RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch

2004-03-17 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Title: Message You mean like MIIS Marchitecture.. Strikes again. Todd From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch Ahhh geez. Deal with it, Smart Ass. They like

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch

2004-03-17 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message At least they didn't call MIIS Windows Identify Information Server! -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message-From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser

2004-03-17 Thread Celone, Mike
Title: OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser Anyone know of a log parser for Exchange 5.5 IMC logs? I downloaded Microsoft's log parser 2.0 but it doesn't seem to do Exchange 5.5 logs. I've got to dig through some big logs files and I was hoping to parse them first. Mike

[ActiveDir] Wirelesss / VPN DDNS updates

2004-03-17 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Title: OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser Hey gang, I am doing some quick research about the effects of allowing Windows 200x and clients that support dynamic updates effect on wireless networks, and VPNs. What seems to be happening now is that we have host that are enabled for

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser

2004-03-17 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message What kind of logs, and what are you looking for? This is a little log file condenser that I wrote for the IMS logs a while back: http://www.wiredeuclid.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=5page=1

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser

2004-03-17 Thread Celone, Mike
Title: Message Thanks Roger. That will work perfectly! Mike From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:42 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser What kind of logs, and what are you looking for? This

[ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Celone, Mike
I've got a few questions about using multiple trees in a forest. Are there transitive Kerberos trusts across the trees in Win2k? Win2k3? What's the advantage/disadvantages of going with 3 seperate trees vs 1 single tree with an empty root and 3 child domains? Assuming we

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser

2004-03-17 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message I wrote that a long time ago - but it seems to do the trick for me. If you know perl, you should be able to change it for other purposes... -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser

2004-03-17 Thread Murray Wall
I am running an older version of Crystal reports and it has filters to deal with the logs.. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Celone, Mike Sent: Wed 3/17/2004 10:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 SMTP Log Parser Anyone

[ActiveDir] Problems with dcdiag showing replication latency between Windows 2000 and Windows 2003

2004-03-17 Thread Bell, Stephen
Problem: In a multi-domain forest with 2003 at the root, 1 2003 child domain, and 8 2000 child domains (all child domains in one tree) when running dcdiag on any of the 2003 domain controllers in the child domain, it shows replication latency warnings between the 2003 and all the other domains.

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Mulnick, Al
Thoughts inline From: Celone, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:53 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions I've got a few questions about using multiple trees in a forest. Are there transitive Kerberos trusts across

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: command line tips

2004-03-17 Thread Brown, Bill [contractor]
One thing does come to mind when in Explorer and you want to see the entire tree structure [downward from any point] simply hit the * key on the numeric keypad and it will expand all folders all the way to the bottom of that branch. For instance, if you wanted to look for shares in a

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Celone, Mike
Thanks for the reply Al. When I said 3 seperate trees I meant 3 trees within the same forest. There would be no empty root domain but we would all be part of the same forest. We are definetly not looking to go with 3 seperate forests. I'm wondering how much adminsitration overhead we would

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I read the question differently, coming from the standpoint of everything within a single forest. If that's correct, then my thoughts: a) Yes b) Trees are all about DNS namespaces. If you need domainA.com and domainB.com and domainC.comwithin the same forest, then you are forced into

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
D'OH. Nothing like using a contradictory example to illustrate my point. Should have been "sub3.domainA.com" From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 11:12 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions I read the

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Jimmy Andersson
I think Al is reading your question as multiple forests vs single forest. Please clarify since I understand your Q to be about one forest with a single tree vs multiple trees. If you want/need a security boundary you will end up in a multiple forest environment, but that's due to laws etc if

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread rmcdonald
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RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Celone, Mike
Yes that's correct a single forest. Thanks for the answers.I was pretty sure on most of them but it always helps to make sure I was reading the information from Microsoft's site correctly! Mike From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:22 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Problems with dcdiag showing replication latency between Windows 2000 and Windows 2003

2004-03-17 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Hi Steven, There is a new dcdiag.exe available (but not publicly yet). If you have a Premier account, you can reference KB832628. I had a different issue than the one you are reporting. The new executable solved my problem (truncated output when run with the /e switch. I believe MS is

RE: [ActiveDir] security event log audits

2004-03-17 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
I also wrote a lot of things many years ago ;-) I'd still have a closer look at MACS today... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stefano tufillaro Sent: Dienstag, 16. März 2004 20:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] security

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: command line tips

2004-03-17 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
now that's a cool tip - didn't know this (been using * for years, however, I still like to use it when going down a path such as when I'm on c: and need to get to a program's directory: cd \pro*\que*\migra*\logs ) /Guido From: Kevin Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 17.

RE: [ActiveDir] Problems with dcdiag showing replication latency between Windows 2000 and Windows 2003

2004-03-17 Thread Bell, Stephen
I will give my rep a call and see if they can get it for me. Would be nice if MS put up KB's talking about known problems but is another story for another day. Thanks! Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes, Michael M. Sent:

[ActiveDir] running a user query

2004-03-17 Thread Creamer, Mark
I need to get some information on all of our users for a manager here. I have a script I can alter to get the information, but can I assume that if the user has a value in the mail attribute that he or she has an Exchange account? What the manager ultimately wants is a list of all users,

[ActiveDir] Issue with ldap over SSL

2004-03-17 Thread Jennifer Fountain
I am currently trying to get AD authenitication for linux. I have everything working (login, groups, etc) but I cannot get ldapssl working correctly. I am currently getting this in my logs: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Referral And I keep getting a segmentation fault when I try to

RE: [ActiveDir] running a user query

2004-03-17 Thread Mulnick, Al
Just having data in the mail attribute is not neccessarily an indication that they have a mailbox. That could have been put in manually or that object could be a contact or a non-mailbox-enabled user entity etc. Look for a search criteria that looks for more than one attribute such as

