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Remote Domain controller not replicating due to DNS but can still ping by name to and from from all other DCs

I'm having a problem with a remotely located domain controller (Win SRV 2012) not replicating. I can ping by name and FQDN to and from the "bad" DC I can run "net view x.x.x.x" and it works fine, by ...
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Windows server 2012 add hostname [closed]

Hello i need to add an hostname to windows server in order to assign each host name to a different web site, how can i do it? i need to be able to digit in browser http://primayhostname/ ...
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DNS record not added when server joins domain

I've brought up three Windows 2012 VMs inside of an OpenStack cloud. I configured the first one as a domain controller, named "dc" (domain: internal.lorinhochstein.org), and then I joined the other ...
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OpenStack, Windows 2012, DHCP and DNS

I'm trying to set up a Windows domain in virtual machines (VMs) instead inside of an OpenStack deployment. I've configured one of the VMs to be the domain controller (including DNS server), running ...
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clients computers can't resolve windows server's DNS name to join to domain [migrated]

I have set up a Windows Server 2012 Standard edition at home for learning purposes with the IP 10.1.1.2/16. I also have an ADSL wireless router which connects everything together and works as the DHCP ...
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Does changing the Primary DNS Suffix of a Windows Server 2012 machine require a reboot?

My server has the following IP Addresses: 127.0.0.1 192.168.100.103 208.nnn.nnn.180 199.nnn.nnn.29 It's FQDN is mymachine.example.com. However, calling ...
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Windows Server 2012 DNS: default forwarders disables root hints

I've set up a test domain to experiment with windows server 2012. Initially I kept my test machines on a isolated network, but today I installed a pfsense machine to route some traffic to the ...
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DNS Error server 2012 domain

We have a server running 2012 essentials as Domain controller and DNS and a few other bits. But over the last few days suddenly all the client computers on the network have lost Internet connection. ...
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Is it safe to add parent domain as additional zone within DNS?

Our internal Windows domain is ad.company.co.uk. When we try to access mail.company.co.uk (for OWA or Outlook Anywhere, as an example), it resolves to the external IP address of the router and gets ...
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Windows SBS 2012 DNS - client have to constantly restart DNS service

I setup some CNAME entry on our Windows Small Business Server 2012 for our internal applications (git, bug ticketing etc), but every 30 min or so the alias name became un-resolvable until we restart ...
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How can I configure mail.mydns.com in my server to go to a third party mail server?

I just routed my dns A Record to go to my server's ip. The thing is, in that server (lets say 121.0.0.1) I do not have a mail service running/ listening on any port so I hired a third party mail ...
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How to set a computer's primary DNS-Suffix under Windows Server 2012 Core?

On a Windows Server 2012 Core installation, how do you set the computer's primary DNS-Suffix. I do not mean the list of dns suffixes to search on a connection, but the setting that can be changed ...
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Not able to ping new forward lookup zone

I am configuring a SharePoint 2013 On-Premise App Catalog. I created a new forward lookup zone per Microsoft Technet instructions here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161236.aspx My ...
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One server, two DNS records in different networks… How to define which to use

I have a Hyper-V VM that has 2 virtual NICs, in different networks. These different networks travel over different physical infrastructure. Network A is used for management, and goes through a ...
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How do I access the internet without setting all clients to static IP's? Server 2012

I have a small business network using a server that runs Windows Server 2012. It is currently configured with the following roles: ADDS, HDCP, and DNS. The hierarchy is simple: A gateway/firewall, ...
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DNS not responding with IP address

I have 4 windows servers running 2012. One of them is a domain controller and the other 3 are connected to the domain. They all have static IP addresses ranging from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.4, their DNS ...
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Force a new conditional forwarder to propagate to other DNS servers in forest

As in the title... I've made a new (Active Directory connected) conditional forwarder on one of our DNS servers (running Windows Server 2012). Firstly, how long does it take to propagate to other ...
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Pointing 2 Domain Names to 2 Websites hosted on 1 Windows VPS with 1 IP

