The top Active Directory Issues

The Ask the Directory Services Team blog has a great post on the top 50 KB articles used to solve issues in Directory Services support during the first quarter of Microsoft fiscal year 2008 (July 2007 through September 2007).

I list the top 10 below, but you can see the whole list after the jump.

Number

Title

216498

How to remove data in Active Directory after an unsuccessful domain controller demotion

822134

The function of Terminal Server CALs in Windows Server 2003

823313

Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server licensing issues and requirements for deployment

917385

Error message when you run the Active Directory Installation Wizard: "The version of the Active Directory schema of the source forest is not compatible with the version of Active Directory on this computer"

290762

Using the BurFlags registry key to reinitialize File Replication Service replica sets

279561

How to override the license server discovery process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services

255504

Using Ntdsutil.exe to transfer or seize FSMO roles to a domain controller

273566

How to rebuild Windows 2000 and 2003 Terminal Services Licensing database

936594

You may experience network-related problems after you install Windows Server 2003 SP2 or the Scalable Networking Pack on a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer

258062

"Directory Services cannot start" error message when you start your Windows-based or SBS-based domain controller