However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.
For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: How to back up and restore the registry in Windows. Use the Netdom tool from the Windows Server Support Tools or from the Windows Server Support Tools to reset the domain controller's machine account password:.
Make sure that the netdom command is returned as completed successfully. If it is not, the command did not work. For the domain Contoso, where the affected domain controller is DC1, and a working domain controller is DC2, you run the following netdom command from the console of DC For more information about this issue, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: You cannot start the Active Directory Users and Computers tool because the server is not operational.
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Certified Expert Program. Credly Partnership. Currently, we have a Windows NT domain controller. Is that OK if we add another Windows domain controller to current domain? Have Windows domain controller, want to add a Windows domain controller I have a single server Windows active directory. This server also has Exchange on it. I want to add a Windows server to the network and make it a domain controller as well.
Can I do this? Thanks in advance! Is your computer suffering from the "preparing network connections slow startup" syndrome? There can be a couple of reasons why this is happening.
If your computer is part of a domain, then chances are that your DNS settings are causing the network connections slowdown at startup. Your DNS settings should allow your computer to contact the logon domain controller in the network. Often times, when the preparing network connections slows down, the domain controller is not configured as primary DNS server.
The inspiration for this article came just a couple of days ago, when I was asked by someone to troubleshoot dreadfully slow startup times in his computer network.
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