RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Check out gettype from the reskit. It will return a string and an errorlevel based on the OS. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] os

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread W2K List
Password policies can only be set at the domain level. Dennis Depp _ From: Erick Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are rolling our W2k network out, and have successfully migrated from NT4.0. Previously we had sat

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Schlegel
Title: Message We got smoked yesterday around 1:00. It was difficult to troubleshoot what was going on because I couldn't figure out how it was replicating through the network. Some machines had symptoms and others didn't (some machines had patches applied).Our symptoms included problems

Re: [ActiveDir] Who's online

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Agung, this was covered recently, mainly centered around the LastLogin attributes in AD. Tio find out who actually has a connection to the server, you can use the built in admin tools to see who has a connection to a share (useful for looking at home drive servers prior to restarts), or

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: LDAP & LastLogin for Computers I'm getting the computer "lastlogin" attribute, which as I understand it is the most recent time that the workstation authenticated to a domain controller. I believe the oldest this timestamp would be is the last time the machine started up. Also,

[ActiveDir] Scripting ACEs

2003-08-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I'm seeing a discrepancy between setting ACEs through the GUI (Security tab on an object) and setting them through a script. If I go into the Security Tab on an OU and set a Deny ACE for some global group on Change Password and Reset Password for User objects, I end up with a single Deny ACE for

RE: [ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread Chianese, David P.
Title: Message Answer to question #1.) type "set" at the command prompt, look for LOGONSERVER=server name. Answer to question #2.) \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\LOGONSERVER I'm not sure about changing the reg key or if it defaults back as the environment variable is loaded.

[ActiveDir] Max Connections?

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Sumilang
I'm using a Windows 2000 Server computer as a File Server but sometimes people have trouble connecting to it and they are on the local network. This network is very very small (about 10 users) and yet sometimes some people cannot connect to the file server so I'm wondering if there is a

[ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Felker
Title: Message Hi all, Were running two domain controllers on the same domain. My questions are i. what command can you run to see which one your client pc is using ii. how can you change which DC your pc client is using Reason being, I think one of them is slow, and

RE: [ActiveDir] Broken RPC between DC's

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
You can use PORTQRY to tickle the RPC port 135 and see what is listening. I would also try 137 and 138 UDP respectively. Then check the router configuration to see what it's settings are. Toddler -Original Message- From: Ian Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14,

RE: [ActiveDir] Max Connections?

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
I would go into the Network Connections and select the network adapter on the server. On the Microsoft File and Print item, select properties. And make sure the settings are optimizes for file and print sharing. Next you could pull up perfmon and see what the network usage is for the box, and

RE: [ActiveDir] Max Connections?

2003-08-14 Thread Chianese, David P.
Check the Maximum users at the share level perhaps. That is the only place I can think of to limit it. The other option is to look in perfmon and see if it is an actual I/O issue. Also, make sure the NIC(s) are set to 100/Full duplex. Hope this helps, Dave -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Max Connections?

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Schlegel
Maybe a DNS in resolving the ip address to the computer name? Can you ping the server from their desks? How are their drives mapped? -Original Message- From: Chianese, David P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:16 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message Okay This is what I have found in the userenv.log so far: ProcessGPOs: Processing extension Internet Explorer Branding ProcessGPOs: Extension Internet Explorer Branding skipped with flags 0x7 (Which should be fine since I dont use the GP to brand IE) ProcessGPOs:

[ActiveDir] how to identify what got changed in a user's account?

2003-08-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Hi, I am trying to identify exactly what got changed in a user's account (W2K domain). I know that a change will create a Security log record, EventID 642, category Account Management, type Success. It will identify the account that got changed (Target Account ID) and who made the change

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
In a secure environment like Todd lives in, it would make the cross-firewall replication a fairly simple matter - one well known port and proper DNS is all that it would take to pass the required replication traffic around. -- Roger D.

