As I understand things:
The current domain password policy in our domain is set for complexity
and force change every 60 days amongst other things.  This is a
computer based GPO that, via inheritance, applies to the Domain

hi, i have changed both the domain and forest functional levels to 'windows
server 2003' - when i try to join a computer to the domain it says it finds
it in the domain "qbserv" which is the pre-Windows 2000 domain name; but says
access is denied.  Also, the user and computer ...

Here is the scenario, I would like to setup Virtual Server Host Clustering
on Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 my concern is the need for a SAN.  I was
wondering if it is possible to do this without a SAN.  I understand there
will be a performance hit but I am willing to take that, I am ...

Gurus,
I need a runas CMD line which will open up ADUC with the focus on my domain.
Below is only as far as I can get, but it only opens up an MMC.
runas /user:administrator@mydomain.local /netonly "mmc"

Hi, I want to share a folder only to specific group of computers (i dont care
which user loged in) in active directory. How can i do it?

Some time ago I added a Server 2003 box to an existing Windows 2000 doamin. I
ran the adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep ultilities and was able to
add the Server 2003 box as a DC. I now have a new server and want to make it
a DC and remove demote  the Server 2000 box to ...

I have a Windows 2000 server AD which I was going to upgrade to
Windows Server 2003 AD, by running the relevant utilities on a DC,
then promoting/demoting, and doing fresh installs of the OS.  I had
plans for this and everything, even did a test setup.

Apologies for asking two question in one post (however they are
related)....
Sites and subnets
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I have a small network and have always had 1 DC, windows 2000 server.  I
recently decided to add a windows 2003 server to our network and then decided
to make it a DC as well for back up reasons.  I followed all the articles I
read by running forestprep and domainprep on my ...

Could someone please explain to me why, when Advanced Features is turned on,
normal network users show as havign rights to Account Operators,
Administrators, Domain Admins, etc.?? This just doesn't seem quite right if
they are only members of Domain Users. Thanks in advance.

Does windows support logon names longer than 20 characters?
I am unable to logon with a greater than 20 character username.
We are running a win2k3 native domain with 2k and XP clients.
We are planning on changing our naming convention (due to an extra 35k

I have SharePoint 2003, MS OLAP, some web parts that read the cube
data and an XP machine running successfully as long as I have the user
of the XP machine is in the same domain as the authenticated against
the AD of the servers.

I just saw that the icon hand for the SYSVOL share has turned RED. What does
that mean?
THANKS!!
Sofia

Hello--
We have a small, single domain network of about 100 machines, including 12
servers with about 50 users. We have three subnets, one in the host office,
and one each for two remote locations connected via a WAN. All servers are

Through some advice on this group Im trying to stop all but
administrators and specific users and groups from being able to log on
to a couple of computers.
This means that I go to