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GPO - Missing "Manage updates offered from Windows Server Update Service"

in our Windows Server 2019 DC we are missing the following Administrative Template: Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > ...
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Windows asks to install printer driver over and over

I have over 400 users on a 2012 DC, and a Win2019 server configured as a print server, which serves about 279 printers of varying make/model. Some users are receiving driver install messages when ...
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Kerberos settings in GPO never seem to apply in spite of the GPO otherwise working

Server 2019 Domain Environment. Issue is related to the DCs themselves. I've a self-created GPO on my DC OU that sets a bunch of things, several of which are Kerberos settings: Curiously, while ...
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Handling GPO Policies between different domains

I have a handful of changes in a policy that I'd like to apply to other domains. I am wanting to copy this policy to these other domains so I do not have to create them for every dc. Most of what I've ...
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Windows Server 2019 randomly changes time and date to incorrect values

In the last two months, we have got quite a few issues with the server time and date occasionally changing to some absolute random values. Sometimes it is a few days in the future or past, sometimes - ...
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Error promoting Windows Server 2022 to Domain Controller

I have a virtual Windows 2022 Server in a VMWare ESXi environment, and a WS2019 virtual in another host, which is my Active Directory Domain Controller. I've been trying to promote the WS2022 to ...
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Domain Controller Upgrade 2019 to 2022

I have 3 Domain controller in my environment Windows Server 2019 Standard. Primary DC : On-prem (FSMO role) Secondary DC : On-prem Tertiary DC : Cloud I want to upgrade my domain environment to ...
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Leaving Windows Servers out of a domain

I'm not much used to running Windows Servers and need ground to either defend or withdraw from this idea and have found nothing on Google. The company I work for recently suffered a ransomware attack. ...
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retrieve computer name on domain controller

Good morning. I currently have a domain controller (Windows server 2019) where there are approximately 500 users and computers. when a computer x is damaged, it reinstalls the operating system. The ...
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How can I remove a no longer existent child domain from my forest?

In a virtual environment, I lost the virtualized DCs of a child domain of my forest. I don't need the child domain, but as the DCs are gone now, I cannot remove the domain in the intended way by ...
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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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Installing Graylog with Nxlog collector on a Windows DC: no service installed

I'm trying to install a NxLog collector on a Graylog client machine. The Graylog and associated infra (elastic and mongodb) is running just fine. The install client is a Windows Server 2019 DC ("...
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Domain Controller Communication Timeout Limit

THE DOMAIN I have a domain setup with a parent/child schema. All servers are Microsoft Windows 2019 Standard. There are 2 top level DCs and the 2 child domains each have their own 2 DCs. The issue I ...
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DNS on my domain controller not working

The DNS server on my Windows Server 2019 AD domain controller has completely crapped out, and I cannot even find anything that remotely addresses my issue. When logging into the DNS GUI, my server is ...
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Domain controller failover fails unidirectionaly

The problem I am having is that if I take one of my two writable domain controllers offline, nobody seems to "fail over" to using the other domain controller like they're supposed to - ...
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How to move Active Directory Settings on a Winodws Server 2016 to another server that has Windows Server 2019 that Does not have A.D

How to move Active Directory Settings on a Windows Server 2016 to another server that has Windows Server 2019 that Does not have A.D To clarify further I have a Windows Server 2016 with DNS setup, and ...
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Raising forest function level and domain function level

So I am in the process of upgrading all domain controllers from 2008R2 to 2019, I know one of the requirement need to meet if I want to raise the forest and domain functional level to 2019 is to ...
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Hyper-V servers joined to a domain

All my clients are small businesses just trying to get by. No corporate budgets to do things the completely right way without a lot of arm-twisting and some time to build trust. A common scenario is ...
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Missing DNS records after fresh AD+DNS Server installation {Server 2019}

I've installed Win Server 2019 from an empty template I had of a fresh server. Installed Domain Services, promoted to Domain Controller, created an entirely new forest but then noticed I couldnt join ...
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Computers can't join domain - probably DNS issue

I installed and configured an Active Directory Controller (Windows Server 2019), and also did a clean install of Windows 10 Enterprise. Both were installed in Hyper-V and both use the same Private ...
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Replacing damaged 2012 domain controller with Win 2019

We have a domain with 2 DC's, both Win 2012. The local DC works fine, but the remote DC has a growing list of problems due to frequent power outages (and improper shutdown). I would like to take ...
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Promotion Windows Server 2019 to domain controller takes a week?