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Patch Management

2003-08-14 Thread Rod Trent
SMS with the SUS Feature Pack. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mitch Reid Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Patch Management Hi, we finally 'found' some money to purchase software that

[ActiveDir] [OT] RPC DCOM WORM (MSBLASTER)

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
In case you been sleeping on the RPC DCOM hole (MS03-26), the time to patch was a couple of weeks ago, but if you still didn't... Duck... No actually patch! Now is not the time for your company to discover that a firewall doesn't protect all entrances to your network.

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Well, let's think for just a minute about this. If we're talking about a WAN-based network, couldn't the end-point devices (routers, firewall, bastion, etc.) be the terminus for the IPSec tunnel? And, if so, who cares what the clients speak? Seems to me that this would resolve many of the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring

2003-08-14 Thread Rod Trent
Try MOM. http://www.microsoft.com/mom When the email server is down, you can use scripts to send email via SMTP. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:35 PM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread England, Christopher M
Title: Message Well, "pwdLastChanged" or "LastLogin" or other variations are all for User objects. Oh well, thanks for all your advice, all! Chris -Original Message-From: England, Christopher M Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:22 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
:o) My security logs are 180MB. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rittenhouse, Cindy Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RPC DCOM WORM (MSBLASTER)

2003-08-14 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Lol... :-) -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] RPC DCOM WORM (MSBLASTER) In case you been sleeping on the RPC DCOM hole (MS03-26), the time to patch was a couple of weeks ago, but

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
From the online help about NameTranslate, VBScript Example (havent tried it, but looks like it should work) Dim nto const ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_SERVER = 2 const ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779 = 1 const ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4 = 3 server = aDsServer user = jeffsmith dom= Fabrikam passwd = top

[ActiveDir] changing home drive problem

2003-08-14 Thread Gasper, Rick
HI all, I am moving home folders to a new server. Since I have thousands of users I need to script this. The script works fine, however the new home folders don't map until I go into aduc, make a change to the home folders (add a space to the end of the path then delete it) ) and hit apply. I am

RE: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Glenn is that what they make documentation and comments for? Toddler -Original Message- From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String HAHAHAPerl I like to be able to read my

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: Message Well, that wouldn't be the first time :-) At some point I suspect I'll *need* to query for a non-replicated attribute, so it's not a totally wasted effort. Your suggestion is a better fit in this case, though.Back to visual notepad Cheers, Hunter From: Roger Seielstad

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Packaging Software for Deployment

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Justin, Being a part of your HIPAA requirement solution, it would be somewhat imperative to get it righ the first time and know that you're in compliance, right? Given that, and the specifics of compliance under HIPAA (generally impossible, so why try) I'd suggest a mechanism that is going

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Lookup

2003-08-14 Thread Puckett, Richard
Title: Message Ryan, If you're asking this because you're doing a security/password strength analysis sweep, you can use a couple of different tools to do this (all of which will rely on administrative privileges to AD). Tools like PWDUMP2 have been updated to pull password hashes from the

RE: [ActiveDir] Groups and OU's

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message I'd suggest doing whatever makes sense to you, really. We have4 basic OU's - Employees, Workstations, Servers and Groups. Part of my rationale for having a separate OU for Groups is that I also maintain a separate recipients container in Exchange 5.5 for Distribution Lists

RE: [ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread Chianese, David P.
NTDSUTIL.EXE, follow the prompts to seize the roll. NOTE: Once you seize this roll make sure the dead RID is offline and fdisk'd as you never want that server to come back and start servicing DC's with its old RID pool. The new RID master will artificially inflate the RID pool to a higher number

Re: [ActiveDir] Max Connections?

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Sumilang
I went there and the radio button is set to Maximize data throughput for file sharing. This problem starter happening before the blaster worm went out. Where would I check is the settings are set to auto negotiate and the set port thing? Thanks - Richard S. On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message One way to go about it would be to turn up the auditing andquery the event log on the machine for login success/failure events. John A. Bjelke Unisys 505.853.6774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success

RE: [ActiveDir] Non-dictionary passwords

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message You can't do this natively but you can write a password filter DLL to hook into the LSASS to do it. It isn't a trivial experiment as bad code will do bad things since it is running as LSASS and when LSASS gets cranky, blue tends to be your predominant screen theme color.

