I want to build a development environment which is a replica of my
production AD. Can you point me to an article which provides a step-by-step
process.

I'm trying to create a module in access that will match 5000 users in
table to their AD account properties and return their SamAccountName
Common name, e-mail address, Last login, Disabled account, and O
attributes and present them in a new table.

Hello AD forum users,
I was wondering if anyone has  a clue on the following:
Is there a tool on AD2003 that is capable of collecting stale accounts (with
expired passwords or passwords  closed  to expiration date) and send an

I haven't had a chance to test this out, so I'm wondering if anyone has
experience with this or can point me to some documentation.
Let's say I have one AD domain with all XP SP3 and Server 2003 SP2
computers. I have one main office and a very small branch office with 3

I know this is probably old hat to you, but I have a Win2003 server to WinXP
Pro SP2/3 clients setup and I've inherited a config whereby the user's My
Docs is redirected from a server location (which is fine for wired machines)
but user's laptops are set for off-line access so ...

I have problem with my AD forest domain. The AD database of my forest/root
domain server is corrupted and I don't have a system state backup of the
forest/root server. I know the AD database is corrupted because when I boot
up the server normally it gets to a point saying ...

This is what I walked in to: AD not working, will only boot in to AD recovery
and there are no system state backup of the failed server, and it holds all
FSMO roles. Lets call this SRV1 So I cannot run DCPROMO.
There is another DC (SRV2) on the network but they are not trusted, ...

after upgrading from a w2k3 ad into a pure windows 2008 environment,
we found out, that a certain client software running on xp sp3 is not
able to authenticate with kerberos. it only works with ntlm
authentication. are there any diagnostic-tools, which can provice me

On our primary domain controller running windows 2000 server we are
recieving hundreds of Event 404 errors from ESENT.  Here is the error:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESENT

We currently require a minimum password length of 8 characters. We are going
to enable password complexity very soon. The password complexity setting
says that it requires a minumum of 6 characters. If we keep our current
setting of 8 characters for password length and enable ...

Lee,
As you suggested I am trying for ADAM Backup and Restore.
Using the following command:
ntbackup backup "@C:\Program Files\Microsoft ADAM\....\backupselection.bks"

I am trying to sync data from AD to ADAM.
My MS-AdamSyncConf.XML:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<doc>   

I would like some help and if anyone could help me I appreciate so the case
is that:
- I have an environment Windows Server 2003 with one child domain and that
child domain has Exchange Server 2003.

How would I deny the right to logon locally but still allow that user
to run-as

We are running a Windows 2003 native active directory domain with  two
Windows Server 2003 Ent. Ed. DCs. We have setup GPOs which call logon scripts
from User Configuration portion of GPO. The logon scripts are VBS. One of the
scripts is for drive mapping. We have recently ...