We maintain a wide network of PCs (Win 2000 and XP, approx 200-300
machines). Most of these are single use machines designed for use in a Video
Conference environment. The machines are effectively standalone with public
IP's, and they are deployed in various institutions, some ...

I would like to put a row in users loginscript todetermine which OU the
localhost is located in.
Any idea?
Regards Magnus

I need to know if  i can download a msi to install ADAM without SP1.
Our cx need to creat a replica between two servers and one of servers has
ADAM without SP1 and the other one with SP1. Cx need to have both servers
without SP1.

We have an AD 2003 domain which uses the domain hierachy time sync model.
There is a developer who is using an application that generates
transactions. Before this application hits production they need to confirm
that it can log transactions for different times/dates (i dont know ...

I have a W2K3 R2 domain with XP SP 2/3 clients.  I want to enable
re-direction of the My Documents folder for my laptop users so I can get
their docs on my server where they'll be backed up.
I have enabled redirection of the My Documents folder using Group Policy and

I've got several Server 2003 Std SP2 systems running AD that reboot
arbitrarily maybe once or twice a week.  It seems to be getting more frequent
now too.  I get the same event IDs every single time in the System and
Application event logs.  I've run virus scans, used MBSA, ran ...

One of my users just got married and now I want to rename the
account.
My question is should I just rename the home directory or build
another account and migrate to that account. My concern is how LDAP

I want to avoid NETBIOS traffic in my office ,for that I have disabled
"TCP/IP NETBIOS helper" under services of my Windows 2008 std. domain
controller.Suddenly, my group policies stopped working and giving me error"
failed to open group policies, The network path was not found".

I am trying to promote a domain controller on 2008 in a separate site to my
domain.  The only existing current DCs are in another site.  The sites are
connected by permanent VPN, and I know it's working because I can log on to
the domain perfectly well (a bit slowly) from any ...

I'm having a time of things.  Recently a domain controller, the first one in
the domain, died.  I was able to successfully remove the controller from
active directory using the Microsoft knowledge base article, but now my
domain can not be found.  DCDIAG gives errors when run ...

This is our situation.
DC1 Win 2k upgraded to w2k3
DC2 Win 2k
DC3 new w2k3

I made a mistake a couple of years ago when I setup a domain server for one
of my clients (which I'll refer to as 'client' rather than their real name.  
I named the domain client.com rather than client.local as I should have.  
Pretty dumb, I realize now.

In my Active Directory, i have much old computers in Active Directory and
i don't know how can i be sure to delete a computer really no longer exists.
Does someone has a solution ?
An other question, what is the best solution to delete the old wins record ?

I started having problems with scheduled tasks last weekend. For some reason
the Task Scheduler keeps losing the used accounts passwords. The problem is
with atleast two of the servers in the domain. The other is Windows 2000 and
the other 2003.

Currently have one site with 3 DCs all on the same subnet at our datacenter.
At our main hospital we have redundant 10G connections back to the datacenter
and we are adding a 4th domain controller there in a small a recovery
computer room. The recovery room is on a separate VLAN ...