Active Directory

Group Policy and Desktop Icons

I have a few servers running Windows 2003 Server and I want to add desktop icons through a group policy in AD. The icons I want to add are fairly basic (ie shortcut to services) What is the best to do this, it would be the same icons added for every user which logs into the server.

Two AD Forests, One Exchange server

We have a requirement within our corporate structure, to consolidate all email domains. This internet domain is owned by our sister company, let's call it internet_domain.com We would like all users across ADdomainA and ADdomainB to use Exchange_Server1, which is a member of ADdomainA. The AD...

File Replication Between Servers for AD

I have three domain controllers and on one server I am receiving Event error 13508 messages which tells me the server is not replicationg. I tried a manual replication through Sites and Services and received a RPC server is unavailable. The server which is not working correctly is in a different...

Exchange Server 2003 Mailbox Issues

Hi, Our Network is a single AD domain distributed across two sites (Site 1, Site 2). Each site got One exchange server 2003 with latest patches and SP's on Windows2003R2 Servers. If a new user account is created on Site 1 which got Exch01, every thing works fine. If create user account on Site2...

Deploying Sites with AD

I have done some research on sites within AD and it seems to be the way to go. My only concern is deploying a site configuration into an existing network. There would be two subnets which would be affected which are in two different geographical locations. Can anyone share an experience deploying...

Windows 2008 in Win 2003 SBS Domain - AD Issues.

Hi, I'm trying to help sort out some teething issues with a Win2008 Std Svr incorporated into an existing Win2k3 SBS Domain. The 2008 Svr was preped to join the existing SBS Domain as a seconday member server. But they have recently being having access issues & the Sys Log is displaying Event ID...

Domain Controllers within two Sites

I am currently investigating sites within AD. The configuration which I am looking at doing is having two DC within the main site (top of the tree) and one DC in the new site created. If for some reason with the new site the DC server goes down will the clients still be able to login using the DC...

Single login account for CAD lab

How do I set up ADS to let uses login to a single account on a CAD workstation where all the licenses and project profiles are setup ? ADS logins want to create separate user accounts on the workstation, and that requires a license setup for each user, which is impossible to manage.

Create a AD distribution list which is able to receive external email

Using Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 2003, I would like to know if it is possible to set up a Distribution List (containing internal users) to be able to send and receive external emails ?

Migration: Move a user from one domain (Child Domain) to another domain (Parent Domain).

Hi, Please tell me the step that how to move a user from a child domain to the parent domain. Since if we move a user from child domain to parent domain The SID will change The UPN Prefix will be changed and Etc.. In this case how can we migrate. Note: i know that the SID can be maintained via...

AD Domain Admin permissions to SQL

Can a Domain Admin grant himself permissions to a SQL database? Or, put another way, can a Domain Admin make himself equivalent to the SA account?

Active Directory Properties

How under active directory individual properties or else where to be able to Globally remove the default, under Remote Control for Require user's permission.

OWA access when AD account expired.

In our Exchange environment users whose AD account is expired , they are able to log in to OWA . If i not wrong they should get "HTTP : 403 forbidden access " error . Please suggest ....

Free Chapter - Manage fine-grained password and account lockout policies

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How many servers needed for this Exchange 2007 setup?

Hello, Does it possible to host and deploy Exchange server 2007 on the server host domain controller, active directory and DNS ? I would like to open up the Exchange server to the Internet so it can host the public E-Mail ! My question is: How many servers do I need to deploy Exchange 2007 and...

creating user accounts in server 2008

in the new server 2008 is there something specific that needs to be running or activated to let scripts run? my scripts from server 2003 fail on server 2008. i am writing them in VB.

Setup Prepareschema Active Directory on Exchange server

where do you run setup /prepareschema from AD or the exchanger server?

Active Directory seeing new computer as pre 2000?

We are using windows server 2003 and computers that are only a year or two old are showing up in AD as windows pre-2000 computers. Is there any way to correct the issue? These computers are running XP pro, vista and the beta windows 7rc operating systems.

Disappearing of documents in AD user profiles

documents mapped to user profiles in AD disappeared and i dont know how it happened how do i retrieve them. There is folder redirection on the My documenys folder to a specific location on the server.

Active Directory

Dear Sir, I've domain controller and all office data is also in it so all officers are using this system also as a data/file server. One officer is doing wrong this such as he is continuously hiding folders so now i want to search it who is doing this in domain. waiting...