How to install a new domain controllor with a existing name to replace the...
Dear Team Recently we purchased a new server. We want to promote the new server as a DC with a existing DC's name and IP,and demote the old DC, did Microsoft has any offical documents talked about...
View ArticleWhat are the steps to move Active Directory
Dear All,Please advice, I have a situation where right now my Active Directory is in Windows Server 2003 Server Small Business Server Edition.Now my company wants to buy a new server with the higher...
View ArticleNeed an ADUC Custom Query for thumbnailphoto = null
I need to find a way to query AD for users who's thumbnailphoto attribute is blank and then output this to a report. I'm sure I could do this with a custom ADUC query but the following string doesn't...
View ArticleActive Directory 2008 R2 Disaster Recovery Fail
Hi,I am trying to recover one of our Active Directory 2008 R2 Servers for DR purposes. I need to be able to restore Active Directory to different hardware.I have 2 x 2008 R2 AD servers on my network,...
View ArticleEvent 5719 Netlogon Problem
Everyday this week, we have gotten this message in our event viewer and we are forced to restart the server to allow our web-based programs to work again Date: Source:...
View ArticleAdding New Functionality
I'm looking for a place to request, make a suggestion to improve Active Directory Services. I tried connect but it wasn't listed.Anyway here is my request:Add a new operations master roll to AD or...
View ArticleActiveDirectory Replication failing after a day
Please excuse the wall of text that is about to assail you, I have been at this problem for several weeks and have read every google search and technet article I can lay my hands on that seams in any...
View Articlegroup nesting
Just wanted to run this by someone to see if this would be a bad idea or if there were some gotchas I might not be thinking about.This is all due to a migration from a 2000 mixed mode domain to a 2008...
View ArticleHow to deploy/configure an outlook profile on Outlook 2003 SP3 clients via...
Hi, We have a number of clients that are running Outlook 2003 SP3. They clients are connected to an Exchange 2010 via LAN. We have Outlook 2010 clients working with Outlook Anywhere and we need to get...
View Articlehow can get the replication status of other forest with other forest username...
MY command are below:dcdiag /e of other forest,repadmin /failcache * >replication.txt of other forestrepadmin /queue * >>replication.txt repadmin /replsum * /bysrc /bydest /sort:delta...
View Articlesource NTP DC name in windwos 2003
I am running below commands in wndows 2003 to get the sourc NTP server name but not gettng source dc name of remote server aslow32tm /query /sourcenet time /querysntp
View ArticlePDC emulator force transfer
Suppose we are talking about Win 2008 R2.Suppose DC1 is running as PDC emulator.I turn off DC1.I start DC2. In DC2, I open ADUC. Then I do a force transfer of role PDC emulator to DC2.How do I transfer...
View ArticleName changes in AD not updating in ADUC?
Hi, Why is it that changing a users last name for example from within its properties does not reflect in ADUC immedaitely but using the 'rename' process reflect that change. Thanks
View ArticleAutomatically Add Users to a Security Group
Hi!Is it possible to automatically add current and new domain users from a particular OU to a security group in windows 2003 Domain?Thanks.
View ArticleWhat is the difference between replication of Sysvol and NTDS.dit database
Hi,What is the difference between Sysvol replication and NTDS.dit replication? I assume sysvol uses FRS/DFS to replicate GP, logon scripts etc between DC's and i can see that NTDS replication occurs...
View ArticleTrying to locate the last Logged on User of a computer within a domain...
Hello All, So far this is what I've come up with dsquery * "OU=Workstations,OU=XXX,OU=XXX,OU=XXX,OU=XXX,DC=XXX,DC=XXX,DC=XXX,DC=XXX" -filter...
View ArticleADSS site servers container corruption
Hi,I recently demoted a troublesome 2003 SP1 DC from AD. There was left a 2008 R2 DC in the same site, however, when i go to ADSS and into that one specific site from any DC now, i get the error "Data...
View ArticleActive directory changes back over night
I have this problems, that i change the user’s password, but the next day it have change back to the old password.I remember that i have this problems early on some other systems, but can’t seem to...
View ArticleCertificate Authentication using SASL EXTERNAL connection via SSL fails
We are integrating an OpenSSL JAVA application with Active Directory 2003 Ent SP2. The connection method we are attempting to use is SASL with the authentication method being set to EXTERNAL. Our...
View ArticleAD one-time use password
Is there a function in AD 2003, or 2008, to allow one-time use passwords for admins to log into machines as a specific user without changing that users password? There are many times I need to log in...
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