Questions tagged [active-directory]
A Microsoft technology that constitutes an LDAP directory service with centralized management functionality for user accounts, computer accounts, groups, and configuration management across many Windows servers and desktops.
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Active Directory Rebuild - User Login
I have around 100+ users in a windows 2008 active directory. There is only one active directory controller / server in the network. If the server hard drive crashed, and if I rebuild the active ...
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infrastructureUpdate type OU called Infrastructure in Active Directory
A new OU called infrastructure with the type infrastructureUpdate has appeared in my Active Directory.
It has just appeared. I have been going through the setup recently and the last major thing I ...
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Best practice DNS in multi-forest environment
I have a multiforest environment, both forests exist in the same network. I want DNS between them to operate as smoothly as possible. Forward lookups are easy and can be handled with conditional ...
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Domain controller is registering 2 IP addresses with DNS
Recently a DC was promoted and the IP was used from the old DC which was demoted and shutdown.How tostop this DC from registering 2 IP addresses with DNS? Please let me know if any questions.
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Can't ping domain controller from PC on a remote subnet
In trying to connect a PC from a remote subnet to our domain controller.
Initally the domain controller couldn't contact the pc, but resetting the vpn connection resolved that.
Currently the PC from ...
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Using Exchange 2013 with Samba as DC
I realize that Exchange relies heavily on AD, and I was wondering if it is possible install Exchange 2013 into an environment that is running Samba 4 as the DC?
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Windows 8.1 Pro migrating "Microsoft live" account to domain account
For a variety of reasons a significant number of our Windows PCs are not joined to our Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory domain. We are in the process of rectifying this, and are joining PCs on a per-...
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How to access a machine with a wrong network address?
I have a Windows Active Directory network in a LAN of addresses 192.168.10.0/24. I have another site that has addresses of 192.168.11.0/24, where all AD servers are in the 192.168.10.0/24 site (I know,...
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Trouble Active Directory windows 2012
We are using a windows server 2012 and we have a problem. Our stations use windows 7 and windows 8.
When we add a person in an access group in our Active directory, the user must restart their ...
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Active Directory 2008 multiple local user accounts
I have installed a new Active Directory 2008 Domain controller into my environment. We are currently running the 2008 AD server as a secondary. The primary AD server is a 2003 Domain Controller. We ...
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Remembering homeMDB & msExchHomeServerName when disabling for later reconnecting
My environment requires me to be able to create Exchange mailboxes on
existing users, disable those mailboxes and then, some time later,
re-enable them and have Exchange reconnect them automatically ...
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SharePoint 2013 Active Directory Group not working
Just setup a new 2013 SharePoint...Put a handful of users in an AD group that was then put in the SP site members group. Works perfect for most people, but some are getting access denied messages to ...
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Removed AD User, Need to Associate Existing Profile to New Account
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Server 2012 R2 (AD Server)
Windows 7 (Users Computer)
Accidentally removed an AD User, stupid mistake. Unfortunately it seems the user was permanently deleted (didn't make use of the ...
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Windows Authentification with IIS and domain groups
We have a web application (ASP.NET MVC) installed on IIS for one of our clients with Windows Authentication enabled.
The authentication is working perfectly but the problem is at the authorization ...
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Identify applications that are configured to connect to a specific domain controller
I work with a Windows domain that has many domain controllers (DCs). I'm looking to remove some of these, but I know there are some applications that are hard-coded to use a specific domain controller ...
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2 different names in Microsoft Active Directory
Can you tell me, how I can keep a name in 2 different languages in Microsoft Active Directory?
One name must be in native language (Russian or Chinese), second in English.
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Unable to edit Account Options with Delegate AD access (Access Denied)
We allow the IT services in other countries to manage certain parts of their AD/OU via Delegate Control. Under one Country OU, the delegate rights to edit Account Options are no longer working. This ...
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Connecting an Azure VM to active directory domain behind ISP NAT
I have an active directory local domain set up with 2 DC's running DHCP and DNS. Because my ISP uses NAT there is no way to host services externally. How can I link an Azure VM into my local active ...
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Creating users on an RODC
I currently have a lab running that contains a RWDC, a RODC and a Client PC. Both Domain Controllers are running W2K8 R2.
The RODC currently functions as a LAN Router, VPN Server, IIS Server and ...
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AD Best Practice for the connection specific DNS suffix network setting
What is best practice for this setting? It also goes by DNS Domain Name in DHCP scope settings.
The only documentation I can find about these suffixes and domain name settings specifies the the ...
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Account lockouts not in Event Viewer
I am having trouble getting Windows Server 2008 to log when domain user accounts are being locked. My Domain Controllers are all Windows Server 2008 R1.
I am able to find Audit Failure events (ID ...
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How to issue a cert for web hosting using ad cert authority
I need to issue a certificate for SSL binding in IIS using Active Directory Certificate Authority.
As far as I understand it should have Purpose=Auth Server and contain private key/be exportable.
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What user accounts are necessary on the domain controller pc?
2012 R2 environment
When a server is created to be a domain controller, it can be setup using the domain\administrator account when is attached to the domain. The machine will also have the default ...
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Install Windows Server 2008 R2 Features and Roles through Group Policy
Can I install windows built-in features and roles through group policy? If there is not a way to do this with group policy, is there some other method to this unattended to a bunch of servers that ...
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Active directory rename computer that has been disconnected
We named a new computer on the domain USER-2014. The computer was for someone who already had a computer on the domain called USER. We discontinued the old computer with name USER and are now looking ...
