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    - Introduce windows 2008 DC to Windows 2003 Domain Hello We are looking at introduce a new 2008 DC server to our network. we have 3 domain controller 1 of the DC is running windows 2003 in mixed mode holding FSMO role, the rest of the 2 are running windows 2000 Server. we will retire windows 2000 Server later on the year, we also have 1 Exchange 2003 Server in place. Currently we have 70 Desktop computers mixed with NT, 2000 and XP Once the 2008 Server in place, we will transfer the FSMO role from 2003 to windows 2008 Server. Has any one done this migration? Any problem to Exchange 2003 Server after role out 2008 DC? I am trying to look for some helpful article for this migration Any help will be appreciated Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125836
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    - Match IP Address List to Computer Objects Is there a way to get the IP address of a computer object in AD? I guess it would be based on the last known IP address. The only reason I am thinking there may be hope is because there is a attribute called "iphostnumber". What I would need to do is run a list of about 3000 IP addresses against the domain to see which computer objects they match up with. A reverse DNS lookup would not work because we aren't using Windows DNS and it's not truly dynamic. I guess one other possibility would be to run the IP list against reverse netbios lookups, since the names would then mostly match the names of the computer objects. If someone knows a way of doing that, it may be an alternate solution. I am not a scripter, but I am guessing something like "for each do nbtstat -A". Thanks. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125835
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    - installing new dc (different domain name) in production LAN I've been asked to set up a development dc with different domain name on our production LAN, so that our application developers can test their AD intregrated apps. I'd be interested to know what (if any) consequences there are of doing this e.g. will the new dc affect the production dc's in anyway? Any help on this appreciated, Tom Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125834
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    - Computer Does Not Allow ANY Use To Search Using AD Group Alias Nam Would anyone happen to know why a computer would not allow ANY user (even Domain Admins) to search for an AD Universal Security group by its Alias name when this works fine on other computers? For example, if you want to add an AD Universal Security group to the local Administrators group, you would bring up a search box and type in part of the name and it should find it either by display name or alias, but it is not doing it on this one computer. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125827
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    - AD Security Group Membership Viewing Hello, Is there a tool/method that a regular Domain User can use to view AD security group membership without giving them AD Users & Computers? Thanks Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125822
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    - Groups That Must Remain In AD Users OU? Does anyone have a link to a document that lists which groups must remain in the AD Users OU, especially when you have other Microsoft products in your domain like Exchange? I've seen this document before, but haven't been able to find it. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125821
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    - C# AD Scripting Hi All, I'm getting some error messages, while trying to pull back a list of users from our AD - I'm guessing it's a security issue (because it works correctly when running as domain admin, so hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The code : DirectoryEntry objDirEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://domain/OU=Users,OU=MyOU,DC=domain,DC=local"); DirectorySearcher objSearch = new DirectorySearcher(objDirEntry); objSearch.Filter = "(&(mailnickname=*)(objectClass=user))"; try { SearchResultCollection results = objSearch.FindAll(); } catch (Exception e) { textBoxErr.Text = e.Message.ToString(); } For some users, will produce the error : The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist. and for some users, the even stranger : Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. Even though the users' account is enabled and working fine for everything else. The users are members of the same groups, so I can't see why the error would be different. What are minimum security requirements I need to set on the OU to allow users to list all the users? What are minimum security requirements I need to set on the OU to allow some users to update the user details? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125817
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    - Getting accountExpires as a date/time using Java I'm connecting to an AD instance and able to get the raw accountExpires value from the entry, but I can't figure out how to convert this value into a usable date/time. I've dug around and found references to INTEGER8 and bit-shifting and all kinds of other stuff, but it's all VB/.NET/C# related code and I can't quite translate that into Java. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125813
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    - Limited service account to query AD Hi, I'd like to query AD using a fixed account. Since I'll be coding in the username and password for the user into a .config file, I'd like to set the user up pretty much only so that it can read Active Directory. The user will be used under an Asp.Net IIS process to talk to the DC, which is on a separate server. Thanks! Andy Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125797
