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The primary DNS of domain server is configured as local IP, unable to access the website

The domain server is 2012 R2 datacenter The IP of the domain server is 10.10.8.254/24, the gateway is 10.10.8.1, and the primary DNS is set to 127.0.0.1 or 10.10.8.254. Both of them have been tried, but the standby DNS is not configured. In this case,…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-17T08:24:53.697+00:00
Chen Yang 21 Reputation points
commented 2020-07-18T11:39:37.75+00:00
Dave Patrick 426.4K Reputation points MVP
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

migrate-frs-to-dfsr-sysvol

Hi, What's the prerequisite to migrate the FRS to DFSR for sysvol replication? Source link: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/432d60fb-db6a-41b7-a2f3-d588d80f16f3/migrate-frs-to-dfsr-sysvol?forum=winserverDS

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:35:56.353+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:50:06.54+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

rename-old-2008r2-dc-and-give-new-2016-dc-the-old-ones-name-certificate

Hello, I am planning to upgrade a domain that has DCs running 2008R2 to 2016 this weekend. One of the DCs has an TLS /SSL certificate and I want to keep using this cert that has the FQDN of the old DC on one of the new 2016 DCs. My plan is to rename…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:34:25.96+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:49:55.14+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

DNS _sites shows entries of demoted sites and DCs

Hi all, I've demoted several 2003 Servers during the last few months in our customer AD, moved subnets and succesfully deleted sites under ADSS. So far, so good, but in DNS I can still see entries under _sites and nameserver domain properties tab. …

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:33:11.74+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:49:44.353+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Convert-a-global-group-to-local

Hi, I'm unable to convert a global group to local? Should I create new group? Source link: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/e7a8eea2-9611-4b42-adf7-e1c3143c5f95/convert-a-global-group-to-local?forum=winserverDS

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:30:48.98+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:49:28.693+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Impact in Active Directory Certificate Service - upgrade domain and forest functional level

Hi, May i know if there will be any impact on AD CS (which is installed on a different server, domain joined. Certs are being used for Exchange Server) if i will upgrade the domain and forest functional level? Currently my functional levels are Windows…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:29:24.847+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:49:11.1+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

removing-write-all-properties-from-ou-security-permissions

Hi all I faced an issue recently which the Domain users on my domain can delete, enable and disable other users when I investigated the issue I found that the authenticated users group on the targeted OU had the following permission: 1: List all…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:20:44.267+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:48:27.867+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

If there is no bridgehead server

Hello, Let's say we have a site A with 2 domain controllers. There is no specified bridgehead server in this site. This site is a member of a site link. Which server will be used for replication over this site link? Is there any way to show which…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:19:06.57+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:48:13.113+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Export Active Directory Security group with Department Name to CSV File

Dears, I have active directory security group name "XXX" it has almost 300 user accounts. I need to export all the users to CSV file and I need AD command to do this job and bring all the user accounts with their department names for each…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T05:05:04.363+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T05:15:18.053+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

upgrade additional 2008 ad server

Hi In our environment we have 2012 r2 DC Server with all the roles in it We also have 2008 r2 server that function as secondary DC , we would like to upgrade it to Server 2012 R2 Is there anything I should do except upgrading OS ? Source…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,130 questions
asked 2020-07-15T04:54:38.65+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
accepted 2020-07-15T04:59:07.673+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,556 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor