Microsoft KB Archive/285074

= Windows 2000 Selects Down-level Domain PDC to Enumerate User and Group Accounts =

Article ID: 285074

Article Last Modified on 2/21/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q285074



SYMPTOMS
When Object Picker (Objsel.dll) enumerates users, groups, or machine accounts from a down-level domain, the PDC is contacted to provide the list of objects. This may result in poor performance as the list may be obtained over a WAN link and may put unnecessary load on the PDC computer.



CAUSE
The code that made the connection to the down level domain asked for a writable domain controller, although it only reads the domain accounts. Because of that, it always connects to the PDC.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

  Date        Time    Version        Size    File name -  6/21/2001   12:39a  5.0.2195.3764  200,976  Adsnt.dll 6/21/2001  12:39a  5.0.2195.3764  207,632  Objsel.dll



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Additional query words: kbMgmtAdmin

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbenv kbfix kbsysadmin kbwin2000presp3fix kbwin2000sp3fix KB285074

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