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    - Problems changing account information I am seeing a problem where I have access to change some network accounts but not others, the ones I see that are problems are users that were created a while ago, and new users that are created, I don't have any problems accessing the accounts to change their information or unlock their accounts. Anyone see this problem? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125795
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    - profile problems hi all A user was deleted. profile still exists user was recreated. all settings set to pick up path and profile etc. log on and it says windows cannot find the roaming profile. then cannot find local profile. logging on with temp profile. what am i missing any help will be great Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125791
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    - Create a shortcut that prompts for AD login Here is the situation, I have a large number of users with a random pile of laptops that they can check out for going to remote sites. We have a local account that they all can log in to get to a desktop, and turn on wireless, and configure it for the remote site they are at. What I need now, is a way for them to log in and authenticate to AD without having to re-logon to the machine. Is this possible? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125790
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    - Adding multiple machines with CSVDE Is it possible to add multiple new computers to a domain using csvde? I have a list of 30 pc's to do now, and who knows what will come down the road. I can't find anything saying what the class would be for the value. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125789
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    - Multiple IPs on a DC The situation is fairly complex, but in short: I need to DCPromo down a server with IP x.x.2.3 and change it's IP address in preparation for a coming upgrade process. In the end I will have a new DC with x.x.2.3. The problem being that I have some devices that are hard coded for LDAP lookups, DNS lookups etc to x.x.2.3. Until I get the new server up, can I simply assign a secondary IP to a DC of x.x.2.3. No DNS record is necessary. Thanks, Bob Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125788
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    - Hourly event locking account? Ever since we changed all passwords in our 2003 AD we've tracked down all the dependant services except one. According to the event logs a specific Domain Admin account is locked, every hour at the exact same minute and the source "Caller Machine Name" is always the same Windows Server 2003 SP2 Domain Controller at a remote location. The minute value on which this locked-account event repeats will only change when we reboot the server. i.e., at the moment it's happening every hour at 43 minutes past the hour, but before we did a series of reboots trying to troubleshoot this the account would get locked at every 18 minutes after the hour. This DC sits behind a Cisco PIX firewall/VPN device with the latest OS and I've confirmed the only Internet connection allowed is outgoing UDP port 53. This DC is an HP DL380 G3 will all the latest HP firmware and software management updates as of last week and we are current on all Microsoft "High Priority" updates. On this specific DC in Computer Management I looked at the Services by sorting by Log On As and found all services are set to logon as Local System or Network Service. None are configured for a specific AD account. So I believe the problem is not here. I did a search of the registry for the AD account name and found numerous entries but they were exclusively related to that account performing Windows updates a few weeks ago. However the account password did change since those updates were done, so that has me wondering if that has anything to do with it. I even went so far as to delete the profiles and all folders I could find that were created by that account. And I uninstalled many applications which were unnecessary to the functions of this server, and even uninstalled and reinstalled some of the apps we did need. Later I logged on again as the account and let it create a new profile hoping the DC would somehow recognize the new password. And of course rebooted numerous times. I also used Task Manager to watch all the processes "by all users" while the event happened as the account was locked at 43 minutes past the hour, hoping to hit the PrintScreen button the moment it appears. It never appeared. I changed the Audit Polices to give more detailed information for security event logging: Default Domain Policy | Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Audit Policies | set to check for Success and Failures on all nine of the items in this subset. But this did not prove any additional information that was useful. I am considering changing the password back to what it had been to see if the problem goes away, however since then we've implemented password complexity so now that password is not allowed. So I would have to turn off the password complexity again. And of course change that password everywhere else it is used. Phew. Please let me know if you know where else to look because at the moment I am out of ideas. Thanks! -Bob Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125783
