500+ AD Sites, but only 150 with DCs?
My company is looking to automate AD support using System Center. To that end, they want to create a AD Site for every site in the networking DB (outside of AD). This means any site with a network...
View ArticleIssue in Child domain
Hi,We have a parent child domain enviroment childs domains are on remote cities and are on VPNS.3 where 2 of them are working fine.where as i have problem in 1 of child domain.where i go in "domain...
View Article"Impersonate a client after authentication" option in registry? Please help.
Hi, Have real trouble. Our client has one windows 2000 domain and one dc. With step by step I installed Windows 2003 dc. After reboot I get to this issue:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933994The...
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...
View Articleevent id 1168 error value 1032 Internal ID: 160207d1
This event just showed up on my Windows 2008R2 server. I have 3 domain controllers (2 of them are Windows 2003SP2 and 1 Windows 2008R2) and it doesn't appear the Windows 2003 servers. Internal...
View ArticleNtFrs service cannot be started (Win 2008R2 SP1)
Hi,because of replication problems I checked the ntfrs service on one domain controller. That service was set to disable, so I changed it to start automatically. After that I tried to start the...
View ArticleLogin info on domain
Hello all,i want to get a list of users that have login on their PCs, that is on the domain on a specific date.Is this possible to get via any command?i donot want last logon details. for e.g i want to...
View ArticleAny "gotchas" with having both a forest trust and external trust in place?
Hi everyone,We have 2 AD forests. The first forest - Forest A has 3 domains with an "empty" root domain (yeah - we go back a long way) and 2 child domains . The second forest -Forest B - has a single...
View ArticleLastLoginTime of Mailbox and LastLogon of User
Where exactly lastlogontime is retrived from while executing Get-MailBox statistics..?Because lastlogon time stored in AD and lastlogintime retrived from Get-MailBox Statistics differs by seconds..!
View ArticleBitlocker GPO settings so that rebooting workstation does not require PIN
All,I have recently deployed MBAM MDOP to a Server 2008 R2. I successfully deployed the MBAM client to a test workstation and it has been reporting back to the MBAM server and its information is...
View ArticleInstalled 2008 R2 AD server without adprep /domainprep
My group is responsible for a sub domain. I know /forestprep has been run and a 2008 R2 AD server has been isntall in the root domain but none of us remember running /domainprep in our 2003 sub...
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 ArticleHELP!! RENDOM /prepare error 1825
Hi all,I'm trying to rename mi domain from xxx.com to xxx.localWe only have one server, is the domain controller, dns server, all is promoted to windows 2003When we run the rendom /prepare we have the...
View ArticleForest Trust - Authentication problems
We currently have an external two-way trust between two domains (let's call them DomA.local and DomB.local) . Those domains are the only one in their respective forests. Trust is used to access...
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 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...
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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 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 ArticleCant find Enterprise Admins Security Group ? Pls help
Hello I have notices that we have only one Active Directory DC that is Configured as Global Catalog Server 2008R2 StandardI was to promote the new Installed DC Windows Server 2012 and got the error...
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