I have the following: A Softsys Windows 2012 unmanaged VPS running IIS 8 with 2 websites: - inetpub/wwwroot/WebsiteA with bindings 123.xxx.xxx.xxx:8001 - inetpub/wwwroot/WebsiteB with bindings ...
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Server 2012 DNS forwarding - core.company.com

Folks: I'm moving from an old SBS2003 network to Server 2012, and thought I'd take the opportunity to have a spring clean by creating an entirely new AD. My old domain was mycompany.local, however it ...
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Adding second WS2012 Domain Controller, First WS2012 DC's DNS not updated

Here is a rough outline of my network DC1 ----> Firewall1 ---> VPN ---> WAN <--- Firewall2 <--- DC2 --First DC-- IP: 192.168.0.1 SN: 255.255.255.0 GW: 192.168.0.15 DNS: 192.168.2.1 / ...
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Incorrect DNS Records

This is a bit perplexing to me. When I do a NSLOOKUP on 10.0.0.17 it comes back as "ProductionServer01.domain.com" which is a decommissioned server. 10.0.0.17 is actually ...
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Windows Server 2012 AD DC/DNS/DHCP in single server

I have to say I am not a system admin but I had to setup the development environment in my company and I ran into many issues and after searching for many hours I hope somebody can help me out here! ...
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Why is my domain controller causing my router to send advertisements for Unique Local Addresses?

I'm currently evaluating Server 2012 to serve as a domain controller in a small heterogeneous network of Linux and Windows workstations and servers, all of which would eventually be joined to the ...
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Dual-port server acting as router, but LAN can't see WAN

Using Windows Server 2012 Essentials. I've got two ethernet ports. One is connected to a router which is connected to the internet. This portion of the network is fine. The router runs DHCP on the ...
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Windows Server DNS returns .local address

I have a Windows server set up as a webserver but I am also running my DNS on the same machine (I know this is bad practice). I have the domains default zone webserver.hosting.local as well as my ...
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DHCP giving wrong DNS servers

I have a Windows Server 2012 as a DNS and a DHCP server. Now, when a client connects he gets wrong DNS servers from the DHCP server. Not sure where these came from but I'd like to give the clients the ...
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What are all the possible causes of the “An Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for the domain …” error message?

Earlier I was having issues connecting one of my workstations (client) to my domain, and I thought it was because the domain was not in my possession yet (reference: this question). But, due to the ...
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How do you connect to a local domain (i.e. mydomain.local) when you are outside of the network?

I'm in the process of learning Windows Server 2012, so I just did a fresh reinstall of it. Before I actually setup a local domain, I'm wondering how to access this from outside of my network. My setup ...
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How do I change the domain name of my AD DS? [closed]

I recently set up a server with AD DC and used a mydomain.local address for it. I now would like to be able to access the server through remote desktop from outside my local network. So I have ...
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Hosting 3 domains on 3 PC (1 domain per PC) with only 1 static IP address [closed]

Hey all i am trying to figure this out here. I have 3 PC's that are hooked into my router which i have a static IP for. I am currently hosting a web site (ex: blah1.com) on the 1st PC but have yet to ...
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Find DNS server automatically

I've got a Windows 2012 server set up as a domain controller and DNS server in my basement. On my laptop, if I set it to use the IP address of my server as the DNS server, then it works as expected. ...
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Clients not contacting AD to join domain due to SRV record error

I have a new Server 2012 Essentials. Stand alone Domain Controller. I am trying to join a client to the domain with an error regarding missing SRV record. I have joined one client to the domain ...
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Zone transfer Windows Server DNS from NSD

I have a NSD server being primary server for a zone and want a Windows Server (2008 and 2012 RC) box to be secondary for that zone. Everything is configured and working EXCEPT: When Windows receives ...