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    - unable to completly delete roaming profile on local computer wh lo Bonjour, On a Windows 2000 domain (server and workstation), when a user logon on a computer, the profile of the user is copy localy in the c:\Documents and Settings\user folder. When the user loggout, we configure the gpo to delete the user folder. So until the middle of 2007 this process work perfectly. But now, when the user logout they are some index.dat files the system cannot delete and some files are not copy back to the server. When the user logon on another computer, the last configuration of the user are lost. When the user logon on a previsouly logon comptuer a seconde user folder is create like (user.vision2000) and the previous configuration is also lost. The only way to delete theses files is to reboot the computer and the last user's configuration is lost. We have three index.dat files locked. C:\Documents and Settings\user\Cookies\index.dat C:\Documents and Settings\scomtois\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat C:\Documents and Settings\scomtois\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat It'is possible to configure something so the index.dat files must be erases. Note: The last version of uphclean is install on our computers and the problem is not present on all workstation for the same user account. Thanks, Sylvain Comtois Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125782
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    - Joined a server to domain using the same name as the Primary serve I accidentally joined an older server being set up as a file server to our domain using the same name as the current(and only) server in our domain. Now active directory and DNS is acting up. Just wondering if anyone has gone through this issue before, and if so what steps need to be taken to remedy the situation. Thanks Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125780
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    - Userenv 1030 and 1058 errors every 5 minutes Hi Everyone, I am getting the following two errors every 5 minutes on my two Windows 2003 R2 domain controllers: Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1030 Date: 3/27/2008 Time: 10:32:42 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: COMPUTER Description: Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. Check the event log for possible messages previously logged by the policy engine that describes the reason for this. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1058 Date: 3/27/2008 Time: 10:32:42 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: COMPUTER Description: Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM. The file must be present at the location <\\DOMAIN.COM\sysvol \DOMAIN.COM\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\gpt.ini>. (Access is denied. ). Group Policy processing aborted. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DCs are in a Windows 2003 R2 domain with 3 other Windows 2000 DCs. The errors seemed to start around the time that I demoted another Windows 2000 DC. I have searched for hours on this and tried all of the suggestions such as clearing the MUP cache, resetting the permissions on the gpt.ini file and it's parent folders, etc. However, the problem persists. There doesn't seem to be any ill effects from it, but it's quite annoying. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Damian Profancik Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125779
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    - Deny Simultaneous Logins to All Users EXCEPT Admin? Windows 2000 Small Business Server With Windows XP Pro Workstations I am using roaming profiles and folder redirections. I want to restrict individual users to only one (1) login on one PC at any given time (no simultaneous logins by any given user). However, I want the Admin users to have multiple simultaneous logins possible. Do I simply put a script (see below) in each user's login profile and omit it from the Admin users? Any caveats? Any better suggestions? e.g.: http://windowsitpro.com/articles/print.cfm?articleid=82454 Thanks. Fred Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125761
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    - Authentication doesn't fail over to additional DC's Hi, I have 8 domain controllers in our enterprise. 6 are located at other geographical sites and 2 are located in our central datacenter. All domain controllers are handling logon requests through the enterprise. I assumed I should be able to shut down one of the DC's in the datacenter without causing logon issues, but that doesn't seem to be the case -- even if I transfer the PDC emulator role to another DC. Users start calling the HelpDesk saying they can't log on but more importantly, our BizTalk server won't authenticate and all users are denied access to our intranet site which relies on BizTalk. Once the DC controller is back on line, everything goes back to normal. I've talked with the team controlling the BizTalk server and they assure me that don't have any dependencies written into the server configuration requiring that one DC to be online. I can shut down other DC's with no interruption to authentication. Any ideas? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125758
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    - Raising domain/forest functional level by command line Hello everybody, is it possible to change the dfl/ffl with some kind of command line tool? Thanks in advance! Greetings, Malte Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125757
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    - trusting a non-Windows Kerberos Realm I am looking to setup a trust between a Windows 2003 domain and a non-Windows Kerberos realm. 1) I'm looking for a straight-forward how-to 2) I'm looking for an official doc on what protocols MS uses to encrypt the shared secret Thanks Blake Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125755
