Best Practice: Demoting a Domain Controller
Demoting a Domain Controller KB ID 0001932 Problem I was having a conversation with some colleagues this week, the conversation was about the placing of an RDS license server, and somebody had recommended putting it on the domain controller, I pointed out that this wasn’t a perfect idea, because in four or five year’s time somebody’s going to demote and take that to my controller off-line and forget all about the fact that...
Connections From Machines That Don’t Map to Sites?
KB ID 0001635 Problem I was troubleshooting some replication issues for a client, and carried out a dcdiag on one of their domain controllers, and saw this; Starting test: SystemLog A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000016AF Time Generated: xx/xx/xxxx xx:xx:xx Event String: During the past 4.21 hours there have been {xxx} connections to this Domain Controller from client machines whose IP addresses don’t map to any of the...
Windows – Error ‘A Good Time server could not be located’
KB ID 0000705 Problem Seen when running dcdiag, Error(s): Starting test: Advertising Warning: Server-Name is not advertising as a time server. ……………………. Server-Name failed test Advertising Running enterprise tests on : PeteNetLive.com Starting test: Intersite ……………………. PeteNetLive.com passed test Intersite Starting test: FsmoCheck...