The gurus at the state IS shop told me we could use AD to gather IP and
logged-on-user info for computers on the AD, but I don't see this info in the
MMC.  It shows the computer Name and the Type, but when I added the User
Logon Name column, it is empty for all computers listed.  ...

I have a developer asking me this question and I've Googled myself to death
and still I can't find anything.  Any ideas?

This may not be related to the AD per say but I've got users who are able to
login to the AD domain w/ no issues while other users takes 10 minutes for
their profiles to come up.  Would replication issues cause this?  I've done
some research on technet and didn't see anything ...

I am not hugely experienced in AD matters, and have had some trouble with an
application that needs to authenticate against my AD on SBS2003.
On the software I am getting communication and bind errors, when doing the
lookup. It is a very strange situation, as it works for a while, ...

Is it possible to query AD for a user to get the groups he is a member of,
and if any of those groups are nested then also return those uplevel groups
as well.
Currently testing this we query the user and get his memberOf, but unless we

I'm after a way to check which user accounts in Active Directory have their
password set to "password" so that I can have them changed.
I've been wondering if there is a way to set something up as simply as a
batch file trying to authenticate to a share as username:password and ...

I am trying to delegate the permission to be able to move users between OU's,
does anyone know what is required?

We just rolled out AD and now several users that connect via a Watchguard VPN
connection experience account lockouts when authenticating through Outlook or
network shares.
I've set the accounts to "User must change...at next logon" and forced them

I am having Windows 2003 Server + SP1 with Active Directory on it.
He has the DHCP service Installed on.
When trying to open the DHCP Snap-in, I am having problem with open
Address Leases and Resevations Categories.

does anyone know of a way to allow IE Favourites as well as a user's autotext
in Word, to follow the user around from machine to machine?  And if one WERE
to use profiles, does anyone know if there is a way to have a user's autotext
from Word follow them from machine to machine?

I want to remove a child domain completely. When I run DCPROMO to demote the
last DC in child domain, I got the error:
------------------------------------------------------------
The operation failed because:

Upon running netdiag /fix:
LDAP test. . . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed
   [WARNING] Failed to query SPN registration on DC 'permail.mydomain.com'
.

I am getting following error in my operations master DC.
Eventid: 1002
Source: Sclgntfy
Default group policy object cannot be created. Error 80070003 to open GPO

I have an external web site (running TomCat 5) for our school that has a
faculty and student access area. We want this area to be password protected
using student or faculty AD credentials so our users don't have to know
multiple account information. Our web designer is trying to ...

I am trying to write a command line utility to query Active Directory
and process the results into an Oracle database. We would like to have
this app run as a scheduled task, however I am not able to connect to
the LDAP server without entering a username and password in clear text