AD Users Disabled Date
I have around 200 disconnected AD users from their mailboxes. I want to delete these mailbox disconnected AD user Accounts which are older than one year. I checked the Object tab of these...
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cross forest trust with one way trust issue
Hi All, I have 2 seprate forest abc.com and xyz.com Recently I did create the one way incoming trust from abc.com - xyz.com and outgoing trust from xyz.com - abc.com using the trusts password. But...
View ArticleKnown issues with server 2008 on a 2003 Domain Controller running in 2000...
Hi We are having numerous issues within our 2003 domain with our 2008 terminal servers, we have been advised that this is primarily due to the fact that our Domain controller is running on functional...
View ArticleDNS Client registration failing
Hello, We have AD Server running DNS and it is on seperate VLAN. Clients/Servers can only communicate with DNS on UDP Port 53, we have been seeing DNS registration error in event logs. Does TCP 53 is...
View ArticleObject Class Violation error via sync ADLDS with ADDS
Hi I used to be able to sync my ADLDS instance with 2008 ADDS. After I upgrade to 2008 R2 ADDS, I can no longer sync. and received error "An ldap error occured while saving the configuration file:...
View ArticleIs there any good AD management tool for free ?
Now I am trying ADmodify. I would like to modify proxyaddresses,etc. Is there any good AD management tool for free ?
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Continuous Active Directory Account Lock out
Hi Guys After just a domain restructure between Windows 2003 Forest and Windows Server 2008 Forest which caused both forest become one Active Directory Forest 2008, I am getting continuous account lock...
View ArticleError Trying to Start Windows Time Service on Domain Controllers
Over the weekend two of our 2008 R2 domain controllers located in the same site went down as a result of a power failure. After the servers came back up, I noticed that the Windows Time Service was no...
View ArticleHow to restore an Active Directory server?
Hi, Unfortunately our Active Directory Server down due to the Hard Disk failure. We are going to install new hard disk. We need to bring back the AD in its previous position. At present our backup...
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 ADPREP Replication Error
I have an existing Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller, HCC1. Previously there was a backup domain controller, HCC2. The backup domain controller died from hardware issues and was removed from the...
View ArticleNetSetup errors when trying to join new computer to domain via SCCM 2012 OSD
Hi All, I am not certain if I should post this in the SCCM forums or DS, but the errors are within the NetSetup.log file. I am having a domain join issue when trying to automatically join new...
View Article2008 R2 DCs through Firewall with IPSec
Looking for (what I hope is) a quick clarification after reading through the following documentation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/233256 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/233256...
View ArticleHow to create new active directory sites ?
How to create new active directory sites ? I have 1 DC & 1 Ex2003 on A site "LONDON". Now I am planning to create a another site "Manchester" with 1 DC & 1 Ex2003 server. London site IP subnet...
View Articleerror: C:\Windows\NTDS does not refer to a valid hard disk
I'm setting up Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2012 Standard and I'm receiving the following errors: "Specified paths are invalid. Verification of directory paths failed. The folder...
View ArticleAdding a 2012 domain controller to a 2003 functional domain
My domain is currently running a mix of versions of windows. I have clients running xp, windows 7, and windows 8, I have domain controllers that are server 2003R2 and server 2008R2 and an exchange 2010...
View ArticleWindows server 2003 Domain Controller
I have one small office network without internet connection. I have one PDC and one ADC. Operating system is Windows Server 2003. Now my PDC has to be formatted due to some OS problem. Now my questions...
View ArticleUpgrading 2000 AD to 2008r2 AD with dead PDC
I have an old 2000 domain I need to upgrade. The BDC is functional and people are authenticating against that but PDC is totally dead and no backup exists. Running a dcdiag /v shows the dead DC was the...
View ArticleBPA result 'This domain controller must register a DNS SRV...' question
I've read many post about this issue but can't get the issue resolved on my network. Or maybe can't get my head around the advice offered to apply it to my situation. Network detail, the issues and...
View ArticleWhen will ADMT/PES be available for Windows Server 2012?
Having upgraded to Windows Server 2012 I would like to trash the AD and take users and their passwords across to a new domain. The main reason for this is that the AD still has a load of hacks in it...
View ArticleDomain admins 'member of' is getting removed automatically.?????
Hi Guyz, I am facing a very strange issue here. In My 2003 domain environment, many service accounts and IT spocs are part of the domain admin group. And domain admins are member of "Builtin -...
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