[ActiveDir] [OT] Really off-topic!

2003-11-04 Thread Oliver Marshall
Sorry for the really off topic posting, but is anyone on the list in, or around, the area of Salzburg, Austria ? I need to get hold of something from a certain shop there, and I need someone to see if they can get the phone number for me. Thanks Olly

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Really off-topic!

2003-11-04 Thread Abbiss, Mark
I live in Munich...about an hour and a half away. Maybe I can get some info for you. -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] Really off-topic! Sorry for the

[ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread George Arezina
After delegating control to a specific number of users to reset and unlock locked accounts I ran into a very weird problem. The delegated users were able to open the properties of users under ADUC. Now, when they attempt to open the properties tab, ADUC just closes itself as if the

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread Tony Murray
George Sounds like the problem has more to do with the troubled upgrade to SP4 on that DC than anything else. What were the problems you had after installing SP4? It seems strange that you should have issues with applying an SP on one DC but not the other. Some other thoughts: 1. Are the

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
"I should also mention the fact that this does not happen on another DC in my domain." = do you mean that your ADUChad issues when connected to the SP3 DC, or was the ADUS running on the respective server (logged onto the console or via TS) ? I doubt the latter, however I've not seen the

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread George Arezina
Tony, Delegated users are running ADUC via TS. No out of the ordinary events in the EV logs No I do not see the problem when connecting to the SP4 DC via Connect to Domain Controller option From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread George Arezina
= do you mean that your ADUChad issues when connected to the SP3 DC, or was the ADUS running on the respective server (logged onto the console or via TS) ? Already running on the SP3 prior to install of SP4 without any problems. do you mean the Users container in AD? You have the issue

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
what version is the ADUC on your TS and is this a separate machine, or one of the DCs themselves? you didn't mention the permissions you set... From: George Arezina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 4. November 2003 11:12To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC =

[ActiveDir] Permissions Required For Installing Child Domain

2003-11-04 Thread Santhosh Sivarajan
Hi all, What is the permission required for configuring a child domain in an existing forest? Is it Enterprise Admin? Thanks in advance Santhosh

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 domain in Windows 2000

2003-11-04 Thread Santhosh Sivarajan
Thanks for the response. I found an issue with Schema update if you have Exchange 2000. Here is the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314649 Has anyone seen this? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Permissions Required For Installing Child Domain

2003-11-04 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
yes, you'll need to have Enterprise Admin permissions to add the first DC of a new child-domain. Afterwards Domain Admins can continue to add DCs of that domain. /Guido From: Santhosh Sivarajan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 4. November 2003 13:16To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Another scripting bug...

2003-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Heh. It fails on the rec.Open. I've tried (and re-tried this morning to make sure) both the "\" escape and the "%26" escape. Neither generate a different error. Thanks anyway. From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:29 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Permissions Required For Installing Child Domain

2003-11-04 Thread Dean Wells
Yes ... EA permissions are required to create CrossRef objects which represent partitions within a forest (in this context, a partition equates to a domain). You can, however, precreate the CrossRef as an Enterprise Admins member and delegate control over it to a suitable user who will

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread Joe
OK right off the bat, I wouldn't let anyone besides the domain admins TS into a domain controller. That isn't the root of your problem but could be the root of others before or down the road. You will probably get someone on here that may say that the server could be hardened but I am going

[ActiveDir] Restoring System State from a DC

2003-11-04 Thread Abbiss, Mark
Title: Message Please can anyone tell me if it is possible to make aconnection to a network sharewhen a server has been booted up into theDirectory Services Restore Mode ? I was planning to place my system state backup file on a network share. This is obviously a waste of time if I cant get

RE: [ActiveDir] Another scripting bug...

2003-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Oh very cool. That works (except for two accounts out of several hundred for some weird reason -- still tracking that), and it's much faster than ADO. It requires a bit more setup (since you've gotta know the specific Exchange server a mailbox resides upon), but it works quite well. Thanks

RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy

2003-11-04 Thread Rich Milburn
John if you want to make sure these servers never get any GPOs you might put in the domain, or make it more obvious at a glance what GPOs they are getting, you can put them in their own OU and block inheritance to that OU. Yes it is grouping them for GPO application not necessarily administrative

RE: [ActiveDir] Restoring System State from a DC

2003-11-04 Thread John Reijnders
Title: Message Booting a DC in DSRM effectively boots it into a "workgroup mode". However, you will be able to access a network shareif you have another DC nearby that can authenticate the user that tries to access the network share. So, you will need to present your credentials when you're

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread Rich Milburn
Joe speaking of scripts to unlock users have you (or anyone else) ever set up an alert/script combo that triggers when an account gets locked out, brings up the user info to you with various info, and lets you acknowledge and unlock it / call the user / chase the hacker depending on the

