More Than 15 IP Addresses Assigned to Server Causes Active Directory-Related Problems

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After you add 16 or more IP addresses to a domain controller and then try to apply Group Policy, events similar to the following events are recorded in the Application log and the policy settings are not applied:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 4/3/2000
Time: 5:59:49 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: MYDC
Description: Windows cannot access the registry information at \\mydomain.com\sysvol\mydomain.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\registry.pol with (1351).

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SceCli
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 4/3/2000
Time: 5:59:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: MYDC
Description: Security policy cannot be propagated. Cannot access the template. Error code = 3. \\mydomain.com\sysvol\mydomain.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 4/3/2000
Time: 5:59:49 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: MYDC
Description: The Group Policy client-side extension Security was passed flags (17) and returned a failure status code of (3).

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Description: Windows cannot access the registry information at \\domainname\sysvol\domainname\Policies\GUID\Macine\registry.pol with (1231).

Also, attempting to add users to groups in Active Directory Users and Computers, or attempting to add users or groups to an Access Control List (ACL) on a file or folder produces the following error message:

Object Picker cannot open because no locations from which to choose objects could be found.

When you click OK, you receive the following message:

Unable to display the user selections dialog. The parameter is incorrect.

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