In Microsoft Active Directory and NT4 domains, a domain controller is the central repository for all of the user account authorization information. It allows a person to sign on once and be allowed access to many different resources.
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Domain Name does not resolve to site's DC
I am facing a puzzle:
My company has several branches, each branch's subnets have been defined in their own respective site, and each branch has its own RODC.
However, when pinging to the domain ...
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Why does a Windows Domain have two names?
I am working at corporate headquarters called Papermash. I joined their domain on my Win7 Pro, what I found interesting is that I could login to the domain using credentials PAPERMASH\username, and ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 - DHCP Failover
We currently have 2 domain controllers for failover running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Is it possible to mirror DHCP scopes on both DC's?
Also how do I go about finding what settings were originally ...
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Caveats when renaming a server and giving a new server the old server's name?
We have a new 2008 R2 server to be replacing a 2003 R2 server (which is a DC and has DNS/DHCP/DFS/etc.). Here's an outline of my plan...
Rename the old server to ServerOld
Give the new server the ...
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SMTP server force outbound traffic
I'm having some trouble with setting up a SMTP server on a windows server 2003 machine, while trying to send emails using PHP through the internet, but to domain email addresses.
Common info:
I'm a ...
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active directory slow logins
I have a quick question about domain controller requirements. We have about 600 users in 1 large network and a few terminal servers. We have about 300 users logging into their machines around the same ...
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BAD DC transfering FSMO Roles to ADC
I have a DC (FQDN:server.icmcpk.local) and an ADC (FQDN:file-server.icmcpk.local).
Recently my DC is facing a bad sector problem so I changed the Operation Masters to file-server for all five roles. ...
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Remote office domain controller setup
I'm looking to setup Active directory for my workplace. We have a main office in Ohio and two remote offices in Texas and California. My goal is to have a domain controller at each office, we ...
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Setting up a simple domain for testing without disturbing my regular workgroup based LAN
I would appreciate it so much if someone could guide me through setting up a small domain with windows 2003.
My regular lan uses a router to issue ip addresses to a few pcs. The router's ip address ...
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Can I re-use IP address of a failed Domain Controller for a new Domain Controller
One Domain Controller in my domain failed and can't be recovered. I've seized the FSMO roles onto the surviving DC, and performed metadata cleanup.
Now, I'm in the process of installing a replacement ...
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gpsvc consuming ldap ports?
I have an odd issue with my Group Policy service on one of my domain controllers.
For some reason the gpsvc service within one of my svchosts is consuming a huge number of ports. The destination ...
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Workstation added to Domain, won't appear in all Domain Controllers
We recently upgraded our primary Domain Controller. The new DC is a new box with Windows Server 2008 R2, the old one was Windows Server 2003.
We did a full migration of domain accounts to the new ...
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How to disable UAC on a domain controller?
I need to disable UAC on a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller, but I can't access its settings through the usual path (Control Panel -> User Accounts -> User Accounts), because a DC doesn't have ...
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Domain Controller issue
Our DC was having issues so we built a new server to replace it. It's running 2003 (same as previous DC). I ran DCpromo and transferred roles to the new DC. Now Users are having issues connecting to ...
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How does Microsoft Active Directory handle user authentication? [closed]
As I am looking for more information for my final exam I was wondering how the process of authenticating Windows users works.
In my own imagination it could possibly go like this:
user enters ...
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Dell poweredge R310 rackserver
cant able to join the Domain in Dell Poweredge R310 server its giving an error as follow
( An Active Directory Domain Contorller for the Domain could not be Contacted )
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How to login between 2 domain controllers with the same username? [closed]
We are having 2 domain controllers.
One domain controller is Windows 2008 Sp2 and another one is Windows 2008 R2.
Is it possible to use the same username/Password to login from W2K8 Sp2 to W2K8 r2?
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Window Server 2008R2 - Two Domains
With 1 physical server machine (installed with Window Server 2008R2), can I have two domains? For example, testA.com and testB.com. Each of these two domains has its own user groups.
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Slow RDP after server joins domain
We're having RDP issues with Amazon cloud servers that we recently joined to an Active Directory domain. The setup is:
A local office network
A virtual private cloud in Amazon
An IPSec tunnel ...
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place of domain controller and exchange in network
I am searching for the best practice of securely deploying windows domain controller and exchange in a small-medium size network (50+ users, 20+ virtual servers). The topology is single firewall ...
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How do I set up a one way trust when some DCs are firewalled off from each other?
I have two Windows 2008 forests in Win2003 mode and I need to set up a one way trust between them. The validation button in Domains And Trusts works in one forest but not in the other.
I think this ...
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Active Directory Subdomain vs new “Tree in Forest” … is there a difference?
We have the forest named "company.com" and are debating between "thing.company.com" versus "thing.local". My understanding is that the latter is called a "Tree in a Forest"
What are the deciding ...
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Can I create a DC without a DNS Server?
So as the title says, I need to promote a standalone Win2008R2 server to a Domain Controller, and I don't a DNS Server (I think), as there will be no clients connected to the domain, it will be only ...
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How to convert a domain account to a local account
I have a Windows 7 laptop that was connected to a Windows domain controller. The domain controller is no longer in operation and has been shut off. The laptop, now stand alone, works fine, but I want ...
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Windows 2003 Active Directory Integrated DNS zone not registering non-domain computers
I'm not a networking guy by all means, I'm just a developer who dabbles enough to get into trouble and I'm there. So bear with me... :)
At my office I have a Windows 2003 Domain Controller which ...