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    - Signing into wrong DC when launching "AD Users and Computers" Our network has many different geographical locations around the world. 1 Forest, 1 Domain, several DC's (All 2003 except 1, and it is a 2000 DC). When I launch Active Directory Users and Computers (or GPMC, etc...), It has been taking a few minutes to open up. I was looking at it yesterday and noticed that the DC I was logging into was at a site (Germany) other than mine (US). I was able to right click and change what DC I wanted to be connected to, but it does not keep that setting. I have been on the Google and Microsoft site, but the keywords I am using do not seem to help. If anyone has any ideas to help assist, I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks, Brent Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125730
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    - Not apply a policy against the administrator Against our Citrix/Terminal Server OU is a GPO that sets the path for terminal services profile under the computer settings section. The problem is our administrator account picks up this setting and uses a TS profile. I dont want the admin to use this profile. Is it possible to write a WMI filter to not apply the GPO if it is the administrator who is loggging on? Or if anybody has any better suggestions????? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125710
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    - Exporting member of a particular group using csvde Hi, I am trying to export a list of users in a particular group so that it just gives me the names of the users in the group. I have done an export using the ldifde command but that gives the list with all the CN/OU/DC and the users logon information etc. I know it can be done using CSVE but am having trouble getting the right format. For example I want to export all users in a group named 'test users', the group is in an OU structure as follows: cn=test users,ou=users,ou=tier2,ou=tier3,dc=mycompany,dc=int Would appreciate any help. Thanks Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125698
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    - Server failure I have a couple of servers at a site. One original server running 2000 and the other recently added 2003. Both were domain controllers. Running in mixed mode. The 2000 box collapsed and died early today. Slammed in a DHCP scope on the 2003 box and we're golden. Print services were on the 2000 machine but I'm well on my way to getting that together. I should be raising the domain functional level to 2003 mode now I assume. The new DHCP scope points the dns to the 2003 servers ip instead of the 2000 machine but I'm getting some small delays in net view and basic network browsing. What else should I be doing? We have domain logins and access as before but I'm sure there's something else to do. Thanks for your help. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125692
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    - Security Tab How can I hide the security tab in AD Users and Computers from my Help Desk? -- Steve Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125690
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    - reverse lookup dns zone Hi All: I'm having a hard time getting a clear answer on the following. I have a Windows 2003 Active Directory with about 300 machines, all belonging to a single domain. If its relevant, I do run a RAS server and exchange server and otherwise, pretty standard stuff. In this type of environment, in my DNS, do I need a reverse lookup zone? I believe I understand if I don't have one that I won't, as an admin, be able to do nslookup <ip address> and get a computer name back. Would this also mean that tracert wouldn't be able to resolve an address to a name? I know that the reverse lookup to the mail server must be valid as this is used as a spam prevention technique. But outside of this, in this basically flat network topology, do I need a lookup zone? Any info or advice or what having the reverse lookup gets me in this environment is much appreciated! Thanks! Drew Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125689
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    - Fixing domain name A few years ago when I installed a Win2K Server, I mistakenly created the domain as "ab.abc.com" when I really wanted it to be "abc.com". I am now replacing the server with Windows Server 2003 on a new machine. The two servers must overlap in time on the network so that I have time for application migration, etc. How do I promote the new server to the PDC _and_ fix up the domain name? Or, should I just start from scratch creating the domain with the correct name? Before this new server there was - and after the migration there will be - only one server in existance in the domain. BTW, This is the second time that I've done something like this wrong. On another occasion, I ended up with a domain named abc.abc.com when, of course, I really wanted abc.com. Any ideas what my misunderstanding was when I created these domain names in the first place? Clearly, I answered some question incorrectly and I must avoid doing this again. Any help and advice is grgeatly appreciated. Thanks and regards, David Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125684
