Remote Registry: No Location Found
Dec23

Remote Registry: No Location Found

KB ID 0001379 Problem When attempting to connect to a remote machines registry; Error The program cannot open the required dialog box because no locations can be found. Close this message and try again. Solution The ultimate cause of this problem is, that the machine you are on cannot see Active Directory, either because there are no domain controllers are online, or  its DNS settings are incorrect. Related Articles, References,...

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ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) Domain Migration – Part 2
May06

ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) Domain Migration – Part 2

KB ID 0001306 Problem Back in Part One we setup our migration admin account, and installed ADMT. Now, as I’m going to migrate the users passwords I need a ‘Password Export Server’, but first I need to tackle the subject of user SIDs   Solution Domain Migrations and SID Filtering Every user has a SID (Security Identifier) it’s the thing AD uses to refer to and apply security to users, (and other objects). This...

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Enable The “Remote Registry Service” through Group Policy
Nov17

Enable The “Remote Registry Service” through Group Policy

KB ID 0000488  Problem I was rolling out Trend Worry Free Business Security this week, and to send out the client software all the client machines needed the remote registry service enabled. That’s great but it’s set to manual startup be default. As I didn’t want to visit each machine I wanted to do this through group policy. Solution 1. On a domain controller, Start > administrative tools > Group Policy Editor...

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