I would like to change the following fields.title, division,...
View ArticleTrust relationship over VPN
This is my scenario: I have a task that runs monthly to purge computer objects from AD with an LLTS > 90 days.If a remote user has a laptop and the associated computer object has been deleted from...
View ArticleSysvol Replication Problem
Hey Guys;i have server 2008 r2 domain enviroment and i just installed a server 2012 r2 as additionel domain contoller. but the problem is when i check "net share" on cmd there is no sysvol and netlogon...
View ArticleSite and services couple of questions
Hi, I am doing some AD troubleshooting... have some questions. 1. in AD Sites and services with multiple Sites that have DCs in many of them there are no NTDS Settings object in most of the sites with...
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