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    - How to transfer domain controller roles Hi, I have a client who has two windows 2003 domain controllers - DC1 & DC2. I was told that DC1 has all the forest info and DC2 may not have all the info. DC1 is also the DHCP server. Both are DNS servers. DC1 one has a strange issue - Its MMC is acting up. Sometimes it opens up and sometimes it won't. Microsoft connected to the machine and after two days they gave up. We are thinking about re-installing the OS on DC1. What would be the proper way to achieve this objective....that is to have two domain controllers again in the end with all the AD info intact and not have to change anything on the client's side. If needed, we are willing to use a 3rd server on a temporary basis as well. Or, can we do this by swapping roles etc. Please provide the steps. -- Network Admin Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125671
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    - Forest Trust Hello All, We have 2 forests A and B; both have a child domain under it. We now have a two-way trust from child.A to child.B. I have created a Local Domain Group in child.A that contains a global security group from child.B. We have a website that requires integrated windows authentication. With just the group the users get access denied, but if I do add single users child.B to the local domain group in child.A then the users in child.B are able to access the website with no prompt for password [ie. windows authentication works properly]. Any ideas? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125666
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    - dcpromo /forceremoval Good afternoon! I think that I know this, but I want to check.... If I use dcpromo /forceremoval to remove a dying DC and then clean things up (via the metadata cleanup and ntdsutil) and things have run nicely and cleanly for two months or more can I introduce - temporarily - a workstation or server that has the same computer name (actually, same FQDN) of the machine on which I performed a dcpromo /forceremoval? Here is why I ask: Had an older DC that continued to fail (hardware). Finally, client purchased replacement. Could not run dcpromo on failing server so used dcpromo /forceremoval. After that, cleaned up everything with our friend, ntdsutil. Environment is running nicely and cleaning since then. Let's say that the servername was DAFFY. In addition to being a DC/GC it was also the main file server (where the users "My Documents" were redirected, among other things). One of the lingering affects (no...not that...oh, lingering affects...not lingering objects) was that the usesrs of MS Access now have a multitude of choices when they synchronize - they click on the little drop down and choose the replica (do not worry what I mean here...not really the point). Client wants this cleaned up as half the entries point to \\DAFFY\blah\blah\blah\file.mdb and the like. Essentially we need to remove all replicas that reference DAFFY. According to some MS Access MVPs the only way to do that is to recreate the old directory structure and to then remove the replicas via normal methods (whatever that means...not an MS Access person). Thanks, Cary Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125657
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    - logging IP address of User who authenticates with AD. I have been tasked with building a small solution that will log the IP address whenever an Active Directory server authenticates a User. I know that this capability is not "built in" to Active Directory. But is there a plugin architecture or something else I can tap into to build this with .NET or some other programming language? This must be a server side solution, not client side. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125644
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    - group member limitation, any more? We are using Windows 2003 AD and running 2003 native mode. I remember in Windows 2000 the group has limitation of 5000 users. What is it in Windows 2003? Does it have any limit? Since everyone will be in the Domain Users group? Is there a limit in Windows 2003 for this group? How about Domain Computers? another question is how to change user's primary group. By default, they are in Domain users. The "set primary group" is greyed out. Is it due to my permission? I don't need to change it but would like to know how to change it. Thanks. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125643
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    - Controlling/Limiting impact of LDAP Referrals / remote sites down We have a misbehaving non-Microsoft LDAP web application. It does not know how to "not" chase LDAP Referrals. (We're working on that, but a fix is not imminent.) (A similar case is referenced in a thread called "Bizarre LDAP referral behavior" [referenced below].) Here is our situation. When a network link goes down without warning, the domain controller there is out-of-touch with the rest of the AD domain. Trouble is, there are seven (7) _ldap SRV records still in DNS, so AD/LDAP keeps trying to contact the down site when it following LDAP Referrals. This causes a delay of up to 90 seconds in the application. We workaround this issue by deleting the 7 _ldap SRV records from the central site. This allows the application to not experience a delay. When the site eventually comes back online, it's domain controller re-registers those 7 _ldap SRV records. Here are my questions: - Under normal conditions, if a domain controller is gracefully shutdown, does it de-register those _ldap records? (I think we only have an issue when the link goes down without warning.) - Are there any controlling mechanisms to reduce the 90-second delay when chasing LDAP referrals to the down site? - Can I somehow "automatically" have AD remove those SRV records at the central site, if it know the remote domain controller is unreachable? - Is there a way that from the central site, we don't see those _ldap SRV records in DNS? I'm thinking that would stop the LDAP referrals. I believe I can tell the remote domain controller to NOT register its _ldap records, but that seems like it would break local applications such as Outlook. LDAP SRV records: mydom.net\_msdcs\dc\_sites\RemoteSite1\_tcp\ SRV record: _ldap mydom.net\_sites\RemoteSite1\_tcp\ SRV record: _ldap mydom.net\_tcp\ SRV record: _ldap mydom.net\_sites\RemoteSite1\_tcp\ SRV record: _ldap mydom.net\DomainDnsZones\_sites\RemoteSite1\_tcp\ SRV record: _ldap mydom.net\_sites\RemoteSite1\_tcp\ SRV record: _ldap mydom.net\DomainDnsZones\_tcp\ SRV record: _ldap Reference thread: Bizarre LDAP referral behavior in Windows 2003 AD microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory http://www.servernewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory/topic961.aspx Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125638
