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Remove domain with no domain controller
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 7 Comments

Any application partitions that are leafs of the domain being cleaned up will need to be deleted before proceeding with the domain cleanup. run ntdsutil domain management connections connect to...

User account cannot access Outlook / OWA from most computers
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Resolved on my own. Yes, I tried Recipients Update Services with no success. I ended up creating a new account for the user and using exmerge to move his mail to a PST. Exchange groups weren't...

Implement Windows 2003 A/D server with NT 4.0 PDC
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

says... if you want to do a upgrade (which I would prefer in this case) you need a server which is able to run WS2k3. I don't know if your current PDC might be able to run WS2k3 just for the...

Active Directory Schema Mismatch
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 11 Comments

Demote an Promote the particular Domain Controller there the Schema Mismatch where reported. There is a fix if you running Exchange 2000 for...

Applying Computer Settings for hours
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 5 Comments

Well I did all these things. And still no help. So in safe mode I decided to turn a bunch of service to manual such as: World wide web Windows Media Live Comm serv IIS Admin Kerberos Key Dist All...

dsquery inactive - Please Help
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Alex says... best way to clean up inactive Computeraccounts is described in the following article: http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=660 Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner

replicate W2k - W2k3
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

=?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?= says... if those DCs are in the same Forest you need to upgrade the Active Directory Schema first. Look at the following article which provides you with the steps...

"Managed By" question
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Dmitry Korolyov says... since we have three guesses here I'd like to confirm that you are right - I've verified that a while ago. Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner

ASP.NET and Active Directory
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

danrolsen3(removethis) says... I did not have time yet do get into ASP.NET, however I wrote a little ASP which queries Active Directory via LDAP to provide a list with E-Mails. Might be a start for...

Retiring an old server
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 3 Comments

Rob T says... if you are using EFS in your domain you also should export the recovery agent certificate and import it on the other DCs. It's per default just on the first domain...

adprep /domainprep
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hello Toni, From the error it appears adprep /domainprep is not able to locate Sysvol on the Infrastructure Master. 1. Verify Netlogon Service is started on the DC 2. Verify Sysvol is shared out on...

Setting up of Active directory
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 2 Comments

You probably had the computer configured as a DHCP and possibly also as a RIS server before you promoted it to domain controller. You will now have to *authorize* the DHCP (and possibly RIS)...

SAM logic attributes
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi, I think there are different reasons why various attributes cannot be modified with ldifde. Some attributes are protected by the system, such as objectGUID and objectSID. They are essentially...

Trust Relationship vs AD between Firewall
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

If you use IPSec in tunnel mode, you won't have to open as many ports and you can configure the firewall rules much easier. -ds "e_sheridan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

RIPrep and RIS on Windows 2003 Server -- Images not working
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I'm guessing that the complete system image with applications was RiPreped from a computer that was installed locally rather than from the RIS image on the server. That would account for this. In...

Error when adding new DC
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hello Johan, It sounds like you've already followed the steps in "832215 You receive event ID 1097 and event ID 1030 error events when you" http://support.microsoft.com/?id=832215 Some things that...

Ghost Server in Active Directory !
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 2 Comments

One way I have done this and it's been OK'd by PSS is the following. Install a cheapo PC with windows and promote it to a DC. Wait for things to replicate and then demote it. "Ivo Kessler"...

RIS and OEM SCSI drivers
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi Patrick, The correct newsgroup for this post would probably be "microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment" or "microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment". You might want to check out the...

DS Client 2003
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Yes, the DS Clients are the same and the NT 4.0 version can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/other/adclient.asp -- David Everett Microsoft Corporation This...

Event Viewer - No Logs
Posted on March 5th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi Joshua, Open the Built-in container within AD Users and Computers and view the Members tab of the Guests group. Make sure the Domain Admins and/or Administrator account has not been placed into...