Active Directory is a Microsoft technology primarily for managing multiple Windows servers and workstations in a single environment. It was first released in 2000.
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Hyper-V Missing Virtual Server From Hyper-V Manager List
We are running Hyper-V on a Window 2008 server that doesn't have a desktop (only console login is provided).
We access Hyper-V using Hyper-V Manager which connects to this host-server and it provides ...
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Active Directory Access logging
We are running Active Directory on windows server 2012 and are looking to create a report of users daily usage by logging the login time and log out time of each user.
The aim is to database these ...
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How to flush and verify an active directory group change?
Is there a DOS command I can run on my client PC to fetch a new group assignment? I'm logged in as the user. I just added a security group to "Member Of" on the primary AD server.
Can I pull this ...
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How can I search multiple users in a domain with their names? [closed]
I want to search multiple users with their names on a domain. say 30 names are stored in a text / excel file, the script should import and search each name and give some indicaion if user with that ...
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Promote Active Directory Replica DC With No Access to FSMOs
Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers and functional levels. Network connectivity is as follows:
DC03 ------ DC02 ------ DC01(FSMOs)
DC01 holds all the FSMOs. DC03, which has not been promoted yet, ...
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CentOS 6.4 SSSD + GDM problems
I'm having an issue where using SSSD it will not bring up a full desktop when using GDM. It seems to get to where it appears to be loading the desktop, then X crashes/stops then reloads GDM.
If i ...
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Active Directory and WORKGROUP [closed]
Is is possible to run an Active Directory on a network and still have WORKGROUP computers on the network and have them still able to access each other?
Would I have to use IPs over NetBIOS names or ...
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Keeping Track of Enterprise Desktops
Part of my job is to make sure that for computers in a specific OU, whats Actually in use = whats listed in AD = whats listed in SCCM. This is for an environment with 250k PCs, but i specifically ...
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Can I completely remove the Windows DNS in favour of BIND9 in an AD network?
I would like to remove the DNS feature of Windows Domain Controllers and point the DNS servers to our BIND9 servers.
I know it's possible to setup coexistence but this requires a number of extra ...
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How to install and configure Windows Server 2008 Active Directory + LDAP + SAML 2.0 for providing SSO?
I want to run a Windows Active Directory Server and provide LDAP, SAML 2.0 protocol to our trusted applications inside our company to implement SSO.
After googling for a few days I found that ...
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Simulate two domains on one machine to support work/home isolation [closed]
Problem statement: How can I support isolation of identities on a signle in-home network that supports both personal and business resources? I know the Windows NT servers have plenty of methods of ...
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What happens if unlink a GPO?
If I have a GPO that contains a handful of settings - let' say, configured to implement WSUS configuration, some random registry entries, some other Control Panel settings etc.
If I unlink the ...
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How to setup SSL for Active Directory?
I have a Windows 2008 Server (Base2) machine.
In Server Manager > Roles, i can see:
1. Active Directory Domain Services
2. DNS Server
3. Active Directory Certificate Services.
Under Active Directory ...
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Win2008 server replication fails between DC and ADC
Directory Server Diagnosis
Performing initial setup:
Trying to find home server...
Home Server = guis02
Identified AD Forest.
Done gathering initial info.
Doing initial required tests
Testing ...
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AD Replication Errors / KCC - Between two Domain Controllers
I'm having quite an issue that began a few days ago. Let me just lay out exactly what happened - also I've inherited this environment, please keep that in mind.
1st Domain Controller - Windows ...
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Windows Server DNS DHCP and AD [closed]
Sorry I dont know where to ask this. This is not a fault.
I'm planning for test for MCSA and I need to ask some question as i'm unsure about these things.
Can you name 3 different types of DNS ...
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Software deployment via Group Policy to multiple sites
I'm currently upgrading an AD serving a few hundred computers over a couple of dozen sites and decided that it would be a good time to rethink the way that software deployment is organised. Some of ...
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Authenticate ubuntu Nfs server access using windows active directory
I have an Ubuntu NFS server installed. Would like all my team members to have their own username under /home dir on the server. Need to authenticate the access to the NFS server using Windows Active ...
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Active Directory RealmFlags trust for delegation
I have a setup with a Samba4 AD server.
I want to mark my AD as trusted for delegation. So when logging in via putty to my linux server I want the kerberos ticket to be delegated. What I have now is ...
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How to find out why a user account has been locked? [duplicate]
This morning a user was unable to login on his windows account. After unlocking it in the active directory every thing was working again.
Is there a way to see in event viewer or some other place why ...
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wso2 Governance Registry Active Directory integration unable to find valid certification path to requested target
I am attempting to set up a WSO2 Governance Registry server on RHEL5 that will integrate with our Active Directory using ldaps, but normal methods of setting up trust of the domain controllers ssl ...
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OpenLDAP proxy Active Directory : force -b <base> with rwm rules?
We have changed your directory OpenLdap by Active Directory. Many process used OpenLdap.
I create a openldap proxy to access to Active Directory. It works very well... :)
Unfortunately, many ...
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Windows Server Alternative Sign In
In the organization I work for, some users are often in a position where they cannot access their workstations when an administrator needs to do something on their user account or when they need to ...
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Jenkins Active Directory More Secure Authentication Method Required
While trying to activate security on a Windows 2008 R2 hosted Jenkins Version 1.514 with the Active Directory plugin version 1.33 I get the following error while trying to logon:
INFO: Login attempt ...
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How to create and add a self signed certificate in Windows 7 [closed]
I am using Apache Directory Studio to test a application on Windows 7.
I am using ldaps (on port 10636) support and followed the instructions to create a keystore and was able to successfully connect ...
