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  • Create Adventure Game Scene/Room/Backdrop from Real Photo

    - by Lyuben
    Is there a suitable software or a good tutorial for creating 2D rooms/scenery for adventure games from real photos? Is it possible to achieve good results by using photos, or the hand-drawn style will always be the best choice? Thank you! --- EDIT --- I want to clarify that I'm particularly interested in the art creation process, not on the environment in which to build games. I'm writing the game in Java for Android, but I don't think it matters. Also, I'm not trying to decide if the game will have photo realistic rooms or not - I want to achieve 2d pixelated, old-school style background scenes and I wonder if this can be made from photos, because I cannot draw them myself. For example, can I shoot a scene with my camera and then make it look something like the image in the following link: PIXEL ART FOREST I know that I cannot get the same quality as an absolutely hand-drawn pixel, but I'm looking for some decent technology/tutorial/software to make them somewhat similar.

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  • How to draw tile edges when you don't know where they're going.

    - by Skeith
    This is more of an art question than a programing one but still game development. I have a tile engine that makes a map randomly from tiles, each tile is a square 3x3 grid. The problem is that while the elements on each tile work well together such as having forests along the top three squares and grass on the other 6, the engine could put the forrests against anything such as rivers, grass, mountains or more forest. how can i draw the edges of the tiles so the look good no matter what they are places against ?

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  • How to create reproducible probability in map generation?

    - by nickbadal
    So for my game, I'm using perlin noise to generate regions of my map (water/land, forest/grass) but I'd also like to create some probability based generation too. For instance: if(nextInt(10) > 2 && tile.adjacentTo(Type.WATER)) tile.setType(Type.SAND); This works fine, and is even reproduceable (based on a common seed) if the nextInt() calls are always in the same order. The issue is that in my game, the world is generated on demand, based on the player's location. This means, that if I explore the map differently, and the chunks of the map are generated in a different order, the randomness is no longer consistent. How can I get this sort of randomness to be consistent, independent of call order? Thanks in advance :)

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  • Drawing map tiles for iPhone game

    - by user17778
    I'm working on a turn-based strategy game for the iPhone that has a hexagon-grid based map in it. I'm in the process of drawing up the actual tiles for the different landscapes (i.e. forest, grassland, etc.) and was wondering what program to draw the tile images in. I would assume Adobe Illustrator since a vector-based image may allow for smooth images even when the user is zoomed in really close. Is this right? Thanks!

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  • AutoVue for Agile Sessions at the Oracle Value Chain Summit 2013

    - by Pam Petropoulos
    At the upcoming Oracle Value Chain Summit, which takes place February 4 - 6, 2013 in San Francisco, CA, AutoVue Enterprise Visualization solutions will be covered in a variety of sessions within the Agile PLM solution area. Attend the following sessions during the Product Deep Dives & Demos Track, and discover the latest AutoVue for Agile capabilities, including how to streamline business processes, such as change management by creating ECRs directly from within CAD designs. Visual Decision Making to Optimize New Product Development and Introduction Date: Tuesday, February 5 Time: 12:45 pm to 1:30 pm Seeing the Forest: Next Generation Visualization Date: Wednesday, February 6 Time: 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm Next-Generation CAD Data Management: MCAD, ECAD, and Software Configuration Management Date: Wednesday, February 6 Time: 11:15 am to 12:00 pm Keep an eye on this blog for forthcoming details about each of these sessions. Don’t miss this opportunity to mingle with other AutoVue for Agile customers and meet one on one with the AutoVue product management and development team. Register now for the early bird rate of $195 and secure your spot at the Summit. Click here to register and learn more.

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  • Need suggestions on what you regard as &ldquo;security&rdquo;

    - by John Breakwell
    I’m currently writing a large piece on MSMQ security and wanted to check I was covering the right areas. I have some doubts as I’ve seen the occasional MSMQ forum question where a poster has used the word “security” in different contexts to what I was expecting. So here are the areas I plan to cover: Message security encryption on the wire (SSL and IPSEC) encryption of the message (MSMQ encryption) encryption of the payload (data encryption) signing and authentication Queue security SIDs and ACLs Discoverability Cross-forest issues Storage security NTFS permissions unencrypted data Service security Ports and Firewalls DOS attacks Hardened mode (HTTP only) RPC secure channel requirement authenticated RPC requirement Active Directory object permissions Setup Administrator requirements What else would you want to see?

