RE: [ActiveDir][OT] LDAP stress tool for AD 2003

2004-05-10 Thread Mulnick, Al
Um. Rick, given Joe's last post about Dean and playing with butter knives, it would be my humble opinion that you a[1]) shouldn't post as Rick-sey and b) really should keep the sharp shiny objects locked up next time Joe's in the area. Not that I'm paranoid, but... Al [1] shoot. If Joe's

RE: [ActiveDir] DMZ to Internal LAN one-way trust via firewall

2004-05-10 Thread Mulnick, Al
It get's better. I saw the EXACT same post in the newsgroups over the weekend. PWI, but figured that I sent the same message. Be interesting to hear Mark's Experience this week (unless Mark posts as his alternate self on occasion of course :) ajm From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL

[ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Hey all, I have a weird issue; all our laptop users have their own third part dial ups (RRAS and RAS) for their convenience. When the users dial up to their third party ISPs (all users) they obtain an IP address from the ISP but their DNS settings are being forced to the networks

RE: [ActiveDir] Need to confirm a behavior in AD Sites as it pertains to authenti cation.

2004-05-10 Thread Fugleberg, David A
Todd - I haven't tried it via GPO...back when we set up our process for building 'branch office' DCs, we just did it with a script, using reg add commands. The script came straight from the BODG. This KB article - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306602 - describes

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Mulnick, Al
Trying to remember exactly, but wouldn't they get their DNS settings from the ISP upon connection either through their software locally or from their RRAS server? Al From: Carlos Magalhaes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:41 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Rutherford, Robert
Title: Message Correct. The DNS settings are set by the ISP. I think the only thing you could do with RRAS would be to use WINS and I'm sure you can set this. -Original Message-From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2004 15:31To: '[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 via GPO?

2004-05-10 Thread Brian Desmond
I actually do this, and it works out fine on a 100MB backbone. I have three servers in a DFS hosting all the GP MSIs, and I can do 30 - 45 PCs at a time for a full Office XP/2003 load. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the Web! Http://www.wpcp.org v: 773.534.0034 x135 f: 773.534.0035

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 via GPO?

2004-05-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
What's your typical install time look like? -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:09

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Backup

2004-05-10 Thread Ken Cornetet
Title: Message Travans are junk, IMHO. If money is tight, buy a DLT7000 drive off Ebay. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah EigerSent: Monday, May 10, 2004 12:29 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Branch

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Backup

2004-05-10 Thread Noah Eiger
Thanks. As I mulled it over a bit more, the standardization became the issue. Also, the cost of the media was not the issue but of the hardware. Basically the client does not see the need for this a branch offices, and I was looking for a way to make it more palatable. I am going to

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Backup

2004-05-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Another option, although not cheap by any means, is to replicate data back to the central office - that's not always easy or practical, depending on how much the data changes and how often. DLT7k drives should be pretty cheap, even new, now. They're 2 series old (DLT8000 and SDLT have both

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Title: Message Hey Robert, thanks for the reply , yes I have thought of IPASS but the user selects which third part ISP they can use, we supply them with a RRAS and VPN solution into the network and then they can select a third part solution for personal mail and personal internet, this is

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Hey Al, Yeah all the settings are suppose to be set via the ISP , most ISPs run DHCP so yes the settings should be set. The weird thing is that only the DNS settings are being forced to our network, the user gets a valid third party IP address and default gateway, just not a DNS

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Title: Message Is there any hard coding of DNS settings on the laptop's network connection properties? This will override any server-assigned DNS settings... **Charlie KaiserMCSE, CCNASystems EngineerEssex Credit / Brickwalk510 595 5083**

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Title: Message Nope thats what gets me, and its happening to ALL the laptops, (they are the only machines using third party dialers) AGRRR there must be an answer :P CM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Kaiser Sent: Monday, May 10,

[ActiveDir] DNS Subzone and SPN - potential problem?

2004-05-10 Thread Willem Kasdorp
Im working in a branch office deployment where the AD is centrally managed, and all offices have a high level of autonomy. In MS terms: central does the service management, branches do data management. I would like the branches to manage their own DNS A records. In order to do that I am

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Message Logging? Network Trace? Any of those options available? From: Carlos Magalhaes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:38 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings Nope that's what gets me, and its happening to ALL the laptops, (they

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Jim Morrison
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RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Craig Cerino
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RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Subzone and SPN - potential problem?

2004-05-10 Thread joe
I think you are simply asking the disjoint namespace question and if that is the case, default MS stuff, you will be fine. Simply set the appropriate permissions on the computer objects (more likely set it on the highest level OU or container you can) to allow VWRITE to service principal

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Title: Message You might check the registry of some of the laptops. HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP\Parameters\interfaces for the nameserver value and see if any of them are set to your DNS server address. There might be an old setting on a network connection that is holding on

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 via GPO?

2004-05-10 Thread Brian Desmond
5 to 10 minutes. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the Web! Http://www.wpcp.org v: 773.534.0034 x135 f: 773.534.0035 -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 via GPO?

2004-05-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Crap. That's faster than I'd expect. I've got my deployment guy looking over the stuff that's been posted and I think we're gonna try it. I still need to lay down a good DFS tree though - we've got remote offices to worry about... --

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Subzone and SPN - potential problem?

