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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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Both LOCAL SERVICE and SYSTEM users are changing server time on DC

Odd one for you, our DC's time keeps changing by an hour, but it doesn't just go down by an hour it also go up. I've been monitoring the event logs and I can see that there are usually two entries close to each other than both have changed the…
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Establish Trust Between Two Active Directory Domains with a Common Root

In my lab environment, I'd like to create a trust relation between two Active Directory domains that share a common root. One is home.acme.com and the other is work.acme.com. When I create both domains as separate forests and then use the AD Trust…
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bad password count in different sites

What happens if a user try wrong password in different DC (sites), how come the lockout occurs after meeting threshold bad pwd count? Account lockout threshold value is 3 for eg i have 3 sites - Site A,B,C if a user enter wrong password in site A…
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Exchanging AD user groups with an external -not trusted- server for authentication and authorization

I'm not really sure how to short and precisely describe my problem. Thus, I was unable to find a solution or at least a hint via google. We have a Microsoft AD domain and are currently planning to use an external developed software on a third party…
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Adding users from DC to remote desktop users

How to add a user from DC to allowed remote desktop users for certain PC? It lets me choose only users on local machine, although I am connected with a user defined in DC server. A domain user. Even if I try pressing advanced, same thing. Adding…
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Server loses domain connection when promoting to domain controller

I am trying to stand up a new domain controller and add it to an existing domain. The two servers are in two separate cloud zones. Before promoting the new server I was able to contact the existing DCs. I was able to add it to the domain, update…
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Windows asks to install printer driver over and over

I have over 400 users on a 2012 DC, and a Win2019 server configured as a print server, which serves about 279 printers of varying make/model. Some users are receiving driver install messages when trying to print. Some users are also seeing, "Do you…
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Kerberos settings in GPO never seem to apply in spite of the GPO otherwise working

Server 2019 Domain Environment. Issue is related to the DCs themselves. I've a self-created GPO on my DC OU that sets a bunch of things, several of which are Kerberos settings: Curiously, while other things in the GPO seems to set on the DCs in…
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Handling GPO Policies between different domains

I have a handful of changes in a policy that I'd like to apply to other domains. I am wanting to copy this policy to these other domains so I do not have to create them for every dc. Most of what I've seen said to right click the GPO and backup but…
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Unable to join to domain

I have deployed two EC2 instances on AWS with one as a DC role and the other as a sql server which I intend to join to the domain. However when I try to join it I am getting the following error. NetSetup.log 01/27/2023 00:12:04:860…
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Can connect but not bind using ldp when creating new Domain Controller

I'm using ldp.exe..... I can connect fine via ldap to my new domain controller by doing this (the Server Name here is a dns alias pointing to the IP of the server) .....but when I attempt to bind using the credentials that I am actually currently…
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Can't bind to ldaps when creating new Domain Controller

I'm using ldp.exe..... I can connect fine via ldap to my new domain controller by doing this (the Server Name here is a dns alias pointing to the IP of the server) .....but when I attempt to bind using the credentials that I am actually currently…
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Member servers pull Group Policy from only 1 (of 2) domain controllers?

Environment overview: AWS DC1 = Win2k12 instance in region1 - AZ1 DC2 = Win2k12 instance in region1 - AZ2 ~ 60 Member servers = all within region1 Replication set up between the two DCs for GPO, DNS, etc and is working properly. Changes can be…
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Log-in Failures after Endpoint Computers Name Change

We have a Windows Server 2016 on a VMware virtual machine, with about 30 end stations connected to the server DC. Recently, a day after we changed several of the names of the computers of the end stations, it is not possible to log in to the domain,…
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SQL Server - Windows Active Directory users

I am actually using SQL server for my application. If I work with one user (Install and Update app with WIX installer) everything works good, but if I try to change me windows user account to the other user, who can work with such database, but do…
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