AD Users and Computers "A global catalog (GC) cannot be contacted" Server...
Hi all, I have been troubleshooting this on and off for a while and am resorting to asking for help. On one DC out of 4, when I open AD Users and Computers, an object, for instance a user, click member...
View Articledisappear or delete RODC a host record in DNS
Hello All!!!I have Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1 Active Directory1 Site DC1(10.10.10.1) and DC2(10.10.10.2)2 Site DC3(RODC + DNS) (192.168.1.1, 192.168.2.1) DC1 and DC2 can connect DC3 over 192.168.1.1...
View ArticleGlobal Catalog replicated attributes
is there any way to list all schema attributes that replicated to "or knowing by" GC, using LDP ??
View ArticleMinium port requirement for selective trust
When I need to create selective forest trust with minimum ports I need followinghttp://pberblog.com/post/2009/11/07/Creating-a-2003-AD-domain-trust-through-a-firewall.aspxPort Protocol...
View ArticleRestrict AD view for specfic users
Hello,Env - Windows 2008 Domain functional levelWe'd like to provide certain managers in departments with the ability to add and remove users from specific AD groups.We know we can provide them with...
View ArticlePassword Expiry Alert
Hi Everyone,I Would like to reduce the password expiration alert on all users to be alerting guys in 5days. ( i.e "Your password will Expire in 5 day, Do You want to change" - not more than this)How do...
View ArticleLNF user object replicating amongst GC's
Hi,Scenario - 1X2003 forest with 14 domainsI had a user object (Tim) in the lostandfound OU of domain1 and used to be an active user in domain1. A conflict had occurred and hence the LNF object.It was...
View ArticleHow to create tow domain names in one server
Greetings,I recently set up an Exchange 2010 server on a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 and I have been trying to figure out how to change the domain name for the emails to be different from the...
View ArticleWindows 8 and Default Domain Policy modification issue
Hi,I'm unable to edit the default domain policy from my new Windows 8 desktop. It's the only Win8 in the environment so I'm not able to easily test another one unfortunately. The error I receive...
View ArticleConfigure a site with No DC
Hi,We currently have a domain with multiple sites. Each site has a DC. We are looking to reduce the amount of DC's on the network as not all sites need one, e.g. three users on one site with a DC. We...
View ArticleAdd to DC
Hi,I have 2 different domain Controllers:1) Contoso.com2)US.contoso.comI repeat both are 2 different domain controllers both are running with their own separate DHCP,DNS,AD. What i want to do is:1)Add...
View ArticleReading/Modifying Users and Attributes with Active Directory Web Services on...
Hello, I'm trying to query/update users in Active Directory (e.g. return all attributes for cn=John Smith,ou=users,dc=fabrikam,dc=com, change attributes like manager, email address, display name),...
View ArticleMoving ADFS DB to a Remote SQL Instance.
We will soon be building out our single ADFS server to provide redundancy. I found these instructions for upgrading ADFS from using an Internal DB to SQL:...
View ArticleEvent ID 4776 - Source Workstation: \\computer
We have a user that was locked out but never logged into the computer that is referenced in the 4776 events for the lockout. The source workstation in the events is represented as\\abccomputer. My...
View Articleno sysvol_dfsr
I have no Sysvol_dfsr folder, dfsrmig /GetGlobalstate give's me an eliminated state, but i can not replicate DFSR with repadmin /replsum /syncallThis is the output i get from repadminReplication...
View ArticleNew 2012 Active Directory Domain Setup, DNS Convention Question
I'm setting up a new Active Directory Network from scratch for a client with 2 Server 2012 DCs. Haven't setup 2012 yet - first DC setup. I've always setup 1 office Active Directory Domains with just a...
View ArticleIcrease forest functionality level to 2003
Hi,I am in the process of increasing our forest functional level to Windows 2003 from Windows 2000 as part of a domain cleanup. We have 1 SBS2003 server, 1 Windows 2008 and 2 2008 R2 servers and the...
View ArticleTaking an OU to a new domain and retaining permissions
I've just inherited IT management of a group in a university that is being spun out as a standalone entity. We'll be taking our several servers (2008&2003R2) and the computers in the OU with us. No...
View ArticleADFS RP and Shibboleth IDP Message: MSIS7029: The SAML response has content...
Hi everybody I have doing ADFS 2.0 and Shibboleth Integration where Shibboleth as IDP and ADFS as RP When i want to login with CAS on my application, after redirected by IDP to ADFS, ADFS...
View Articlegroup policy for internet explorer is not applied per ou
i am linking and configuring 2 group polices each one will configure proxy for users IE and each one is linked to the OU containing the target usersno things are not working, the second OU users gets a...
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