About upgrade windows 2003 server domain controller to windows 2008 server
Hi i have domain controller on platform windows 2003 server enterprise edition. I want upgrade this domain controller to windows 2008 server enterprise edition. I have MOC server, Sharepoint server 2003 edition, Exchange serverr 20003 server ent ed. I want to know what may be problem on my upgrade? May be problem on exchange server [...]

Answer Question   |  July 28, 2010  11:34 AM
Domain Controller, Domain Controller Implementation, SharePoint 2003, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller, Windows Server Upgrades

Group Policy Issue – Replication
Hello Everyone, I need some help with a Group Policy issue. We have a large network about 44k user accounts and we are a native 2003 domain level with 4 domain controller (2003) and one 2008 domain controller. The PDC – Emulator is a 2003 unit. Here’s our issue; when I develop a new Group [...]

Answer Question   |  July 27, 2010  9:04 PM
Domain Controller, Group Policy, Group Policy Errors, Primary Domain Controller (PDC), Windows Server 2003 Group Policy

2008 Member Server in 2003 Domain
We have a Windows Server 2008 member server in a 2003 domain with 2 domain controllers. It holds our Exchange 2007 server and some other data. For the last two weeks, off and on, we have had a problem logging into Exchange from the outside. The problem will appear, and then go away. The last [...]

Answer Question   |  July 27, 2010  6:59 PM
Active Directory, Domain Controller, Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2003 32-bit, Windows Server 2003 Domain, Windows Server 2003 R2 x64, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 64-bit, Windows Server 2008 Member Server

event id 13: Auto enrollment error on my bdc
my bdc has an auto enrollment error, Do i need to add my bdc as a member to the certsvc_dcom_access ? Auto enrollment error is in applications on event viewer.

Answer Question   |  July 22, 2010  2:18 PM
Backup Domain Controller (BDC), BDC, Domain Controller, Event ID 13, Multiple Domain Controllers

Workaround for adding a DC for backup to SBS 2003 network
Can I add a second domain controller for backup to my SBS 2003 network? I know it says that I can’t, but there has to be a hack or work around! Anyone? We need to have a backup ad machine!

Answer Question   |  July 22, 2010  7:35 PM
Backup, Domain Controller, Hacking tools and techniques, SBS 2003, SBS 2003 administration, SBS 2003 configuration

How do I echo a “y” choice in this bat file?
I have the following bat file. I did not create it, but got it off of the MS scripting site. We are going to migrate data from an old nt server to a new server. The company has been using this server for about 10 years and everybody has one or more drives mapped to [...]

Answer Question   |  August 16, 2010  6:34 PM
.bat file, Domain Controller, ECHO, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller, Windows XP, Windows XP SP3

MSFO rules move problem
Hi. I have 2 domain controller: DC1 and DC2. firs the rules was in DC1. i moved it to DC2.  After moving system gived me role moved syccesifull but when i checked in dc1 operation master (AD users and computers -operation masters) i totised “error” (there were written) [strong]Infrastructure Master[/strong] ,RID ,PDC Emulator. Then i [...]

Answer Question   |  July 19, 2010  3:53 PM
Domain Controller, Exchange 2003, Moving MSFO rules, Windows Server 2003

Windows 2008 Server R2 and XP Clients don’t have Internet access
I have a Windows 2008 r2 server w/AD, DNS & DHCP configured. The gateway is a D-Link DIR-655 w/DHCP disabled. The server has internet access, but authenticated XP clients don’t. How to fix this? Dcdiag /test:dns /e /v test passed Server is Windows 2008 r2 -Server NIC set to Local DNS -Server has internet access [...]

Answer Question   |  June 25, 2010  8:29 PM
Active Directory, D-Link DIR-655, DHCP, DNS, Domain Controller, Networking, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP clients, Windows XP Professional SP2

Update schema for Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers into Windows Server 2003 forest?
We are going to put Windows server 2008 R2 64 domain controllers into an existing windows server 2003 forest. All 2003 domain controllers are 32 bit. Will i need to update the schema for this?

Answer Question   |  June 22, 2010  3:09 PM
Domain Controller, Windows Server 2003 Forest, Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller, Windows Server 2008 R2

DCDIAG search failed with error 58
Last week my servers lost power, and now every night the DC seems to get demoted. The only event errors I receive are File Replication errors. Due to low disk space on my root partition. (2GB free currently) I haven’t had these issues before with lower disk space so I wouldn’t think this is the [...]