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  • jQuery accordion menu - keep accordion menu open to the page I am on

    - by MelissaTA
    Hi everyone, I hope you can help. I'm very new to jQuery and am working on a five- or six-level accordion menu for my side navigation. I got the majority of the code I have so far from Dane Peterson @ daneomatic.com (thanks Dane!). But, I'm stuck on one thing: I'd like to have my accordion/tree work like this: When I navigate down into, say, level three, and click on the link to open the page linked to that level, how do I indicate once the level three page loads that I'm on that page? Also, how do I keep the tree open to that level when I load the page? I guess what I'm asking is: is there a way for the accordion/tree to automatically update to show what page you're at, and have the tree open to that level? Thanks in advance!

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  • Difficulty accessing Google Search API with Flex

    - by CM
    Hi - I am trying to get the number of incoming links to a page through the Google Search API. It is not working (just returning Null) Here is the code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" creationComplete="init();" width="320" height="480" backgroundGradientColors="115115" backgroundGradientAlphas=".2" backgroundAlpha=".2" dropShadowEnabled="false"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ // // Author: Wayne IV Mike // Project: JSwoof - The Flex JSON library. // Description: Formated JSON loaded from txt file. // Date: 31st March 2009. // Contact: [email protected] , [email protected] // import json.*; import mx.controls.Alert; public function loadFile4(urlLink:String):void { var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(urlLink); var urlLoad:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); urlLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fileLoaded4); urlLoad.load(request); } private function fileLoaded4(event:Event):void { var jObj:Object = JParser.decode(event.target.data); //Decode JSON from text file here. var jStr:String = JParser.encode(jObj); if(jStr != null && jStr != "") { var LinkTemp:String = jObj.estimatedResultCount; txtLinks.text = "Google Links " + LinkTemp; trace(event.target.data); } } /********************************************************************/ private function LinkLookup():void { loadFile4("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=link:twitter.com/" + NameSearch.text); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:TextInput x="17" y="86" id="NameSearch" text="cnnbrk" width="229" height="30" fontSize="16" fontWeight="bold" cornerRadius="10" shadowDirection="center" shadowDistance="5"/> <mx:Button x="253" y="85" label="Find" id="GoSearch" click="LinkLookup()" height="31"/> <mx:Label text="Links" id="txtLinks" width="233" textAlign="left" color="#FFFFFF" fontSize="14" height="21"/> </mx:Application> Sorry for the ugly format. I added a trace(event.target.data); and updated the code above. This is the result - [SWF] C:/Documents and Settings/Robert/My Documents/Flex Builder 3/.metadata/.plugins/com.adobe.flash.profiler/ProfilerAgent.swf - 17,508 bytes after decompression [SWF] C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\My Documents\Flex Builder 3\Formated\bin-debug\Formated.swf - 781,950 bytes after decompression [Unload SWF] C:/Documents and Settings/Robert/My Documents/Flex Builder 3/.metadata/.plugins/com.adobe.flash.profiler/ProfilerAgent.swf {"responseData": {"results":[{"GsearchResultClass":"GwebSearch","unescapedUrl":"http://twitter.com/britishredneck","url":"http://twitter.com/britishredneck","visibleUrl":"twitter.com","cacheUrl":"http://www.google.com/search?q\u003dcache:4pQXnMQCZA4J:twitter.com","title":"Martyn Jones (BritishRedneck) on Twitter","titleNoFormatting":"Martyn Jones (BritishRedneck) on Twitter","content":"Finally found a free and simple way to expand my reach on Twitter. A nice 20 second process. http://tpq.me/5gbrg #twpq 3:13 PM Jul 18th, 2009 from API \u003cb\u003e...\u003c/b\u003e"},{"GsearchResultClass":"GwebSearch","unescapedUrl":"http://twitter.com/dshlian/favorites","url":"http://twitter.com/dshlian/favorites","visibleUrl":"twitter.com","cacheUrl":"http://www.google.com/search?q\u003dcache:79qm5Pz7O5QJ:twitter.com","title":"Twitter","titleNoFormatting":"Twitter","content":"Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now."},{"GsearchResultClass":"GwebSearch","unescapedUrl":"http://twitter.com/rosannepeterson","url":"http://twitter.com/rosannepeterson","visibleUrl":"twitter.com","cacheUrl":"http://www.google.com/search?q\u003dcache:q11IcnW9l30J:twitter.com","title":"Rosanne Peterson (rosannepeterson) on Twitter","titleNoFormatting":"Rosanne Peterson (rosannepeterson) on Twitter","content":"Tx.All is well. Looking forward to the holday. Perhaps after will be time for certification! 8:14 AM Dec 23rd, 2009 from txt; I am also reading \u0026quot;How I \u003cb\u003e...\u003c/b\u003e"},{"GsearchResultClass":"GwebSearch","unescapedUrl":"http://twitter.com/MRSalesTraining","url":"http://twitter.com/MRSalesTraining","visibleUrl":"twitter.com","cacheUrl":"http://www.google.com/search?q\u003dcache:uBNGhud0vfEJ:twitter.com","title":"Medrep (MRSalesTraining) on Twitter","titleNoFormatting":"Medrep (MRSalesTraining) on Twitter","content":"Working away on Cardiovascular Medicine Module - heavy stuff for a Sunday evening!! 11:09 AM Nov 8th, 2009 from web; Today\u0026#39;s Student is tomorrow\u0026#39;s Medical \u003cb\u003e...\u003c/b\u003e"}],"cursor":{"pages":[{"start":"0","label":1},{"start":"4","label":2},{"start":"8","label":3},{"start":"12","label":4},{"start":"16","label":5},{"start":"20","label":6},{"start":"24","label":7},{"start":"28","label":8}],"estimatedResultCount":"64","currentPageIndex":0,"moreResultsUrl":"http://www.google.com/search?oe\u003dutf8\u0026ie\u003dutf8\u0026source\u003duds\u0026start\u003d0\u0026hl\u003den\u0026q\u003dlink%3Atwitter.com%2Fgenericmedlist"}}, "responseDetails": null, "responseStatus": 200} So the data return from the query is correct, and the difficulty lies in accessing the "estimatedResultCount" near the end of the JSON data. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Flex - Search in ArrayCollection by part of the word