2004-05-10 Thread Willem Kasdorp
Hi Joe, I had to digest this a bit I think you are simply asking the disjoint namespace question Thats right. to allow VWRITE to service principal name and dns hostname Ok, I found that permission. But Im still confused; to who should I assign that permission? Are you

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 via GPO?

2004-05-10 Thread Brian Desmond
I'd expect the replication over the slow link will be the larger issue. You can use dfsutil to force clients to talk to their site DFS server. One of the annoyances with DFS is that you have to use enterprise edition to host multiple roots on a machine. Standard will only host one root.

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 via GPO?

2004-05-10 Thread Rich Milburn
I've seen the same kind of install times using SMS. I don't know what MS did to the Office 2003 setup because I'm pretty certain :) it's impossible to install O2K3 in 5 minutes when O2K (I think it was) used to take 45 minutes to install from CD... but impossible or not O2K3 seems to work just

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Frost . David
Title: Message What kind of Havoc is is causing? How are the users connecting to your network over their ISP's? Istherea likea VPN client of some sortby chance? I have seen similar behaviour where VPN clients take all the IP settings except DNS from the ISP and default to the corporate DNS

[ActiveDir] IE/ActiveX GPO

2004-05-10 Thread Malachi Burke
Hey guys, thanks for the rapid response on GPO defined access to particular machines, worked like a charm! My next question revolves around IE GPO security settings. We want to inhibit the installation of all but allowed ActiveX controls. Most things are found in User Configuration\Windows

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Title: Message Hmm Its not a VPN connection normal 56k (and yes you heard right :P) connection to the ISP. I will check on the other suggestions thank you very much Carlos Magalhaes From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Title: Message Well the OS is XP on all the laptops. Its only XP that this is happening, I will check that reg key and also search the reg, this is highly irritating, thanks a million for the suggestions! Now I just have to find out how to convert those GUID type entries for the

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RE: [ActiveDir] DNS settings

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Title: Message The kind of havoc , is that on the ISP dial up they can not resolve any DNS quieries as all DNS queries are pointing to our internal DNS servers, I confirm this with a ipconfig /all and nslookup From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] LDAP stress tool for AD 2003

2004-05-10 Thread joe
I agree with most of that. Though I think it was Jimmy that smelled funny and that was simply because he never made it back to his room to change. Of course you still read [1]... That is why I knew I could sucker you into posting. :o) Anyway, when I was at the summit, I had no chance with the

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] LDAP stress tool for AD 2003

2004-05-10 Thread Rick Kingslan
OK, OK, I GIVE. ROTLMAO!!! YUO RAELLY AER TOO FUNY JOE. RIKC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 1:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] LDAP stress tool for AD 2003 I agree with most of

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify the servers (Domain Controllers) using File Replication service - - - And how to enable/disable FRS service on these servers

2004-05-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
can you add, roughly WHY you want to do this? FRS is enabled on ALL DCs in an AD forest, and that's the way it should be as SYSVOL replication uses FRS.FRS is one of those special services, that you don't want to screw around with (such as turning off, make a lot of file-system changes,

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify the servers (Domain Controllers) using File Replication service - - - And how to enable/disable FRS service on these servers

2004-05-10 Thread Durairaj K. Avasi
Honestly I am not sure why my sys. Admin needs it I received a development request with the following spec. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 2:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify the servers (Domain Controllers) us ing File Replication service - - - And how to enable/disable FRS service on these servers

2004-05-10 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Its doable with code, I can find you the DC or GCs, and if you REALLLY want disable the FRS services but you would really be screwing up some important services that your DC needs. Do you really want to do this? Carlos Magalhaes AD programming?

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP stress tool for AD 2003

2004-05-10 Thread Eric Fleischman
Haha, I'm totally just giving you a hard time Joe. ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 12:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP stress tool for AD 2003 I'm not making fun of ~Eric. That

RE: [ActiveDir] DMZ to Internal LAN one-way trust via firewall

2004-05-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Why bother with a trust at all? Unless there is constant access by a large number of your internal users (and there shouldn't be), then the only people inconvienenced by the multiple accounts are administrators, and hell, we've all got 15 accounts anyway, what's one more? Roger

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 via GPO?

2004-05-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Yeah - don't. Seriously - you're talking about deploying 300-400MB of app, per client. Say you've got 100 clients in an office, and you assign the app to the machines. Monday morning, 100 people walk in, boot their machines, and they might as well all go home, since you're going to bring the

RE: [ActiveDir] DMZ to Internal LAN one-way trust via firewall

2004-05-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
Least wrong way to do it is indeed continue with an upgrade to have asecond forest in the DMZ, without any trusts. I'd also suggest a different operations model, one in which the developers have no elevated permissions to the production environment. Take it from much personal experience

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Backup

2004-05-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
DLT4 tapes (35/70GB) are around $35 USD each now. That's not really expensive when you consider that one generally holds about 60-65GB on average, which is about all you'd need for a full backup. However, and I can't stress this enough, havinga STANDARD tape format and STANDARD backup