Domain Controller

Specify file share logins for 2003

Does anyone know how to make Windows 2003 identify a specific user each time that person accesses a share on a file server? The Audit Policy is set so that "Audit account logon event" and "Audit account management" and "Audit logon events" are all set to record Success and Failure. We also have...

Network speed slow down over distance and time - Upgrades needed? (REVISED)

I apologize for the double post, but I didn't do my tags right. --------------------------- Hello all, I am a relatively new IT staff member of a few months. My title is Tech Support Specialist, but the business has only one IT staff member on this site (engineer/maintenance turned IT) and he...

Exchange Server 2007 running on Server 2008 following error. "The exchange server is currently unavailable, outlook must be online to perform this ac

I have a 2007 exchange environment; with Exchange Server 2007 running on Server 2008. I have installed Exchange service pack 1. I have one domain controller and one domain. The problem I am having is when I try to connect an outlook client to the Exchange server. When I start the client to...

GC Query

How do you view all the GCs in the forest?

exchange 2003 installation Domain controller is server 2003 Standard Ed

Sir, it is ok that My domain controller is server 2003 Standard Ed, then i am going to install a separate server for my exchange , which i use server 2003 enterprises for my exchange server. my target that i am going to use a enterprises for my exchange server .plss advice me.

VPN won't authenticate

Hi, We have an Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition SP 1 - Small Business Edition Domain Controller and a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition SP 1 ISA Server 2006. We have VPN setup in ISA and the administrator user has no problems connecting. With any other user we are denied access. ...

Domain Controller and Exchange migration to new hardware

Dear friends I'd like to ask about How to migrate a domain controller onto different hardware as this domain controler is alsow an Exchange server ( one machine ) I have a new server and i'd like to replace the old one with the new one Thank you

IIS website not accessible to network and remote computers

I have a site hosted with IIS v6 on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 on a Windows domain (the DC is a spearate machine). The site is accessible by typing in "localhost" on the server, but a "Cannot Display the Webpage" error is displayed (in IE) when trying to access the site using either the public or...

Not able to see replication between Domain controllers

Hi I used setup guide for SMTP replication as given in this site and after that I was able to see SRPL and DRSR(superset of SRPL) Packets in Netmon(MS Network Monitor tool) but I am unable to see Replication between Domain Controllers.Can anybody help me in this?Its Urgent

how to clone mirrored scsi drives to larger array on win2k3 domain controller

proliant ml310 Domain Controller (only dc in forest) AHA2940UW/2 scsi drives mirrored the drives have 2 partitions - c: containing the os (win2k3 std) and f: containing the shared data problem: drive f: is running out of room. Client has asked me to increase the storage on f:. I don't want to...

I'm merging two domains within the same forest. Both domains and the forest are Windows 2003 Native.

I'm merging two domains within the same forest. Both domains and the forest are Windows 2003 Native. Domain B has a single server that is a DC with Exchange 2003. I have a new member server with stand alone Exchange 2003 in domain A. I'm attempting to run the user migration tool from Domain A...

How do you view replication properties for Active Directory partitions and Domain Controllers

How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?

Moving DC to a new 2003 Server.

I currently have a small business with 10 workstations, and a Win 2000 Svr Domain Controller running one sql based application. I am moving the domain controller to a new 2003 Server and demoting the 2000 server to an application server. Is it best to just start the domain and active directory from...

Authentication only working from one domain controller

We have a branch office 2003 AD design. One of our groups hosts their division's AD servers. Each site has 2 domain controllers in which they share the rolls. They are complaining that when the global catalog server is down or not available authentication fails. Any ideas as to why this would...

Aditional Domain Controller

How to setup aditional domain controller in windows 2003?

Installing Exchange 2003 Active Directory Connector

We are upgrading our NT domain to Active Directory. This domain is required to be a part of an existing forest. After we upgrade the domain controller to Windows 2003, we would need to install the Active Directory Connector. Because there are numerous Windows NT BDCs, it would not be possible to...

WinXP Domain Controller

I have a Win2000 Server. On workstaion identified by 'A' has WinXP OS with SP2. The another workstaion identified by 'B' has also WinXP OS with SP2. I have created two(2) user on Server named 'abc' and 'xyz'. I can connect both 'A' and 'B' PC to domain server by login ID 'abc' successfuly. Case-1....

Proxy server authentication

I want to configure my squid proxy server for my existing domain, which has windows 2003 server as domain controller. So I want to authenticate users who want to connect to the internet through my active directory database. Can anybody help me out with how to do the configuration? Please reply as...

Promortion of a menber server to Domain Controller

OK, here's the deal... we've got two DC's in a Windows server 2003 network, supporting about 150 end users. Our primary DC is on-site; our secondary DC is at a co-location site several hundred miles away. The secondary DC (call it DC2) has experienced a drive failure in it's RAID 5 array (no...

Error when adding PC to Domain

I have a network of 30 computers all in a workgroup. I want to bring all the PCs into a Domain. I have already created the Domain and named it 'velex'. I've added two PCs already, but while adding another PC it gives me an error like "A domain controller for the domain 'velex' Could not be...