Questions tagged [domain-controller]
A domain controller is a server in a Microsoft Active Directory or NT4 domain that is responsible for central authentication.
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Advanced Audit Policy configuration using PowerShell
I created a GPO to enable advanced audit policies and Security settings.
Related policy settings
I need to edit and enable the settings using PowerShell.
What are the related registry keys?
How can I ...
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Define a specific policy in the domain controller gpo
I am defining a series of special policies in my domain controller, I wanted the user not to have admin access, but to be able to share the folder on the network for other users.
I even set the user’s ...
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Starting Windows domain controller for testing in an isolated network: Can't sign in
Our backup strategy has been to export the domain controller (Hyper-V VM) along with the other server VMs to a large drive which we rotate offsite and off-grid.
Now we want to move the DC to a new ...
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Administrator account from trusted domain loses privileges in trusting domain over time
I have test environment with two separate forests: ORANGE and GREY. They have one-way forest trust with Orange domain being trusted and Grey domain being trusting. In other words, account me@orange....
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Windows Server 2022, DC Promo - Server manager closes abruptly
I have Windows Server 2022 virtual machine (Hyper-V Host, same OS) on which I am trying to deploy a second domain controller. I successfully installed the AD Domain Services Role. But when I try to ...
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Active Directory Domain Admin and UAC Prompts not working
I have strange issue in Active Directory environment. Let me try to explain step by step;
I have two DCs one of Primary second one is Additional. also repplication is work well between them.
Imagine ...
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Best Practices for Restricting Domain Administrator Access in Active Directory
I’m seeking insights on the best practices for securing Domain and Active Directory environments, specifically regarding limiting of Domain Administrator access privileges. The goal is to ensure that ...
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SYSTEM account of domain controller does not have permissions to change password of domain user
Have some software that runs as the SYSTEM account on the domain controller of an Active Directory. Part of what the software does is change passwords of select accounts at pre-determined intervals ...
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What determines which server set-aduser connects to?
I was wondering this as I used it to create a user. Get-ADuser could see it straight after. Next I used Get-ADDomainController to presumably see what AD Set-ADuser created it on. However when I went ...
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Using old roaming profiles after Domain controller change
Is it possible to keep the current network profiles on users' machines even if the domain changes?
It is not necessary to migrate current users from the old server, but the local network profiles ...
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How to resolve "Unable to obtain DNS hostname of Active Directory domain controller with ntdsa object name...."
It starts as a programming problem:
Domain.GetCurrentDomain().DomainControllers
triggers an exception:
Unable to obtain DNS hostname of Active Directory domain controller
with ntdsa object name &...
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Domain Admin account unable to access AD server both locally and via RDP
I am experiencing an issue with our "Primary" domain admin account whereby I am unable to connect to the AD, using this account. I am aware that this is not best practice as we normally use ...
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Unable to logon using RDP after domain migration
We have issues after migrating a DC to a new DC.
When we attempt to RDP to some of our VMs using the DNS name, it fails. Using the IP address works.
This issue only occurs on some VMs.
It seems to be ...
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kpssvc service won't start on DC
I have a single domain with 2 sites, each site has it's own 2019 DC. On the (secondary) site I see an alert that the KPSSVC service (KDC Proxy Server Service) is not started. And it's startup type ...
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Error demoting Server 2008 R2 domain controller
I have a domain that is at functional level 2008 R2 running on a 2008 R2 DC.
joined a new 2019 server to the domain
added AD services role to the 2019 server
migrated FRS to DFSR on 2008 R2
promoted ...
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