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Unable to access SMB share with DNS Cache service disabled from Windows Server 2022 but it works on Server 2019

I have a requirement to disable the Windows DNS Cache on a new Windows Server 2022 RDS VM. Trying to access a SMB share hosted on a Windows Server 2022 file server, all my servers are joined to a AD ...
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DNS record not resolving - even on the server itself? Causing AD issues

I have a Windows Server 2019 AD/DHCP/DNS/SQL server running on an ESXi host. Recently, I have been having trouble with domain trust dying to client machines, and now I am completely unable to join new ...
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Active directory server set up DNS resolution failure or VERY SLOW, can I route external DNS requests the traditional way, before the server existed?

I'm very new to the world of active directory, windows server etc., so I apologise if some of the questions I ask are a bit stupid, but I'll try and explain exactly what I want to do below, and my ...
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DNS Forwarders Not Syncing

I have two Windows Server DCs, SERVER3 and SERVER4. SERVER3 is the PDCe. On SERVER3 I changed the DNS forwarders from my ISP to OpenDNS, expecting the change to automatically sync to SERVER4. It's ...
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How to forward subdomain DNS to Windows Server DNS while keeping the parent in local zone

I have a Bind9 (Ubuntu) as my primary DNS server in my lab environment and hosts zone files. I recently added Active Directory to the environment. My plan is to keep Bind9 as my Primary DNS and any ...
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Unable to log into RDP session on remote site servers using domain creds

The Setup I have a single on-prem Active Directory domain. The domain is configured with 3 AD sites, each with a global catalog domain controller. Site A is the main hub, and Site B and Site C are the ...
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How to set Windows Server DNS to resolve recursively for every IP in my subnet?

Windows Server DNS server (active directory integrated) does not resolve for linux clients in my subnet, but resolves for Windows machines that are domain members. Disable recursion checkbox is NOT ...
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How Do I Make DNS Requests to An Internal DNS Server for Site That Was Previously Hosted On Prem Route To A Site Off-Prem With A Diff URL?

This is embarrassing, but I'm hoping the hive can point me somewhere on this one. I've got a domain that until recently pointed to an internally hosted site. Almost immediately prior to my taking over ...
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Active Directory Win2k19 DNS record refused

I am migrating a Samba domain to AD on Windows 2k19. The domain successfully replicated, and I transferred 5 of the 7 Samba FSMOs (there are 2 additional FSMOs that Samba claimed that Active ...
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How to create Origin (@) DNS record in Windows DNS Server

I am running Active Directory, and have a Domain Controller with a DNS server for my internal (acmecorp.acme.com) and external (acme.com) domains. So, my machine names are things like workstation1....
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DNS Server returning only name, no IP

I am having DNS server service running on Windows 2016 Server Primary Domain controller. I have an additional domain smtw.in configured: The PDC is the primary server for the domain. I have a host ...
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Users can access a certain website on our network but they cannot log in. They can log in on our second network and on any external network

it is my third month as a junior sys admin and my senior is on vacation. Starting this past Tuesday, users have not been able to log in to a website while on our primary network. The web page loads ...
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Domain Joining using WMIC command with a batch file

With a batch I was able to successfully join Office Systems on domain but for some reason a few are stuck and I did try the same command with changing fjoinoptions=2 and 3 but still unable to get them ...
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Convert AD-integrated DNS zones to Primary DNS zones

We have inherited a domain with 2008 R2 domain controllers running DNS on them. We want to add Windows Server 2019 to the domain then demote the 2008 R2 domain controllers to just DNS servers. We are ...
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Can I use one FQDN for all DCs for server authentication and one FQDN for NTP synchronisation?

I'm struggling in regards of a proper practice for server setup for LDAP/AD authentication and NTP. I was thinking if asking two separate questions will be better but I think being a common problem ...
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Split DNS Issue - Configuring a new domain controller with an existing Apache web HTTP services using the same domain name "example.com"

We have a problem configuring a new domain controller with an existing Linux server hosting an Apache web HTTP services using the same domain name "example.com". The Ip address for the first ...
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How to configure DNS for internal domain resolution on Windows Server?

I have a Windows server with a private DNS server for the AD system named office.example.com. The public domain name example.com is managed by a hosting service and points to a public IP address. When ...
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What to do with DNS if IP address is changed?

I'm working with Windows Server 2016 Essentials. Someone in the organization installed a Linksys mesh network into the router that our server was once plugged into. The Linksys parent node's DHCP is ...
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Black screen after promoting server to domain controller

I have Windows Server 2022 in its latest version 21H2. I installed a Domain Name System server + Active Directory Domain Services on the server and promoted it to a domain controller. After the ...
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How can i delegate a subdomain to a new Zone on a local DNS server?

i'am a trainee in IT in my second year and i'am actually building a windows server/client test enviroment. Actually i want to build an active directory with a real subdomain. The Domain is hosted by ...
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CNAME for Active Directory domain controller

So my question is - is there any concern to add a CNAME for one domain controller to provide to copiers and other internal sites/applications? I read that Active Directory doesn't truly "need&...
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Why cant a certain networkshare on a Server 2012 cant be accessed with Win10 PC anymore?

A week ago one user (UserA) on a certain PC (Workstation09) produced an error message when accessing a network share using its server's hostname(srv04). The share is still accessible using the server'...
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AD Domain with matching TLD FQDN, forwarding DNS requests

I have the following scenario: A brand new ADDS domain from a single PDC+DNS. The FQDN of the domain matches our public website name (webname.com). The gateway dictates the PDC/DNS as the first DNS ...
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How to add a computer to a Domain of windows server 2022 runing on AWS EC2

I have Windows server 2022 running in AWS EC2 with the address that the same instance in EC2 generated, this server can be opened perfectly from any location using "Remote Desk controller" ...
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My network profile is showing as private instead of domain profile after installing Active Directory DNS on Windows Server 2019 VMware Workstation

After installing Active Directory and DNS role on VMware Workstation with domain "mylab.local". I used NAT switch on my VM and my IpV4 settings are After installation my current network ...
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How should I design my 'public' network of an project?

