We are setting up an OU for another site(primarily for delegation of
authority)   That site will have a 2 DCs.
would it be acceptable to keep those DC's under its OU?  or do they have to
go to dmain controllers container.

Hello, when i move a global catalog from wi2003A to Win2003B i make the
following stpes:
1) Make Win2003B a GC (i put the checkbox in NTDS Settings of Win2003B)
2) I dont wait and remove  the checkbox in NTDS Settings of Win2003A

Does anyone know how to remove an old DC's that have been removed from AD and
DNS but current DC's are still trying to replicate to it.  The old DC does
not show up in Site and Services either.  If I do a dcdiag it shows up under
the Replication Latency Check warning and I can ...

I have hundreds on users in the active directory that I am trying t
rename like specific users by adding "ZZ" in front of their names.
need to create a vbscript to modify quickly the names. If anybody ca
help me I know it has to do with the dsmod but if anybody can help m

I have added permission for one of my users to access a directory (folder) on
one my servers.  the user has full control for permission. however when the
user tries to access the directory (folder) the user gets the message saying
that they don't have access to that ...

I've read places that there's a utility you run to defragment ad or
something like that and when you do it you should restart your domain in
directory restore mode or something like that.
If I have 3 dcs, do I shut the other ones down while i restart the other one

I would like to archive my old mails into the public folders for
several years and have few users have access to it. These mails are
several Gigabytes in size and presently short of space on the exchange
server. My question is, amongst the options below which one will be

Is it common practice to simply delete old computer accounts if they
will no longer be used. I was told by a certified Microsoft instructor
not to delete old computer accounts but instead disable them and I
would rather delete them then have a collection of old records.

I work for a school corporation and I have some questions about delegating
administrative control to different IT groups at different schools.  We are
using windows 2003.  At the moment the AD domain only exists at one school.  
We would like to use AD at a few more schools, and ...

Our AD Forest and Domain is called Company-Name.com. There is like a netbios
short name for it which is CompName if you get me.
So when a user logs on they could type CompName\Username or the FQDN
Company-Name.com\Username

Can wnidows mobile 6 devices be added to Active directory.  My aim is to
force a user to authenticate to a mobile device and using PEAP MSCHAP to
authernticate to the wireless network.  Can this be done or do I have to
prompt the user for the auth details when it connects to the ...

I am having a problem restoring items from a previous backup.  Running Server
2003 with SP2 on 2 DC's.  I deleted an OU and a user object from another OU
and would like to restore them both from my backup.  I boot the root DC into
AD Restore and perform a restore of the SState.  ...

At work the domain is organised into OU by location, within these
there are containers for users, computers etc. I want to replicate
this organisation on my lab setup at home but there is no way to
create a folder/container under an OU.

We have 2003 DCs with SP2 and we'd like to upgrade all DCs to 2003 R2 (with
SP2 obviously), mainly for the FRS Replication feature. We have 2 DCs in the
forest root and 12 (will be 14 in a week or so) in the child domain all at
2003 SP2 now. My main concern is that the forest ...

I have two domain in tow office. And the domain is in mixed mode with
windows 2003 enterprise.
Scenerio         DC 1(DomainA)        DC 2(DomainB)
DC1(DomainA): Has Acitve Directory, DNS and DHCP