One of my clients had a problem with processing GPO on client computers. Different computers applied different settings from the same GPO but from different domain controllers. All tests related to replication was successful, all GPOs are applied, but replication between domain controllers was a problem, and because of that most clients had a different…
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How to Fix: Attribute userAccountControl of DC is: 0x82020
When running a DCDiag at a customer site today I had the following error occur: It is a bug when we pre-create a computer account in ADUC and then promote it as DC, the UserAccountControl is set to 532512 instead of the default 532480. You need to manually set the vaulue to 532480 in ADSIEDIT.MSC….
Force Replication of all Domain Controllers on all Sites
If you want to replicate all Domain Controllers, then you have to start replication on each of them separately. This may take a while. To save time there is an easier way to force replication on all Domain Controllers of all Active Directory Sites. Log on to one of your Domain Controllers. Start Windows PowerShell…
Speed up Active Directory & DNS replication between Sites
Using the standard GUI Microsoft Management Consoles to make the change to speed up Active Directory replication is not possible. The best result of using administrator consoles will be to increase domain replication between domain controllers to 15 minutes. These large time values were instituted into Active Directory at version 1 because inter-site connections during that era of computing and networking were much lower in bandwidth with the most common being frame-relay or…
Guide to migrate FRS to DFSR
For most users this article only applies if you have Window 2003/ 2003 R2 Domain Controller in your enviornment that you are planning to get rid off. Pretty soon I hope! 😉 SYSVOL is a folder shared by domain controller to hold its logon scripts, group policies and other items related to AD. All the…