Syncing road warrior's AD password.
We recently flagged a large number of accounts to require password reset. We also have a policy in place that only allows users to change passwords once every XX days.Now are running into a situation...
View ArticleAuto email notification to system administrators if users do not login for...
As from the title above, basically is to allow the system administrators to be notified that these users did not login to their PCs for at least a month and above, and therefore is required to disable...
View ArticleRetention
Hi!Is it possible in Windows 2008 Domain to keep the deleted active directory objects somewhere in a container if account operators delete them?Thanks.
View ArticleMulti Forest
Hi Experts,We have a requirement whereWe will have 3 Different isolated Domain with different forest and there should not any communication between these domains.We will have one more...
View ArticleActive Directory Users and Computers Ask For Password
Hello frnds, plz help in solving this problem.......... when i login on Domain controller with a user id that is not part of administrator group and run Active Directory Site and services...
View ArticleDomain Trust - SID's not resolving
I have a one way trust with an external domain. I am a domain admin on my domain and have a domain user account in the remote domain (domainA). My domain (domainB) is trusting the remote domain. We...
View ArticleDisjoin Active Directory
Good afternoon,We currently havean ActiveDirectory based on2008 R2,which has two sites.In additionthere are 2 platformsExchange 2007SP3, sharing theorganization,SharePointandSCCM.You want todisjoin...
View ArticleStart from scratch
Current setup: 3 x Windows 2003 R2 Enterprice domain controllers, a file server, Exchange 2003 single server and various other member servers. Clients running either Windows XP Pro SP2 or Windows 7...
View ArticleDemoted DC often can't find new DC's
I'm posting here because the issue is with a demoted server that can't find the new domain controllers on the network. It could also be a DNS issue; feel free to move it if it doesn't belong here....
View ArticleMigrating SYSVOL to DFSR, One Server 'stuck' when using getmigrationstate,...
Hi,I am upgrading our 2008 R2 Domain Controllers (All Writable, no RODC) to DFSR for SYSVOL.2 of our DCs are out our main head office, and 1 DC is in a small office (in a seperate site on a different...
View ArticleDisabling Account Lockout Policy
I have recently upgraded a 2000 domain to 2008r2. I am having problems with my VPN clients when they connect causing the accounts to be locked out because of old policy set up in the 2000 days. Where...
View ArticleLDIFDE No Such Attribute
I am trying to Import users with LDIFDE but I'm getting an error on the second user. The error isAdd error on entry starting on line 20: No Such Attribute The server side error is: 0x57 The parameter...
View ArticleAfter Installing the Directory Services Role...Group Policy Is No Longer...
Both the path and GPT.INI (almost empty) are there and correct. But the URL to access it is incorrect. It seems to forget to add the name of the computer to the Domain Name. AD Domain Services works...
View ArticleWallpaper Group Policy -Active Desktop Recovery Screen.
Hi,We have configured Group policy for Desktop Wallpaper for entire users and set the UNC path of "Jpeg" wallpaper"Now some users are getting "Active Desktop Recovery Screen on XP desktops .My question...
View ArticleDo I need to rejoin the computers if I re image my DC?
I have a PDC the Server Manager MCC failed. I've spent a day and a half troubleshooting it but no luck. My last option is to do a fresh install and start from scratch. Assuming I named the DC and...
View ArticleAD LDS user's cn equal to user's sAMAccountName
The environmentI configured a AD LDS instance and sync it with an existing AD. To help and guide me in this process I followed this tutorials: http://www.thegeekispeak.com/archives/64...
View ArticleDNS server unavailable to the network
I am having the most baffling problem with one of my domain controllers. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.I has been working with out incident for two years. Then with little warning it fell off the...
View ArticleOn startup the intersite messaging service doesn't start.
Error in system log: The Intersite Messaging service terminated with the following error: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation. After startup I can manualy start the service...
View Articledomain account disable
domain user account is getting disabled on every Thursday. it is not locked out it getting disabledpls if any suggest me a solutionthanks in advance
View ArticleActive Directory & group Policy change reporting
Hi,I would like to know where I can obtain some kind of script that tells me what changes have occured in AD and GP, and who did it, where and when, etc.I have been searching all over the internet for...
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