Answer Question   |  June 16, 2010  12:34 PM
Active Directory, Domain Controller, File Replication errors, Windows Server 2003

to set Remote Desktop Policy…..
Hi I wana active remote desktop policy for all clients in the domain,so I go to the following path: on my DC ->Default domain polict->edit->computer configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Component ->Terminal Service but there aren’t any policy under Terminal Service!!!! I know there must be a policy(Allow users to connect remotely using Terminal Services) for activation remote connection!!but there [...]

Answer Question   |  June 15, 2010  5:24 AM
Domain Administration, Domain Controller, Group Policy, Remote Desktop Policy, Terminal Services Client Control

Domain Not available while logging in
HI, We have recently installed patch in the server after that I am not able to login to the domain saying error ” The system could not log on now because doiman rott is not avilableDomain not available” But we able to login through ILO using Domain account in to the server. We tried SFC scan [...]

Answer Question   |  June 17, 2010  4:14 PM
DC, Domain Controller, Domain Controller Best Practices, Domain management

Application Server acting as DC
Hi everyone, I just installed 2 HP DL380 G6 Series Server at my company all runing window 2003 32/64bit version. The 32bit is been used as an Application because the application only support 32bit OS with R2. while my Domian Controller is running 64bit R2. The interesting thing is I mistakenly set a wrong time [...]

Answer Question   |  June 10, 2010  3:17 PM
Application Server, Domain Controller, HP DL380 G6, Windows Application Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 64 bit

Unable to contact domain controller for Windows Server 2003
I work for a small school – we don’t have a qualified network engineer, so I do what I can. We have a MS school agreement, so have licences for 2003 server. We were given a used, but still good, server with 2003 Server installed. I attach it to a network port and the status [...]

Answer Question   |  July 7, 2010  3:04 PM
Domain Controller, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain

Starting VM as an executable with as low overhead as possible
Is there a solution to create a virtual machine and start it by having an executable file, that will start the machine? If possible to start as quickly as possible. Strange situation? Not at all. Read on… Real life scenario Since we can’t have domain controller on a non-server OS it would be nice to [...]

Answer Question   |  June 1, 2010  2:49 PM
Domain Controller, Virtual machine manager, Virtualization, Virtualization in 2010, VMware

Domain Controller on a Virtual Machine?
I am looking to add a second domain controller to our network. Is it wise to do this on a virtual machine? Are there any “side effects” that I should ponder.

Answer Question   |  May 19, 2010  1:38 PM
DC, Domain Controller, Virtual Machines, VM, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller

User login issue following AD installation
I have a machine (which is not the domain controller and I have only remote access to this machine) on a domain X. I tried to promote this machine as a domain controller (domain name Y), during which this machine got disjoined from the domain X. I had logged in as a user from domain [...]

Answer Question   |  April 28, 2010  4:53 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory Installation, Domain Controller, Local Administrators Group

Promoting a machine(part of a domain) to a new domain controller
I have a machine(which is not the domain controller and I have only remote access to this machine) on a domain X, now I tried to promote this machine as a domain controller (domain name Y), during which this machine got disjoined from the domain X. I had logged in as a user from domain [...]

Answer Question   |  April 28, 2010  7:30 AM
Active Directory, Domain Controller, Remote access

I have a domain controller (DNS, DHCP) with ISA and Exchange Servers, and I want to install a child domain.
I have a domain controller (DNS, DHCP) with ISA and Exchange Servers, and I want to install a child domain. If anyone has some experience in this area and has come across helpful tutorials, I would really appreciate it, particularly in whether a child domain will interfere with the Exchange Server 

Answer Question   |  April 12, 2010  2:23 PM
Child Domain, Domain Controller, Domain Server configuration, Domain Server installation, Exchange Server, Networking in 2010

Windows server 2008 R2 and windows server 2003 domain controller co existence
Has anyone experienced any issues when windows server 2008 r2 domain controllers and windows server 2003 domain controller exist together?

Answer Question   |  April 7, 2010  3:11 PM
Domain Controller, Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller, Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller