Active Directory Discovery Reports Don’t Work

Under MOM-reporting (in Access), why do my Active Directory/Discovery' reports not work? I have Active Directory although MOM doesn't think so. It won't let me select my domain (dns-name) in the 'criteria for selected report' pane.

When I fill in the domain name manually, it displays: "There are no domain controllers in the selected domain(s)" even though there are.

It looks like MOM does not know the dns-name of my domains, or it doesn't understand that my domains are AD and not just NetBIOS. Every report under 'Active Directory/Discover' has this problem. Other Directory reports work just fine.

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 297784 'Active Directory Discovery Reports Are Not Populated with Data' might help which details a problem caused by lack of permissions and a workaround.