{"id":549,"date":"2011-05-28T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/workstation-fails-to-connect-sync-to-active-directory-after-restore\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:16:35","slug":"workstation-fails-to-connect-sync-to-active-directory-after-restore","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/workstation-fails-to-connect-sync-to-active-directory-after-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"Workstation Fails to Connect\/Sync to Active Directory after Restore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Problem:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\r\n  <p>Workstation is unable to successfully connect to or sync to Active Directory after restoring a backup image.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Cause:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\r\n  <p>The workstation and server negotiated a new <em>password<\/em> since the creation of the backup image. When restored, the server does not authenticate the workstation because it's using the old <em>password<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Solution:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <p>Rejoin the workstation to the domain: <\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>Remove the workstation from the domain by placing it into a workgroup.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Restart the computer, if prompted to do so.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Rejoin the domain. <\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>\r\n  <p>The above operations can all be performed by right-clicking on <strong>My Computer<\/strong> or <strong>Computer<\/strong> (depending on the version of Windows) and selecting <strong>Properties<\/strong>. Then look in the <em>Computer name<\/em> section.<\/p>\r\n  <p>&nbsp;<\/p><hr \/>\r\n  <p>Please reference the following Microsoft KB articles for more details:<\/p>\r\n  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/295049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issues with domain membership after a system restore<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/154501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to disable automatic machine account password changes<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q175468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Effects of machine account replication on a domain<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Workstation is unable to successfully connect to or sync to Active Directory after restoring a backup image. Cause: The workstation and server negotiated a new password since the creation of the backup image. When restored, the server does not authenticate the workstation because it&#8217;s using the old password. Solution: Rejoin the workstation to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1805],"lsvr_kba_tag":[],"class_list":["post-549","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-shared-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}