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    - Group Policy Results, can not collect.( probably simple) So I run tbe GPRWizard from the dc connecting to the xp w/s and receive the same result on every machine. Failed to connect........ The RPC server in unavailable. Thanks Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125632
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    - Win2K3 Domain Controllers - DR Exercises I had a DR question that I'm pretty confident someone here could answer for me, and it would be much appreciated! My company has 3 sites, for the sake of this post I will call them HQ, DR-Site1, and DR-Site2. Our HQ site has 3 domain controllers, and each DR-Site has 1 single domain controller. During our DR exercises that occur twice a year, we sever the connection to our HQ site and rely on only the DC's and resources that we restore from backup at each of the DR-Sites. Because of the large number of server restores we do along with the fact they are restored to different subnets, we find ourselves making a lot of changes to DNS records, WINS records, and computer accounts on the DC's at the DR-Sites. During these exercises, our HQ site continues normal business and the domain controllers here remain in production. They complain about no longer seeing/replicating with the DC's at the DR-Sites, but it does not impact production resources. At the conclusion of the exercises, our current method of getting everything back to normal is to perform metadata cleanup at the HQ site, blow away the DC's at the DR-Sites, and then rebuild/re-promote those DC's to get them back on the production network. While the metadata cleanup process isn't all that tedious, I've been wondering if another procedure might be less time consuming: Prior to the start of the DRE, take System State backups of the DC's at the DR-Sites. At the conclusion of the DRE, rather than metadata cleanup/rebuilds, couldn't we just use those System State backups and perform non-authoritative restores on the DR-Site domain controllers? If I understand correctly, the non-authoritative restores would tell the DR domain controllers that *their* AD data is incorrect/out-of- date and to replace it with the data from the production DC's. Is my logic here correct? Or should I just stick with the current method? Many thanks in advance! Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125618
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    - ADprep question about going from 2000 to 2003 domain I will be updating our aging Windows 2000 AD domain (two Win2k servers) by introducing a third server which runs Windows Server 2003 (not R2). I need to run adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep to prepare the Windows 2000 domain for Windows 2003 Server. However, MS's documentation states that if you want to upgrade to a Windows 2003 Server SP1 domain, you must also run adprep /domainprep /gpprep. The Windows 2003 Server I want to introduce into the domain has SP2 and the latest updates. Do I need to run adprep with the /gpprep switch as a third step in the process before bringing the new server into the domain? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125614
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    - active directory user properties new tab Hi; I am from turkey. I have a problem about active directory. I set up scheme and added user.and then added extra attribute which name ise social securite number.There is not problem so far but I could not see or enable user properties it which added new attribute in new tab. I want to ask; is it possible add new tab in user properties and display new attribute on the new tab, how can I do . Ä°f you know ,Can you explain? Best regards.. Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125610
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    - Roaming Profiles and Redirected Folders Inconsistent I'm Running Windows 2000 Small Business Server as a PDC/DC/AD, DNS, and Terminal Server with a Windows 2003 Server running DHCP, DNS, and File Server. Clients are Windows XP Pro. On the W2K SBS, I set the default policy to include folder redirection of the users' "My Documents", etc. folders. In AD, I set the users profiles to be redirected (different path, same server, W2K3) as well. The redirection is not working consistently. I've had cases where a user logs in from one computer and their folders are redirected. The same user goes to another computer and logs in - the folders are NOT redirected. It is "hit and miss" as to whether the folders/profiles are redirected or not. What should I check to diagnose and fix these problems? What needs to be changed? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125609
