Failed 2003 DC after moving FSMO to new 2012 DC with failed replication
Installed a new Windows Server 2012 Std (gui), joined it to the domain, installed the AD role with DNS and the moved the FSMO roles to new server. I noticed that the replication was failing so I tried...
View ArticleDomain login problem
I have a small forest with a root doamin and a child domain with two DCs in each domain.The first DC (PDSvr1) has the roles PDC, RID, Infrastructure, DNS, WINS, DHCP.The second DC (PDSvr2) has the...
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AD-DS and DNS full failure.
I have a physical DC running Windows Server 2008 R2.We are currently experiencing a full failure with AD and DNS. We cannot access any of the VMs in Hyper-V at this time. We have a virtual DC that is...
View ArticleWhat is Active Directory (AD) and how it works ?
Hello,I downloaded Server 2008 R2 trial and want to try something.I found on YouTube that is first step of configuration is that to configure Active Directory Domain Controller (forests and etc.)First,...
View ArticleActive Directory Groups without description
Started a new Network Admin position! The previous admin left hundreds of AD groups without descriptions or documentation. Is there any way to discover what these groups are used for?
View ArticleWindows Server 2003 domain controller not letting me logon locally.....
Hi Team,Unable to logon to domain controller (Server 2003)holding all five fsmo roles, after the installation of Windows server 2008 R2 as an additional domain controller,I remotely connected to...
View ArticleComparision between dfsr folders interm latency
Hi , I am doing a analysis between 2 server which are dfsr enabled . Is there any way , how to find time taken to replicate files from server 1 to server 2 . Thanks Jay
View ArticleCheck Point Identity Awareness
HelloThe Question is about the Check Point Identity Awareness Software Blade and AD Query. This allows our firewall to identify the users of network traffic. We use WMI events form the Domain...
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cache lookup DNS
HiWhat is the mean of this Cache Lookup .(root) in DNS if I Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.On the View menu, click...
View ArticleChange of LAN network mask result in GPO software deployment failure
Hi guys,Due to the increasing number of devices in our network, we've had to increase the number ov available IP, so we changed the network mask from 25 to 24.Everything went fine but we observed that...
View ArticleThe directory service is busy error when trying to remove a trust.
I am having a problem with permissions and it seems to point to a trust that was set up for a domain controller that is in the domain and running AD for the domain it is being trusted with. when i try...
View ArticleAccessing remote registry issue
we have domain base environment windows server 2008 R2 and windows 7 professional,to restrict concurrent logon we implement userlock,but userlock shows some machines unavailable,while the machine are...
View ArticleProblem with one site - rodc issue
Hi All,I hope you will help me with my problem, because I have spent hundred hours to find what is going on...topology is 2 hub and spoke, root and 3 domains, 50+ domain controllers, 50+ sites , and...
View ArticleHow inactive users become in active directory
Hey I have below script to pull out the information of inactive users in domain.But I want to understand that on which attribute, inactive users mark as inactive in AD.I mean the attribute of...
View ArticleNot getting event id: 110 in application log after resetting ms search
Hi after resolving some other issues I am currently still having problems with the OWA search function, I have tried the solution as below;You will need to execute a script on the affected Mailbox...
View Article2008 functionality level
I'm getting ready to raise my domain functionality level to 2008r2.I'm on Exchange 2010 so that shouldn't be an issue.I have kix scripts that map folders for the users. Would that be an issue.Anything...
View ArticleLdap Query VAMT
Hi GuysI am trying to do a Ldap query to use it with VAMT 2.0 to only select the computers in a specific OU, for example: MyDomainName/MyCountryName/Computers, so i write:...
View ArticleDcdiag Failed NCSecDesc
Hi everyone I'm doing a survey of the environment to start the process migration from 2003 to 2008.Getting fix some flaws but has a replication that can not even understand the reason for the error.in...
View ArticleQuick question to understand AD replication between sites/DCs
I just inherited a network setup and I am trying to decipher why decisions were made in the past.I have three sites with four DCs:Boston (1 DC) ----- Chicago (2 DCs) ------- Phoenix (1 DC)Chicago is...
View ArticleServer 2012 DHCP - Failed to open registry key on target
I have the same thing happen on two different servers.Both are Windows Server 2012, added to domain. Once the DHCP role is added, the server is authorized. Eventually the Task Manager comes back and...
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