Bought a company and want to move their 2008 DC to our domain
My company bought another company who has a single server and 5-7 employee/pcs. I am going to setup a site to site VPN and am planning on then making their domain controller a domain controller for my...
View ArticleCan Metadata be cleaned on an DC that has already been force demoted?
We had a 2003sp2 DC (no master roles, just a "secondary" DNS) go tombstone. The dcpromo /forceremoval was done with the idea of doing metadata cleanup afterward. However now of course it is in a...
View ArticleAutomatic Domain Join Issues-- WIN7x64 ent w/ sp1.
Domian join issue -- included is the netsetup.log file. The crazy part is that it works in some of the offices but not others. Also, this is a static ip site. There are no problems with my dhcp sites....
View ArticleAdding UPN Suffix Question
My internal domain is foo.local and external domain is foo.com. Right now I can logon as FOO\USERNAME or USERNAME@FOO.LOCAL. If I add a new UPN suffix of foo.com and make that the default suffix for...
View ArticleActive Directory account with read-only privliges
Hello,Our PDC is running windows server 2008 r2. A vendor is requiring an active directory server name, username and password to connect as read-only to pull in a specific security group for a 3rd...
View ArticleReceiving a event ID 4098 when using a GPO preference to rename the local...
The computer 'Guest (built-in)' preference item in the 'Client Default Enviroment Settings {1BB7D5E2-B3AD-4A71-BA44-88452CB9DE96}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code...
View ArticleActive Directory Resource Domains
what technology has replaced Active Directory Resource Domains.If I want to integrate a service like back up solution between 4 organisations to save money and reduce costs what am i going to...
View ArticleADFS Without Proxy
Hi ThereI'm new to ADFS. If I only need internal users on my network accessing an app on a 3rd party's Federation site do I need the Account Federation Server Proxy role by necessity or can I just let...
View ArticleHow do I list delegated controls after creating one?
Hi,When I delegate some control to someone, i.e operation on computer objects, how can I list these details?I didn't find a "summary" in the "AD Users And computers" mmc control.
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DCPROMO / ForestPrep error : Access is denied
Scenario: DC1 built clean with WS08 RC0 and DCOMOED to W2K3 forest mode, single domainDC2 built clean with WS08 RC0.Try to run DCPROMO on DC2 and get error that I must run adprep /forestprepTry to run...
View ArticleRODC Servers DNS service stops and DHCP gets unauthorized
I am facing a problem on the RODC servers located on remote locations from the main office which affects both DNS and DHCP. When this services are down the critical business serices goes down including...
View ArticleCould not fix File Replication Error.
Hi,We were having problems with File Replication services. Any help would be highly appreciated.We tried to add server 2003 to our existing group of domain controllers based on windows 2000.Given below...
View ArticleAD Account Password Security - LanMan HASH
Greetings,How do I find all accounts in AD that are still using the old LANMAN HASH? I enabled the GPO to clear lanman hash on next password change for entire domain, but it looks like we still have...
View ArticleLdap server 2008 ,not able to connnect via ssl
ld = ldap_sslinit("Testserver", 22223, 1); Error 0 = ldap_set_option(hLdap, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3); Error 81 = ldap_connect(hLdap, NULL); Server error: <empty> Error <0x51>: Fail to...
View ArticleAn attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain being...
The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "egl-underground.mainframe":An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify...
View ArticleHow to perform the merge of two users in Active Directory
Hi all, I need tomergethetwoaccounts in ActiveDirectory.The version ofActive Directory2008 R2,aftermigrating fromExchangeServer, I have seenthat I have twoaccountsof thesame user inActive Directory,...
View ArticleHow to restore Forest Trust relationships after replacing the root server
We have 6 servers running Windows Server 2003 in our organisation, which are connected with eachother over a VPN and are in a forest. Last week the root server crashed and I replaced it with a new one...
View ArticleLockout status not allowing to reset password
Hi,In my AD, I have given Reset and Unlocking passwords to an X user however the X user is not able to reset password of those users.I am using the AD Lockout Tool to Unlock user ID and Password....
View ArticleBrowse groups over trusts.
I'm trying to have a trust between domain A and B. But only user RODC on the Domain BDomain B trusts A. RODC for Domain A have full firewall port access to RW DCs in Domain A.In domain A, theres a site...
View ArticleDHCP Wrong Assignment
Hi All,I have got an issue with DHCP and I have seen in different networks severally. We have got vlanning in our network. Once I change my client's vlan on my switch, the client still receive their...
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