I've got a DC (Windows 2000 SP4) that I know is fully functional, but the
machine account is not showing up in AD Users and Computers. Does anyone have
experience with this senario?
Thanks for your thoughts!

Hello, I hope that you can help me.
I would like to know what do I have to do to create an empty root domain,
example, domain.local.
Hope that you can help me

I have recently replaced my Primary DC with a new server. I followe
the MSRESOURCE document titled "Replace a single Domain Controlle
with new Hardware". Everything worked correctly and Im now ready t
totally take the old DC down. I noticed something wrong with m

We have a PDC and a BDC nt4.0 domain.I installed a windows 2000 server as a
member server.I would like to install Active directory on windows 2000 server
and make it a DC.What is the best way to do this ? I already installed DNS on
the windows 2000 server.

I'm trying to publish a few programs via active directory (GPO), but
some of the programs require administrative privileges. My users
don't have this, so the installation fails when they try to install.
Is there a way to do this, without using "Always install with elevated

I have been getting an error messages (every 10 minutes) in event viewer
from all Windows 2000 servers after i upgraded our NT 4 Domain to Windows
2003 Active Directory. Here is the error message:
Source: LicenseService

I moved all 5 FSMO roles to a new domain controller, replication succeeded
and DNS seems OK but I can only log into the domain at the console of the
new controller when I pull the old controller offline.  What else am I
perhaps missing in terms of prepping the new controller or ...

We have W2k domain with 10 child domains.
We are about to upgrade to Windows 2003 and are currently planning the
forest and domain preparation of the top domain.
As we upgrade we will also consolidate the child domains into one new child

We have multiple Windows 2000 Domains over 4 sites which we now wish to
consolidate however still delegate control.
Aside from creating trusts between each, is there a way so we can create
another Windows 2000 network (Source) and then join the existing Windows 2000

I am having trouble trying to use adamsync to get information to the
ADAM server.   I think my problem is related to my conf_public.xml
file.  I think its missing some kind of option required.  I looked in
the help file but its not very detailed.  Has anyone seen this error?

I want to find out what rights do I need to delegate to a helpdesk group
of users so that I can create an event log of what they have done on the
local DNS/DC machine without giving them admin rights.
Any pointers?

I am having trouble connecting my WinXP Pro SP-2 system to my Win2K3 SP-1
servers and various other problems.  Here are some of the symptoms (and
issues):
- We upgraded our NT4 servers to Win2K3 in May of 2004.

Upon further investigation - I checked on my secondary DC and foun
the FSMO roles are still looking to the old primary DC. How do yo
change them to look towards the new DC

I would like to retrieve all user from every OU in active directory
What can I do to get these accounts since export tools in AD can export only
in each OU
Thanks,

Hello,
When I make a stespn - L myserver I obtain this value:
NtFrs-88f5d2bd-b646-11d2-a6d3-00c04fc9b232/myserver.mydomain
SMTPSVC/myserver.mydomain