    - by Sergei
    For example i have an ArrayCollection, and i want to find person with telephone begines with "944" how can i do this? <mx:ArrayCollection id="arrColl" > <mx:source> <mx:Array> <mx:Object telephone="944768" subscriber="Smith P.T."/> <mx:Object telephone="944999" subscriber="Peterson Q.T."/> </mx:Array> </mx:source> </mx:ArrayCollection>

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  • Rotation Matrix calculates by column not by row

    - by pinnacler
    I have a class called forest and a property called fixedPositions that stores 100 points (x,y) and they are stored 250x2 (rows x columns) in MatLab. When I select 'fixedPositions', I can click scatter and it will plot the points. Now, I want to rotate the plotted points and I have a rotation matrix that will allow me to do that. The below code should work: theta = obj.heading * pi/180; apparent = [cos(theta) -sin(theta) ; sin(theta) cos(theta)] * obj.fixedPositions; But it wont. I get this error. ??? Error using == mtimes Inner matrix dimensions must agree. Error in == landmarkslandmarks.get.apparentPositions at 22 apparent = [cos(theta) -sin(theta) ; sin(theta) cos(theta)] * obj.fixedPositions; When I alter forest.fixedPositions to store the variables 2x250 instead of 250x2, the above code will work, but it wont plot. I'm going to be plotting fixedPositions constantly in a simulation, so I'd prefer to leave it as it, and make the rotation work instead. Any ideas? Also, fixed positions, is the position of the xy points as if you were looking straight ahead. i.e. heading = 0. heading is set to 45, meaning I want to rotate points clockwise 45 degrees. Here is my code: classdef landmarks properties fixedPositions %# positions in a fixed coordinate system. [x, y] heading = 45; %# direction in which the robot is facing end properties (Dependent) apparentPositions end methods function obj = landmarks(numberOfTrees) %# randomly generates numberOfTrees amount of x,y coordinates and set %the array or matrix (not sure which) to fixedPositions obj.fixedPositions = 100 * rand([numberOfTrees,2]) .* sign(rand([numberOfTrees,2]) - 0.5); end function obj = set.apparentPositions(obj,~) theta = obj.heading * pi/180; [cos(theta) -sin(theta) ; sin(theta) cos(theta)] * obj.fixedPositions; end function apparent = get.apparentPositions(obj) %# rotate obj.positions using obj.facing to generate the output theta = obj.heading * pi/180; apparent = [cos(theta) -sin(theta) ; sin(theta) cos(theta)] * obj.fixedPositions; end end end P.S. If you change one line to this: obj.fixedPositions = 100 * rand([2,numberOfTrees]) .* sign(rand([2,numberOfTrees]) - 0.5); Everything will work fine... it just wont plot.