[ActiveDir] Upgrading W2K GPOs to XP GPOs

2004-03-17 Thread Robert Toole
I found a KB article to upgrade my W2K Group policies for XP, followed it but it did not work. When I create a new GPO with an XP box, the new GPO also does not contain the settings for XP I found that I could get the extra XP settings into the GPO by overwriting the administrative templates

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread joe
1. Yes. It is a single forest, all domains within a single forest have a transitive trust relationship irregardless of child or tree status. 2. Actually I consider it more confusing to go with separate trees. Generally you do it when there is some political battle and someone doesn't want

Re: [ActiveDir] Upgrading W2K GPOs to XP GPOs (The KB Number would Help)

2004-03-17 Thread Robert Toole
oops, KB 307900 Robert Toole Robert Toole wrote: I found a KB article to upgrade my W2K Group policies for XP, followed it but it did not work. When I create a new GPO with an XP box, the new GPO also does not contain the settings for XP I found that I could get the extra XP settings into

RE: **POTENTIAL SPAM** RE: [ActiveDir] Issue with ldap over SSL

2004-03-17 Thread Jennifer Fountain
Yes, I changed that to a special users instead of anonymous and still the same issue. What do you think the referral error is? I can change anything at this point. What do you think? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Issue with ldap over SSL

2004-03-17 Thread Mulnick, Al
How about this as a way forward (nice cliché, eh? :) Have you logged LDAP connections on the dc? If not, the setting is in the registry under NTDS\diagnostics. Try increasing the logging (be sure the event log has the room and will overwrite) and see what gets logged when you attempt to connect.

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Trees questions

2004-03-17 Thread Mulnick, Al
doh! :) I have got to pay closer attention to the terminology in some of these. In that case, it's not so tough. Multiple domains (trees) are not too tough to implement. I'd have to say that a separate domain doesn't seem neccessary unless you meet one of the five criteria for new

RE: **POTENTIAL SPAM** RE: [ActiveDir] Issue with ldap over SSL

2004-03-17 Thread Jennifer Fountain
How about this as a way forward (nice cliché, eh? :) Have you logged LDAP connections on the dc? Yes, I can login ok. I can query and get groups, etc. Just no go with ssl. As for the referral, I can't understand why it would try to refer elsewhere exactly. That's a mystery at the moment,

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading W2K GPOs to XP GPOs (The KB Number would Help)

2004-03-17 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Robert- I've seen this behavior too, and yes, manually adding the XP ADMs into a GPO is safe. However, because XP is supposed to support this automatically, you might want to check the following policy on your XP machine that you're using to edit those GPOs: User Configuration|Administrative

RE: [ActiveDir] running a user query

2004-03-17 Thread joe
Err nope. Mail could be set by other things and for other reasons. If the user has an exchange mailbox they should have HOMEMDB or HOMEMTA attributes set so you should be able to get away with just checking for a value in one or both of those locations. I think I would hit on homemdb

RE: [ActiveDir] security event log audits

2004-03-17 Thread joe
I wrote a nice little fortune cookie program years ago for when your PC starts up, however I am still planning on looking at MACS. :o) - http://www.joeware.net (download joeware) http://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet (wear joeware) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] running a user query

2004-03-17 Thread joe
I am wondering if I am reading that filter incorrectly ( (mailnickname=*) (| ( (objectCategory=person) (objectClass=user) (! (homeMDB=*) ) (! (msExchHomeServerName=*) ) ) ( (objectCategory=person) (objectClass=user) (| (homeMDB=*) (msExchHomeServerName=*) ) ) )) It

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: command line tips

2004-03-17 Thread joe
Hmmm some other things I do Of course I load ActiveState Perl I have found that helps my command line working tremendously... I also register .PL with PATHEXT, as well as .msc. That way I can type JoeRocks instead of JoeRocks.pl or I can type dsa or adsiedit without adding the

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Patch

2004-03-17 Thread joe
Title: Message You know it may be bad to post a bunch of names that they shouldn't use in a public forum... Someone from marketing may have learned how to read and will go... Hey, that sounds catchy... And they are already saying it... Let's do it! - http://www.joeware.net

[ActiveDir] Upgrade sp3 domain to sp4 or w2k3?

2004-03-17 Thread Al Lilianstrom
Hi, we have a sp3 based domain - 6000 users, 2500 computers, empty root, and a single resource domain. Currently looking at upgrading to sp4 on the way to Windows 2003. Given our desire to get to w2k3 by fall and our own testing methods we're considering going from sp3 to w2k3 directly. The

Re: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: command line tips

2004-03-17 Thread Al Lilianstrom
Must have Perl... The ds tools (dsquery, dsadd, etc) and my own Perl and batch scripts in c:\tools\bin and c:\tools\bat. A decent editor. Currently using syn (syn.sourceforge.net) Add syn, notepad, and wordpad to the sendto menu And remember the Windows key shortcuts... Much faster than the

[ActiveDir] [Slightly OT] Exchange anyone? Aka Exchange's use of DLGs and GCs

2004-03-17 Thread joe
Ok so I wanted to write down some fun I have recently had with some Exchange 2K / AD interactions... First off, we don't really use Universal Groups. However we do have a couple, the builtin ones such as schema and enterprise admins, plus we have two DLs for executives for securing

RE: [ActiveDir] [Slightly OT] Exchange anyone? Aka Exchange's use of DLGs and GCs

2004-03-17 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
which is why I have an "All Exchange Enterprise Servers" UG that contains all"Exchange Domain Server"GGs(just like the DLGs) - I left theother "Exchange Enterprise Servers" DLGs as they are, as you can't convert all of them to UGs(only one could keep the name) and the ACE is used by default