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Your account is configured to prevent you from using this computer. Please try another computer

I have got this message when I tried to access a remote machine which is in domain. I’m having all the privileges to this machine but still error got prompted. This is actually not because of the permission but because of the active directory policy. You need to go to active directory and change the Log on To ..   In here best thing is select All Computers option.If not add machine name to The following computers section ( not the IP Address ).

user profile synchronization service not starting in SharePoint 2010

I had a difficult time to get user profile service synchronization started. Following are the errors encountered to me when I tried to start the synchronization manually as well as through SharePoint. Errors Encountered Windows could not start the forefront identity manager synchronization services on local computer The system cannot find the file specified. … Windows could not start the forefront identity manager synchronization services on local computer You account is not a member if a required security group (came from Forefront Identity Manager) The Forefront Identity Manager Service cannot connect to the SQL Database Server. Windows Could not start the Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service on local. for more info review the system event log. If this is a non Microsoft service contact the vendor and refer the specific error code 2145185792. Workaround These are things we need to consider to make it work. First make sure you don’t give fully qualified...

How to add a Active Directory Domain Controller to Windows server 2008

This Active directory configuration I have did to configure VPC with SharePoint and  Active Directory services. First you need to run the Active Directory service binary installation. therefore you need to run the “ dcppromo ”. Thus you can simply type it in the run window to execute it. Then it checks the Domain services installations and prompt you for selection mode. Select Use advanced mode installation and proceed to next. This will prompt a compatibility note. So make it next to proceed. Then it will ask for forest configuration. since this is a new configuration we want to select create a new forest root domain . after that it is asking domain name for the forest. therefore you can provide a fully qualified name for the domain. the it will prompt for net bios name (you can leave the default) After that it will ask the functionality level. I choose Windows Server R2. You can see the available functionalities in the description itself. And Click the DNS. Then...