[ActiveDir] OT: Patch Management

2003-08-14 Thread Mitch Reid
Hi, we finally 'found' some money to purchase software that will help with patch management. I was wondering if anybody has suggestions what I should look at (and what not to look at). We have about 300 local servers and a handful more across the WAN. They're NT, 2000 and 2003 in an NT/AD

RE: [ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread daniel . gilbert
One thing to do is use NTDSUTIL to sieze the RID master role. Remove all references to the failed DC in AD (ADSI edit, Sites and Services, DNS,) Let replication update all DC's. You should then be able to bring the server back using it's original name. HTH -Original Message- From:

[ActiveDir] Broken RPC between DC's

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Moran
Strange one this. Two DC's, same site, different subnets separated by a router. Clients on subnet A can net view \\serverB, clients on subnet B can net view \\serverA - but serverA serverB cannot net view each other - iyswim. Almost like a broken netbios channel between just these two servers

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RPC DCOM WORM (MSBLASTER)

2003-08-14 Thread james . blair
Charles, Our remote satellite sites were hit and infected 3/7 (broadband satellite), Internally no problems. Info @: Trend describes best way to do a manual removal. Easy Way: If you were infected and PC keeps restarting goto Services-Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Right Mouse Click goto

[ActiveDir] Turn off account lockout feature on a account.

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Title: Message Does anyone know how to disable account lockout restrictions on a account Like a service account, but leave the rest of the accounts with the ability to be locked out? Thanks, Toddler

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP search filter for enabled accounts ?

2003-08-14 Thread Fugleberg, David A
Jerry - Thanks ! Works like a charm. Dave -Original Message- From: Jerry Welch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP search filter for enabled accounts ? Dave, As I understand it, the following identifies a

Re: [ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread James_Day
From the command prompt on the client machine you can type set This will give you the local variables including the login domain controller. Hope this helps. James R. Day (202) 354-1464 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-+-- | | Kevin Felker

RE: [ActiveDir] Who's online

2003-08-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Hi Agung, I think the command is used on the local computer only. But I think you could download the freeware from Sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com) named psexec and then use the following syntax: psexec \\ComputerName net session Mike Thommes -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] VBscript Help

2003-08-14 Thread Steven Peck DNET
On a last note, the Windows Scripting Guide is online at MS wrap warning http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/scriptcen ter/scrguide/sas_roa_overview.asp In case you forget the book at home or are broke. :) -sp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] LDAP LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread England, Christopher M
Title: LDAP LastLogin for Computers Greetings all, I am trying to pull LDAP queries on computer accounts and I want to find out the last time someone logged into the machine. WhenModified is just the computer account object and LastLogin is just for user accounts. Am I out of luck? What

Re: [ActiveDir] Who's online

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Murray
Agung This was covered fairly comprehensively in a thread a few days ago. Look in the archives for the subject Users Logged In on 29.07.03. The lastLogoff attribute is not used. There is very little MS documentation on this. Tony -- Original Message

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Justin, servers alive does report status to a web page, so that may be the easiest way to see if your exchange servers are alive. I understand the problem, you want to receive Email to your mailbox if a server is down, BUT if its the exchange server you cant get any mail. The problem is that if

Re: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
Can vouch for the Kiwi server. Works great, and even better its free. G. - Original Message - From: Free, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon Since I'll need a syslog server, I'd like one that will

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Packaging Software for Deployment

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I believe that the last time I tried using a ZAP file, it didn't take UNCs, only drive letters (e.g. z:\myapp\setup.exe). Probably worth testing yourself though, since its been a while. As Rod's webpage notes, ZAP files don't provide privilege escalation like MSIs do. So, the user will need to

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Packaging Software for Deployment

2003-08-14 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Is there a program that I can use that will generate the zap file for me? -Original Message- From: Sullivan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Packaging Software for Deployment Look

RE: [ActiveDir] Turn off account lockout feature on a account.