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    - OU Security Delegation I created a group call dc-joincomputertodomain Ad and pupulated the memberlist with our servicedesk team. The service desk team is able to join computers to the domain, but they cannot move the computer object joined to the domain to the proper OU destination. So I created a new group called ServiceDesk_AD and populated the memberlist with the same users. I then delegated ServiceDesk_AD group to be able to modify COmputer Objects in the OU we want them to move computers to. But for some reason, when they join the computer to the domain, the newly created computer object is no inhereting the secuirty values from the parent. Any Ideas? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125608
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    - W2k3 Domain Controllers running on Windows 2003 Std 64bit? What are the benefits of running Windows 2003 Domain Controllers on Windows 2003 std 64bit? Is there any gotcha's? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125607
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    - Receiving a File Replication Service error on 2 DC's. The 2 domain controllers receive Event ID's 13555 and 13552 every day a couple of times. Restarting the services did not fix the issue. All domain controllers are running Windows 2003 Standard sp1. These servers were cloned about 5 months ago on new hardware and that's when the problem started. We will be applying service pack 2 later today in hopes of fixing the issue. I would like other alternatives to try and remedy the problem instead of what the logs say. Event ID 13555 The File Replication Service is in an error state. Files will not replicate to or from one or all of the replica sets on this computer until the following recovery steps are performed: Recovery Steps: [1] The error state may clear itself if you stop and restart the FRS service. This can be done by performing the following in a command window: net stop ntfrs net start ntfrs If this fails to clear up the problem then proceed as follows. [2] For Active Directory Domain Controllers that DO NOT host any DFS alternates or other replica sets with replication enabled: If there is at least one other Domain Controller in this domain then restore the "system state" of this DC from backup (using ntbackup or other backup-restore utility) and make it non-authoritative. If there are NO other Domain Controllers in this domain then restore the "system state" of this DC from backup (using ntbackup or other backup-restore utility) and choose the Advanced option which marks the sysvols as primary. If there are other Domain Controllers in this domain but ALL of them have this event log message then restore one of them as primary (data files from primary will replicate everywhere) and the others as non-authoritative. [3] For Active Directory Domain Controllers that host DFS alternates or other replica sets with replication enabled: (3-a) If the Dfs alternates on this DC do not have any other replication partners then copy the data under that Dfs share to a safe location. (3-b) If this server is the only Active Directory Domain Controller for this domain then, before going to (3-c), make sure this server does not have any inbound or outbound connections to other servers that were formerly Domain Controllers for this domain but are now off the net (and will never be coming back online) or have been fresh installed without being demoted. To delete connections use the Sites and Services snapin and look for Sites->NAME_OF_SITE->Servers->NAME_OF_SERVER->NTDS Settings->CONNECTIONS. (3-c) Restore the "system state" of this DC from backup (using ntbackup or other backup-restore utility) and make it non-authoritative. (3-d) Copy the data from step (3-a) above to the original location after the sysvol share is published. [4] For other Windows servers: (4-a) If any of the DFS alternates or other replica sets hosted by this server do not have any other replication partners then copy the data under its share or replica tree root to a safe location. (4-b) net stop ntfrs (4-c) rd /s /q c:\windows\ntfrs\jet (4-d) net start ntfrs (4-e) Copy the data from step (4-a) above to the original location after the service has initialized (5 minutes is a safe waiting time). Note: If this error message is in the eventlog of all the members of a particular replica set then perform steps (4-a) and (4-e) above on only one of the members. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Event ID: 13552 The File Replication Service is unable to add this computer to the following replica set: "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" This could be caused by a number of problems such as: -- an invalid root path, -- a missing directory, -- a missing disk volume, -- a file system on the volume that does not support NTFS 5.0 The information below may help to resolve the problem: Computer DNS name is "mcgcpdc.co.mchenry.il.us" Replica set member name is "MCGCPDC" Replica set root path is "c:\windows\sysvol\domain" Replica staging directory path is "c:\windows\sysvol\staging\domain" Replica working directory path is "c:\windows\ntfrs\jet" Windows error status code is FRS error status code is FrsErrorMismatchedJournalId Other event log messages may also help determine the problem. Correct the problem and the service will attempt to restart replication automatically at a later time. For more information, see Help and Support Center at Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125606
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    - Drive mapping problem Hi everyone This maybe a simple problem, but i have yet to find an answer! All our users get drives mapped when they logon in the morning. But one user has to re-map one of their drives 90% of the time. There are no errors or explanations as to why he has this problem and all of his other drives map ok. He is using Windows XP and all hardware is the same as the other users Can anyone assist? Thanks Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125603
