i do admt-v2 to migrate the computer and user from serverA.local with
windows2003 standard to serverb.local with windows 2003 ent ,,the problem the
user has a new profile ,,he dosn't have the one befor in servera ..how can
have the same profile as befor ,,is local profile not ...

   My BDC was crashed and I re-formatted the whole BDC workstation for
other purposes; however, I don't feel comfortable cuz the PDC replicate
active directory to the old BDC anyway, is there anyway I can remove the BDC
record from PDC? Or what's the normal procedure I should do ...

I tried to join an additonal DC to AD, but it gets an error when trying to
replicate.  I then tried to remove the DC from AD and I get the following
eror when I test DNS using netdiag.
DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed

We have an NT 4.0 domain which hosts our citrix servers and citrix users. We
have build a new AD 2003 domain and are going to build a new citrix farm on
this new AD 2003 domain. We have over 5000 users of the old citrix on NT 4.0
and moving them all will be a pain especially with ...

I my inharited Network, I recently learned that my predisesor renamed one the
AD servers.  This had not been causing any noticable problems intell now, I
noticed that there is no replacation going on between this server and the
others.

I'm having to recreate about 2500 computer accounts in my Windows 2003 Active
Directory. When I recreate these accounts the computers trust to the domain
is broken and I get the following error:
"The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain

First of all I want to wish you a Happy New year and a lot of joy and love
in the new year.
We have the Windows 2000 server network with internal name - company.com
(10.100.0.1-10.100.0.255 IP address space). Because we use www.company.com

    We are trying our disaster recovery plan with a scenario where there is
only one server.  The specs matches exactly as the production server. This
server acts as a dc/dns/dhcp.  If we want to restore active directory from
scratch using the system state into this single ...

I have added a new Windows 2003 Server to the network. We had only one
Windows 2000 Server as the domainThis network has only one domain controller
has only one Windows 2000 server. I want to make the new Windows 2003 Server
the main Server and then eventually utilize the old ...

This was posted in another group, but so far I've had no luck, so hopefully
someone here can help.
I'm basically interested in authorizing (or at least removing) a DHCP server
that was active at one time, but now is gone.  Here's what I've tried:

I am trying to rename some offending schema entries in the process of
upgrading to R2.
I did the regedit to allow schema update, still  I can't do that. Is the
schema snapin different compare to W2K? Please walk me through the detailed

I am looking for any undocumented feedback and experiences from anyone who
has upgraded their AD 2003 domain from 2000 native to 2003 domain functional
level.  Has anyone experiences problems, disruptions, legacy or MAC login
problems?  We are mostly XP but have some 2k, NT, 9x, ...

I'm trying to use a user account for ADAM instead the NetworkService
account. I've defined a "testAdam" domain user and changed the "log on" user
on the Services sheet. Also, this new account has the right to log on as a
service, but when I try to start the ADAM_Instance service, it ...

I'm looking for a bit of assistance, or existing code on determining who the
last logged on user was for a given Active Directory computer account.  Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I have a dual PDC domain that had the main DC die big time.  It's not
recoverable and any data on it has been lost.  I am wanting to replace this
DC with another machine (new) using the same machine name and IP address.  
I've already transfered the FSMO roles (all that is except ...