I would like to set up a new DFS Link and keep the files in three
different locations so clients are directed to the closest location.
My understanding is that once I assign the multiple targets, clients
will be directed to the location in their site or if there is none in

I would like to restructure my AD user permission.
Non-Admin users like helpdesk will be performing:
1. Troubleshoot on client machine
2. Health check on member servers

I'm trying to get some OUs created in one of our domains. However I'm
getting some pushback from our domain admins saying that anything more than
2 or 3 levels will cause performance issues and therefore they won't
implement it. Unfortunately they won't or can't be more specific. ...

We had have an issue with one of our DC recently, we've got about 15
DCs throughout the city and recently we constantly get "rpc server
unavailable" particualary when we connect tot the server via AD UC for
Administration.

At random times I get a message on my Windows Server 2008 Datacenter box
(all latest updates installed) that Windows NT Intersite Messaging Service
has stopped working and has been stopped.
One of the Proplem Report and Solutions details are as follows:

It seems like this should be an easy one, and a common request, but I haven't
had luck so far....
I am looking for a way to query an OU for groups and dump a list of the
groups' members.  This could then be provided to management.  The following

i have a Problem with Windows Server 2003 ADS Farm. We have to change
for VMware Sun VDI solution.
We have a Problem with dynamic Pool. The Virtual Machine "XP" was
delete all 48hour and join new in the Domain on the same Computername.

Hi, we have two sites A and B in domain Company.com.  When logging
into a server supposedly from site B, it DOES connect to the local
domain controller to authenticate.  But if I try to ping "Company.com"
from that server, it tries to contact a domain controller  in site A.

We have an office, SiteA, with these five subnets:
10.1.1.0/24
10.1.2.0/24
10.1.3.0/24

How do I configure AD so users in Group A have their accounts locked out if
they enter the incorrect password three times, however, users in Group B do
not have any account lockout policy.
I'd appreciate any assistance with the aforementioned question.

I recently inheritied a network with one 2003 server DC (and operations
master) and one 2000 server DC (which was the original DC).  I'm trying to
add a second win 2k3 DC to the network, and I get the error message that
adprep forest prep and domain prep need to be run, and that ...

Can anyone tell me what this error may be related to?
Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer network.
(A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host.)

My Setup:
Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers/Print Server (32-bit)
Windows Vista Client (SP1)(32bit)
All of my windows xp machines work fine when installing printers via the

   Our HR system outputs new employee usernames, which we currently use to
create AD accounts using dsadd.  The script runs great, but it currently
does not create home drives for new users.  I'm trying to fix that, but I
can't seem to get it to work.  Here is the basic script ...

I have 10 or so DC's, 2 local.  When one was down i got this error on
my ctx server.
Failed to get token handle for user account AA\BB. Reason: There are
currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.