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Re-Syncing and Updating Domain Controller Clocks
Right now in Windows Server 2008 R2 I have ran this in the Administrator: Command Prompt.
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:bigben.cac.washington.edu /syncfromflags:MANUAL
net stop w32time & net ...
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Adding another domain controller to a small 2008R2 network: steps I am missing(?)
I did a search and found a few different tips for adding a new one, but I'm pretty new to this. This one, however, is literally a clone on the same hardware setup and everything.
I have DC1 already ...
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The attempt by user DOMAIN\USER to restart/shutdown computer SERVER failed
I logged on to my domain controller today to find the following event logged in my event viewer
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: USER32
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1073
Date: 3/19/2012
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Can't login to SQL Server 2008 on Domain Controller [closed]
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Cannot connect to SQL Server
I had SQL Server 2008 functional before I installed Active Directory and setup a domain (this is on Server 2008 R2, the only domain ...
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Should I join the domain with my new server before I run dcpromo?
Brand new server, 2008 r2. I want it to eventually be my forest root. Should I go ahead and join it to the domain as just a member server and then do all the ? Should I run adprep before I join the ...
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Join a domain from inside a Hyper-V guest OS
I have a Windows Server 2008 inside Hyper-V.
My host OS is a Domain Controller.
I can ping my network from the guest OS, but I can't join the domain. It gives a DNS error:
The operation ...
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Windows Domain Server DNS Settings
This should be a really simple question I hope. I have configured Windows domain servers in my home environment before, and set up the network adapter like so:
IP: 192.168.1.2
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
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Is DC demotion affecting RDP connections?
Our Terminal Services Server is Win 2003 running Microsoft RDP 5.2. The RDP connections from outside of the network used to be smooth but they are now choppy and unreliable because the user is ...
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MS SBS 2011 Essentials Domain Controller Virtualization
Best practices seem to state that you should separate the domain controller/active directory stuff from any other business functions. However, Microsoft's latest server release Windows Small Business ...
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DNS settings for domain controller with dual nics one facing internet directly and one to router
I have a server with 2 NICs. One of them is connected directly to the internet (it's on public IP)
The other NIC has a private IP and connects to our router which is connected to the internet also ...
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Domain Controller thinks its on a Public Network
We have a Server 2008 R2 Primary Domain Controller that seems to have amnesia when it comes to working out what kind of network it is on. The (only) network connection is identified at startup as a ...
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Grant remote access on domain computer to single user
We have a small network with a DC, webserver & user computers.
I need to grant remote access with admin privileges to the webserver for a consultant that we are currently working with but not ...
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cannot add machine to DC
A have a lab that has some VM's:
SrvDom: main DC / Server 2008 x64
SrvSQL: SQL Server 2008 testing / Server 2003 x86
SrvAppV: App-V testing / Server 2003 x64
and other XP Clients
The SrvAppV ...
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How do I cleanly shutdown a Windows 2003 server, the domain controller, without a monitor?
A service tech was on-site Friday, and among other things, installed a second RAID array (RAID 1) for user data in this Windows 2003 server. It boots from a RAID 5 array. This server is the only ...
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Can DPM 2007 back up virtualized Domain Controllers?
I'm reading this article on caveats and best-practices for running DCs in VMs. It states that the only way to back up a virtualized DC would be to use Windows Server Backup on the guest, due to ...
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Is it possible for an AD domain's DNS name to point to a web server instead of the DCs?
My active directory domain's name is "mywebsite.com" instead of "mywebsite.local". I had to do this as a workaround to other issues, and to change it will be a pain. When people inside of my company ...
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Remove a 2nd Nic IP on a DC
In a windows 2003 DC (with DNS role) I need to remove a 2nd ip (added many years ago by precedent sysadmin and no one know why!) on a single NIC.
This because the domain have a new trust with an other ...
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Small business, affordable content filter for windows domain controller? [closed]
Our church has been gifted an old Dell Poweredge box which we'd like to use as a DC and content filter for our LAN.
We have about 5 PCs on site full time which will make use of the DC and access it's ...
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Need for another Domain Controller
I have two domain controllers (Windows 2003) in one site where most of the department I support resides. There is another building (at another site) where my department resides as well, but they have ...
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Determine what exe is running under a given SID
One of my domain controllers is an abnormally large number of windows auditing events. The common thread I have been able to identify is that 90% of these logs share a common SID. Several thousand may ...
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Permissions for Scheduled Tasks on a Domain Controller
I'm trying to run a Scheduled Task on a 2008 R2 Domain Controller and all was well until I set it into the production environment. I'm running the task as a Domain User that's defined in the "Log on ...
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Listing all windows machines names and IPs
I would like to list all machines names from a domain and their current ip if they are online.
I am thinking of using dsquery on the domain controller to list all machines.
I am wondering:
Will it ...
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Problems running LDAP query on 2008 R2 DC. The same one works on a 2003 DC
If I run the following LDAP sentence on a 2008 R2 Domain Controller,
adoCommand.CommandText = "<LDAP://my2008DC.MyChild.MyPDC.com/CN=Enterprise ...
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How to temporarily stop time syncing with domain controller?
I wish to do some testing on my local machine which requires me to put the date forward a year. So I can test some stuff in SQL Server (i've found it not possible to override the sql server time).
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Remote access dialog doesn't show users
I am trying to set up remote access for her but the computer doesn't have any local users and the computer has nothing except for the computer in the places dialog box when I go to add users to the ...