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    - Trust Hi there, I have 2 forests, a.net and b.net. I have placed a 2-way transitive trust between them. Even though, child1.a.net can't see objects in child1.b.net and vice-versa. What I did was create a shortcut trust between both child domains and that worked fine. I'm still trying to figure out why the 2-way transitive trust did not work as expected. Both domains are 2003 SP1 native mode. -- NetAdmin <SÃ£o Paulo, BR> Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125600
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    - Audit moved computer object? In terms of auditing, can I find out which user moved a computer object from one container/OU to another? Is this type of object auditing turned on if I have audit directory service access turned on in the Default DC Policy or do I have to enable it separately? Is this logged on all DCs or do I have to search each DC individually for the event ID? What event ID would it be? Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125593
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    - Replication Basic Qs Hi: I have root Domain Windows 2003 and have 7 child domains across geographical locations and have about 12 various sites. I have a hub and spoke environment where The central HUB - "AAA" replicates to Various sites. So If I have a Site called Africa; Example: I have a site link called AAA to Africa and it contains site AAA and Africa.. My question is to monitor it effectively using replication monitor... What is the best way?? like to send me email when replication failed.. thanks Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125591
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    - logon script policies we use a combo of batch file and kixtart scripts for our logon process. I'd like to get the logon script process into a GPO as opposed to putting the batch file name in every user profile. First, I just want to confirm this is the best way to do it - I would think so as right now we have many users that don't have the logon script field properly set, most likely because the person who created the account didn't follow the proper steps! Second, Do I need to include all of the logon-script related files in the policy, or is it perfectly acceptable to just add the batch file that does the calling into the policy and include lines like the following in the batch file that calls files in the netlogon share : \\%logonserver%\netlogon\files\kix32.exe \\%logonserver%\netlogon \script.kix or... %0\..\files\kix32.exe %0\..\\netlogon\script.kix ...and speaking of which, are one of the methods better than the other for referring to files in the netlogon share from a logon script?? Thank You!! - JayDee Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125586
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    - one big reverse lookup zone Hi! Our AD has about 26,000 computers. Right now we've got a messy mix of Class B and Class C reverse-lookup zones that I want to clean up. At first I was considering changing them all to class B's and getting rid of the Class C's, but then I was thinking.... what about creating one giant Class A reverse-lookup zone? The entire network is on the same first octet, and none of the addresses are routable on the internet, so in essence we own the entire class A range. Thanks for your opinions... - JayDee Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125585
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    - 1481,1084, 2108 Error NTDS Replication about 3 months until now I have (occasionally occurs) some NTDS Replication Errors, only on 2 DC in the same site... The objects are always on Deleted Objects and related with printers like "CN=PC1-PrinterP1\0ADEL:87a67f33-5ffe-4484-93c7- f02cc6567121,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=bv,DC=org" 1481,NTDS Replication,Internal error: The operation on the object failed. Additional Data Error value: 5 000020D9: SvcErr: DSID-031B0D6F, problem 5001 (BUSY), data 0 1084,NTDS Replication,Internal event: Active Directory could not update the following object with changes received from the following source domain controller. This is because an error occurred during the application of the changes to Active Directory on the domain controller. Object: CN=PC1-PrinterP1\0ADEL:87a67f33-5ffe-4484-93c7-f02cc6567121,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=bv,DC=org 2108,NTDS Replication,This event contains REPAIR PROCEDURES for the 1084 event which has previously been logged......... help? thkU! Tag: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups Tag: 125581

Hi,
We have a large number of email distribution lists that were incorrectly
created as 'Security Group - Global' with attached email addresses instead of
'Distribution Group - Global'.

Is there any easy way to change all of the Security Groups in an OU to
Distribution Groups with scripting ?

Regards
Michael

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Re: Mass changing security groups to distribution groups by Jorge

Jorge
Fri Mar 28 02:10:21 PDT 2008

use ADFIND and ADMOD together (joeware.net)

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"SalmatMikeG" <SalmatMikeG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7903452B-F2B5-4383-8459-4F5F8EFAC2C7@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> We have a large number of email distribution lists that were incorrectly
> created as 'Security Group - Global' with attached email addresses instead
> of
> 'Distribution Group - Global'.
>
> Is there any easy way to change all of the Security Groups in an OU to
> Distribution Groups with scripting ?
>
> Regards
> Michael
>

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