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January 13, 2018Desktop, Server, Windows Technologies

Procedure to extend Windows System Partition with non-adjacent or non-contiguous unallocated Free space

Scenario: You have a single physical disk having System Partition, Data Partition and some unallocated free space at the end. Your System Partition gets filled and you want to extend it by adding the free unallocated space available on the same physical disk. Windows Disk Management tool doesn’t enable the “Extend Volume” option (i.e., “Extend Volume” option is greyed out as shown below) This behavior remains same irrespective of Unallocated space is just RAW of Formatted as FAT32/NTFS volume. Cause: In order to be able to extend a volume, the Unallocated free space must be on the same disk, […]

June 30, 2016Active Directory, Windows Technologies

FIX: Active Directory Replication errors: The RPC server is unavailable. Or The target principal name is incorrect. Or The Kerberos client received a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error.

Scenario: One of your Site Domain Controller went Out-of-Sync (unable to communicate) for 10-15 days with your PDC. When you attempt to make replication from that server to the PDC, you’ll end receiving below error messages: REPADMIN /SHOWREPS, results in error “The target principal name is incorrect.” as shown below: C:\>REPADMIN /SHOWREPSHYD-Network\INDHYD-DC02DSA Options: IS_GCSite Options: IS_GROUP_CACHING_ENABLEDDSA object GUID: 57014cf3-43d0-4f07-8cab-83f0b99o256eDSA invocationID: 1acac066-b749-44fa-b142-9d142e505b55 ==== INBOUND NEIGHBORS ====================================== DC=mylab,DC=lan US-Network\US-DC01 via RPC DSA object GUID: f9719614-f32a-4bbd-842a-2fb144f83680 Last attempt @ 2016-06-30 13:15:09 failed, result -2146893022 (0x80090322): The target principal name is incorrect. 295 consecutive failure(s). Last success @ 2016-05-27 21:22:30. CN=Configuration,DC=mylab,DC=lan US-Network\US-DC01 via RPC […]

June 30, 2016Active Directory, Windows Technologies

FIX: DNS Manager fails with error: Access was denied.

Scenario: When you launch DNS Manager console application on your local site Domain Controller server, it will result in below error message. You notice this behaviour when your domain controller hasn’t communicated with your PDC for a long while (say for 10-15 days), you have your server restarted during this time. During this issue its most probable that you may be experiencing the AD replication issues to this server. —————————DNS—————————The server INDHYD-DC01 could not be contacted. The error was: Access was denied. Would you like to add it anyway?—————————Yes No ————————— Fix: If you have your domain controller […]