How can I write a script to use diskscript conncurntly on all domain
members?
Is the Diskpart working as an startup script from AD policies??

I have a Windows 2003 Domain/Forest and I want to upgrade to Windows 2008
Domain/Forest.
I would like to know if I mus run adprep /gprep beasides /forestprep and
/domainprep.

I need to add mobile number to almost 2000 existing users. Anyone having
script which can take the telephone numbers from some excel/text file with
either complete user name, or account name, and put the corresponding number
to their relevant 'Telephones'  ‘Mobile’ section.

We have a bunch of linux server added to our Windows 2003 AD. Why does the
machine role show as "domain controller" and not "workstation or server".
When we query the AD, we see our normal windows domain controllers. Our goal
is not to use a linux DC, but to see why they are ...

I have heard that moving a DC to a child OU under the default Domain
Controllers OU is not supported by Microsoft. (Nobody seems to be able to say
what will / could go wrong though.)
Is this a true statement or just a myth? Does anybody know of a microsoft

I have an OU full of mail enabled contacts. What is the best way for me to
change their "Target Address" all at one time?

All,
I am looking for any ideas here.
I would like to extend my AD Schema to 2008. Everything is currently 2003
and we have Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 running. My Exchange admin would

I am looking for some advice please. We have recently moved to a new
Active Directory Server 2003 domain. The last DC in the old domain is
also a file server on the network.
I need to run DCPROMO on the DC to remove the old domain and then add

Can group policy be used to set the authentication protocol to active
directory ?
Where are these settings ?

My corporate AD is filled will non-existant computer objects.  How do I
search for Computer objects which have not been active in X days?
My plan is to move all inactive or unused computer objects to a specific OU
called "garbage" or something.

We have a requirement in our organisation that all the application and
internet facing servers in the organisation should be the part of Active
Directory Domain. We have many servers in DMZ zones and the Domain
controllers are there in LAN zone. We need to have all the DMZ ...

I have a pair of DC's with one of them hosting Exchange Server 2003. When
this server is shutting down the KDC keeps on responding to requests but
errors all requests with KRB5KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN. As the server takes
20+ minutes to shut down we have an otuage on our ...

Dear
I have windows server 2003 AD service. I delegated the following tasks to
our help desk team using the Delegate control wizard.
- Create, delete, and manage user accounts

Hi together,
we sometime experience issues with clients that do not login to the local
DC, but to a DC in a different site.
We are using eg.

We are migrating from Novell to Windows 2003 Active Directory.
We are going to deploy a number of Windows 2008 Server in the near future.
We would like to know whether it is possible for one of them (Windows 2008)
be a DC in the Active Directory ?