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  • techniques for an AI for a highly cramped turn-based tactics game

    - by Adam M.
    I'm trying to write an AI for a tactics game in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics or Vandal Hearts. I can't change the game rules in any way, only upgrade the AI. I have experience programming AI for classic board games (basically minimax and its variants), but I think the branching factor is too great for the approach to be reasonable here. I'll describe the game and some current AI flaws that I'd like to fix. I'd like to hear ideas for applicable techniques. I'm a decent enough programmer, so I only need the ideas, not an implementation (though that's always appreciated). I'd rather not expend effort chasing (too many) dead ends, so although speculation and brainstorming are good and probably helpful, I'd prefer to hear from somebody with actual experience solving this kind of problem. For those who know it, the game is the land battle mini-game in Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004) and you can skim/skip the next two paragraphs. For those who don't, here's briefly how it works. The battle is turn-based and takes place on a 16x16 grid. There are three terrain types: clear (no hindrance), forest (hinders movement, ranged attacks, and sight), and rock (impassible, but does not hinder attacks or sight). The map is randomly generated with roughly equal amounts of each type of terrain. Because there are many rock and forest tiles, movement is typically very cramped. This is tactically important. The terrain is not flat; higher terrain gives minor bonuses. The terrain is known to both sides. The player is always the attacker and the AI is always the defender, so it's perfectly valid for the AI to set up a defensive position and just wait. The player wins by killing all defenders or by getting a unit to the city gates (a tile on the other side of the map). There are very few units on each side, usually 4-8. Because of this, it's crucial not to take damage without gaining some advantage from it. Units can take multiple actions per turn. All units on one side move before any units on the other side. Order of execution is important, and interleaving of actions between units is often useful. Units have melee and ranged attacks. Melee attacks vary widely in strength; ranged attacks have the same strength but vary in range. The main challenges I face are these: Lots of useful move combinations start with a "useless" move that gains no immediate advantage, or even loses advantage, in order to set up a powerful flank attack in the future. And, since the player units are stronger and have longer range, the AI pretty much always has to take some losses before they can start to gain kills. The AI must be able to look ahead to distinguish between sacrificial actions that provide a future benefit and those that don't. Because the terrain is so cramped, most of the tactics come down to achieving good positioning with multiple units that work together to defend an area. For instance, two defenders can often dominate a narrow pass by positioning themselves so an enemy unit attempting to pass must expose itself to a flank attack. But one defender in the same pass would be useless, and three units can defend a slightly larger pass. Etc. The AI should be able to figure out where the player must go to reach the city gates and how to best position its few units to cover the approaches, shifting, splitting, or combining them appropriately as the player moves. Because flank attacks are extremely deadly (and engineering flank attacks is key to the player strategy), the AI should be competent at moving its units so that they cover each other's flanks unless the sacrifice of a unit would give a substantial benefit. They should also be able to force flank attacks on players, for instance by threatening a unit from two different directions such that responding to one threat exposes the flank to the other. The AI should attack if possible, but sometimes there are no good ways to approach the player's position. In that case, the AI should be able to recognize this and set up a defensive position of its own. But the AI shouldn't be vulnerable to a trivial exploit where the player repeatedly opens and closes a hole in his defense and shoots at the AI as it approaches and retreats. That is, the AI should ideally be able to recognize that the player is capable of establishing a solid defense of an area, even if the defense is not currently in place. (I suppose if a good unit allocation algorithm existed, as needed for the second bullet point, the AI could run it on the player units to see where they could defend.) Because it's important to choose a good order of action and interleave actions between units, it's not as simple as just finding the best move for each unit in turn. All of these can be accomplished with a minimax search in theory, but the search space is too large, so specialized techniques are needed. I thought about techniques such as influence mapping, but I don't see how to use the technique to great effect. I thought about assigning goals to the units. This can help them work together in some limited way, and the problem of "how do I accomplish this goal?" is easier to solve than "how do I win this battle?", but assigning good goals is a hard problem in itself, because it requires knowing whether the goal is achievable and whether it's a good use of resources. So, does anyone have specific ideas for techniques that can help cleverize this AI? Update: I found a related question on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3133273/ai-for-a-final-fantasy-tactics-like-game The selected answer gives a decent approach to choosing between alternative actions, but it doesn't seem to have much ability to look into the future and discern beneficial sacrifices from wasteful ones. It also focuses on a single unit at a time and it's not clear how it could be extended to support cooperation between units in defending or attacking.