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Remove AD User account with powershell fails
Am trying to delete a list of accounts that are either no longer needed or people who have left our employ. I was thinking powershell would be the easiest and so far have the following script to ...
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How can I proactively detect compromised Exchange 2010 accounts?
We have had issues with compromised Exchange accounts sending out malicious e-mails via SMTP and OWA.
It seems that many of these accounts were compromised via incoming phishing attempts. We are ...
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Accessing Active Directory list on Apple Remote Desktop 3
We are working on a project where a software needs to be deployed on a set of Mac clients connected to a Windows Active Directory server. Software will be pushed from a Mac machine using Apple Remote ...
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LDAP read privileges for comupter, IIS under ApplicationPoolIdentity user
Is it possible to set up LDAP read privileges to Active Directory for computer account?
If I run web application on IIS 7.5, which application pool is running under ApplicationPoolIdentity, I have ...
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Trying to set up Active Directory on Server 2008 R2 and I get a blank Active Directory Administrative Center window
This one really has me stumped.
I've got a Windows Server 2008 R2 box that I administrate over RDP on a regular basis with no problems whatsoever. Today, I decided to try to set it up as a domain ...
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Active Directory authentication for legacy web apps?
I'm not incredibly seasoned with the finer details of AD authentication, but here's what I have. One of the products we use has its own authentication mechanism that provides no AD integration. It ...
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Do I Need to Configure Active Directory Sites if We Have a High Speed WAN?
I work at an organization with 15 physical sites. The corporate headquarters has two DC's, which hold all the FSMO roles between them. Each remote site has one DC onsite.
When I started working here, ...
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New Server 2012 Standard domain controller will not boot after power outage (STOP: 0xc00002e2)
We are in the process of migrating from Small Business Server 2003 to Server 2012 with Exchange 2010. On Saturday we promoted a new Server 2012 VM to a domain controller on the domain (allowing ...
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Best practices for giving right to different groups on catalogs of domain Server 2003 AD
If you have folders like SuperiorFolder and Sub1, Sub2, Sub3, Sub4, Sub5 folders under this.
And you have Group1, Group2, Group3, Group4, Group5 who shall have access to different rights among these ...
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w2k8 AD recover dns data from demoted domain controller
Someone tried to replace their two win 2003 DCs with two new win 2008 DCs by replacing them one at a time (demoted win 2003 DC2 and replaced with 2008 DC2, then demoted 2003 DC1 and replaced it with ...
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Check softwares on all computers on a network [closed]
i recently started a new job as IT and i'm kind of newbie at network management.
So i am asked to prepare an inventory list of all computers. Operating system info, Office Version info, Basic hardware ...
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Running Network-Reliant Processes on Startup
I'm in charge of deploying and modifying a bit of in-house software that is meant to run on end-user workstations, which run either Windows 7 or XP SP3. The goal is to maximize the amount of time the ...
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How to get access to all Client Desktops from the Active Directory Domain Controller?
I have access to Domain Controller 1 and 2 where "Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard" is running. There are also 10 clients running Windows 7 Professional in the domain, more clients to come.
I would ...
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Why is it desirable to have multiple domain controllers in the root domain? [closed]
Why is it desirable to have multiple domain controllers in the root domain in Windows Server with Active Directory?
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What's this odd logon failure I see every day?
I'm having something weird happen on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server.
Every day at exactly 9:00 PM, an Audit Failure is registered in Event Viewer, saying that an account failed to log on for reason ...
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View User's current logon script without domain admin rights
Is there a way to view which logon script is running for an AD user without having domain admin rights.
I've tried gpresult and it isn't displaying any login/logoff scripts, but I believe the script ...
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How to find out if an Active Directory user is being used [duplicate]
We have a number of accounts that are members of the 'Domain Admins' group in Active Directory. Many of these are service accounts and many will probably be redundant.
I need to clear out any ...
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Does Windows Server Domain have any feature that will wipe out a client computer?
A Windows 7 Professional laptop is joined into a Windows Domain during setup and installation in the office network in country X, but it is being used in another country for a long period of time ...
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Does changing a Service from Automatic to Manual mean that it is unable to be started by other services/applications?
Morning all. We have a script that checks for services that are set to Automatic, but not running. It alerts us if this is the case. We've got a couple of services, like SQL Server Active Directory ...
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Migrating Exchange 2007 Users to Exchange 2013
In our company up until now, we've had an on-site Exchange 2007 installation. For the purposes of this question, we have 3 servers :
Exchange07MBX01 (Mailbox, Hub Transport)
Exchange07MBX02 (Client ...
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AD CreateGlobalObject prevents different users from using same global objects
Is there any way to set up Active directory so all users in a group can create/open the same global objects? Maybe there is some sort of trust mechanism where a user can use global objects from ...
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Exchange OWA 2010 signature policy
I have an Exchange 2010 environment. For Outlook (desktop version) we have a script setup in Group Policy to push out standardized signatures across the organization. I want to do the same for OWA, ...
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Active Directory Kerberos issue KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN
We are implementing a system where our clients are Windows XP and our server is Windows Server 2008 R2. Ours clients use DCOM to connect COM+ components in our Windows 2008 Server.
It works fine when ...
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Why is local root able to su to any LDAP user?
We have an LDAP server set up with our Active Directory. When users login to a Linux machine with LDAP client installed as root, they are able to su - into any Active Directory account without ...
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Windows Roaming Profile Reverting to Local Profile
I'm trying to set up roaming profiles within a Windows Server 2012 domain. Here is what I did:
I created a shared folder, which I am able to access at \\dc1\profile when logged in as the roaming ...
