We have a vmware virtual lab set up (isolated from the production
environment) in which we have copies of two of our Windows 2003 DC's (one of
which holds the FSMO roles) and a couple freshly created application servers.
Our production network hosts a number of DC's which we do ...

I have two domains in a single forest.  All DC's are running Windows Server
2003.  I've raised both domains from 2000 native to 2003.  Now I'm trying to
raise the forest functional level from Windows 2000 to 2003.  I keep getting
the message "You cannot raise the forest ...

Is there a way to batch rename the display name of my active directory users
based on my supplied format?
Example:
John C. Doe

Regarding software installing on servers:
I have a GPO that installs software based upon user-id (security filtering
is turned on, and the group is comprised of members).
One of the members is an administrator (we'll call him 'Steve').

Hey all
Here is the situation:  Have an AD test server set up.  When |I installed it
I forgot to set auto backup of the sys state (yes I know stupid me), but this
is a test server so nothing critcal about a re-install except all the work.  

While trying to import users from AD into ADAM, I am getting following error.
The entry in ldf file is:
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dn: CN=test123,OU=ou1,OU=ou2,OU=ou3,DC=dc1,DC=dc2,DC=co,DC=uk

I would like to start assigning software to the computers in my
company. The problem is, a lot of the computers already have all the
software installed that I want to assign, and when the software is
assigned to the computers, the software is reinstalled, which is a

Just a bit of information on SP1 for Windows 2003:
Service Pack 1 can cause issues where connectivity between clients and
servers to fail ("http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=898060").  The
interesting thing about this bug is that it takes a few days after

I do not know if this is the comunity where I ought to do the question.
I have MCMS intalled, SO is Windows 2003.
I need that the users, who has permissions in CMS, can change the password.
I do not have a domain, the users are local.

I want to setup the group policy fro a WinXP domain users to have local
administrator rights on their PC as well as control panel change access.
Where can I obtain a listing of settings to accomplish this?
Thanks

I have two Win2K Pro test workstations.  Can I enable AD on both, and
promote one to DC?  I'm learing AD and would like to practice under this
setup.  Or do I need DC on a true server in order to have this work?

I have set up a root domain A and a child domain B.  Trust between both
domain is a transitive trust.  However, when I logged on as host of root
domain A and tried to browse hosts in child domain B, I couldn't even find
domain B in Network Neighbourhood.  I can only use ...

I have got a primary dc, a second primary dc and another server all windows
2003 server. I installed exchange 2003 and could not open the mailboxes, so i
decided to uninstall exchange.  the uninstall program asked me to delete de
server, and i delete all mailboxes and then the ...

We have windows active directory.within that for one of the OU we want to  
" DISABLE INTERNET EXPLORER Remember password " option.
The site we used to access is nothing but citrix metaframe site through
which user get log in and use the applications on server.

Hello....
I need to know when does the domain or the server records the logon
logoff events for a user?
Does it done when the user uses some files or sites resist in the