PowerShell - What available Assemblies from VisualBasic can be used?
I ran across an article showing that PowerShell is able to use VisualBasic Assemblies by addingAdd-Type -AssemblyName Microsoft.VisualBasicSo it got me curious which Assemblies from VisualBasic can be...
View ArticleW2k3 AD responsiveness/high loading
Hi guysI would like to find out if there are any tools to check if the AD server is busy, serving how many requests and if the load is high?How do you guys measure from, e.g. by the packets? My...
View ArticleSerious issue with availability - Resource leak possible?
Dear experts, we've been having serious issues with our domain controllers running Server 2008R2 SP1 (with current updates, depending on when they were last rebooted). I'll delve right in: Our domain...
View ArticleSecure Channel broken - resetpwd not working
Hi all.Over the past few months we've had cases of secure channel breaking on domain controllers. Once we had detected this we were able to manually reset the machine password using the netdom resetpwd...
View ArticleBare Metal Restore - Windows Server 2008 R2 - Active Diretory - DNS - DHCP...
I have an issue trying to do a BMR of our Primary Domain Controller which is running Windows Server 2008 on a VM hosted on a ESXI server.I am trying to restore an image which was taken a year ago in a...
View ArticleADFS, claim rule language, string functions
Hi,With the claim rule language in ADFS 2.0, is it possible to manipulate a claim by performing fairly simple string functions: - search and replace characters - split incoming claims - etc.I have a...
View ArticleRemotely tell which DC a computer logged in through
Hi guys,I know that a user can type in "set logonserver, or set l" to tell which domain controller they authenticated through. Is there a way I can tell which DC remote computers used to login? Do I...
View Articledomain users take too long time to login & sometime they login without...
i have problem user takes too long time for log in that it is happen for most user i checked dns miliion time i do not have problem also i have additional domain in same site but same problemalso...
View ArticleHow to use dsquery to find a u AD user who manages an group
I have a user who I need to determine which groups he is the owner of and export those reults to a text file. The trick here is we utilize TWO domains and so I would need to be able to find which...
View ArticleMigrate Active Directory Contacts with all their attributes
Hello, I have two domains (source and target).I want to migrate all contacts from source domain to target domain will all contact's attributes.I'm ready to use any tool like PowerShell, CSVDE, LDFIDE,...
View Articleex-PDC now a member server complains about time difference
This ex-pdc used to get time from some internet sources to keep the domain with accurate time.Event Type: Warning Event Source: W32Time Event Category: None Event ID: 50 Date: 2/18/2013 Time: 9:30:37...
View Articleaccess to Forest share causes repeated login Prompt after PDC upgrade to 2008R2
Need help in trying to determine why after converting 5 DC's to 2008 R2 and the last one was the PDC from 2003, Domain level still at 2003, a file share in another trusted forest which was accessable...
View ArticleCannot delete an user that only shows in ADSIEdit
Hello people,I'm struggling with this issue from about an year.A long time ago we had an improper decommissioned DC from a sub zone of our domain. In this case: lig.contoso.comAfter the unclean removal...
View ArticleDMZ, 1 way trust and RODC's
Quick description of the setup - Internal forest/domain - internal.localdmz forest/domain - external.localThere's a 1 way trust where external trusts internal. There are also RODC's for internal that...
View ArticleDNS server 192.168.1.2 did not successfully resolve the name...
Hi.I am a begginer in windows server configuration. I installed windows server 2008 R2 64 bits. After that I installed Active directory Rol and then executed DCPROM. I installed DNS with this domain...
View ArticleOption to raise 2008 R2 functional level without 2008 DC but just having 2012 DC
Hi,Can i raise the functional level from 2000 to 2008 R2 without having 2008 R2 domain controller installed but instead having a windows 2012 DC. I understand we can rollback windows 2012 DC functional...
View ArticleGroup on the domain controller
staff,At firstthe problemseems to bedownwithForeFrontTMG, however I would liketheopinionof you, becauseActive Directoryis involved.I havea groupon the domain controller,this grouphassome users, the...
View ArticleAD Policies applied to a group of Computers - not an OU?
Hi-Is it possible to query WinXP and Win7 machines and apply a specific AD Policy to those machines without creating/using an OU?We are trying to find a way to organize our AD structure.Some want to...
View ArticleDFS replication question (FRS, not newer DFSR)
We have a DFS namespace called ADMgmt that we have on our Domain Controllers (we use it to hold our AD scripts and some other stuff). Our writeable DCs are namespace servers in DFS. So the DFS looks...
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Creating One-Way forest trust
Hi,I tried to create a one-way forest trust between two 2008 R2 forests. I've managed to create the trust successfully, where DomeneK.Com is trusting DomeneX.com. Trust validation is showing that...
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