Setup first: I had a Windows Server 2008 domain for testing. The PDC died a horrible death, I was able to seize most FSMO roles (but not all) and drop them on another DC, but missed the RID Master ...
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New to Server 2019 - Is my domain computer communicating with my Domain Controller?

So I'm very new to Server 2019 and Active directory. No previous experience with any other server OS either. I have set up 2 VM's on Hyper V. Server 2019 and a Windows 10 Pro. I have installed Active ...
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"netdom verify" command failed to complete successfully

I look after a Windows network which has two Hyper-V servers in a failover cluster using DAS, accessible by both hosts with two DCs (both on WS2019, one on each host). We have been having issues with ...
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Setting up Windows Server 2019 in my small business [closed]

I am very new to the networking world so excuse my illiteracy in this subject! I tried searching for answers but there isn't any definite answer out there that I was able to find. I'm trying to setup ...
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Windows Server 2003 SP3: "the specified network name is no longer available"

I have a network, where the Active Directory Domain Controllers run Windows Server 2019. We have an old SharePoint server running Windows Server 2003 SP2 running as a virtual machine on an old ...
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Adding a second physical site - 1 or 2 domains?

I'm using Windows Server Essentials 2019 to manage the domain for a small business. It's running our DNS, DHCP and AD DS and has a fairly restrictive group policy in place, with an MS SQL server ...
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DC's storming me with issues

Hi I have 2 DC's (server 2019) (1 physical, 1 Virtual) was working good, but last month I did notice some issues like I couldn't connect from dc2 to dc1. so I opened Event Viewer to find muliple ...
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Windows server user for scanning to folder

I want to create a user whose only purpose is for network photocopiers to be able to scan to a specific folder (let's say, E:\Data\scan, shared as \\server\scan, to which other users will have rw ...
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Renaming domain controller during migration

We're looking at replacing an aged server for a client, and as we installed this server, it adheres to our naming convention (namely, SVR-DC as it's the only DC on the network). Now that we want to ...
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AD Domain Controller won't allow incoming connections on other subnets?

I'm currently working on setting up an active directory domain controller at one location, with my clients connecting to the server via other subnets. I am running Windows Server 2019, with Windows 10 ...
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Can't add Windows Server 2019 as AD to domain replica error

Context: I've got a Windows domain with a Windows 2016 functional level. Currently all the ADs (three) are based on Windows Server 2016 and up to date. Problem: I want to had a Windows Server 2019 as ...
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Windows Server 2019 Domain Controller - "Application-Aware" Backups Using VSS

This is a theoretical question regarding "application-aware" backups for Windows Server 2019 domain controllers (and other VMs) that can be made through third-party applications such as Veeam, Nakivo, ...
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Windows Domain URL

Our laptops are connected to a windows server 2019 with the domain name company.int Everything works find and when I ping company.int it points to the windows server. The server is also responsible ...
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Cannot join a virtual machine Windows 10 to server 2019 virtual machine domain?

I am working as an IT technician. In order to get some exposure to Hyper-V and Windows Servers. My supervisor assigned me a project to learn how to install active directory and servers in server ...
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How to access group policy of a Windows server 2019 Active Directory DC?

Before I enable AD DC in my Windows server 2019, I had modified some objects in group policy editor (gpedit), but after turning the server into an active directory domain controller, i don't know how ...
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Domain Controller dropped from domain

While in the process of making some changes in my environment I set up a new Domain Controller (2019) and promoted it, did some testing and verified it was working properly. I demoted my old DC (2016) ...
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Windows Server Domain Controller without real domain

I'm setting up a local logon server, simply to handle user logons and enforce some group policies. Ideally we could do with not pointing a genuine domain to the server. Is there any way of setting up ...
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