I have an ADAM instance that contains some users; also i have an Active
Directory domain that is used to authenticate users for a web application.
Is it possible that i can create a trust between AD and ADAM so that AD
directory will direct requests to ADAM through the Trust ...

I have some questions about Windows 2003 NTP service.  Thanks in advance for
any answer to any of them or all of them!
1- Does the NTP in Windows 2003 supports authentication?? Secure NTP?? if
not, is there is any add-on or tools to make it support authentication?

One of our customer network got 400 users in the same network with 3 DC.
(one Primary and 2 ADC). they are reporting that some time users are getting
log on error. i need to do collect entire AD logs and do analysis and suggest
the best practice.

G'day all
I went to finish my 2000 to 2003 upgrade tonight and I've hit a hitch that I
can't seem to find any info
on. When I went to raise the functional level of the domain from 2000 to

I have been tasked with editing out user ACL so that no one can read say
otherTelephone from any AD user unless you are a member of a certain group.
If I deny access to the property for everyone, then even the people in the
group will not be able to see the property, ...

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to modify the AD schema to allow
for newly created user to be automatically added to certain groups I
specify.
I thought by editing the schema user class memberof attribute would do it

We run a Windows 2003 domain.  Our laptop users homefolders are made
available off line through the use of Group Policy.  The problem I have is
this:
User A leaves the company, before I give User A's laptop to a different

I have an AD domain, "contoso.local" and additional UPNs defined for
different departments, e.g. "marketing.acme.com", "sales.acme.com" etc.
I now have a requirement to setup a new Forest called "marketing.acme.com"
and to establish a trust between the two AD forests

Is there a way to create an AD GPO that would prevent users from installing
software on their machines (eg iTunes, etc...) even if they have local admin
rights to their machines?  TIA ...

I have a "normal" system state backup scheduled daily using ntbackup on
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. When I select restore, only 2 (Sysvol
and Boot files) of the 5 file sets shows a current date. The other 3 (Active
Directory, COM+, and Registry) show dates of several ...

I was wondering if there is anyway to limit user's logon hour by
configuring AD Domain A while the user account is in a trusted Domain
B please?
What I have got is a computer lab with all computers and network

I'm new in ADAM. I've tested the synchronization from AD to ADAM. But, i
can't find the way to periodically updates the AD modifications to the ADAM.
I believe there is some configuration in the configuration-XML file.
I'm also trying to configure the ADAM server to authenticate ...

I am tasked with Restructuring Active Directory within our company domain
which is a crucial step to have a real and effective network setup.
The plan is that all offices should have a DNS forest domain on a city
basis. This schema should be something like this:

We have two Windows 2003 Servers on our domain. I wonder if we need to set
up WINS servers since we are using Active Directory. What is the benefit of
WINS if we are using AD anyway?
Thanks.

I get the following message shown below when I try manual replication in AD
Sites and Services. I never used to receive such message earlier. I am not
sure what would have changed that I am getting this information message. Even
though, this message is no harm, but I feel that it ...