prevent IP registration with dynamic DNS
HiI have Windows 2012 server DC, witch is also client acces point for exchange 2013.The machine has two ip addressen 172.32.2.1 and 172.32.2.11 on the same interface, i don''t want the 172.32.2.11 to...
View Articleerror when I try to prepare AD to have a exchange 2010
My infraestruture is:5 Domain controller Windows 2008 R2 standart, and One windows 2003 R2 standart2 Exchange server 2003my domais is 2003 levelwhen a try to prepare th Domian to migrate to exchange...
View ArticleChinese user names in Active Directory
Perhaps some Chinese speakers could help me out with this question.Our current naming standard uses the initial letter of the first name and the entire last name, so for "Winston Churchill" you would...
View Articlechange local policy insted of adding to local admin group - 70 Permission denied
We have an application from Custom Canada that installed on Terminal Server.If user is in local admin group on this server there is no problem.As soon regular user tring to open application he got an...
View Articlesetting in a/d where I can set an a/d account to password expire in x amount...
hello all I thought this would be an easy google search and set somewhere in the end users a/d account. basically I am testing a password reminder policy. and want to set my test account password to...
View Articleany advantage is separate AD sites for co-located child domains?
I inherited management of an AD forest some time ago, and as there were never any issues with authentication or other AD-dependent services (which weren't operator error), I never made any changes....
View Articledo you need to define an AD Site if there is no DC in that site?
refering to the MS article here: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782048(WS.10).aspx i note that defining AD sites assist with Replication, Authentication, and Active Directory-enabled services If...
View ArticleSet-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy minimum password length above 16 2008 r2
Hello we are running a 2008 r2 domain at 2008 r2 functionality. If we use Set-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy to set the minimum password length to 16 and works. Is this ok if by default you can only...
View Article\PIPR\SAMR highbandwidth usage
Hi All,I have around 350 AD 2008 R2 servers in my environment which are in different physical locations, all the active directory servers are working fine, but there is only one RODC server which is...
View ArticleReplace of Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controller with Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi,Currently my only Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain controller PC had dead and not able to start up. I needed to buy a replacement PC to replace it and i only able to get Windows server 2003 R2 for the...
View ArticleADFS through TMG. Relying party trust certificate keeps giving me errors
Hello all, I'm trying to use ADFS as a brand new install to authenticate us to our webscanning provider. I have setup ADFS with a relying party trust and I can access my xml path...
View ArticleIf we move DC to other site for temporarily for schema extension , that DC's...
we plan to move DC to other site for temporarily for schema extension. Is that DC's IP address need to be changed ?
View ArticleHow could I force manual replication of DC related shared folder like sysvol...
How could I force manual replication of DC related shared folder like sysvol like repadmin /syncall /AdeP ?
View Articlesize limitation for all attributes in user objects in Active Directory????
hi geeks , i wanna know maximum size limit of an user objects attribute in active directory ... like max amount of character first name attribute can hold ... Thank in advance..
View ArticleUniversal Principal Name ( UPN ) of a user account
Hi,Can some one tell me what is the significance of UPN , Universal Principal Name? how it works on a user account ? can it be changed? what are the differences it has on win 2000, win 2003 and 2008...
View ArticleEvent ID 2105 MSExchange ADAccess
Hello all, I've originally posted this in the Exchange 2007 forum and it was suggest I post here instead:Recently strted with these event ID 2105's on my front end exchange 2007 servers in an NLB...
View ArticleDFSR issue
Hi,I am having replication issue with Sysvol not getting replicated between AD Servers. I have 2 Windows 2008R2DNS/DHCP Servers. I ran dcdiag and I found that I have DFSR issue.Starting test:...
View ArticleCan't join domain from different subnet
Hi, I'm unable to join a domain from a different subnet with the following setup:Active directory with DNS installed. DNS Server for the AD server points to itself (not loopback, but actual ip).There...
View ArticleAD accounts that have been set up to never expire are expiring
Hi,We have a mix of 2003/2008 R2 DC's. We are experiencing the following issue :AD accounts that have been set up to never expire are expiring. Seems that users were contractors now permanent or are...
View ArticleReplication Errors
Okay, here is my issue. I have a root domain(a) and a child domain(b). W2k3...Three sites with a DC in each site per domain. In Oct. we moved datacenters and shutdown the servers(vm's) but didn't bring...
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