Hi all, I originally had 2 DCs in my 2003 domain environment by the names
DC1 & DC2. A few weeks ago DC1 had a hardware failure. I was able to seize
the 5 roles over to DC2 before I took DC1 offline as per article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255504. ...

I had a issue with a user unable to login into the Domain, I identified the
problem to be the computer object of the PC was missing from AD. I have tried
to investigate as to how or who deleted this object and have a filter in our
Securoty logs for 630, 564 and 563 events with ...

Does anyone know if there is a group policy setting that will enable active
desktop on my client computers.
Thanks
Matt Stassen

We have had a crasch on a 2003 server and Windows can not be used any
longer, so we have to install it again.
We still have our data and all system maps on our HD, is their a posibility
tot use this data to rebuild our AD structure, users and so on?

 Ive got a problem that has me stumped.  I've got thirty computer
that all see the Server.  All thirty computers are in the activ
directory along with a User and Password for the User.  17 of th
computers come up with the network login window when the server i

I know this sounds easy, but it isn't!
I need to test some software which will need the time to be moved on by
a few days.
It is a win2k3 server that is in a domain (and needs to stay in it), it

I want to make sure my Printing services don't get bogged down.  Is there a
way to redirect printer spooling to a separate volume on a server (The
spooling volume would be separate from the volume where the printers are
installed).

I just started a job, and the AD of this place is a mess - all users are  
sorted into 2 OUs, but the distinction between them has long ago been  
lost.  There's no possible way I could organize all of the users with  
locations, new OUs, or subnets, so please don't bother asking me ...

is there a way to see what workstation an AD user is logging onto?

Ok call me stupid but i recently setup for testing two DC's and have not
around to doing a back of the AD for both.
I recently had a power outage and when the systems came back online DC2 had
an error indicating the following.

Im wanting to know the default value for this attribute, the complete
string for 1/1/1601.
Thanks

Hey Guys
I am new to this, and I was hoping someone could help me out.
My sistuation is the following.
I have a Windows 2003 Standard Server OC1 - DC ( lets call it OC )

I am using w2003 in a development environment.
I have been trying to set up AD SSL running on 636 using 3rd party cert but
still no idea how to do it even using the reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321051

I have just setup a new 2003 server. I ran a compatibly scan and all passed.
Ran a windows update, and there was an update for our Raid driver.  
Issue : After aprrox 20 - 30 reboots of the server, the server will crash on
startup with a Lsass error.  In the beginning I would ...

I have a Windows 2003 Domain Controller.  When I add a new user in active
directory users and computers, it adds fine.  However, when I try to pull the
user to the local PC (Windows XP Pro), it says that user cannot be added
because it does not exist.  But it does because it was ...