We have two DCs in the root of our forest, ROOTDC01 (upgraded to SP1 last
week) and ROOTDC02 (Installed fresh a month or so ago with SP1 slipstreamed
media). When we are logged on to the console of ROOTDC01 and run dcdiag I get
the Directory Binding Error below. If I run dcdiag ...

We have an issue here with a VP attempting to login to the President of the
companys account.    It's all been recorded of course in the eventlogs, but
i'm unsure of how to get the eventlogs onto hardcopy.  I've looked at log
parser 2.2 but i'm not much of a scripter and can't ...

[Windows 2003 Server / Exchange 2003]
Problem 1: Server stops accepting logins. Even the admin accounts would not
work (password rejected). No one could login.
I rebooted the machine, and everything seems to be running fine.

Increasingly we see 3rd party applications that for installation purposes
and ongoing operation ask for domain-level admin rights. We believe it is
laziness on the part of the ISVs creating these apps not going to the trouble
of defining the minimal set of rights for the app to ...

I have a W2k server.
For some reason, AD has become corrupted. and the  system will no longer
start in normal or safe mode. Only in Directory Services Restore mode.
(There is no backup of DS)

What's the difference between group policy objects and doamin contoller
security policy.

I was wondering if I could get some pointers on what kind of questions
I could get at a Job interview regarding Active Directory/Windows
Servers. Although I have over 5 years of experience this is still my
first Job since university, so I could do with some help.

We have a domain controller named hq.companyname. We are putting up a branch
office offsite via WAN. We would also like to implement active directory on
the workstations on the branch office. However, to save WAN bandwidth we have
decided to put up a secondary domain controller ...

I would like to delete a policy with the Group Policy Management Console, but
it says "The directory service can perform the requested operation only on a
leaf object". Any ideas?
Thanks,

I have created a new Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller on a second
partition of my one and only server machine.  The old Windows 2000 Server DC
is on the first partition.  Because the new server and the old server are on
the same machine, only one can be running.  Both DC's ...

We have a current system running WinNT Server with Win2000 workstations.
We have installed a new Win2003SBS srvr and would like to connect the Win2k
w/s to the new srvr and then shutdown the old WinNT srvr.
There are no usable user pofiles that need to be transferred.

I had 3 domain controllers (windows 2003) in my network. Few days back, one
of my DC hardware failed hence, I removed it from AD by clearing metadata and
other process as described in microsoft knowledgebase article 216498.
I wanted to use same IP hence, I changed one of other ...

Is there any problem with having W2K3 Enterprise and Standard on the same
network both running AD and replicating between the two?
Thanks

I am Gourav, I am facing some issues releted to Hardware of my Global
Catalog, in our seteup we are having three DC and I want to move my Global
Catalog on new Hardware, for achiving this goal, I had already added one more
ADC in my setup and transfered all the roles of my Global ...

Hello AD Group,
I have set my domain security policy to no define passwords, no history,
no complexity, etc.  This is for a test server in a development
environment.  We do not want to have a domain security policy set for