Do all services running on a server share the same long term key in the
KDC.
What I mean is, lets say on a server that is part of a domain that is
running say a file server and a email server, both of which use the

Little confused on how to get the scripts in my sysvol directory to replicate
to 3 other 2000 servers in my domain?  It is a simple kix script that just
seems to be stubborn and won't copy down to the other boxes.  FRS service is
running, DFS service is running but no dfs roots ...

Hi all. The dc in my company has crashed and most probably can't be
recovered. When i try to remove domain controller role from another
server(member server with crashed dc), i was prompted "a domain controller
could not be contacted for the domain abc.com that contain an account ...

I am trying to set group policy to enable screen saver.  These are the
settings:
Policy Setting
Hide Screen Saver tab Enabled

I have a very strange scenario regarding the GPMC.  Seems that when I
have both a local policy and a group policy configured the GPMC shows
the local policy as winning even though the settings state otherwise.
I just tested this on my own workstation with my IE settings and I have

Hello.  I'm having a weird issue here.  I have a number of GPOs that work
just fine, but any new ones I create on either of my two DCs do not work.  I
have run the GP Results wizard and the settings I put in there do not show up.
Does anyone know what I can do to remedy this?  ...

Here's the scenario going on at our church...
3 servers, all running 2k.  2 of them are DCs, the other is just a
member server.  One of the DCs is already an Exchange 2000 server.
We received a donation of 2 nicely packed out servers.  We'd like to

When I try to do things, I get "the target account name is incorrect".
Like, when I try to demote it with dcpromo, replicate, etc.  Apparently they
DCs were out of contact for a Long Time and their account tickets diverged.
I can do a net view on another server's IP, but not by ...

I'd like to setup one of our secretarial staff to be able to update user
details and add contact info to our AD.
Is there any security issue with making a non-administrator user a member of
the Account Operators group ? ie. does this group provide more privilege

I need to search for a value in AD that may or may not exist...I don't
know what the attribute name would be, all I know is the value.  How
would I use ldp to find any object that has an attribute with a given
value?

Where is the user's password cached when you have a GPO setting on
Interactive logon: Number of previous logons to cache (in case domain
controller is not available)? Is it store in LSASS secrets?
If we set our server to not store local cache of user's password what

I am trying to recreate my AD in ADAM. I have been successful so far until I
started to import my groups through ldifde. It does not seem to like
samAccountName. Looking at the schema, it does not appear I have
samAccountName.

I've written a script that create automatically the default OU and
Groups for my architecture. Now I want to add a security permissions
for the OU. I need to add a created group in the Group or usernames (in
the security tab)to add it the Create/Delete Computer Object special

Currently have a single domain in a forest, in 2000 native mode, with all
Windows 2000 Server DC's.  About to create a new child domain, using Windows
Server 2003 DC's.  At the end of the project we will upgrade the DC's in the
original\root domain to Windows Server 2003, then ...

I writing a script to create user accounts using dsadd and exchmbx. My
problme is the UserDN, our organization uses Last Name, First fromat but I
can get dsadd to accept that here is what I've tried
dsadd user "CN=Linton, Donovan,CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=sfwmd,DC=gov"