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message That's a good question - does administrator not get locked out because of something within its user object, or is that hard coded into the LSASS portions of things? -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr.

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2003-08-14 Thread rmcdonald
I would like a copy of that as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan McDonald Systems Administrator The Bankers Bank Ellis, Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/2003 07:23 AM Please respond to ActiveDir To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify what got changed in a user's account?

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Unfortunately you can't. You have all of the info you are going to get at the present time. Joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes, Michael M. Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS Database Error

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Unfortunately eventid 1168 is a catchall event for many AD internal blowups where most often I have seen them when the DIT can't be read or has found an inconsistency. Najem: Those two events seem to be separated by quite a bit of time in the time stamp, do you think they are related? joe

RE: [ActiveDir] Groups and OU's

2003-08-14 Thread Ellis, Debbie
Title: Message What are the reasons for delegating the AD Root Identifier? Why delegate read? From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Groups and OU's Per delegation I do

RE: [ActiveDir] Groups and OU's

2003-08-14 Thread Jimmy Andersson
I you have one person that will administer the groups, create one OU for the groups and delegate it to that user sounds like a good idea. Regards, /Jimmy - Jimmy Andersson, Q Advice AB CEO Principal Advisor Microsoft MVP - Active

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message Sod off Dean... :oP cheers! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean WellsSent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:55 PMTo: AD mailing list (send)Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Rittenhouse, Cindy
Rick, The security logs in question are on my Windows 2000 domain controllers, PSDC1 and PSDC2. When I Audit Logon Events, the log fills with Event 538 NT Authority\Anonymous Logon User Logoff: User Name: ANONYMOUS LOGON Domain: NT AUTHORITY Logon ID:

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Heh Telemarketing company that I worked for in the early 80's did their coding in MUMPS. Interesting use for a language that was developed to target the medical industry, as I recall - Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi Programming System. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Dean Wells
Use - for /f tokens=3 delims=.] %%v in ('ver') do set OSbuild=%%v Place the syntax above within a shell script to set the OSbuild variable to, well, the OS build :) HTH Dean -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Tel: +1 (954) 501-4307 * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Well it doesn't give a lot of info but the RegOpenKey failing on GetHKeyCU (Get a handle to the user's profile in HKEY_CURRENT_USER) looks like a problem. The policy extension can't access the user's profile. The strange thing is that it returns a 0x0, which usually means

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
I believe those would show a logon by the IUSR (or other specified account) account because it isn't truly anonymous, you are simply proxied into the IUSR or some other specified anonymous access account. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS

2003-08-14 Thread James_Day
Hi All The virus is w32.blaster.worm - the details were released by Symantec about 12 hours ago. The hole it is using was patched by Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. Here is the link to the Symantec write up http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html It

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erick, Joe makes a good point -- password expiration policy is global. However, you can avoid the rush of everyone's passwords expiring at once with the following process: 1) enable global password expiration, but set the interval really long. 2) run a batch file nightly to expire a small

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster recovery scenario comments requested.

2003-08-14 Thread Chianese, David P.
That was my major concern too Hunter. Although we have not seen this in the lab, I am wondering in a more complex environment (like production) if the beast will rear it's ugly head then. That would be bad, very bad. Btw, thanks to all of you for the comments and scenario recommendations.

Re: [ActiveDir] How to force RID master change

2003-08-14 Thread EN
Thanks! I finally got everything working...at least so far, we'll see how it fares tomorrow and such. Did get some really weird errors, but they were fixable, according to MS. Ernesto - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Interestingly enough, I have that policy enabled (IE Maintenance policy processing). However, I do notice that when I go to the registry key mentioned in that article, the value is still set to 1, instead of 0. I changed it manually, and will reboot to see what happens. Does anyone know what

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
A ver command? -Original Message- From: Graham Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 8/14/2003 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: [ActiveDir] os version i know this one has probably been done

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call tothe OS

2003-08-14 Thread Mayet, Yusuf Y
Yeah Thanks again guys for your responses. I was not sure what the virus was called however the symptoms, that you guys gave to me is exactly what some of our clients were experiencing. "The continuous reboot problem" The servers however are not having any problems as we patched

[ActiveDir] LDAP search filter for enabled accounts ?

