Active Directory

Warning: DcGetDcName(PDC_REQUIRED) call failed, error 1355
I have an native Windows 2000 Active Directory domain with a number of remote sites, and I am trying to diagnose some Netlogon error messages appearing in the event log of the remote domain controllers: Event Type: Error Event Source: NETLOGON Event Category: None Event ID: 5719 Date: 03/10/2005 Time: 11:08... 6 Oct 2005 00:23

Problems after Restore System State
current environment: 2 x Windows 2000 Domain Controllers with CA services running. This morning, I have performed the non-authoritative system state restore on DC2 because no users can request new certificate. The system state restore solved the CA problem but introduced other new non-trusted errors & DNS er... 14 Oct 2005 01:02

How to change the SID on a Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT computer...
How to change the SID on a Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT computer Situation: You are copying a Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT computer to another computer, and you want to know how to change the Security Identifier (SID) afterward. Solution: Need to change the SID When you clone a Windows NT... 14 Sep 2005 02:45

The destination server is currently rejecting replication requests
Hi, I was contracted to resolve AD problems between 2 Windows 2000 DC's. Although the servers were in the same site, they would not replicate. I ran DC promo and repaired AD and DNS as best I could. Repadmin /showreps shows both DC's, however whenever replication is scheduled to occur, the following error is lo... 31 Aug 2005 18:10

undiagnosed errors in the system log
source: server type: error event id: 2510 message: The server service was unable to map error code 1351. Used net helpmsg to resolve 1351 and it says: Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied. Problem is I ha... 29 Aug 2005 09:14

Replications Check
I have a Windows 2000 domain tree. There is root domain and three children: X, Y, and Z. Each domain has a single domain controller, and I've tried running "dcdiag /v" on both enterprise and local administrator accounts on each of the children domains. Enterprise diagnostics do not show any replication errors, ... 15 Aug 2005 20:15

ADMT SID History error
When trying to migrate SID History for an object from NT, for one of my domains I get the error ; Either the source domains primary domain controller (PDC) has not been re-started after setting the TcpipClientSupport registry key to 1 or the PDC could not be contacted. Has any one else seen this error an... 20 Feb 2005 10:58

Group Scope
What's the difference between a DOMAIN LOCAL, GLOBAL and UNIVERSAL group scope? I'm going to setup a sub domain on a Win 2003 standard edition server running in Win 2003 domain native mode. ... 14 Feb 2005 18:52

Domain Rename
Hi All, I want to rename the domain name with domren, but I got: The Behavior version of the Forest is 0 it must be 2 or greater to perform a domain rename: The server is unwilling to process the request. :8245 How can I fix this. Thanks Jeff -- ... 14 Feb 2005 18:52

KDC Error 11
Hi, I'm having a really hard time figuring this out and I was hoping somebody here might be able to shed some light on this. We keep getting KDC errors of type 11 in the system event log. They say that there are multiple accounts with the name... and then it lists different names in each message, but they are... 14 Feb 2005 18:52