Setting up Windows Server 2003
what are the step by step setups after installing windows server 2003?

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  9:07 AM
Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Installation

Is it possible to promote a windows storage server 2008 os to a domain controller as well?
I was wondering if it was possible to run dcpromo on a windows 2008 storage server to make it also a domain controller or is the storage server version OS unable to be promoted?

Answer Question   |  May 19, 2010  9:43 PM
Domain Controllers, Windows 2008 Domain Controller, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller, Windows Storage Server 2008

Domain controller
What other services a domain controller provide other than those related to maintaining an Active Directory? What arre the factors that should be taken into conderations when engaging the additional services?

Answer Question   |  March 4, 2010  1:59 AM
Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP

DHCP Permission issues in my domain
I have a number of dhcp servers installed on DCs in various offices. I need to assign a local admin in one of the remote offices permission to manage the dhcp server in his site not all dhcp servers. If I add admin to the default local dhcp administrator group in ADUC I believe he [...]

Answer Question   |  March 9, 2010  5:42 PM
Active Directory Users and Computers, Administration, Administrative privileges, DHCP, DHCP Permissions, DHCP server, Domain Controllers

how to network computers
please i would like to know how i can network two computers,making one a domain controller

Answer Question   |  February 14, 2011  2:17 PM
Domain Controllers, Network Configuration, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

How to add an Additional Domain controller in an existing environment and promote it as Domain Controller
Our environment contains two domain controllers with windows 2003 as O/S with the ip 10.0.2.12/8 and 10.0.2.13/8. Due to old hardware we want to install our domain controllers on new hardware with different IP as 192.168.15.1/24 and 192.168.15.2/24. Please provide me the steps to install the domain controller and decommission the old domain controllers. We are using [...]

Answer Question   |  September 11, 2012  10:50 AM
Acitve Directory, Domain Controllers, VLAN, Windows Server 2003

certficate problem on Backup Domain Controller
Hi I removed First domain controller certificate then created new certificate. Then i installed new certificate to backup domain controller. Once the problem resolved. A little bit later the problem return again I thing that reason is certificate. The error like this: [strong]The currently selected KDC certificate was once valid, but now is invalid and [...]

Answer Question   |  September 11, 2012  7:58 AM
Active Directory, Backup Domain Controller (BDC), DNS, Domain Controllers

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

Answer Question   |  September 6, 2012  6:12 AM
Active Directory, Active Directory Partitions, Domain Controllers, Partitions

What is LSARPC
We have Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controller. we are facing some problem with CPU utilization. When I captured to traffic using sniffers I figured out a portocl called LSARPC  which is freqently used by clients to communicate with Domain Controllers. I am wondering what is this LSARPC?

Answer Question   |  August 30, 2012  7:32 AM
CPU Utilization, Domain Controllers, LSARPC, Sniffers, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance, Windows Server Protocols

What is a SMB protocol?
We have Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controller. We are facing some problem with CPU utilization. When I captured to traffic using sniffers, I figured out a protocol called SMB which is frequently used by clients to communicate with Domain Controllers. I am wondering what is this SMB protocol?

Answer Question   |  May 14, 2013  7:29 AM
CPU utlization, Domain Controllers, SMB, sniffer, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance, Windows Server Protocols

error (25) cannot connect on socket netbackup 6.5
Hi I have a test network consisting of a windows server 2003 Domain Controller, a windows server 2003 with netbackup 6.5, and a Netapps filer, all on the same isolated VLAN. All windows servers are updated with the latest updates. I am able to add the Filer under NDMP hosts, and the credentials are verified. But I [...]

Answer Question   |  September 30, 2009  6:35 AM
Backup Exec, Domain Controllers, NetBackup 6.5, Veritas NetBackup, VLAN, Windows Server 2003

Migrate from a NT DC to 2003 DC, with single name domian
We have a small network run by a NT 4.0 SP6 DC, with the domain name of “domain”. This is a single name domain space, not domain.com or parent.child.com, just “domain”. That’s issue number one. Issue number two is the DC is running two (2) SCSI drives with four (4) partitions on each drive and [...]

Answer Question   |  July 23, 2009  1:13 PM
Acitve Directory, Active Directory migration, AD, Domain Controllers, NT 4.0 Users, Windows Server 2003

Best Practice Building Domain Controller’s
I am currently running a network with 1, 2003 DC. I made a mistake (I believe) when building it. I made my domain “mydomain.COM” instead of “mydomain.temp” or something like that. Here is my question: I am planning to move to Server 2008 soon. How hard would it be to build the domain again the [...]

Answer Question   |  June 18, 2012  5:55 PM
Domain Controller Best Practices, Domain Controller Building, Domain Controller Implementation, Domain Controllers, Windows Server 2008

create domain controllers
i creat two domain in server 03. one is parent domain and second is child on two machines. after i creat three types of group and in users. when i am access domain local group, global group, uni group. that time i can not see childs group in parent domain. but when i access in [...]

Answer Question   |  July 10, 2009  6:39 PM
Child Domain, Domain Controllers, Parent Domain, Windows Server 2003