I know this group is for 2000, but I read it all the time and I can't find
one on here for 2003.
I have a Windows 2003 DC that is having hard drive issues. To start with one
of the drives was having to be rebuilt everytime it was rebooted. Now one of

If I wanted to change the name of a workstation (to same name that a previous
workstation had but
no longer is present) how do I do it?  I've tried in the past to just delete
it from ADUC but the server still recognizes and remembers the old

Hiya.
I will try and make this clear. I wanted to attach a file in Hotmail but
when I clicked 'Browse' to search under 'My Documents' (where the files are),
that directory was not listed. I decided to move the 'Ny Documents' folder to

Hi all, I have a simple script I want to run on all client PC's (all clients
are XP Pro) in our 2003 Active Directory. It will be used to change the
local admin password for all PC's in our single domain Active Directory:
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I have a win2k server with 10 win2k workstations.   All the workstations log
on with the name "administrator" without a password and full administrator
priviledges.  I'd like to change this and give the workstations limited
priviledges.  When I change the log in name from ...

When I  install window server 2000, it need a domain name, for this domain
name ,do I need to register this domain name in hosting company or just  any
name will work?
Thanks.

This is a continuation of my previous thread 'Local Admin Password change
script for Domain PC's'. We have opted to use a startup script
(adminpass.vbe) to change the local admin passwords on our PC's.
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Is there anyway to get XP group policy objects into a Windows 2000 domain
active directory structure so I can have XP based policy settings like i do
for the local GPO on XP cleintsbut would perfer to do it ona domain basis.

       I have written one application for taking backup and Recovery
of Active Directory. Its working fine with Win 2000 and server 2003
but fails with Server 2008. What is the reason for this? Is any
Architecture changed for 2008?

I have a small network with 2 Domain controllers.  Originally, this network
was setup with a Windows 2000 server only.  Then later, we added a new
Windows 2003 server and the new server was made into a second AD Domain
Controller.  I have made the 2003 box a GC server.

I'm using this Windows API to obtain the local groups that a domain
user is a member of.
We have a domain tree including DomainA and DomainB. With domains at
Domain/Forest Functional level Windows Server 2003. When the call is

I have two AD server, I have the control of the main AD server and the other
AD server is sitting at the branch office connected via site to site VPN.
Since I am the enterpise domain admin, I have the control of everything.
both domain is "abc.com" level, there is no sub domain.

I have a Parent domain controller. I've created a child domain
controller. From child domain I logged off and logged in as Parent
domain- there was access. But, from Parent domain, when I logged off &
logged in as child domain - there was a message "The local policy of

When I try to create a new user in active directory I recive de message error
"Windows Cannot create the objet because the directory service was unable to
allocate a relative identifier"
In the past I had 2 domain servers, and I put offline the master domain

I have previously been successful joining WinXP PC to this Win2000 domain.
Have 2 new PCs with WinXP SP3 that will not join the domain.  dcdiag.txt
output is show below.  nslookup resolves the server name fine.  I do not
have reverse DNS zone configured.  (never needed that in ...