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  • xslt cookbook example not working

    - by Liza dawson
    Hi I am working on this from xslt cookbook type my.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <people> <person name="Al Zehtooney" age="33" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Brad York" age="38" sex="m" smoker="yes"/> <person name="Charles Xavier" age="32" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="David Williams" age="33" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Edward Ulster" age="33" sex="m" smoker="yes"/> <person name="Frank Townsend" age="35" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Greg Sutter" age="40" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Harry Rogers" age="37" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="John Quincy" age="43" sex="m" smoker="yes"/> <person name="Kent Peterson" age="31" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Larry Newell" age="23" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Max Milton" age="22" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Norman Lamagna" age="30" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Ollie Kensington" age="44" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="John Frank" age="24" sex="m" smoker="no"/> <person name="Mary Williams" age="33" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Jane Frank" age="38" sex="f" smoker="yes"/> <person name="Jo Peterson" age="32" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Angie Frost" age="33" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Betty Bates" age="33" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Connie Date" age="35" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Donna Finster" age="20" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Esther Gates" age="37" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Fanny Hill" age="33" sex="f" smoker="yes"/> <person name="Geta Iota" age="27" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Hillary Johnson" age="22" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Ingrid Kent" age="21" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Jill Larson" age="20" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Kim Mulrooney" age="41" sex="f" smoker="no"/> <person name="Lisa Nevins" age="21" sex="f" smoker="no"/> </people> type generic-attr-to-csv.xslt <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:csv="http://www.ora.com/XSLTCookbook/namespaces/csv"> <xsl:param name="delimiter" select=" ',' "/> <xsl:output method="text" /> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:for-each select="$columns"> <xsl:value-of select="@name"/> <xsl:if test="position( ) != last( )"> <xsl:value-of select="$delimiter/> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/*/*"> <xsl:variable name="row" select="."/> <xsl:for-each select="$columns"> <xsl:apply-templates select="$row/@*[local-name(.)=current( )/@attr]" mode="csv:map-value"/> <xsl:if test="position( ) != last( )"> <xsl:value-of select="$delimiter"/> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="@*" mode="map-value"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> type my.xsl <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:csv="http://www.ora.com/XSLTCookbook/namespaces/csv"> <xsl:import href="generic-attr-to-csv.xslt"/> <!--Defines the mapping from attributes to columns --> <xsl:variable name="columns" select="document('')/*/csv:column"/> <csv:column name="Name" attr="name"/> <csv:column name="Age" attr="age"/> <csv:column name="Gender" attr="sex"/> <csv:column name="Smoker" attr="smoker"/> <!-- Handle custom attribute mappings --> <xsl:template match="@sex" mode="csv:map-value"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test=".='m'">male</xsl:when> <xsl:when test=".='f'">female</xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise>error</xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> using the apache xalan parser D:\Test>java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in my.xml -xsl my.xsl -out my.csv [Fatal Error] generic-attr-to-csv.xslt:15:6: The value of attribute "select" associated with an element type "xsl:v alue-of" must not contain the '<' character. file:///D:/Test/generic-attr-to-csv.xslt; Line #15; Column #6; org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The value of attribut e "select" associated with an element type "xsl:value-of" must not contain the '<' character. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.createSerializationHandler(TransformerImpl.java:1171) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.createSerializationHandler(TransformerImpl.java:1060) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1268) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:1251) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process.main(Process.java:1048) Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException at org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process.doExit(Process.java:1155) at org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process.main(Process.java:1128) Any ideas what am i doing wrong

