We have a 5 DC network that we are wanting to replace the PDC in with 2003
server. It's currently running 2000 server and it holds all the FSMO roles as
far as I can tell.
We have new hardware to replace this machine and the plan is to transfer

I have some network admins that are a little sketchy on skills.   They
typically do the user creation/deletion, password management and such of
users.
Right now, they are Domain Admins.   For some reason, this scares me a

Hi All,
While trying to load the users from .ldf file, I am getting following error.
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Add error on line 1: Object class violation

The company I'm currently at has a really unwieldy structure for their DNS
and really want to change it so that we can have simple, intuitive and
relevant names for things (always nice.)
Is there ANY way you can do this?

Is it possible to determine which specific DC (assuming that I have a few) in
AD is authenticating a user a/c? And if so, does anyone know how I would do
this?

I have a new 2003 AD domain and am looking for some guidance with the
following:
1. In regard to password complexity being enabled by default, I've
poked around the newsgroups/docs and understand how to turn this off

We are creating a secure DMZ area (VPN access only) and would like to have AD
services in this network.  This "SecureNet" will be firewalled off from the
internal network.  Rather than putting a domain controller in the SecureNet,
we would prefer to put an LDAP proxy server that ...

I have created logon scripts using  .bat  for  maping shared folders , and
its working fine but  I could not create a script for maping a shared printer
how can  I map a shared printer , I need it very urgent

I have a Windows 2003 active directory environment.  I have a user group that
I would like to prevent from being able to log on to a group of computers.
Detail:  I work for a school.  We employ some students in our offices.  I've
decided to give these Students separate accounts ...

In a Windows 2000 Active Directory structure (will be upgraded when all of
our Domain controllers are on 2003) we currently show 4 domains under AD
domains and Trusts.  I'll call them master.com, invalid1.master.com,
invalid2.master.com and valid.master.com.

I've seen a number of posts referencing the idea that AD/AM is faster than
Active Directory because it is lighter. We've ported an app from AD to AD/AM
and are seeing significant performance reductions. For example,
authentication to AD was consistently under 1 second when loaded ...

Public Function GetUsers()
    Set oConnect = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
       oConnect.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
       oConnect.Properties("User ID") = stUser

Can someone tell me the steps I need to go through to add a printer to
my domain?  My printer has an IP assigned and configured of
172.16.1.52.  I want to be able to add this printer as a resource from
any computer on the domain.

Afternoon,
I'm really stuck guys, any help would be much appriciated.
Situation:
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I have 20 sites and have default domain policy named disable run . This
policy applied to all the sites . policy has been shown in all sites but not
applies may i know what are the problems or exception while group policy get
applied