2003-08-14 Thread Fugleberg, David A
Is there anything I can use in a LDAP search filter to include only accounts that are enabled ? For example, a filter like ((objectclass=user)(objectcategory=person)(physicalDeliveryOfficeName=MSPJ)) will find all user objects whose office is in building MSPJ - I'd like to add an argument

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message Update: I have now noticed (beating my head on desk for not seeing it sooner) that the server also sees the reset of the site changes Meaning: 1) I log onto the server, change the site listings as needed under IE Maintenance/Security 2) Run Secedit, check to make

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message You lost me on one part What are you referring to when you say Preference mode settings? As for local GPO IE settings, there are none set. I will enable the verbose logging and see what happens Thanks Charles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Password change issue

2003-08-14 Thread Fugleberg, David A
We had a discussion involving this very issue on this list last week - MS has a KB article that describes this: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=812499 There is a hotfix (referenced in this article), and the fix is included in Win2K SP4. Hope this helps...we're updating all our DCs to SP4 now,

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify what got changed in a user's account?

2003-08-14 Thread Bruce Hansen
I've been trying to track them with MOM and have concluded that 642's are a can of worms. What tends to happen is that a single change will generate one 642 with a description of the change (Account Unlocked, etc.), followed by one or more additional 642's with no description whatsoever. I've

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Dean Wells
Title: Message Thank you Joe ... high praise indeed and rigt back at ya ... though in my case, I'm not certain it's deserved but I'll take what I can get :-))) PS - Being English, I do read tea leaves and as such am perfectly capable of predicting the future, in fact, I predict that this

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Charles Campbell
Title: Message Well, I did a reset with no problems I tried setting to preference mode, but seem unable to input any changes. I tried adding the *.adm files for IE (inetcorp.adm and inetset.adm), however, when I go to access the settings, I see the following: The inetset.adm file is

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Graham, From the Script Center in Technet: strComputer = . Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts: _ {impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ strComputer \root\cimv2) Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ (Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem) For Each objOperatingSystem in

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
This still requires a list of semi trusted networks. I am curious would you use the IPSEC to limit the port range to the DC's for replication, or both the client level traffic and the DCs traffic? On problem with client traffic being encrypted is that we support multiple hosts connecting to

RE: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
More importantly - I like to be able to read someone ELSE's code and understand it. My last perl hacking was updating a firewall parsing routine. The reg ex that was used was thoroughly inconceivable for the first 20 minutes. -- Roger

[ActiveDir] ADMT 2.0 erro 7557

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Turner
was wondering if any one could give us info ADMT error 7557 this is being logged by the ADMT user migration wizard when selecting the option to migrate passwords using password export server. this has been working a treat to date but from the one article on this found to date looks to name

[ActiveDir] Pagefile sizes... Its that time of year again.

2003-08-14 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
So you have a Gig of ram on a DC, what do you all set the pagefile size to? Memory +11 MB? Like to hear your feedback. Toddler List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive:

RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected

2003-08-14 Thread daniel . gilbert
Or maybe DirectoryInsight :-) -Original Message- From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Home Labs Interconnected This sounds like a job for Directory Lockdown! Toddler

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tools against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message The schema revision update is kind of scary to me Dean. What else looks for that that we aren't aware of that would blow horribly when it didn't really get what it needed because it thought it would be there because of that revision level? joe -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Free, Bob
We were playing with KIWI and an addin called backlogNT that a lot of others were using and recommending. Looks like it's morphed into SNARE. http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/SnareWindows/index.html -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster recovery scenario comments requested.

