Active Directory

Impact on Exchange 2007 SP1 when you run ForestPrep and Domain Prep to install additional Windows 2008 DC

I work for an organization ,where active directory is windows 2003 with windows 2003 forest functional level and windows 2003 domain functional level . I have exchange 2007 sp1 running on windows 2003 R2 Enterprise edition with SP2. I'm in the process of introducing 2008 domain controller to...

Netlogon share problem

We have 40 AD servers in different sites, we are keeping the folder redirection path, mandatory profile etc in the netlogon folder with a folder name called "gpfolderredirection", but in two ADs, this folder is automatically gettting renamed such as gpfolderredirection_NTFRS_4c56e802 and...

Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Group Policy

I am using windows 2003 Active directory to mange approx 50 users in my organization. it ans ad agency and all the users required full time internet access. All the users are login to the domain as normal user( and locally they are limited user). In this case the users don't have the right to open...

Update SharePoint AD Info

Hi, we need to read/update AD information from SharePoint. When creating a new DirectoryEntry instance, we have to use the overload which requires a username and password to read and update. This works fine. What we would really need is to use the signed on user to query /update AD. When we use a...

deny ipods dhcp

Hi, I want to deny ipod users DHCP. W2K3 Domain with AD. Any ideas how to stop them? thanks guys.

Update Sharepoint AD User profiles

Our employee profiles like skills,Address and past projects in AD has gotten messy as they are changing every day. I want keep them updated, yet hours of hard work returns nothing. Any solution?

Can ADMT v3 be used as an export tool?

Can the Active Directory Migration Tool v3 be used as an export tool? And then used to import to a new domain without having to configure a trust between the domains. Thank you. Moderator Note: This is a user submitted question

Move or delete a protected OU

The default option "Protect container from accidental deletion" was selected when I created an OU in the wrong place. So how can I move or delete the OU now? Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a user submitted question

AD DHCP leases and renamed computers not be cleaned up.

We currently rely on DHCP to update DNS.(Note: DNS Scavenging isn't enabled b/c it has removed needed records in the past)..... We often run into problems where renamed computers have their old computer name record remain in dns b/c the lease never actually expired. This creates tons of orphaned...

Setup new 2003 Domain Controller seperate from current NT4 PDC

Small Company - 10 users at each Site. Site A and Site B have no active directory relationship. (Seperate forests) Site A has two NT4 Servers (PDC and BDC) and a 2003 Server connected to the domain. No internal DNS at Site A. Site B has two 2003 Servers as Domain Controller and DNS. Site A - I...

Active Directory spin off

I have a company that is spinning off a big portion of their company into an individual company. This company will be completely independent of the source company but all of the relevant servers will need to be moved to the new company IT infrastructure approximately 90 or so. Several of these...

Windows Server 2008 - Error 0x80094801 Denied by Policy Module

Hi im trying to import a certificate request from a Linux server on a windows 2008 enterprise certificate authority domain controller. The certificate is in PKCS10 format. When I try to import it using the Microsoft certification authority tool I receive the following message: Log Name: ...

Problem installing Exchange 2007 Management Tools

We are trying to install the Exchange 2007 Management Tools on a 32-bit virtual PC (MSVPC). The following message is received and installation fails: The computer does not belong to a valid Active Directory site. Check the site and subnet definitions. The computer has been removed and re-added to...

AD Folder redirection fails on newly installed client machines

Hi to all IT coleagues, Recently I am having following issue: There is an active Group Policy for Folder redirection in our domain. "My Documents" and "Desktop" are redirected to the home folder on a file server. The policy worked fine, but nearly a month ago, I found out, that newly added client...

Active Directory problems

I am replacing two Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain Controllers that are also DNS servers, DHCP and WINS servers. They are two different sites and two different IP addresses - 10.10.10.xx and 10.10.30.xx. I have attempted to configure these two servers indentical to the two I have but I can...

How do I add objects to AD in Windows 2008 enterprise server

How do i add objects to AD in Windows 2008 enterprise server

Baseline Windows Server 2003 installation and configuration

I have just loaded Windows Server 2003 onto my Dell server. It's a pleasure to log onto it after struggling to load a RAID 5 driver for over a week. I haven't installed Active Directory, IIS or the RDP. I don't have any internet connectivity although I've plugged it into my home wireless router. ...

E2k7 receipient policy exclusiv for an OU

Hello, is it possible to make an receipient policy exclusivly for an Organisation Unit in AD?

Windows 2003 - computers at different locations with the same ip

've been tasked designing a plan to allow users to use their credentials on the servers at our diaster recovery site. I'm a unix guy, and am swimming way past the ropes. Here is the situation: We have a datacenter for our production servers. It is a Windows 2003 level domain, with all Windows...

dns suffix issue - please help!

Hello, We are currently restructuring our company's DNS which is all server 2003. Each of our sites are being added into dns so they will have their own zones. What I noticed is that as soon as I put, say, miami.company.local as the primary domain suffix on a client, that machine is no longer...