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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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The best way to transfer all data from a 32-bit DC over to a new 64bit DC?

What is the best way to transfer all user information from a windows 2003 32-bit server to a windows 2003 64-bit server? TIA Emil
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How do I cancel windows server 2003 repair install?

System: Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Scenario: NTDS db is corrupt and all attempts to fix with esentutl fail. Ran chkdsk which seemed to repair disk error and give access to the ntds.dit file but still esentutl fails. (Attached the drive to a…
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domain controller 2012r2 is not listening working on port 445 - how should I fix?

Checked SMB Service Status: Ensured that the Server service (LanmanServer) was running on the server where you're experiencing the issue. You can check this by opening the Services management console (services.msc) and verifying that the Server…
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Which domain trusts to reset during forest recovery? Incoming, outgoing or both?

I understand the difference between an outgoing and an incoming trust I understand that the trust flow goes into one direction and the direction of access is the other way around I understand that being the domain with an incoming trust, we are…
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Active Directory Sync - RPC Server Unavailable Error, but all services and network protocols are fine

Background: 4 Windows Server 2016 domain controllers at 4 different sites. Sites are connected by S2S IPSec connections. The one site moved and the server in this site broke down, so we had to restore the server to a new Hyper-V instance. Everything…
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how does my laptop locate its domain controller if the DNS server is change

I have around 50 computers joined to DomainA in branch office A and will be move to a temporarily branch office B Branch office B has a different subnet and DNS servers which belong to a different domain - Domain B Office A and B network are…
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Change w32tm source to external server

We have an on-premises NTP server named NTPserver and adjust the w32tm source to time.windows.com. There is a domain controller server that the w32tm source is Local CMOS clock. I want to change the source of the domain controller server from Local…
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Remote Group Policy Update failed (Access Denied) for Domain Admin

My first question in ServerFault heya :) In our domain manage all server and client machines with Microsoft Active Directory. We have 13 Vm Server. Domain\administrator user is Domain admin. I use it in domain everywhere (IIS web services, Remote…
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ADDC for domain could not be contacted, because there are two domains and DNS for second (new DC) used to be point to old domains DC

I feel like this is a pretty simple question but I'm still little new to DNS. So the company I work for had an old Domain setup on a vlan that just wasn't worth the effort of saving so I created a new vlan and started a new domain but I wasn't ready…
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Passwords are not stored in any browser except Firefox

I have domain user accounts (Windows Active Directory) that they use the same (1-1) Windows 10 domain PC some years without problems about saving passwords to browsers. But if I use the same domain user accounts to login to a different pc then I…
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Company Servers Unable to Communicate Between One Another (On Same Network)

I want to make sure and provide as much detail as possible to try to get this resolved or at the very least, figured out. If you need more information, please let me know and I will happily provide it. Our servers are located within an external data…
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Cannot Convert DC to single DC

Windows 2016 Server environment with 3 DCs, single domain. All DCs are also GCs. Server 1 holds all 5 FSMO roles. Now I want to export the VM of server 1 and put onto a different environment on a separate virtual host server, network completely…
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Unable to change domain password from Windows 11 with samba4 domain controller

I've set up a samba dc on Ubuntu and connected successfully a blanc win 11 vm. Everything works fin so far, but when I try to change the password in that win11 vm using ctrl+alt+del, it does not work, instead, I get an error message like "the…
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$ in computer object SAMAccountName

In active directory all machine accounts '$' sign in end of the Sam Account Name. for ex 'samAccountName = client-1$' is there any reason behind it?
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LDAPS, Certificate Authority, and Domain Controllers

I have a domain environment with 4 2012 Domain Controllers that I am working on replacing with 4 new 2022 domain controllers. I have some questions regarding how the CA works when issuing certificates to domain controllers for LDAPS…
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