I'm thinking about doing some online projects as a Developer/IT Technician, and I have some concerns regarding security. I'm unable to host my servers locally for my project and I thought why not to ...
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How to connect .local AD DS environment to Azure Virtual Desktop

I have a client that wants to migrate from on prem to hybrid to eventually cloud only and they have a few apps that I want to run via Azure Virtual Desktop as opposed to RDS (licensing for avd is ...
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Deleting all dynamic DNS records from AD-Integrated DNS server? What can go wrong?

[1 Forest, 1 Domain, 2 DCs and nothing more - nothing special] Is it OK, to remove all dynamic records from DNS. If I decide to do so, should I do the same on the second Domain Controller? Beside one ...
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DNS forward to Windows DNS not working after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

A Ubuntu 20.04 server was the internet gateway that was also a dns forwarder. External lookups were forwarded for to Internet and local requests directed to the Windows domain controller that was the ...
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Putting a caching nameserver in front of ad

I would like to set up a caching nameserver to meet some requirements in the datacenter. Some of these requirements make me to put this caching nameserver between my servers and AD (e.g. collecting ...
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DNS policies Windows Domain Controller

We have established our network based on MS Windows Active directory and domain controller.Also we have similar web application hosted on two different servers. Our requirement is as follows- ...
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The security database on the server does not have a computer / workstation trust relationship - on a domain controller

"The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship" This is the message I am getting when I try to log into the only domain ...
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How to delete a domain from a Domain Controller, but keep the subdomains?

If I have a domain : corporate.com With 3 subdomains : dev.corporate.com voice.corporate.com vpn.corporate.com How can I delete the top domain, but keep the 3 child zones? Specifically for Windows ...
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How can you de-couple DNS server from the AD Domain Controller?

I have an environment where Active Directory Domain Controllers host their own DNS domains (as is common). However we are trying to separate DNS and host it on a standalone server (to eventually move ...
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Prevent automatic Windows DNS from registering global IPv6 addresses

When having IPv6 enabled the automatic Windows DNS registration adds AAAA records for both the ULA and the global unicast address. This is not a problem for most networks, but causes issues when using ...
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DNS record for UPN alias?

I have a active directory domain ad.example.com and I configured an UPN alias example.com When a user tries to logon as [email protected] how does it know the domain is actually ad.example.com? Don't I ...
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Creating DNS A Record for 3 domain controllers

I have setup a new domain on our network consisting of 2 domain controllers, dc1, dc2. I can see the A records for the 2 controllers. But I need to do load balancing so that I can refer to the 2 dcs ...
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Mount usb device as existing network drive

I tried to find an answer to my issue but haven't been successful so far. Maybe I couldn't find the right search terms, so please apologize, if the question has already been answered and I was just ...
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How to install second primary DNS on a domain?

So I'm testing some features in the windows server 2019 lab. I have one active directory. No need to say that the DNS server is running on the active directory correctly. I want to add another primary ...
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How to make localnetpriority / netmask ordering work on Windows DNS server when it queries itself?

We are utilizing Windows 2016+ DNS servers. We rely on LocalNetPriority on our DNS servers. We have several Active Directory DNS servers across multiple sites. The expected behavior is that when a ...
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How to check DNS in present in the Domain Controller or Not?

I want to check whether the DNS is present in the Domain Controller or not? or is there a way to filter out domain controllers without the DNS?
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Windows Server DNS Server Failure

I am having some issues with Windows Server 2022's DNS resolution and was hoping to get some insights. I have included some screenshots throughout the post The server in question is running on HyperV, ...
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multiple issues after joining domain over remote site to site tunnel to another corporate envirement

I'm facing issues with multiple users after joining them to domain over site to site tunnel, the company i'm joining its users has an Active directory which has their accounts to connect to corporate ...
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Weird Active Directory DNS Issue

I am having a DNS issue I cannot figure out. For one specific hostname, when I create an A record, the name ends up changing when it replicates to the other DNS servers in AD. We currently have two ...
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How to join windows 2012 to windows 2016 AD domain

I have a lab environment with a Win Server 2016 that serves as a AD DC and I have a Win Server 2012 that I'm attempting to join to the domain. Requesting assistance to see what I'm doing wrong. Win ...
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Creating a sub domain of our public domain for corporate/internal Active directory use. The public domain is also our Office 365 and Azure domain

Our current internal AD domain is example.local (set up long before I joined our team when this was a best practice) Our Office 365 domain is a public, registered domain with GoDaddy which we use for ...
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Microsoft Active Directory and DNS on Multiple Sites

I have a 3 different site location of my company, and i have a domain controller on each site,, and I have issue with domain DNS resolving , example :: Domain Name = ABC.Local Site1 : DC GC+DNS IP = ...
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Active Directory (DNS) BPA: Interface should register its IP addresses in DNS with Server Core

How to solve the following compliance error message when using the Best Practices Analyzer with DNS running on Windows Server Core? Problem: The interface Ethernet 2 is not configured to register its ...
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GP and RDP not working after Domain Rename

I recently carried out a domain rename on our domain controller. We switched from a .local to our domain name as we are planning to implement 365 very soon. Mostly everything went well with the ...
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When does a Windows client needs to query the domain controller's SRV record?

Today we have been alerted by the network support guys about high memory consumption in the firewall (FortiGate 100F) that could lead to it entering safe mode. We searched the logs and found a ...
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