synchronize passwords between Microsoft Active Directory forests
Hi all, I have two Active Directory forests, with windows server 2008 r2 both. I have users in production in the two forests and need to copy the password for multiple users, not all users of one AD...
View ArticleRODC deployment for 400+ locations
Hello,We are planning a creating a new child domain for our branch stores, about 400 locations and join each location to the new domain for central management and SCOM monitoring and group policy...
View ArticleNPS 802.1x Authentication with MAC filtering for VLAN assignment
We have a wireless network that is currently supporting both domain joined and non-domain joined machines using 802.1x (MSCHAPv2) for authentication. This is working well however now we want to start...
View Article2008 R2 DNS server scavenging STATIC records?
A customer reported, that, after I set the DDNS scavenging interval from 7 days to 12 hours the DNS server scavenges static entries (i.e. A entries he entered by hand). This happened first after the...
View ArticleWindows 2008 DNS events 5504
We are getting DNS Events 5504 on our Windows 2008 DNS server every 5 to 10 seconds from the outside of our network.Why?
View ArticlePing Problems
Hi All,Closed Network, with 5 servers and 20 clients. 3 - Win2k3, 2 -Win2k8, Client mix of XP, XP_64 and Win7_64. Network has Win2k3 DC.I have a Win2k3 server and a Win2k8 LEGATO server that cannot...
View ArticleWindows 2008R2 DNS cache needs to be cleared occasionally
I have a couple of environments with Windows 2008R2 and Exchange 2010 where some messages will be delayed due to DNS problems.If I clear the DNS cache on the DC (AD integrated) then the queues clear...
View ArticleUsing IE9 address bar to pull up internal address with single word entry like...
We have a single forest domain running an internal wiki site. I want to call up the site by typing the site name instead of the full http address. I thought I could use cname in dns but when I type the...
View ArticleSuper scope issue, IP assignment wont work using second Range
Hello,We have DCHP configured on Win 2008 server with Superscope of 2 ranges 59.x.x.x\24 and 121.x.x.x\24,When user moves from one meeting room to another they get limited access,(Wifi)As per my...
View ArticleConfigure DNS Server
Hello to all! I`m sorry if I`m repeating, but have a question: i bought VDS with Windows Server 2012 Standart, but i can`t configure dns-server. I don`t know much about it, and need your help. So how...
View Articlelocal machine "Description" in domain
Hi guys,I have a problem about seeing Computer Description in my LAN. We have about 12 VLANs, ADs with server 2008R2-64bit OS and clients are XP or 7.I know in windows 7, Vista and 2008 there is no...
View ArticleDomain controler
Staff good dayYesterday was a strange problem, after restarting one of my domain controllers (procedure we do at least once a month), the server was stopped at the "Applying Computer Settings". After...
View ArticleCan connect to VPN, cannot access remote resources
After 3 days of searching for similar cases, I've come to believe I've exhausted myself and possible solutions.I'm setting up a PPTP VPN on a 2012 server. I've forwarded ports 1723, 50, 500, and 47 to...
View ArticleIP's are not released after lease expire
Hello,I have Win 2008 server running DHCP, with client lease time as 2hrs.We have recently updated our clients from win 7 to Win 8 (not sure if this is the cause) (apprx 60-70),also some mobile...
View ArticleDHCP Error - DNS Update Failed (31)
Dear All,I have the problem that the DHCP server does not update the DNS Records. FYI the same server is AD, DHCP and DNS and there is a second server with the same roles, serving the same roles in a...
View ArticleDNS Static Records issue
I have noticed 'some' of our static IP Servers have time stamps and not 'static' is there a reason why this would happen?We have 2008 R2 Server windows DNS/ StaticI can provide more info if needed.I...
View ArticleCMAK route update failing with error 0x80071392
I'm trying to move to a 2008R2 RRAS server and I'm having problems getting my Win7x64 clients to connect to this new server and automatically update the routing table. The CMAK/route update works fine...
View ArticleDHCP Failover Problems
We recently upgraded our DHCP servers to Windows Server 2012 and are taking advantage of the built-in DHCP failover. We have 2 servers, configured in Load Balance mode, 50/50 percentage split.We are...
View ArticleWin 2012 Direct Access Troubleshooting
I've got a server running server 2012 enterprise, one internal IP that is a NAT'd to a public IP address.I've installed the Remote Access Direct Access roles and configured it and it was working. I am...
View Articlenewly configured DHCP only assiging IPs to one scope
i have introduced a DCHP recently in my one of the companies sites - 2 subnets are configured statically on the clients 192.168.36.0/24 and 37.0/24 - they can ping each othernow the 36 scope is...
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