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You need to prepopulate the password for User1 on DC2

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named adatum.com. The domain
contains two domain controllers that run Windows Server 2012 R2. The domain controllers
are configured as shown in the following table.

You log on to DC1 by using a user account that is a member of the Domain Admins group,
and then you create a new user account named User1.
You need to prepopulate the password for User1 on DC2.
What should you do first?

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A.
Connect to DC2 from Active Directory Users and Computers.

B.
Add DC2 to the Allowed RODC Password Replication Policy group.

C.
Add the User1 account to the Allowed RODC Password Replication Policy group.

D.
Run Active Directory Users and Computers as a member of the Enterprise Admins group.

Explanation:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730883(v=ws.10).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753470(v=ws.10).aspx#BKMK_pre

20 Comments on “You need to prepopulate the password for User1 on DC2

  1. Shakir says:

    Answer is D.

    Open Active Directory Users and Computers as a member of Domain/Enterprise Admins. To open Active Directory Users and Computers as a member of Domain Admins, click Start. In Start Search, type runas /user:\, and then press ENTER. Substitute the actual domain name for , and type the name of a user account that is a member of the Domain Admins group for . Type the account password when you are prompted. Type dsa.msc, and then press ENTER. Close the Command Prompt window.




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    1. Digixorcist says:

      Domain Admins is NOT the same as Enterprise Admins! The answer must be C, unless it’s mis-written in this question and should be “Domain Admin” instead of Enterprise Admin.




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  2. James L says:

    Domain admins is sufficient enough privs to do this
    (bottom of this link under heading Prepopulating the password cache for an RODC)
    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/83a6daba-cdde-4606-97a3-6ebb9d7fa6bf(v=ws.10)#BKMK_POP

    Prepopulating the password for a user account will succeed only if the account is included in the allowed list of passwords that can be cached on the RODC.

    So as Bobsmith indicated answer C is correct as it is the first thing you must do

    I tried this in my lab and was given the warning message before I tried to prepopulate an account. I continued anyway and as the account had not been added to the necessary group it failed saying “the specific server could not perform the requested operation”




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  3. Joe says:

    I agree with C.

    Shakir you must have misread D, it says run ADUC as enterprise admin whereas your explanation says run it as domain/enterprise admins. You are already a domain admin so just run it as normal and then add the user to the group.




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  4. Peter says:

    Its a clever Microsoft question…
    In order for you/me/anybody to add the User1 to Allowed RODC Password Replication Policy Group. You need to run the Active Directory Users and Computers first!
    Just like the end of the Step1 in the Explanation picture says.
    However, you are already in it. You are already running it on the DC1, as a Domain Admin. You just created a User1 [unless you used PowerShell :)]. So you might as well add him to the right RODC Group, while you are in it.
    From the link provided by bobsmith above “Membership in Domain Admins, or equivalent, is the minimum required to complete these procedures.”
    Why launch it again as the Enterprise Admin?
    So answer C appears to be correct.




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    1. BitterSysAdmin says:

      You answered your own question and then supplied the wrong answer.

      And I quote “You need to run the Active Directory Users and Computers FIRST!”

      Exactly, the exam question asks what should you do first. And what question is in line with your statement? “A.”

      We need to do “A.” first, NOT “C.”.




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      1. Pieter says:

        Unfortunately you are right but also wrong..:-)

        Indeen yoiu need to logon to ADUC at first.
        But the information thats been given tells us:

        “You log on to DC1 by using a user account that is a member of the Domain Admins group,
        and then you create a new user account named User1.”

        So we are already logged on as a Domain admin, otherwise we couldn’t create thuis user1.

        That leaves us step 2 , assign user1 to the corecyt AD Group as mentioned in Answer C.

        Therfore the correct answer is C.




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  5. PK says:

    Answer is D.

    You can prepopulate the password cache for an RODC with the passwords of users and computer accounts that you plan to authenticate to it. When you prepopulate the RODC password cache, you trigger the RODC to replicate and cache the passwords for users and computers before the accounts try to log on.

    You don’t need to add user1 to the Allowed RODC Password Replication Policy Group. As a first step you should run ADUC as a member of the domain admins group and follow step 1 to 8, see explanation.

    Reference see also explanation.




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    1. Digixorcist says:

      @PK : From the original link:

      Open Active Directory Users and Computers as a member of Domain Admins. To open Active Directory Users and Computers as a member of Domain Admins, click Start. In Start Search, type runas /user:\, and then press ENTER. Substitute the actual domain name for , and type the name of a user account that is a **member of the Domain Admins group** for . Type the account password when you are prompted. Type dsa.msc, and then press ENTER. Close the Command Prompt window.

      Answer D states you have to run ADUC as an ENTERPRISE admin, which is NOT the case!




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  6. David says:

    I go with D.
    question asks that ” you need to prepopulate the password for user1″
    to do that
    we open Active Dir Users & Computers > Domain Controllers > RODC
    then properties of RODC
    Select the password replication policy tab.
    click on advanced button.
    then click on prepopulate password…

    With A -> kind of same thing
    B -> is not going to prepopulate the password in any way
    C -> is not going to prepopulate the password in any way




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  7. BitterSysAdmin says:

    I am also leaning towards A.

    Even if the user account was created using powershell, we still have to open ADUC and connect to the RODC. The obvious fact is that when we created User1, it was on the writable DC named DC1. The question asks us “What should you do first?”. Well first we have to connect to DC2 from ADUC. Even if ADUC was already open or not, the act of CONNECTING to DC2 is first.

    As per https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/rodc-guidance-for-administering-the-password-replication-policy(v=ws.10).aspx (applies to 2008 and 2012)

    1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers. To open Active Directory Users and Computers, click Start. In Start Search, type dsa.msc, and then press ENTER.

    2. Ensure that you are connected to the correct domain. To connect to the appropriate domain, in the details pane, right-click the Active Directory Users and Computers object, and then click Change Domain.

    3. Expand Domain Controllers, right-click the RODC account object for which you want to modify the PRP, and then click Properties.

    4. Click the Password Replication Policy tab. An example is shown in the following illustration.

    “C” is a step we do after we open the PRP.

    “D” doesnt make sense. You do not need Enterprise Admin to perform this functionality.

    “B” is wrong and not necessary.

    Does this make sense now?




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    1. Marshal Bullymore says:

      It says ‘correct domain’, not correct DC. Both DCs are in the same domain. Although it’s tricky, I wouldn’t say you connect to DC2, just that you click on properties of it (which isn’t connecting)




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  8. BogeyNL says:

    In my opinion, If you make the assumption that you created uers1 using ADUC and you have it still open, the first step to do next is to connect to DC2, answer A.
    (See step 2 of the explanation)




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  9. heh says:

    You can only change the Allowed RODC Password Replication Policy of the RODC from a WRITABLE domain controller. So A is not valid, as you couldn’t write to DC2 (the RODC). C is the correct answer.

    However, in this situation if User1 was just a user in the branch location where the RODC is located, I would right click DC2 to go into the properties and add this user to the Allowed RODC PRP tab, instead of using the Allowed RODC PRP group in Active Directory. The group is used more for admins, VIPs who would travel to multiple branches regularly, etc.

    For example, I wouldn’t want the password of a user from Branch1 to replicate to an RODC of Branch2 if he/she is unlikely to ever be at Branch2. But I would have a regional branch manager account replicated to Branch1 and Branch2 because he/she probably travels between both sites frequently, so I would put him/her in the Allowed RODC PRP group in Active Directory instead of adding him to both branches’ RODC individually.




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