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Active Directory Mismatch
I have a Active Directory Mistmatch how do I fix this?
I have 2 x 2008 R2 Domain Controllers and a 2008 Domain Controller and I was trying to add a 2012 R2 Domain Controller.
The Schema Version of ...
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Issues with demoting a DC, remnants of failed SBS2011 DC still in directory
So, an environment I'm new to, is having some problems that I'm trying to correct.
Old config: Single SBS2011 server, a second 2008 R2 DC was added at some point. SBS failed, roles were seized and ...
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give permission to Active directory user to enable/disable a device
In my network, one of users uses DOS application and he need the permission to enable and disable his graphic card using devcon command . this user is Active directory user . how can i give him a ...
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Child server cannot detect parent server users
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I have two Windows 2012 R2 servers in a Active Directory forest, one as parent with the domain local.test and another as a child with the domain child.local.test.
The child server has been ...
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How can I list all users in AWS Directory Service?
I'm looking for a way to list all users in an AWS AD (small), preferably with created date (of the user). Is there any way to do this? The AWS console functionality seem somewhat limited. Maybe via ...
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Active Directory structure planning? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I plan for a new Active Directory structure?
I'm planing a new Active Directory structure for a multi-national company that consists for six very different business ...
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Active Directory Domains and Trusts wont start
I just installed Active Directory on Windows Server 2008, but when I tried to open Administrative Tools => Active Directory Users and Computers, it shows me this error meesage :
How can I solve this?...
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Windows Server Domain User and Workstation Software
I have a new server with windows server 2012(domain) and want to add a few new users and workstations( with AD), so all user could login on all workstations. That is easy, but now I would like to add ...
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Allowing Domain Group to Administer IIS Server
I have a Windows 2012 server with IIS 8 on it. I am trying to allow users within a IIS_ADMIN group on my Active Directory to be allowed to administer the server.
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When I log into my ...
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Exchange 2013 and AD/GC issues
I have Exchange 2013 (minimal install and all roles are on a single server) on-premises running on a Windows 2012 R2 server (both Windows and Exchange are patched and up-to-date). Basically this ...
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ADWS on Server 2003 Base
Got a hard one to deal with here.
I am trying to install web services on Server 2003 SP2 (x86/ base NOT R2!) but when I install it I am getting errors with the resulting Log:
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Windows Server 2003 AD Replication error 1864
Quick question on Active Directory replication. The AD topology is simple: Hub site and 10 Branch sites. I have one connection object between Branch "A" DC and Hub DC in Active Directory Sites and ...
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Set group permission on folder
I have a folder with lots of subfolders
D:\Data\Subfolder1
D:\Data\Subfolder2
D:\Data\Subfolder3
D:\Data\Subfolder4
D:\Data\Subfolder5
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I need to create three active directory groups ...
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How do I properly backup AD Users, Groups and OUs?
At work, we have a Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 server that's doing AD for the company. There are multiple Windows client machines that are part of the domain, but that server is the only ...
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Connect PC to domain running on Azure Virtual Machine [closed]
This is my first time working with domains, and I was wondering how I would go about connecting a PC that runs on my home network to the domain controller that runs on a Azure Virtual Machine (eg in ...
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How to define a Management Role Scope which includes multiple OUs in Exchange 2013?
I need to define several custom Management Roles in an Exchange 2013 environment, whose scopes must be limited to recipients in specific OUs; however, these OUs are at the same AD level with other ...
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How can I retrieve a domain computer's details from AWS Directory Service?
I know using the AD module for powershell that we can retrieve domain computers details and export them as csv. My domain is in AWS Directory Service, and I have a computer under this domain. I tried ...
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Why is New-DSComputer failing to join an ec2 instance to the directory services domain?
I have a domain xyz.com in AWS Directory Service, and I am trying to join an EC2 instance to this domain using PowerShell. I can do it manually but I am trying to automate it so that when the next ...
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Weird authentication error from Active Directory Win 2008R2
I am trying to do a ldap query from a OpenBSD client to windows 2008R2 active directory and I am getting this error,"49: Invalid credentials". I don't understand why if I tried the same username and ...
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How to auto run a program on the client side after connecting to AD domain? [closed]
How to run a program on the client desktop after connecting to Active Directory domain ?
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ID Badge Access System for Building with Active Directory Integration [closed]
I hope this is the right place for this question. So, we're looking into setting up a building access that uses badges or cards of some kind. I wanted to ask the users on here if they've had to do ...
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Dynamic Distribution Lists per-group
It's my first time digging into MS Exchange 2013 and I need to do something like this: Each group I create needs a distribution list. Here are the groups and their assigned users:
Group1
User1
User2
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Active Directory 2003 32-Bit to 2012
We're moving from a Windows 2003 32-Bit AD setup to a 2012 R2 environment. My question is whether or not I need to do the upgrade in a step-wise fashion: first to 2008 and then to 2012. I've read ...
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Easy way to resurrect numerous AD clients powered off for 2 years?
I have a pair of active directory domains with a one-way trust where I am attempting to revive some servers (~12, so automated steps would be handy but I can manually do everything if necessary) that ...
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Should my exchange server also be a domain controller?
Please be kind in your response I'm no expert. I just want to know if it's a bad idea or good idea for my Server 2012 server that has Exchange 2013 to also be a domain controller.
We currently have 3 ...
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