Active Directory Disappeared
I went to reset a user password, and my Active Directory disappeared from the Administrative Tools menu. When I tried to open it, a message box told me that the disk was full. When I clicked OK, the Active Directory disappeared. I since restarted the server twice, to no avail. I need to add new [...]

Answer Question   |  September 4, 2012  9:05 PM
Active Directory 2000

Is it possible to have 2 Active Directories on one network as an upgrade path ?
Our organisation have an AD on Win2000 and intend to upgrade to 2008. However, we also have quite a few legacy apps and servers and to replicate the environment in lab manager for testing is a huge undertaking. Is there a way we can have both ADs running and then test the AD2008 in the [...]

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2011  9:37 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2000, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory migration, Windows Server 2000

Fetching attribute data from AD 2000 with JNDI API
Is it possible that some attribute data that can be fetched using JNDI APIs from Active Directory 2003 may not be returned from Active Directory 2000? I can fetch attribute values for certain attributes using JNDI from AD2003 but am unable to fetch them using JNDI from AD2000.

Answer Question   |  March 30, 2009  8:21 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2000, API, JNDI

Active directory issue
When we originally went to our 2000/2003 AD domain we had 1 DC that had all the FSMO roles. I have since then transferred all the roles to another server. I want to down the original server long enough to convert it to a virtual server but when I down it all of our user’s [...]

Answer Question   |  April 3, 2009  8:46 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2000, Active Directory 2003, Domain Controller, Virtual Server, Windows Server 2003