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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 [...]

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I am adding a new 2008 server to my 2003 forest as a primary domain controller I can’t run adprep /forestprep from the 2008 disk on the 2003 Domain Controller. But can’t add it without it I guess. Please Help!
Solution:
ADPREP /forestprep must be run on the Schema Master of a forest and under the credentials [...]

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From what I glean using w32tm /monitor and net time:
The time on our Windows 2000 domain controller (PDC) is syncing properly and with no appreciable delays with the external time server (time.nist.gov), and my local machine (XP SP-3) is sync’d with the DC via ICMP with no delay.
But it seems our network is a persistent [...]

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We have a 64bit domain controller in a single domain forest.  One other domain controller (which is 32bit) exists in this domain.  I would like to downgrade the 64bit domain controller to 32bit, however I would like to keep existing configurations on that domain controller (ie, shares, installed apps etc).
Is there any way to downgrade [...]

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One of our client has a SBS 2003 server which has active directory and exchange running on it. A new Windows 2003 standard server has been added to install SQL server 2008. However, when installing SQL server 2008, it gives a warning that we are installing on a domain controller.
My question is: Is it safe [...]

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I demoted one of our DC everything went well. However, when I go into the computer container In AD Computers and users, the server is there. disabled. When I try to delete it, I get this error message, Object servername is a container and contains other objects, Are yousure you want to delete it and [...]

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I have a 2008 R2 server which was going along great.  I added a 3rd HD and migrated the array to RAID5 from RAID1 and performance went in the crapper, plus for some reason in 1 location it reports the volume as being 1TB and others still 500mb(3 500 meg SATA drives, all identical)…
So I [...]

Question:
Hi,
Just some advice regarding a plan to upgrade our domain from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
Scenario:
Windows 2000 domain (mixed mode)
2 domain controllers (both 2000 sp4 in 2 sites)
Exchange 2003 SP2 server
I am looking at the best method to get this onto a Windows 2003 domain
We have budget for new hardware, can anyone advice how you [...]

Question:
Hello
We are running two Windows 2003 servers. One is the Domain controller which is also running DNS, WINS, DHCP and Remote Access Server. The other is running Exchange. My concern is that I have no backup for the Active Directory, should the main server go down. As it is I lose printing and authentication whenever [...]

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I am a domain administrator in a child domain in our Server 2003 (native) AD forest. We are a subsidiary, and our corporate parent controls the root level domain in the Active Directory forest. They also control the firewall between our networks and theirs. We recently encountered this issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971198. Our Vista machines are experiencing [...]