Migration from Novell to 2008R2

Migration from Novell to 2008R2

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How to migrating Windows XP workstations on Novel into a 2008R2 domain. Where, most workstations have only one primary user and profiles are stored locally. The My Documents folder is being redirected to a NetWare mapped drive. Can USMT migrate the local profile to a roaming profile stored on 2008R2?

Eventually the workstation will be migrated to 7. Do we hold off on roaming profiles until then? Can 7 go from local to roaming profile?

Go from local profile to local profile. Turn roaming on, afterwards. Simpler, cleaner, easier to troubleshoot. There will be those days.

Turning on roaming profiles once in a native Windows environment is simple, common and useful. However, check your network architecture to ensure you can handle this against what data is in those profiles. Large PST, Movies, etc will cause the user to think the new network or products (hint, hint) is not good.

Yes it can achieve this using UAMT 4 to migrate Windows XP local to 7 domain roaming.

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Best Practice Before and After Adding New System into Domain

Best Practice Before and After Adding New System into Domain

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I would like to know about what's best practice or standard process before and after adding new system into domain?

Best practices will be proceed with anti virus scan on the machines before allowing them to join to the domain. Make sure virus definition and standards meet your organization requirements.

And once you have joined the Domain, make sure your security policies are tight and monitored regularly.

Domains, workgroups, and homegroups represent different methods for organizing computers in networks. The main difference among them is how the computers and other resources on the networks are managed.

Computers running Windows on a network must be part of a workgroup or a domain. Computers running Windows on home networks can also be part of a homegroup, but it's not required.

Computers on home networks are usually part of a workgroup and possibly a homegroup, and computers on workplace networks are usually part of a domain.

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0x800710F | Windows 7 Offline Cache Corrupt

0x800710F | Windows 7 Offline Cache Corrupt

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Windows 7 Offline Cache Corrupt: Error 0x800710FE: This file is currently not available for use on this computer.

To fix this issue, you need to reset the offline cache files, that is you need to remove the old files and again re-enable the Off Line Cache!

Please open Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Sync Center. Click “Manage Offline Files”. Select the “Disk Usage” tab and then click the button Delete temporary files.

If the issue persists, restart and log in Safe Mode. Then, open “regedit”, manually locate to:

Warning: before you try to modify windows registry, learn how to backup windows registry. Also try to have a backup of your registry at this stage before you proceed. Read More On How To Backup Windows Registry.

• HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters
• Then, add a REG_DWORD key, name FormatDatabase and change its value to 1.
• Then reboot.

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Steps To Connect Linux PC To Windows Domain - Active Directory

Steps To Connect Linux PC To Windows Domain - Active Directory

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This article will explain you how to connect Your Linux PC to Windows Active Directory Domain Control.

Many companies are using mixed IT environment's using a mixture of Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac’s and I for one am using a mixture of Microsoft Windows and Linux (Ubuntu). And also, this is one way of saying the IT Cost, instead of investing in Licensed operating system, many small and medium scale business can go with Linux as client side.

On my network I use a Microsoft Active Directory installed on Windows Server 2003 R2 and want to be able to get all Server (Linux & Windows) as well as Desktops (Linux and Windows) to authenticate in a central location.

Since browsing the web I managed to find this cool package that can be installed on Ubuntu. Hardy Heron (8.04) which enables you to add and authenticate Ubuntu 8.04 and later against a Windows Domain Controller (Microsoft Active Directory)

So here goes…

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install likewise-open
sudo domainjoin-cli join fqdn.of.your.domain Administrator
sudo update-rc.d likewise-open defaults
sudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open start

Using the above commands you have installed ‘likewise-open’ which is the package that makes it possible for the Ubuntu client/server to logon to a Windows domain, added the client/server to the windows domain, updated the system services and then started the service.

Now that the LikeWise package has been installed you can now logoff (although I recommend full system reboot) and logon in this format:

DOMAIN\username

You need to ensure that you prefix the username with the Domain name.

The good points about this kind of setup is as follows:

• Single username/password combination across entire network.
• Enforces password policys
• Likewise Open enables Linux, Unix and Mac authentication on a Microsoft network using Active Directory.

A user can now interactively log in to the Linux, Unix or Mac machine using Active Directory credentials, and can access any kerberized services that the non-Windows machine hosts.

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How To Login To Windows Domain Without Administrator Password

How To Login To Windows Domain Without Administrator Password

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I've got a client with a windows 2008 Small Business Server Operating a domain. Nobody can remember the Active Directory admin password or any password for any account that has admin rights to get into the machine.

I have also tried OPHCrack and that didn't work, also, there are a few computers on the network that are able to authenticate but when the server was originally set up, those users were denied local login access. Any ideas?

Solution:

I've heard this method works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-VoO9ogHc
I haven't had a chance to test it myself so feedback would be great.

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Error While Creating New Active Directory Domain

Error While Creating New Active Directory Domain

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I am creating a new domain in new forest. On every attempt, it asks me to create a password with net user command. What is it all about?

Solution:

First: Check if you have admin rights. And if you logon as administrator does your administrator account have a password? Blank password will not be accepted while creating active directory. If this is the case, simply run the following from the command line
net user Administrator /passwordreq:yes

Second: Is this your first attempt to create a domain, or you retry to create from the failed attempt, whether the DC with the same name already exit and it is detained or removed from the same domain. if so first do metadata cleanup and try.

If you still have problem, please provide actual error messages rather than descriptions. My guess is that you are trying to create a new AD domain on a server with a local admin account that does not have a password. Providing more information and actual error messages would clear that up.

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