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Lookup Problem - Windows 2003

2003-11-04 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Message And that's what's confusing. W2K DNS is told to use TCP for large packets, and you can force that as I recall. So in your case, the firewall was the issue, right? Slight change in the way that the DNS packets were travelling across? Al -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Univ group best practice

2003-11-04 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
I'd place them where they're managed. I.e. if a delegated admin of a sub-domain is managing a resource that is supposed to be secured with a UG, then place the UG in an OU where he is delegated enough permissions to manage the group.Usually, this also equatesto hosting the UG in the domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Restoring System State from a DC

2003-11-04 Thread Matja Ladava
Title: Message Sure. When you boot into DSRM network works just fine. Infact I was TS-ing to one Windows server booted in DSRM and did troubleshooting AD over the network. Matjaz Ladava, MCSA, MCSE, MCT, MVP Microsoft MVP Windows Server- Active Directory[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Another scripting bug...

2003-11-04 Thread Matja Ladava
Great to hear that. ADO sometimes behaves strangely. For example if you take ADO for querying AD. There are several ways to sort ADSI results, but none works as it should :-( Matjaz Ladava, MCSA, MCSE, MCT, MVP Microsoft MVP Windows Server- Active Directory[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Lookup Problem - Windows 2003

2003-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Title: Message No, I didn't change anything but where I sent forwards. To my authoritative servers (in my DMZ but on the other side of my PIX) instead of using root hints. We have (for the network under discussion) INTERNAL - PIX - DMZ - 7200 w/IOS-FW/FS Anyway, see the google thread on

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Lookup Problem - Windows 2003

2003-11-04 Thread Robert Gonzaga (306)
Title: Message So are we saying it works as long you don't use the fixup command for DNS?  Do you still need to NAT and the conduits (in my case of older PIX ver.)? -Original Message- From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:23 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Lookup Problem - Windows 2003

2003-11-04 Thread ml.adlist
Title: Message In my case, yes. Disabling the DNS Fixupon my PIX made the issue disappear as soon as I entered the command. The PIX fixup was mangling the responses back to the dns servers (much like SMTP fixup does when in front of an Exchange server). Later yesterday I removed the acl and

[ActiveDir] Question on Drive Mapping by Group

2003-11-04 Thread Technology Listserves
Good Morning. Windows 2003 Server environment Single AD Domain/Forest We have a need to map certain drives for specific individulas. Ideally, this would be done based on Group Membership. For instance, If person X was a member of the Accounting group, it would map an M: drive to the accounting

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on Drive Mapping by Group

2003-11-04 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
Try Kix32 (KixStart). It's a free login script maker that works really well. -Original Message- From: Technology Listserves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Question on Drive Mapping by Group Good Morning.

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on Drive Mapping by Group

2003-11-04 Thread Chris Blair
I just went through this. Here are a few sites I used. The RLMueller site has actual scripts you can use freely and adapt to your needs. Good Luck! http://www.rlmueller.net/ http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=804ScriptType=vbscr ipt

[ActiveDir] Forcing Replication from a Source DC

2003-11-04 Thread FDiskThePC
Okay, guys, I've done quite a bit of research here, but I need some help. I don't know about you guys, but I find it frustrating that AD has been out for over three years and so much of this stuff is still undocumented! Argh! First problem was delegating the right for remote admins to

re: [ActiveDir] Forcing Replication from a Source DC

2003-11-04 Thread Jef Kazimer
Well, this is more of a blanket suggestion, than a solution to your problem. After coming to find many tasks that remote admins should be able to do, but that I don't want to give them rights to do, I tend to try and centralize tools. I've created ASP driven admin portal which is nothing

[ActiveDir] Display Change

2003-11-04 Thread Weeks, Travis (COX-Atlanta)
Title: Message I have received a request to change an AD field that shows up in the GAL as Home2. We would like to basically rename this fields description from "Home2" to "Radio". Does anyone know what I would need to do to make that happen? It may not be possible at all but I thought I

[ActiveDir] W32time Service

2003-11-04 Thread Stuart, Cory G.
Hello, I currently manage a 2000 Mixed Mode Child Domain. When an Enterprise Admin runs replmon, everything works fine except for one thing. We get an access denied error when trying to communicate with the W32time service. * Checking Service: w32time Could not open w32time

RE: [ActiveDir] Display Change

2003-11-04 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Message I want to say this is possible at the attrib level, but the display name (text caption in the UI) is set at the UI. What has me more curious is why you want to change that field? Why not use another field somewhere that will never ever be used? Al -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Display Change

