Category: Active Directory

Issue:  Users unable to login to a domain member server and receives below error message: Windows cannot connect domain, either because the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, contact your system administrator for assistance.   Environment: You have two domain controllers each in a separate site.  The AD replication to the secondary site is down but you haven’t removed any of its DNS/other entries. Member servers in the domain when contact the local site AD server logons will work fine. But […]

If you don’t already have NIC TCP/IP configured, you’ll presented with below option.     Done.   The Default Built-in Users and Groups: The Default Users and Groups:           Installing Second AD server along with AD second site: