I have a requirement to display last successful logon for an account and
the location from which that logon occurred. When a user logs on to a
workstation the location would of course be the hostname of that
workstation. I'm using Visual Basic Scripting to do this. It was working ...

I have 3 Domain Controllers.
Two in Site A and one in Site B.
Is ther possible set a numeber of users to log on in a DC of Site A, being
that users from Site B?

I need to consolidate multiple group policies into one. However I would like
to avoid having to do this manually and was wondering if a tool existed which
could merge policy settings.
The import functionality within GPMC doesn't do it, it just overwrites any

I ran the AD Replication Monitor.  Under Current Transitive Replication
Partner Status I am showing 7 "Partner Name: **DELETED SERVER #7".  What
exactly is this telling me?  Is this a previous dc that didn't get deleted
properly?  I am fairly new to this organization so I don't ...

Hi, i'm getting an error message on a mailserver. event id 2042 "it has been
too long since this machine last replicated with the named source machine
etc etc.
looking at the dates mention further down the message, the tally up to a

I plan to install a new DC w/gc on new hardware and transfer all the FSMO
roles from the existing DC.  What are the best practices for moving them?  Is
there a certain order, waiting period between moving roles, etc.?  Very
simple environment - 2 dc's, default site config, 1 ...

I want to make sure I've done this right.
I am working on a server in which redirects were applied for My
Documents. The option in Group Policy to make access Exclusive was
checked. I needed to setup a robocopy script to move files nightly to

Is there a photocopier that recognizes Active Directory?  I'd like to manage
our copiers through Active Directory including a destination folder for
scans.  Accounting would be nice too.
Thanks for your suggestions.

I am thinking this is a possible account error.  I have a user who
gets the following error no matter what computer she logs onto on our
domain :
Cannot find/ idlist,:216:4800,//dc01/netlogon/

All,
How can I through GP setting the default location for the File -- Open
Dialog box to My Computer?  We restricted C drive, it it defaults to that, so
everytime they go to file -- Open, it gives them an error saying that its

one question about Policy (GPO) Order applying:
- I have 3 policies: one enabled, the second disabled and the third disabled.
The disabled policy will predominate, ok?
Thanks.

I have the IE7 AD template installed on our DC's and am trying to set the
home page, but the users IE7 is having none of it!  I have gone to User
Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Explorer > Disable
changing home page settings > enable http://intranet

I'm seeing a number of 1030's on the clients, and this in GPMC:
Group Policy Infrastructure failed due to the error listed below.
Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.
Note: Due to the GP Core failure, none of the other Group Policy components

We just bought a company that I have to integrate into our active directory.
They currently have Windows 2000 AD and I have Windows 2003 AD. How do I
bring their Windows 2000 AD into my AD as a domain tree without losing their
users? If you could point me to instructions on how ...

All,  How can I automate the creation of a users home directory, when the
user is created in AD?  I am not wanting to use the my documents folder
redirection, but rather still with standard drive mappings.
Thanks!