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A domain controller is a server in a Microsoft Active Directory or NT4 domain that is responsible for central authentication.

In Microsoft Active Directory and NT4 domains, a domain controller is the central repository for all of the user account authorization information. It allows a person to sign on once and be allowed access to many different resources.

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Internal and External DNS from Different Servers, Same Zone

I am either having trouble understanding how DNS works, or I am having trouble configuring my DNS correctly (either one isn't good). I am currently working with a domain, I'll call it webdomain.com, and I need to allow all of our internal users to…
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Windows Server 2003 - Give User Full Admin Privileges

I am running Windows Server 2003. There are a couple of user accounts that I would like to promote to Administrator accounts. I've tried several ways to do so, but I am still relatively new to setting up a server. If anyone has any ideas on how to…
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ADPREP /forestprep fails to verify replication cycle on schema master

I have a single domain server running Server 2003 running a 2003 functional level domain. I am trying to add a server 2008 R2 machine to be another domain controller, with the intention of promoting it to be the primary, and taking off the server…
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Create SAMBA node trust relationship to Windows 2003 PDC server

I am having problems creating a trust relationship between an OpenVMS/IA64 node running V/IA64 8.3-1H1, TCPIP 5.6 ECO 5, CIFS 1.1 ECO1 PS11 (SAMBA 3.0.28a) and Windows 2003 server running as a PDC. I do have two other OpenVMS/Alpha nodes running…
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How to bring another DC up with all roles when first DC is no longer available

I am so upset of this as i am not getting a proper answer anywhere. Let me make it clear the same scenario again. I have a DC named DC-1 & another DC named DC-2. both DC-1 and DC-2 are the name servers. DC-1 is holding all the 5 roles. DC-1 goes…
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Changing IP on Domain Controller?

I'm considering changing the IP on a 2008 Domain Controller, anything that I should be aware of to look out for? Will be doing this on a Saturday night to, leases renew every 24 hours so by Monday morning all the machines will have valid DHCP leases…
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Can I force a workstation to use a specific domain controller?

I'm on a domain that I can't control the domain controllers on, but I can control my systems. All the domain controllers are part of one site, and that cannot change. However, one of the domain controllers is not working correctly and the admins in…
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Exporting a VM running as a Domain Controller

There is a Microsoft KB article that talks about best practices for running a DC on a VM. One of the notes is "Do not use the Export feature on a virtual machine that is running a domain controller". In order to export a VM, the VM needs to be…
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Windows Server 2019 randomly changes time and date to incorrect values

In the last two months, we have got quite a few issues with the server time and date occasionally changing to some absolute random values. Sometimes it is a few days in the future or past, sometimes - even several months. We have got the problem on…
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best practice to removing DC from Site that no longer connects via vpn in another city

hi i am looking for a recap of what i have done already to see if i missed anything. i had two cities connected by wan using a ipsec persistent tunnel between gateways. i had one DC (DOMAIN CONTROLLER) in each city that was a global catalog server…
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I want to REPLACE the existing Domain Controllers but keep AD, etc

We merged with a company and I'm taking over the IT duties there. They had a 2000 domain that was upgraded to 2003. The problem is that someone applied the W2k security policy templates to "harden" the DC's and after the upgrade it doesn't seem to…
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DC for new Hyper-V cluster

right now, we have old physical servers for domain, DHCP, file share and SQL. Management decided to virtualize all services to save costs.  I like to build a small cluster with 2 Hyper-V servers and Synology shared storage. As failover cluster…
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What device is used for a Domain Controller?

I hear that this website can offer some assistance with IT-related questions so I figured I could give it a shot. I'm learning about Active Directory and often in textbooks I see symbols like this used when referring to domain controllers/ active…
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How do I interpret ID 4624 Type 3 events on a domain controller?

I'm seeing a lot of ID 4624 Events (Logon Type 3) on a domain controller (Windows Server 2012) and I'm wondering what those events want to to tell me. I've read that 4624 Type 3 events on a domain controller say that there was a network logon on the…
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Disc write cache on Windows domain controller | always disabled by default?

Is it true that on a Windows 2016 domain controller (bare metall installation), the disc write cache is turned off even if a battery-buffered RAID controller is installed and recognized by the system (by default after every reboot)? (We don't have…
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