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  • Revocation status of DC can't be verified

    - by DotGeorge
    A Domain Controller within my forest was working fine (as the story usually goes). Then, suddenly, I can't logon with my smart card. Instead, I'm greeted with the following message: The system could not log you on. The revocation status of the domain controller certificate used for smart card authentication could not be determined. I literally have no idea what's happened here. As an attempted quick fix, I removed the root certificate which issued the Smart Card's certificate from the CA of both the client and DC. Then imported a newly exported one from the DC in question. Same issue. I've spotted a number of related articles on Microsoft's forums and a HP support document. Each don't really shed much light as it's a generic error message apparently. Having said all of this, other smart cards (issued from other DCs) work fine. So I have no idea what's up with this one.

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  • Add server 2008 to 2003 domain schema upgrade failed

    - by Ken
    I'm trying to add a server 2008 r2 server to an existing 2003 domain (upgraded to 2003 functionality). I've followed the steps from microsoft which are clarified by this post: 2003 DC AD upgrade to 2008 on second server migration plan While running adprep /forestprep I lost my connection and wasn't able to resume or remote control that session, so I couldn't see the end result of the command. Rerunning adprep /forestprep indicates that the process has already been completed successfully. After finishing the rest of the steps (/domainprep ... and /gpprep, etc), the 2008 server won't join. The error message is the same "you need to run forestprep first" So the situation I'm in is that I can't rerun /forestprep, but my Registry key still reads schemaVer=30. Should I have staged forest upgrades? Any ideas how to get my schema ver to 44 at this point?

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  • Multi-Domain Root Administrator

    - by Brent Pabst
    We have a new domain structure we are planning on rolling out in the next few months. Essentially there is a single top level and forest domain controller "mydomain.lan" and two children "us.mydomain.lan" and "pl.mydomain.lan". We want to configure an administrator account or two at the top level domain that then has full administrator permissions on the sub domains. By default the top level administrator cannot access or login to machines on the sub-domains. Running W2K8R2. Ideas?

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  • SBS 2003 R2 install errors

    - by piagetblix
    I just installed sbs2003 R2 as a learning lab box on my home network. The install seemed to take quit a while with a bit of shuffling between disks 4 and 5. The continue setup checklist showed the red x besides the exchange install and finally gave me an error about the "schema needing extending run, forest /adprep" and told me at the end that the install did not succeed. After a longer than normal reboot it comes up and seems to be OK. What logs do i need to check to see what went wrong? Should i reinstall and try burning the iso's to new media? cheers

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  • Bug with Windows/Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

    - by pragadheesh
    Hi, Recently I copied few photos from my digi cam to my laptop. And what i found was, in Thumbnail view, the Image preview on the photos are different from the actual file. i.e consider if the Image preview on a file is image of a Forest, on Opening the file in Windows Fax viewer i get image of a Seashore. The Actual image is that of a seashore. But in image preview i'm getting different images. How to get rid of this.? It is really annoying. I open a file expecting a image and it turns out to be a different image. Thanks in advance

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  • Exchange 2003 ActiveSync fine but GAL lookups not working

    - by Daniel Lucas
    We have Exchange 2003 SP2 and use ActiveSync for our mobile devices (iOS and sever Android versions). Everything works except for GAL lookups and we've confirmed that the devices and client versions we are trying it on are supposed to support it. The symptom is different depending on the client, but there is never an error. In a nutshell, lookups return no results. This was working previously and we aren't sure what has changed. Are there logs in Exchange or IIS that will allow me to see GAL lookup transactions? Could it be a GAL permissions issue? (No issues with GAL in Outlook) Could it have been caused by upgrading our DCs to 2008 and increasing the forest/domain functional levels?

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  • Is it safe to delete "Account Unknown" entries from Windows ACLs in a domain environment?

