I set up an AD some time ago on a Windows 2000 Server. When I upgraded the
Exchange Server to 2000 (then 2003) I ran the utilities to add the needed
fields to the AD but the DC remained a Win2K server. (Exchange 2003 is not
on the DC). I'm moving everyting to rack based computers ...

Actually there is more to this story.
Backgroud: Domain controller (call it #1) on network with several other
servers. No backup DC. The #1 DC crashes and dies. System is down.
I take DC #1 offline and give it enough life (sputtering and coughing)

Hi.  At the moment we have a single forest, single domain with two domain
controllers (1xWin2000 Std & 1xWin2003 Std) and currently take a system
state and full backup of the primary HD (c:) of each DC daily.  If possible
could anyone confirm if this is the best way (using the ...

I have a customer that could potentially have approx. 1500 policies once
their network is fully implemented in about 3 years.   I am concerned about
disk space and more importantly replication of the content of sysvol.  What
are some sysvol sizes and replication issues that some ...

I want to reset the local administrator password remotely of all the
systems in domain simultaniously.
Does anybody know utility or link.

I have domain a and domain b. Domain a is all set upp with exchange etc.
Domain b was bought, and they don't have exchange. I have trust between the
domains and file sharing and authentication are ok.
What we want to do is, make users on domain b and let them use the exchange

I'm working on setting up an ADAM replication scenario and I can't seem
to find any information on enabling ADAM replication via LDAP (is it
even possible??).
I've set up 2 ADAM instances (one being the "main" instance and the

I just landed my first IT job as a system admin for a 40 user windows
network.  We are on a Server 2k3 domain. Our company gets numerous
software updates from our software vendors.  Almost all of these
updates use a setup routine in Windows ie .msi files.  Are there any

I am setting up an OU for some contractors.  I would like to for
security reasons, have them see only a couple of mapped network drives.
Is there a way to do this via GPO without using a login script?
If I have to use a login script, where do I place the script for only

we are using windows 2003 ent server as dc. my problem is, im not able to
create any new user from AD users & computers console. the error is:
"An error occured, contact your system administrator". No error code is in
that.

I've been playing around with win2k3 and winxp. I have setup win2k3 as an AD
domain with a couple of users. I have also setup a group policy to redirect
its desktop and my documents folders to a share on win2k3,
\\server\userfiles.

Does anybody can tell me what is the best disaster recovery plan is if
some things go wrong in domain rename?  What I'm thinking is DC
directory service restore. But I'm worrying about member servers. I
tested this in lab environments and after directory service restore

I have 8 individual windows 2003 Domains That I need to join into 1
domain forest without loosing the existing active directory user and
security currently they all have trusts setup between domains as well
as secondary DNS setup on each. The servers are setup at different

I am looking for a more secure method of having password for our users in
windows 2003 AD network.
Is there a way to automatically expire password at the end of each day and
assign a new password. I would like to generate a password for each day in

We have to perform a domain rename for current environment (W2k3) and I
was though more than perform a domain rename creating a new forest and
migrate all the things to it. Can somebody guide me for resources or
how to perform migrate to new forest?