I am in need of a way to terminate a program after a period of inactivity.  
They don't need to logoff or anything, just terminate one program.  Does
anyone know a piece of software or maybe a batch file that will do such a
thing.

I'm going to remove a failed DC tonight and I went over the procedure:
http://www.petri.co.il/seizing_fsmo_roles.htm
i have 2 questions:
1. when saying "connect to the server you want to use" (section 4) i

Joe refferred me to repost my query on this newsgroup. Can someone please
help me on it?
I have two installations of ADAM; one on Windows XP and other  
on Windows 2003.

I have one child domain dc which indicates Evend Id: 11 Source:KDC.
I found two spn's for failing dc, but there is any article how to fix this
problem.

I had recently installed a fourth win2003 DC and later found out that
partition C only created 16GB and not only remain 6GB (running on RAID1)
can i mount some of the partition file into drive C to get more space? it is
recommended?

I am trying to create a script to move computer accounts to different OUs
based on the AD site. I found a script that I am adapting for this purpose,
and the script functions by running dsmove.exe from
\\domain\sysvol\domain\scripts. Our domain name is tvusd.k12.ca.us (school

New reporting solution for Active Directory and Network Infrastructure
The new software product MAPILab Reports 2008 -  a solution for
collecting reports about the state of company`s IT-infrastructure,
security audit, inventory of hardware and software, and preparation

How can I change the name of an AD Security Group? I have been able to
change the Group Name (Pre-Windows 2000) as well as the Exchange Display
Name. However, I am unable to change the name itself. In MMC, it still
appears with the old name.

I added a Windows 2003 Server to an existing 2000 domain, and made it an
additional domain controller. All ok, I restarted, I made GC, all worked
fine.
Then I restarted an other time... boom. Every crytical windows services

I'm attempting to promote a 2k3 R2 server into a 2k domain. I've done
the adprep and am up to schema 31 but even if I try to make the server a
member of the domain I get the following error message:
The operation failed because:

I am trying to use the "Targeting" option of GroupPolicyPreference but not
clear on which configuration the "Language" item is actually referring to.
I have tried every configuration in the "Regional and Language Options" on
the user client, but the targeting are not being applied ...

I am having some issues with the unix attributes tab in ADUC while on
a member XP machine.
First when I open up a users properties and than click the unix tab, I
get an error saying 'primary group missing. no primary group assigned

       I have written one application for taking backup and Recovery
of Active Directory. Its working fine with Win 2000 and server 2003
but fails with Server 2008. What is the reason for this? Is any
Architecture changed for 2008? If yes the how do i proceed? Is Volume

I'm not sure if this is the right route so I need someones knowledge here,
but we haev one domain here and have a VPN to another company that we have
bought (small company on 35 users).  Now a user over at this other VPN needs
to access outlook calendars in my domain.

I know that the "net group" and "net local group" commands can be used to
modify the Description field of a group object, but I am curious to know if
there is a command I can use to modify the Notes field.
Basically, I have several hundred groups that I need to place the same ...