I was curious what people are using for bulk account creation. I had a pretty
nice tool when I was running Netware servers that integrated with eDir and
would automatically create home dirs, assign passwords, etc, once I fed it a
list of names. I could even have it create the ...

I am trying to set up a user to be able to do basic functions on a group of
user accounts. We do not want them to be able to add or delete any users. I
have to add part done but can not figure out how to set the delete part. What
do I need to do to configure this in Windows ...

checking RSoP for my clients tells me that only some of the GPO's are being
loaded,
one specific one I need is Computer Setting/Administrative Template/Network
DNS/Primary DNS Suffix

trying to add new DC in existing forest
PDC is Win2000
new DC will be Win2003
run adprep /forestPrep from the WIn2003 CD and get errors in the log file as

I define user roaming profile on DC windows 2003 server, but workstations can
not load that profile. Error message is something about unsufficient
permission and another process in work.
Please help me. I must kill myself if this will not work.

I'm trying to find the command or tool  to  display the status of time
sycnronization on  our w2k ads domain.  The pds is retreiving its time from
an ntp source.  I would like the command to check it's status and to check
member servers, w2k and w2k3.

I am planning on moving 2 DC's to upgraded hardware, and was wondering just
how I go about doing that, I have pulled KB324801 How to view and transfer
FSMO roles in Windows Server 2003, but as someone who has never come across
this it is pretty unclear. My question is, does ...

I have around 20K object into the ldf file which I have imported into ADAM.
Each object has got mail attribute which is in the form of
firstname.lastname@mydomain.co.uk.
I imported all the object successfully into ADAM and no errors were

I like make a HDD image copy of server whenever it runs stable.
If in winnt 4 domain, bring back an old HDD image copy of domain controller
(PDC/BDC), just demote it to BDC if PDC , then synchronize it with current
PDC, it should be refreshed with current sercurity data.

im creating a .csv file to do a bulk import into active directory and wanted
to know what the ldap value is for the user accts user id or the login id.  
any websites or other docs welcome.

We have been trying to gain a detailed understanding of what SSPI does when
authentication fails.
Take the scenario where the client initializes a context for a service with
the SPN of "userA@domain.com". However the service is actually running as

Is it possible to rename a DC physical machine without side effects?
Thank you.

I'm hoping you can help me ... we've got about 38 DCs world-wide an
we have a hard time securing these DCs. I mean how does on kno
exactly what protection a DC needs and how do I set this and the
monitor it?

Hey Folks,
Does anyone know of any purpose to the Computer Browser service in Windows
XP besides giving it the ability to become a Master/Backup browser server?
I want to disable the ability for workstatons to become master browser. I

I am constantly needing to log onto user computers, but many of the times the
user is not around to log in.  I have been resetting their password whenever
they aren't there and now with complex passwords enabled, they have to create
a new password every time.