Archive for the ‘windows 2003’ Category

The computer did not resync because no time date was available

When you use the command w32tm /resync, you receive this error. Why? A number of reasons. You do need to open port 123 UDP on your firewall for the domain controller so it can reach the external time source. If you want to sync your clients to your DC, you probably edited a domain policy to [...]

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Slow RDP into Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 using Vista 64

Brand new server Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Enterprise Edition Client Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Before upgrading to SP2 on my server, I could RDP with no issues. After SP2 was installed, RDP was such a dog. It took time to login to the server, and moving around was very hesitant. I went to the [...]

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A domain controller for the domain could not be contacted

I decided to create another VLAN on my network for a new development server, but keep the same domain name as my production environment. I tried to add it to the domain and here’s the message I received…. The domain name geowire might be a NetBIOS domain name.  If this is the case, verify that the [...]

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