2003-08-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Don- We're in the same spot, with production DCs running on Dell and DR hardware often being Compaq. We've found that KB810161 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810161) has been important to successfully accomplishing the restores. Recently, we've also found that building

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Server Monitoring

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Take a look at HostMonitor at www.ks-soft.com Very functional product for a very low price. The developer is very responsive for functionality changes and bug fixes as well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster recovery scenario comments requested.

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Jan, Do you know if they have published a paper or some detail on this process? Naturally, I'm interested in what they are proposing. Currently, their full-fledged technical document is slated for March 2004, which, IMHO, is way too late. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call tothe OS

2003-08-14 Thread Jb Leney
Title: Message http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2003-08-11 It goes by different names, depending on the antivirus vendor. The patch has been out for this for a while now. Our servers our patched, and we've seen no issues as of yet. -Original Message-From: Carlos

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Lookup

2003-08-14 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Title: Message Hi Robbie, I'm not aware that Windows 2000 password complexity switch prevents the use of dictionary words. That certainly has not been the case here. Please let me know if there is some "special" switch to prevent dictionary words and what dictionary it uses. Thanks! Mike

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message Excellent response Todd. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:14 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS

2003-08-14 Thread Bryan Schlegel
Title: Message This is a great tool to scan your network if anyone is still having problems. http://www.iss.net/support/product_utilities/ms03-026rpc.php -Original Message-From: Mayet, Yusuf Y [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:58 AMTo: '[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Try turning that off (make it synchronous). -Original Message-From: Charles Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:46 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security These are all 2000

RE: [ActiveDir] Power Options with GPO

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Marc, Forewarned is ... Well, you get the drift. It would be irresonsible of me to suggest adding your own entries to an .ADM without first mentioning the issue. So with that disclaimer out of the way I'd suggest that your solution would likely be the best. Take a snapshot of what it

Re: [ActiveDir] Connection String

2003-08-14 Thread Glenn Corbett
HAHAHAPerl I like to be able to read my code and understand it again in 6 months :) Glenn - Original Message - From: Robbie Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:14 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Connection String Come over to the 'Dark

[ActiveDir] Group Policy

2003-08-14 Thread Ellis, Debbie
Does anyone have a Group Policy Spreadsheet ? List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Has anyone had a problem with the RPC call to the OS

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Title: Message Yusuf, Check out some of the security vulnerability lists like full-disclosure, vulnwatch, vulndiscuss, etc.People are saying that since yesterday sometime, possibly the night before they have been seeing infections and have noticed a considerable increase in hits on their

RE: [ActiveDir] Password change issue

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Shaking head still hawking this old tired solution, eh? ;o) You've been busy tonight - you're weighing in on everything in one night. I just want to see the time when Joe answers questions 12 hours in advance. Now THAT would be a time saver Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP -

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
When I spoke at the 2002 AFITC, a general from ACC (I've forgotten his name) told me that someone in his office had received one and the noise was driving him crazy. Scratch the chicken off the list of how to win friends and influence people. LOL! That's great Gil! Thanks! John A.

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Password change issue

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Heh thanks Rick. I am going to push that solution all the time, I worked too hard to get MS to make that change and stop giving the old tired answer of change the password on the DC the user will authenticate on. :P I had some time so I went through most of the posts. Been really busy lately

RE: [ActiveDir] Choosing between Domain Controllers

2003-08-14 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message You can alter the SRV priority and weight settings for the DC so that clients will select one DC over another. See the Windows .NET mag article I wrote in the March issue, or DL it from http://www.netpro.com/forum/files/authentication_topology.pdf. -gil Gil KirkpatrickCTO,

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP search filter for enabled accounts ?

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry Welch
Dave, As I understand it, the following identifies a user account that is disabled: (userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2) That is, the account is disabled when this value is set to 2. To exclude disabled accounts you would use the following string, plus any other filters you want to

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