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Last week I talked to our network and infrastructure people, who were lamenting how Windows 2000 ships with almost no tools to help with Active Directory (AD) maintenance and administration. We pondered how strange it is to ship such a wonderful...
In
tip 2647, I discussed publishing printers in the Active Directory.
If you wish to publish a Non-Windows 2000 based printer, use a Windows 2000 computer to:
1. Start / Run / dsa.msc / OK.
2. Right-click the domain name, or doubl...
Robert McIntosh explains Active Directory sites, give you much better control over replication traffic and authentication traffic than the control you get with NT 4.0 domains.
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 244368 contains the following summary:
This article describes how to optimize Active Directory replication in large network configurations.
When you try to promote a replica domain controller, you receive:
The operation failed because: Failed to modify the necessary properties for the machine account %computername%$ "Access Denied" The
%SystemRoot%\Debug\Dcpromolog folder contains e...