Domain Trust Keeps Breaking

The active directory domain stores the current computer password as well as the previous one.

Domain trust keeps breaking. If the password was changed twice the computer that uses the old password won t be able to authenticate on the domain controller it won t establish a secure connection channel. It s been a while nearly 2 years since i wrote a post purely on active directory domain trusts after diving into group scoping i realized a few subtle misconceptions i previously had concerning trusts and group memberships. Few users encouraged problem when logging to the domain including error. The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.

That combined with the changes made to powerview last year convinced me to publish an up to date guide on enumerating and attacking domain trusts. The trust relationship keeps breaking whenever a user changes password. This issue occurs on client and server operating system from windows xp to windows 10 and from windows server 2003 to windows server 2016. How microsoft 365 can help with work life balance.

Company1 is running the dcs on server 2008 and company2 is running on server2011 small business. The pandemic has forced it pros to work much longer hours than usual to keep their organizations running. Chances are an active directory joined computer that s no longer be trusted on a domain is because the password the local computer has does not match the password stored in active directory. So far i ve just removed and readded the workstation to the domain but that is quite a nuisance to do.