Removing the first Domain Controller and introducing new 2012 domain controller
My question(s) is related to removing the first domain controller (Server 2003) created. Our Forest is at 2003 level, and includes only a single domain (2003) level.I don't believe we are using EFS or...
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 ArticleLogon DC
Hi Everyone,I have 2 DCs at the Head-office and one on Branch site, I've realized once the branch network goes down users all across even at the Head-office experience logon and email issues. When i...
View ArticleActive Directory Domain Services Exception
Hello.On several of my Domain Controllers I've started noticing a warning in the Directory Services event log.EventID: 1173Source: ActiveDirectory_DomainService"Internal event: Active Directory Domain...
View ArticleHow to find Application Directory Partition Host Server ?
How to find Application Directory Partition Host Server ?Thanks in advance.AliahMurfy
View ArticleHow does conditional forwarder choose IP addr?
Conditional forwarder can be configured with multiple IP address for a given domain. When that domain is resolved, how does the conditional forwarder choose one from the multiple IP addresses to...
View ArticleUSN rollback: Ghost vs reboot
MS recommends against a Ghost-style backup/restore, but I don't understand how this different than a server reboot of the DC. It will be for a shorter time period, but won't the USN fall behind either...
View ArticleHow to allow recursion only for specific IP range?
We have two internet facing DNS Windows 2008 servers for our domain. How do I allow recursion for specific subnet and disable recursion globally?The only option I see is either enable or disable...
View ArticleDc removal
I have a dc that is still on 2003 server. My other dcs are freshly build on 08r2. I would like to decom. Dc that is running on 03 server, than build 08r2 and make that my dc. I would need to retain the...
View ArticleDFS share slow from linux server
When Linux server mounts a CIFS share to a DFS share is very slow. Files were copied/deleted on DFS share and when running on DFS share it takes above 30 minutes. When using \\servername\share (link...
View ArticleActive Directory 2008 R2: Enforce Password History Does not work on domain users
Hello All,We have a DC windows 2008 R2 and have tried below to enforce password history.1> 'Enforced' Defualt domain policy which has 'Enforce Password History' as '24 Password remembered'2>...
View ArticleHow could I know all domain name which exist in other one forest ?
I would like to know other forest information which we have forest trust.How could I know all domain name which exist in other one forest ?
View ArticleAD LDS application lastLogon attribute
Hello everyone,Is there a way to know the last logon information for a certain application using AD LDS? This is so I can check if the user is still using the application (using the lastLogon attribute...
View ArticleHow to make test environment of AD and MIIS.
From the advice here I thought a plan.we use windows 2003AD with 2008 server and we have some forestwide trust and we use MIIS for galsync.1. make Temp site that has not included in any sitelink...
View Articlequerying computer and user objects that are extra in DC
hi everybodyhow can I find extra user and computer objects in active directory?I defined planty of OU,Users and computers,but I am sure some of them are extra,I would like to find them by dsquery or...
View ArticleCross site replication of DCs only happen among sites that is defined in...
Cross site replication of DCs only happen among sites that is defined in sitelink objects ?
View Articledcdiag failed test Services
I am getting the following error on all 13 of my domain controllers. Starting test: Services Invalid service type: RpcSs on ********, current value WIN32_OWN_PROCESS, expected...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 sync to Windows 2008 RODC - Not all members of a group are...
Hello,We have a very strange problem where a Security Group seems to only be partially replicated to our RODC's Only about a third of the members are replicated to the RODC although if we for example...
View ArticleHow to fix in dns after changing RODC Server name
Hi All,I have a case like this, one of my partner had change one of of my RODC server name in manually, so I saw in my DNS record there are 2 records now which is the new one and the old one. I had...
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