Active Directory Q&A with Paul Hinsberg |
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By Vandana Sharma
06 Jul 2005 | SearchWinIT.com |
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 Ease the pain of your Windows 2000 migration and learn how to make the most of your Active Directory. SearchWin2000.com's Active Directory and Migration expert Paul Hinsberg has the Rx for Win2k implementation and management headaches. Browse through these member-submitted questions recently tackled by Paul. Or, got a pressing AD problem of your own? Click here to ask Paul a question.
1. Trust between two AD domains' (Windows 2000 and Windows 2003)
Dear Paul,
Do you have a Step-by-Step on creating a trust between two AD domains' (Windows 2000 and Windows 2003) two-way trust? The main concern here is there have to be some DNS records created before the trust steps are taken. I am more concerned with those DNS steps.
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2. Active Directory not synchronizing
Dear Paul,
I have two Windows 2000 Domain Controllers. The PDC is not synchronizing the Active Directory with BDC. I can't find the Sysvol share on the BDC. FRS is running on both the servers. I can resolve the DNS name using NSLOOKUP from both the servers. I tried the FRS utility and could not find any error. The Event ID I am getting is 13508. Please advise how to troubleshoot this problem.
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3. Set up users to have full rights on PCs but not networks
Dear Paul,
I am setting up a small domain and would like users to have full admin rights to their local Windows XP machines, but not the network. Do I set this up as a policy or is there a different way? Any help would be appreciated.
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4. Demote NT PDC to a member server of the 2003 domain without reinstall
Dear Paul,
We have two domains on same subnet. One is an NT domain with only one PDC and other is a 2003 domain with one DC. Two-way trust is established and working. We want to remove the NT domain and demote the NT PDC to a member server of the 2003 domain without reinstalling it. Is it possible? If so, how do we remove the NT domain?
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5. How do I migrate a DC server and a child DC server?
Dear Paul,
I have a domain controller server (Win 2000 server) and a child domain controller server (Win 2000). I want to migrate both into two new servers (Win 2003) that I just bought recently. How can I do this? What's the procedure?
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Paul Hinsberg is Principle Consultant at Data Return (www.datareturn.com), a managed hosting company that provides systems design, testing, proactive performance analysis, optimization, and troubleshooting application code for customers in complex IT environments. Paul works on a small team that works directly with customers to build packaged, outsourced IT operations. He is the author of several technical books on Windows performance management and holds an MCSE and Masters in Business Administration.
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