Here's the problem....
We have one 2003 domain spread over multiple physical sites. Each site
is connected to the main site by WAN links and has a local domain
controller. The main office site has an Exchange server which hosts all

I have a Windows 2003 DC and I keep on getting the following event every few
minues.  The DC is functioning fine and there are no issues I can see. I've
rebooted, restarted the DNS service and dcdiag tests all pass successfully so
I don't know why these errors are occurring.  Has ...

I work supporting schools which each run their own AD.  I would like to
configure a security GPO and copy those settings onto each DC that is built
in each school.  I worked with an engineer a few years ago that created an
zip file with a .exe file that had the User, Computer and ...

Hi, all!
Is there possible to criate a domain user account which :
1. is a local administrator on target domain machines
2. have less rights than Domain Admins

I hope somebody can help me, we have a weird problem here.
Following situation:
Domain1 - Domain in business setting
Domain2 - Domain in privat home of my boss.

So I converted a Physical Win2000 server to a Virtual Server running in
Hyper-V on Win2008.
Its mostly there, but every reboot, the DHCP client and RPC hang on start,
and then cause pretty much everything else to fail.  I can Manually start

We have 3 DCs, one of them keeping logged of event id 1083 & 1955, which is
talking about an User object cannot updated.
I read many forum posts about those logs, example the below link.  I found
no duplicate records of that user object in that DC.

After enabling the redirection of my users Desktops and My Documents, Offline
Files sync turned itself on. I didn't want my users to have two sets of their
documents (no roamers), so I did everything I could to disable this... but
nothing worked. My users get a pop up on ...

I'm in a common scenario, the company I work for used to be called
'CompanyABC', over the last few years they have bought up many smaller
businesses and new we have re branded and are called 'ABCGROUP'.
They don't like the old domain name and want to change it.  I've read the

On the working  DC(currentserver) with DNS,
Under the servername,
Forward Lookup Zones,
domain.local, (expand)

Every time I try to add a second domain controller I get these errors. 1058
and 1030.
I think it is a rights issue. In the error message there is a UNC path to
the gpt.ini. The UNC path is not \\computername\sharename\gpt.ini  it is

I am receiving a faile request when trying to generate a user certificate
from our web server. I am able to get certificates without of a problem from
our domain controller.  However I just recently setup and outside certificate
request on our windows 2000 server in the dmz.  I ...

I'm replacing a Windows 2000 server with a new Windows 2003 server and I
want to keep the same name.  Is there a best way to make sure the AD object
for this server is upgraded to 2003...or does it matter, are there any
issues to be aware of?

---- NOT Restricted Groups because we need to add another group in
addition to Domain Admins without restricting any additional users
(such as the assigned user of the PC) from later being manually added
as a member of the local administrators group of a specific machine.

We have a server we demoted from being a DC to a normal domain member. This
server has a lot of shared folders our users use, but one person cannot
access these - they just get a login box come up. However if they log in to
our Terminal Server they can access it fine.