We are looking to collapse a number of domains into the forest root. What I
notice  a number of machines have Duplicate SIDs (from clone activities).
Will this cause a problem for the migration? Is there a method to find
Duplicate Machine SIDs across a domain.

What is difference between Directory system agent (DSA)and Active directory
interfaces ?

we have a client that has a domain that was upgraded from NT long ago.  they
currently run AD with server 2003 mixed mode.  thsi will be changed to native
mode in teh very near future.  The only thing I see that can be a problem
with futrue expansion (to include Exch 2007 adn ...

Is it possible to create a share name that can remain the same , but the
location of the folder can change?
We have a common share on our 2003 Server which all users have to access.
But we need to move the folder to another computer on the network. I would

Hello.  I've been charged with finding an automated backup system for
our desktops and laptops on the network.  I'm thinking that offline
files used with folder redirection could be a possibility for us.  I'm
wondering how that might work in our network environment (right now we

I have a domain1 with several universal security groups and a shared folder
with permissions granted by those groups.
Now I have  to add permissions to the folders for universal groups that I
have in a trusted domain2 .

My workstations seem to have been disconnected from the network after doing
an in-place upgrade of a Windows 2K AD Server to Windows 2K3 Enterprise. My
workstations are giving me: "There are currently no logon servers available
to service the logon request."

We have an existing native Server 2003 single domain AD with a large hub site
where most of the user, computer and server resources are located and 10
remote sites with user and computer resources each varying from 120 to 600
with all but one site being in the 120-180 range. The ...

I inherited a 2000 member server (also an Exchange 2003 server) already in a
2003 domain.  I am attempting to upgrade the 2000 (w/sp4) to 2003 Standard
R2.  All seems to work fine until reboot and I consistantly get the invalid
access to memory location error and cannot log into ...

I am experiencing an issue where a server is dropping out of my replication
topology for DFS.
Currently we have DFS up and running. We have 8 Limited Liability Companies
We have a Headquarters and the LLC is a mesh with one bridgehead and one of

I'm trying to promote a 2003 server to a dc, I have 2 2000 DC's (both service
pack 4).
The original operations master failed.  I seized all of the roles
successfully to another 2000 dc.  The two dc's are replicating successfully.  

Can someone help me understand whether or not we are required to buy CALs for
this situation:
We have guests visiting the college. We have a wireless access point that we
currently use AD authentication for so we can restrict it to certain users.

I had cleared Metadata from my DC .I have Removed two child domains which are
crashed because of hardware problem through metadata cleanup. I did it
successfully.
I had deleted computer acc and DNS of these domains.

I have 3 domains controllers running Windows 2000 and 2000 servers.
DomainA server running Windows 2000 Server w/ Sp4.
DomainB server running Windows 2003 server w/ sp2
DomainC server running Windows 2000 Server w/ Sp4

When I run adprep /forestprep on the DC Win2k, I got the following error:
"Entry DN: CN=inetOrgPerson,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=example,DC=com
ADD error on line 333: Unwilling To Perform
The server side error is "Schema update failed: attribute in may-contain