Hey, I getting warning message in event viewer (DC sever) Event ID:1202(Security policies were propagated with warning. 0x5 : Access is denied.)

and In (ADC Server) Error message coming in event ID:1001(Security policy cannot be propagated. Cannot access the template. Error code = 5.) Can anyone help me out form this problem.

HI. I wanna know what this do secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce. Can anyone explain.

Its save side to run this commmad? 

Now that we have Windows Server 2003 patched with SP2 and with an Antivirus, is time to do the preparation to setup active directory for our domain controller in our testing network. you can read about our previous posts here “ Free antivirus for windows server 2003“ and “ Installing Windows Server 2003 on a VMware server.

Before we run the dcpromo wizard, it is recommended that we setup DNS first to avoid any issue with DNS while setting up active directory. so we will install DNS now.

Now that we have setup Windows 2003 Server on our virtual machine, and we have patched it with SP2, Installed an Antivirus and setup DNS, is time now to setup active directory using dcpromo. Read about how to install and configure DNS on Windows Server 2003 from my previous post.