2003-11-04 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Message Additional information. You could create your own class and field and a custom app to display it in the MMC. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> -Original Message-From: Weeks, Travis (COX-Atlanta) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Display Change

2003-11-04 Thread Merry, Joel (US - Philadelphia)
Title: Message Travis, You need to update the English language template to display Radio instead of Home2. Another method is to create a new attribute called, say, radioNumber, copy the MAPIID from an unused attribute to it, and then modify the template to display that. You then, of

RE: [ActiveDir] Display Change

2003-11-04 Thread Weeks, Travis (COX-Atlanta)
Title: Message Actually Im not dead set on renaming that field. I just need a field in the phone/notes tab in the gal that can be named Radio. -Original Message-From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:53 PMTo: '[EMAIL

[ActiveDir] GP and TS lockdown

2003-11-04 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I just spent the morning looking around at resources and doing some things to lock down a new W2K TS. This box is a member server in a W3K domain, and is hosting an app that end users hit. We needed to make it so that was the only thing they could do on the box, but we still needed admin access.

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Lookup Problem - Windows 2003

2003-11-04 Thread deji Agba
Title: Message The bug lies in the "FIX up". It's a "known" PIX issue and most truthful Cisco TAC personnel will admit to that. I went back and looked in the DNS Debug log that Miles sent last week. The "SERVFAIL" portion of the response packet is a good symptom of a "FIXED UP" anomaly.

[ActiveDir] native mode

2003-11-04 Thread Creamer, Mark
We have a domain about to go to native mode (2 others have already switched with absolutely no problems, of course.) This last domain is the result of an acquisition, and there is a skeptical staff of developers there who are trying to push back the change saying they need extensive

RE: [ActiveDir] Univ group best practice

2003-11-04 Thread Joe
Everyone says this "as the UG is replicated via the GC anyways." but I personally don't like it because it seems to want to force you to think the group doesn't exist on normal DCs and it does, but it is also replicated across the GC's. Actually looking at it that way, the best place is the

RE: [ActiveDir] Forcing Replication from a Source DC

2003-11-04 Thread Joe
Right off the bat (am I saying that too much lately)? Ah who cares, right off the bat, you will not push changes. Windows doesn't use push replication. All Windows Replication is pull based whether it is WINS or AD or whatever. The DC who wants the changes pulls the changes from the other

RE: [ActiveDir] native mode

2003-11-04 Thread Joe
1. Theoretical until you have conclusively proved in your own lab. Most likely unsupported as a rollback mechanism by MS. 2. Not necessarily true. There have been scattered reports of Samba and other SMB emulation packages choking and also I have personally seen some weird stuff with

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC MMC

2003-11-04 Thread Joe
Haven't ever done it but can visualize multiple ways to pull it off depending on how soon after the lockout you have to know about it. If it is immediate I would write an LDAP API program (no other way currently) that does change notification on the specific user object, when it detects a

RE: [ActiveDir] GP and TS lockdown

2003-11-04 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Title: Message Hi Deji. I'm not sure I'm following you here. TS is installed in application mode. When a non-admin user logs on, they get a desktop with only the app shortcut on it. Never having worked with TS before, I haven't figured out how to have just the application run instead of the

RE: [ActiveDir] Latest FRS info from MS

2003-11-04 Thread marcus
Jun 2003... sure am glad they stabilized that POS. thank god for robocopy... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jef Kazimer Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Latest FRS info from MS Thanks

RE: [ActiveDir] Forcing Replication from a Source DC

2003-11-04 Thread FDiskThePC
Thanks for your lengthy response, Joe. I appreciate it. I actually knew that all AD replication was pull replication. But replmon does have a push mode which basically sends out a change notification to the DC's partners so that they will immediately come pull its changes. What's cool is that

RE: [ActiveDir] GP and TS lockdown

2003-11-04 Thread deji Agba
Title: Message I tried sending a screen-shot as a guide, but it's too large for the list. the Configuration is done on the RDP Properties. Go to Admin Tools - Terminal Services Configuration - Connections - RDP-Tcp (or whatever your connection is named). Double-click on it and go to

RE: [ActiveDir] GP and TS lockdown

2003-11-04 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Title: Message OK, got it. Yes, that worked. Sweet. 2 hours of MSKB and Google and couldn't find anything that mentioned the ability to do that, much less how. Thanks, Deji. I appreciate it! **Charlie KaiserMCSE, CCNASystems EngineerEssex Credit / Brickwalk510 985 0975

RE: [ActiveDir] OUs by server function?

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Message Yeah, that's what I hear. ;o) Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCTMicrosoft MVP - Active DirectoryAssociate ExpertExpert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzoneWebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Missy