I am having trouble getting the ADprep tool to do much of anything.
From the resources I checked - I should be using adprep / forest prep and
then adprep /domainprep from the CD #2.
I can locate the file on the CD properly.  

I have Windows SBS 2003 server with Service pack 2 installed.  I am trying to
install a second domain controller.  I did a clean install of Windows 2003
Server R2 Standard edition with service pack 2 and ran all windows updates.
The server properly joined to the domain.

Windows 2003 Server with AD
For a temporary period we need to assure that a single account is not locked
out because of 3 failed login attempts or anything else for that reason. Is
there a way to prevent this domain policy from being applied to this single

I have been looking on the internet on how to setup a secondary server with
Active directory as a backup to an existing Server . Allso as a DNS backup,
but i need this server to be up and running as it will be running WSUS and
other things.

Greetings all,
I'm just a month in to a job taking over admin of a network with two domains
on a single cable-plant.
The previous admin quit suddenly and I took over.  I was told that

I am in the process of upgrading / reorganizing my AD and domain controllers.
Unfortunately, on a now retired DC there was a file share that was used for
GPO software deployment. I would like to just turn off this old DC, but I
need for the GPO to still work.

Hi All,
Looking for an LDAP Query to pull out Active Users with and without email
address from an OU.  Here is an idea of our OU lay out.
Root Domain OU.

Does anyone know the steps to adding an additional Child server to an
existing Child Domain?

I have a user who after logging in to our Server 2003 domain from her XP Pro
pc has multiple access issues.  When she tries to access files on the server
she receives a prompt to login to the server.  When inputing her username and
password she then receives the following error ...

Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    NTDS KCC
Event Category:    Knowledge Consistency Checker
Event ID:    1925

Our environment is a Windows 2003 one, but our mail client is Lotus Notes.
The default mail client is stored in the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\(default) and its value is
(correctly) "Lotus Notes"

Can someone please clarify this:
I have all subnets setup and properly assigned to each site (in sites and
services).
I have a PC that is on the Local subnet (10.10.50.29), of which

We have a win2003 forest and exchange 2003 and I have one "contact" that it
looks corrupt!
I can see it only if I search AD on the "Entire Directory" and I see this
contact with "CNF" and If I try to rename it or delete or even seeing its

Hi I have been trying to install the IE7 ADM on my AD servers, I have 3 but
when I install the IE7 ADM then refresh the page it has gone and the IE6 ADM
is there  again.
How do I get the AD to retain the IE7 ADM please?

I'm trying to create a new user in Active Directory on Windows Server
2008 (similar to 2003) standard.  But it rejects it with the following
message:
"The value provided for the new password does not meet the length,