Hi guys,
Got 2011 sbs
One of the service is not starting from services.msc
Whenever I start the service, giving an error
“Error1503: the service did not respond to the start or control request in timely fashion”
Tried restarting the server- still no luck

Any idea ??

Need basic info - for migration of 2003R2 domain with 5 DC's and domain functional level - 2000 native...

I have 2 sites.. with very old servers... (one is actually P3! and 2 other are VM)
Site 1 - 3 DC's ( one of them holds all FSMO rules)
Site 2 - 2 DCs' (FSMO rules at the first site)

First I moved all FSMO rules to VM DC..
all 5 Dc's are the same  - Windows 2003R2 and domain functional level - 2000 native

I want to upgrade the domain to 2008/2012/2016...

As I understand, first stage is to Raise functional level - to 2003 -

Is there any checking I need to do before I just choose to raise the functional level? I mean - Is the log must be clean from errors or something - is it possible that somehow I will have any problem ? or if something is wrong than the level wont change and nothing happen?

I do not have any exchange... and the network is really basic .. I have a really old netapp.. but I dont think its matter..?

Stage 2 - what is the best ? I read many posts but it not exactly my case...
If I cant raise the level - whats best to do?

If I raised the level - is it better to add a 2008r2 server and move all FSMO rules to it? all the other 5 DC's will be OK?
Can I move FSMO to the new 2008R2 and than remove 1 old DC and join a new 2008R2 instead? and so on for each old DC? and than go to 2012/2016/2019?

hi guys,
Got a esxi 6.7 server
got virtual machine which is dc -server 2016std

time always runs 5 mins slow.
i checked the w32tm /query /status - it was synching from local cmos battery

i tried changing it to external ntp time sources, but still dc takes time from local cmos battery.  it never changed to external ntp server.
in esx server, under virtual machine - synchronise guest time with host is not enabled too.

used these commands:
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"0.aus.pool.ntp.org,0x1 1.aus.pool.ntp.org,0x1 2.aus.pool.ntp.org,0x1 3.aus.pool.ntp.org,0x1"   - to set ntp server


used this to reset time service to defualt :
net stop w32
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time

tried restarting time server - net stop w32time && net start w32time

the client machines take time from DC .. but dc not taking time from external ntp.
what else could be the problem. how do i make it to take time from external source ? ? any help would be great.

We need to implement a patch management solution for our domain.  What are some ideas to best manage updates and patches that you experts have used?

I have 6 Active directory server (windows 2003 SP3) in 3 different locations (2 servers each site).
They are VM, VMWARE 5.0.  
Friday 4/1 the VM's storage has crashed and I must restore the image of Server-AD1 and Server-AD2.
But now both server do not work: there are several error  in AD service ID1308 and Reply service ID13508.
I tried to resolve with repadmin /removelingeringobjects command but without any result.
Could you help me
Fabio

Hi,
 
 I am trying to convert Windows 2003 Server running virtual machine "FS1_W2003-recovered"  in VMWare ESXi server into Hyper-v virtual machine using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter and have some questions:
 (1) In Connection option screen, I am not sure if the message means or applies to my situation?
 (2) In Connection option screen, why I can't select "On" for "Final state of source virtual machine"?
 (3) In Summary Screen, should I be concerned about the warnings (1. OS not supported  2. having one USB device) ?
(4) In Completion screen, I see "Uninstall tools" on the 3rd line. I assume it will uninstall VMWare tools? If so, why does it do that? Will it alter or harm existing VMWare VM in any shape or form?  This is where I CANCELLED the conversion because I was not sure what would happen to source VM.

How to determine what windows roles or feature when it was installed and when they were removed

Hi guys,

I got a pop3 email in mac outlook. I want to transfer all emails to a office365 outlook profile in my Mac computer. I recently migrated from pop3 to office365. So doing this transfer to have my old emails in office365.

So in outlook, I got both profiles now. Old pop3 email and office365 Email. I can drag and drop each folder email. But there are many sub folders in inbox, which will
Be difficult to crate all folders in new office365 inbox and then doing drag and drop each folder.

Is there any other way to do it in a better way.

An Error Event occured.  EventID: 0xC0003500
            Time Generated: 11/14/2018   19:02:41
            (Event String could not be retrieved)
         ......................... PCSDC1 failed test frsevent
I have a windows 2003 DC (The only DC in the forest) Users have lost access to this DC(File server) and the result of dcdiag.exe is in these two  attached files. I ran utility to compress and regenerate ntds.dit and then copied to c:\windows\NTDS folder after add word OLD to the name of res1.log, res2.log, edb.log, ntds.log. This did not helped and I had to rename it back.
An Error Event occured.  EventID: 0xC0003500
dcdiag.txt
dcdiag2.txt

For some reason on the last three computers I set up, I cannot set the default file association for a .dwg file. We use two dwg viewers, Autodesk Inventor Viewer and eDrawings. The inventor Viewer is for .ipt files and the eDrawings is for .dwg. Autodesk inventor took over both types. Usually no big deal but I have tried using the default apps in windows 10, right-click .dwg and select "always open with" and tried to set the association using command line....nothing changes it. if they right click and select to open with edrawings, it works fine. Just cannot set the default.

I can set any other file type, just cannot change .dwg.  Anyone seen this before?