Active Directory 2003 backup

Can you backup your AD schema? What is best practice for backing up Active Directory 2003? Is there any difference in backing up 2008?

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Assigning home drives in a Windows 2003 Active Directory network

How do you handle assigning home drives in a Windows 2003 AD network? I currently do it manually. Can I have it done automatically based on OU? I see a place for the home directory in the user's properties: can this be used to create the directory as well?

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Extracting all users’ passwords from Active Directory 2003

I need to extract all users passwords for our next project. How can I extract them from either their workstations or from Active Directory? We are on AD 2003. We have two domain controllers.

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Active directory 2003 Full backup procedures.

We need to run a full AD backup. This will be for disaster recovery so it needs to be comprehensive and work from scratch.

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Consolidating 6 file servers using virtual servers

We have 6 file servers and 1 Active Directory server and 1 DHCP/DNS server on a 2003 active directory network. How can we consolidate these boxes using virtual servers cheaply and easily?

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Help with perl script to add information to AD user profile

I need to use Perl script to create a script that will add some information to an active directory users profile. The client is on Windows 7 and the AD server is 2003. Where can I find script examples? Can someone help?

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Import AD data from CSV file to 2003 ad

We have 3500 new ad users. How can we import their usernames, full names, phone numbers, email addresses from a CSV file.

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Missing PST files in Outlook 2000

Hi, After trying a restructuring of my entire network, I had to demote my Windows XP computers from and NT Domain to and Active Directory 2003 domain, I lost my PST files in Outlook 2000. Actually, I demoted the XP computers to a workgroup the promoted them to an Active directory domain. Now when I...

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Domain Migration 2003 to 2008 route?

Hello Guys, I need some suggestions on the best route to migrate a 2003 AD domain to 2008 with pros and con's. We have old hardware which is sometime not very stable. I mean these servers still have a floppy disk slot! And on top of that their C drives were not configured with much space something...

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Password complexity rules for passwords in existence for Active Directory

I do not want users to be able to change their passwords on their own. But I do want to require password changes every 180 days. How can I set this up in Active Directory 2003?

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active directory sites and services

i need a complete examples of sites. need examples of globa lgroup and universal group what is global catalog server

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Moving Active Directory settings

Guys, Can someone briefly explain the steps on: How to move active directory setting from Win 2003 to a new Server(new machine) to Windows Server 2008 r2?? I'm new to AD, but i know there is way you can do it. So far, i just installed Win2k8 r2 standard on the new server along with 1 role: Active...

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Active Directory automatically install printers

Can we have active directory automatically install printers for used based on location of the user and printer? We have an Active Directory 2003 network and 2003 print servers.

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Adding Windows Firewall rule to Active Directory 2003

We need to add a Windows Firewall rule to all AD 2003 machines. How can we set that up via group policy? Where is the setting?

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Forcing Windows users to choose random passwords

Can we force Windows to choose random passwords for accounts created in 2003 Active Directory? Can we force the user to then change their password on login?

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Using Active Directory credentials to log onto Windows 2003 FTP Server

Can we let Active Directory 2003 domain users to use their AD credentials to log into Windows 2003 FTP servers? Can we allow single sign on so they would not technically have to authenticate on each connection?

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Auto populate via active directory customization

Can we have home drives auto populate with a server name/username$ via some Active Directory customization on 2003?

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Merging two Active Directory 2003 domains into the same network?

Our company has merged with another company. We both have 2003 AD domains. We are running separate networks in our office now for each. How can we merge the two networks into one network?

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Blocking sniffers from catching SIP/VoIP traffic

Can we block wireshark or ethereal from being able to run on our Windows 2003 Active Directory network? We want to block sniffers from catching sip/VoIP traffic.

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Preventing users from installing Flash through SonicWALL or Barracuda

We want to prevent users from installing or running flash. Can we block all flash from the sonicwall firewall or our barracuda web filter? We also want to block downloading the installer/ running the installer. This is on an Active Directory 2003 network with Windows XP SP3 clients.

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