I am aware that Exchange is not to be integrated with an AD Controller.  I am also aware that installing a 2nd Windows server (2016) as a domain member with Exchange (2016) installed is the preferred method.  However, when I created the primary Win 2016 DC in a virtual environment, I was unable to add a member domain using a different NIC on the hosting Hyper-V 2016 server as, there was a LAN IP conflict using (ie... 192.168.0.5 on NIC1 and 192.168.0.6 on NIC4).  Windows Server 2016 on the hosting Hyper-V server will not permit two different IPs on the Same LAN using two different NICs on the hosting server.  What am I doing incorrectly?

I have a laptop which connects to a remote share over a VPN connection.   The connection was working and she was able to access the share while out of the office.    This weekend the share no longer worked and she could not get connected.    

The computer has been rebooted multiple times, the vpn connected has been terminated and restarted multiple times.    I can ping the remote server by name and IP, NSLookup returns the correct IP address and I can connect if I enter the IP address but not the server name.  

Any suggestions on why I can suddenly not map the drive by name?

Can an application can choose which network adapter it wants to communicate with, and how would that be done?

I found the following on the Microsoft website:

Network List Manager
"The Network List Manager API enables applications to retrieve a list of available network connections. Applications can filter networks, based on attributes and signatures, and choose the networks best suited to their task."

Assume I have several network connections listed under "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections". Each network connection goes to it's own private LAN.

I would like to write a program which communicates with only one of my network adapters, instead of broadcasting my request to "The Network" in general.

And I would like another program to simultaneously communicate with only one different network adapter, and not "The Network" in general.

So I would like both network adapters to be working at the same time. But I don't want these two network adapters to be connected together -- I don't want any "networking" between these two adapters. In fact I would not like either network adapter to be connected to "The Network", because I cannot guarantee there will never be an IP Address Conflict between these two private LANs. In fact there is quite likely to be the same IP address found on each LAN. So I don't want to connect either of these network adapters together in any way.

The only three solutions I've come up with are:

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As users come to work every morning, I'm noticing that on a few systems, there are duplicate IP entries in DNS with the same time stamp as system connect to the network. They can access internal network resources but have no external connection to the internet (web browsing, etc.). They are connecting to wireless AP, receive an IP, but for some reason, they receive a duplicate IP. Deleting one of the duplicates in DNS resolves the issue. I have scavenging set to remove stale resources on the hour. What am I doing wrong?

If relevant, this issue primarily happens with Apple computers connecting to the network.

Hi guys

There are moments when people in a particular area of the office have connectivity issues from their local PC's to the actual servers. They will say that connecting from their local machines to the server is taking a while.

I know it may not be necessary, but I would like to know if tomorrow I wanted to show people how you can measure network traffic or even connectivity problems at different points on the network, I wanted to be able to showcase it.

I was wondering whether there are ways of testing each segment of our network to see whether there are any red flags that come up. For example, how would I measure if there is a physical connectivity issue between the floor port their PC's are plugged into and the port on the switch? How about from the switch they are plugged in to, to the server? If so, then can you explain, literally, how would you go about doing this?

Thank you for helping
Yash

Need to setup a display outside the boardroom to show the room booking info.
We have an in-house Exchange Server 2010, on which there is an account "Boardroom" whose calendar is being shared in the company.
We are seeking a solution that is able to display "Boardroom" calendar outside the boardroom.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

I have a small 4 user network - 3 desktops (Windows Home Premium - Not my idea) and 2 laptop (windows 10). One of the desktops is acting as a server (basically sharing out data files). I received a call the other day regarding loss of access to the main shared folder. I assumed it was loss of power, but, there was no entry in the UPS monitoring logs. I booted the cable modem/wireless LAN router to be sure. No success.

I now believe it was due to recent Microsoft updates (I normally shut those off)  taking it upon themselves to download, install and
 reboot the system. So now 2 of the 4 machines are completely unable to share out anything.

I checked the properties of the Net adapters. I made sure they were connected to the correct network and that data sharing was enabled. I am able to ping with no problem. I disabled my AV/Firewall (Norton Internet Security) and also tried to rejoin the trusted network with their MAC addresses. One PC I attempted to restore prior to the MS updates - failed - unsuccessful. I tried re-naming the PC/work group just to shake the tree. I also created test shared folders with Everyone having full rights - same results. Nothing seems to work.

Error message while attempting to access the share:

'An error occurred while reconnecting P: to \\PC2\Public Microsoft Windows Network the handle is invalid. This connection has not been restored.

I need to restore the ability to share out files and folders.

Any suggestions?

In AD internal DNS I see two partitions.   It looks like the domain controller is hosting two domains.  One company.com and another company.local
I'm not sure the reason but assume the Domain has been renamed sometime in the past.  From .local to .com
 Windows 2016 Domain controllers.

Is it safe to remove that old local DNS partition without breaking anything?  Or should I ignore it?  Would it cause any issues?

I have a group of 8 Windows 7 Pro PC's that have been peer to peer sharing files. This morning the shares all went dead. Now when I try to map the drive letter to the shared folder I get a message that says

"The mapped drive could not be created. The handle is invalid"

All users have their username and password on the sharing computer.
All users are specifically given full access on the sharing computer

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

We've got a few Admin shares that are being mapped automatically, how do we add/remove as needed domain wide?  We've got the following:

Admin$
C$
IPC$

Joining remote server to the Domain.  What the DNS should be on the joining server?  Local or remote domain that I am trying to join?

i have restored a few windows guests to an isolated test environment including 2 domain controllers, a sql server and exchange.  the restore went fine but the guests are all treating the connection as public instead of domain.  i changed the category of the network connections in the registry and that worked for the 2 domain controllers (2008 R2) but it doesn't work for my 2012 R2 sql server.  I changed the values to 2, the domain is configured in the dns suffix list, and tried changing NLA service to delayed start.  it still insists it's on a public network and wont' talk to the domain controllers and causing wsus console (separate server) to not talk to sql saying it is an incorrect domain (uses sql authentication).  can ping the domain controllers but refuses to be on a domain network.

Hi. I need a way of restricting access to a Windows share to domain-joined computers only, or even a subset of domain computers, for a project where we need to be able to stop users accessing certain areas on the server from their home computers, while still allowing them access to other areas from said uncontrolled computer.

So
Authorised Domain User on Authorised Domain Computer = OK
Authorised Domain User on Unauthorised Domain Computer = DENIED
Authorised Domain User on Home Computer = DENIED
and of course Home User on Home Computer = DENIED (but that's a no brainer)

Thanks