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I setup a RAS server on a 2003 box and gave it a scope of a few ip addresses. Everything is working fine and clients can dial in fine but their ip address is the same as their default gateway and their subnet mask is 255.255.255.255... Is this normal? Their IP info looks like below: IP...

Hi all! I setup a new dial in server on Windows 2003 using Windows authentication. It works fine but I mistyped my password to make security/authentication is working and sometimes I get a popup screen saying authentication failed and for me to retype my password (Which is what I want) and...

I need some clarification about this... We currently have Two user OU's and One computer OU. Users1 Users2 Computers I applied an account lockout to the computer's OU since it is a computer based policy and it works. Problem is that since it is a computer based policy, I can't exclude the...

Hi all! A non-domain user needs to access our intranet...What I have done is created a user account on our domain so that when he hits a certain part of the intranet, he will get prompted for user name/password and he can put in the domain credentials we have supplied him. The problem is that...

I demoted a DC a few days ago and am now getting an error: Active Directory failed to construct a mutual authentication service principal name (SPN) for the following domain controller. Domain controller: c709ad6b-5222-450e-ba36-7c69be4f7d3a._msdcs.chemspec.com The call was denied...

Ever since I upgraded to 2003 DC's, I am beginning to get this error: This directory partition has not been backed up since at least the following number of days. Directory partition: DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=chemspec,DC=com 'Backup latency interval' (days): 30 It is recommended that you...

I have recently upgraded from 2000 to 2003 and I was going to remove a former 2000 DC from the network. I dcpromo'd it about a month ago and I just went in and disjoined it from the network, rebooted it and then shut it down. Under ADUC, the account shows up as being disabled but when I try...

Sorry about the subject above... I am almost finished with a migration from 2000 to 2003 and I have one more 2000 AD server that I'm about to decomission. AD has already been upgraded to 2003 using adprep and domainprep and I currently have 4 2003 DC's in the domain. The 2000 DC has an ip of...

Hi all! I have been having some issues/warnings in DNS at bootup and only bootup on my 2003 DC. If I point the primary DNS server to itself, I will get warnings/errors in the logs... I read somewhere that this is becuase AD is looking for DNS and the DNS service hasn't started on the local...

Hi all! I've got a new 2003 server that I just promoted to a DC and I've got some errors in the event logs whenever I reboot. Server takes a while (20) minutes to get to the login screen... In the app logs, I have 3096 (Primay Domain Controller for domain cannot be found) and NEGO error...

Okay, I've nowhere else to turn. I've been looking into this for a few days and can't seem to find any info on it. Our environment: Mixed 2000/2003 domain, a few DC's...All but one is 2003. I am in the process of taking this last 2000 DC out of comission and putting a 2003 in it's place...

Hi all! I'm backing up my Information Store to a file server...This has been working up until recently...Don't think anything has changed but the error I'm getting in the backup logs states: Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group is not a valid drive, or you do not have access Any...

Hi all! Right now, my priv.edb and priv.stm total about 14.7 GB's. I am planning on applying SP2 to up the storage limit but I wanted to test it in our lab first and I need to buy some time. I know there is a kb article showing how to up the size an extra GB... I moved a few mailboxes to a...

I have a Dell Poweredge 2650 with Windows 2003 Server installed with Exchange 2003 SP1. I was about to installe Exchange SP2 to increase the storage limits but the release notes said it's a good idea to upgrade the server to SP1. Applied SP1 and server is now hanging at "applying computer...

Hi all! Our current DHCP server is on an old server...Basically, I want to implement a new 2003 server and have it take over the DHCP role...How do I setup the new server and have it recognize the leases on the old server? Can you move the database from a 2000 server to a 2003 server? I can't...

Hi all! I have two exchange servers...Let's call them 1 and two... server1 receives all external emails and sends emails to users on server2. Server2 went down this morning so emails destined for server2 began queueing up on server1 but I'm not sure for how long...I checked the vitrual smtp...

I need to rename a DC...Right now it has all of the FSMO roles assigned to it. Does the DC rename in 2003 work okay? I have read that I can use the netdom utility or just change it under My Computer, Computer Name but I have heard some bad things about it... Is there a safe way to do this? I...

I have a Win2k3 standard server with Exchange 2003 standard running on a server that has 4 GB's of memory... I received some error initially where I went in and added the /3G and the userva in the boot.ini but I'm still getting the 9665 event id... According to the kb article, there is also...

What's the rule of thumb when determining how many DC's to have in a domain. Obviously you need one at each location if you can...But is there a need to have two at each location for redundancy? If you only have one server at a location and that server goes down, users will log in using...

During the adprep /forestprep, I saw a warning in the event logs server I was running the command on: Replication warning: The directory is busy. It couldn't update object CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=chemspec,DC=com with changes made by directory...