Tag archive for ‘Active Directory’

Windows 7 machine has problems joining to the domain

Question:
Dear All,
I have recently purchased new laptops installed with Windows 7 OS. When i try to join them to the domain, i encounter an error message as shown in the display.
Strangely, all my XP machines can join to the domain without any problems.
Is there some network setting in Windows 7 which i need to disable [...]

Exchange Services Disabled for Active Directory Replication Use

Question:
Have an old server W2K3 and been posting a few questions with regards to it having been offline and now being used as a DHCP. Although I have received extremely valuable help from this forum, the “powers that be” at my job insist on replicating a main windows server 2003 with active directory, dc, and [...]

How to relate roaming profile folder to location

Question:
Hi,
maybe you could give a hint:
I need to configure roaming profile folders dependend on the location of the client on a distributed WAN.
How to configura a GPO on an OU “location A” where I have all my computers in location A and another GPO on an OU “location B” with all my computers at location [...]

LDAP Athentication Oracle Apex

Question:
Hi guys,
I have a serious problem with Apex LDAP Authentication.
I have surfed the internet to know sth about LDAP and now i think  my dn string should be like this:
cn=adminapex,cn=users,dc=apc,dc=info
But when i want to run the attached query to check if it’s connect successfully to LDAP or not,I faced this error massage.
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Error report:
ORA-31202: DBMS_LDAP: LDAP [...]

No SYSVOL or NETLOGON shares during server migration

Question:
I recently joined a new server (Server 2003 Standard) to an existing domain (Also Server 2003 Standard).  I DC Promo’d it, transferred all of the FSMO roles, made it the Global Catalog server, and then waited for the replication to take place.  I worked through some issues already, but there are no SYSVOL or NETLOGON [...]

Group Policy permissions for Windows System Services

Question:
I am trying to use an Active Directory GPO to restrict the ability for users to stop a Windows System service.   The Windows service currently runs under the LOCAL SYSTEM account. In the GPO setting for the service under the Security configuration I have allowed the SYSTEM builtin group account Full permissions and INTERACTIVE builtin [...]

Restore deleted users from Active Directory (Win 2008 R2)

Question:
I am using the following article to restore deleted users: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379509(WS.10).aspx
1) The shell command doesn’t seem to work:
Get-ADObject -Filter {displayName -eq “Joe Doe”} -IncludeDeletedObjects | Restore-ADObject
This command does not return anything:
Get-ADObject -Filter {displayName -eq “Joe Doe”} –IncludeDeletedObjects
But if I run:
Get-ADObject -Filter {Name -like “Joe Doe*”} -IncludeDeletedObjects
It shows me the object I want to restore:
Deleted           : [...]

Unexplained Security Rights

Question:
I was looking at the Security Log on one of our servers and noticed that a user was given Special Security Privilages and I cannot figure out why. I have included screen shots. If anyone can tell me what is going on I would really appreciate it.  The server is running Windows Server 2003 with [...]

Quick question HELP! If you reload a down secondary domain controller from tape backup do you STILL need to clean up the metadata?

Question:
My secondary domain controller went down recently, I had to rebuild it and I am about to start restoring it from tape. My question is do I need to perform a metadata cleanup prior to reloading from tape??? Thanks in advance
This is a windows 2003 secondary domain controller and I am using backup exec 10
Solution:
No [...]

SID migration from old domain

Question:
I have recently migrated a network from SBS 2003 to EBS 2008 which involved a domain change. As an after thought, is it possible to migrate the user SIDS to the new domain, and attach to users as a “Second SID”, for the purpose of Tasks in outlook still being usable? I believe this sort [...]