    - by Graeme Donaldson
    It's not uncommon to see entries in Windows ACLs (NTFS files/folders, registry, AD objects, etc.) with the name "Account Unknown (SID)". Obviously these are because of old AD users or groups which at some point had permissions manually configured on the relevant object and have since been deleted. Does anyone know if it is safe to remove these "Account Unknown" ACEs? My gut feeling is that it should be just fine, but I'm wondering if anyone has any past experiences where doing this has caused trouble? Normally I just ignore these, but the company I'm working at now seems to have an abnormal number of these, most likely due to past admins' inexperience with AD/Windows and assigning permissions to user accounts rather than groups in all sorts of weird places. FWIW, our environment is not complex, a single domain forest, 4 DCs in 3 sites, with all network connectivity and replication healthy, so I'm certain that these "Account Unknown" entries are really old accounts, and not just because of some failure to resolve the SID to a human-readable name.

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  • RODC password replication and A/D sites and subnets

    - by Gregory Thomson
    I work at a school district with about 30 school sites. Windows 2008 A/D setup - all central at the district office. In A/D, all is under one site, and no subnets defined. One A/D forest and only one domain under that. We're now looking to start putting RODCs at the schools to put the authentication and DNS out there closer to them. I haven't worked with A/D sites and subnets, and only a little with RODC password replication. But just got an invite to a meeting to talk about this tomorrow... If we start breaking down the A/D pieces into sites/subnets, can we also use that as a way to help apply an RODC password replication policy in a way that matches so that only each school sites' users passwords are replicated/cached on their RODC?

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  • Windows 2008 Domain Controller - Backup (BDC) to Primary (PDC)

    - by Klaptrap
    I have created a new domain controller with my single domain forest. I have also made it DHCP and DNS ready - all 3 services have synchronised with the existing W2K8 domain controller. I even migrated the FSMO roles and thought everything was fine. Indeed all machines on network appear to obtain DHCP and DNS from new server and the AD is working on the new server as my internal website uses it for login authentication. I have just noticed, via BgInfo - Sys Internals - that the new server is showing as "backup" and the old as "primary" - I thought I had already achieved this. Have the FSMO roles swapped back - as I have yet to have removed the old server from AD (dcpromo). Do I need to do anything before I run dcpromo on the old server? Any thoughts appreciated....

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  • Why my AD domain doesn't work on my laptop

    - by Frederick Marcoux
    I have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 on a virtual machine with a bridged network card and installed Active Directory. I configured it and when I try to connect my laptop to the domain name, in this case, creationsmicroweb.ca (doesn't exist, don't try, for local only), I can't get connected. My laptop just doesn't see it. I don't know why! There's a resume of my config: Domain Name: creationsmicroweb.ca Forest: new, principal domain controller IP: Fixed (192.168.1.100) DNS Name: none (just for local, I ignored them) NETBIOS name: MICROWEB If someone as found why, please help me! This is for my business that I'm starting and I can't find why it doesn't work!

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  • Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller DNS Reverse lookup zone needed?

    - by Joost Verdaasdonk
    When I create a new Domain Controller with dcpromo then the wizard will also add a DNS Role to the server because the first domain controller must be the global catalog server for the forest. After the install when I look at the DNS then I see the forward lookup zone for the newly created domain. However no zone is created for the Reverse lookup zone. So my question is: Is this an advisable endresult or not? In other words is it a good idea to add my domain to the reverse lookup zone as well? Just curious to hear how other people use this zone in the domain controller. Thanks

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  • Are less domains better than more domains in active directory?

    - by johnny
    A colleague of mine wants to add a domain to our forest. He said it would be good for security. I believe him but I have no idea why it is any better than with just one domain. I read this on Wikipedia but it has no source: "Microsoft recommends as few domains as possible in Active Directory and a reliance on OUs to produce structure and improve the implementation of policies and administration." I have no idea if it's right or not. I was hoping for comments. Thank you.

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  • How do I set up a one way trust when some DCs are firewalled off from each other?

    - by makerofthings7
    I have two Windows 2008 forests in Win2003 mode and I need to set up a one way trust between them. The validation button in Domains And Trusts works in one forest but not in the other. I think this is because not all DCs can see all the other DCs. I'm not sure if I need to set up the hosts file, so I did so with company.com in the respective domain along with the relevant DC. (do I need _msdcs _tcp zones etc) How do I set up a one way trust when some DCs are firewalled off from each other?

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