RE: [ActiveDir] W2K3 with W2K2

2004-07-22 Thread Jacob Stabl
So what I am hearing is that I can go ahead and put the Windows 2003 server in place after I run adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep. I understand I will not have all the capabilities of W2k3 but that’s not what I am concerned about. I just want to have that box in place so when I do

[ActiveDir] Display specifier dsa.msc

2004-07-22 Thread Olivier BATARD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I want to migrate a NT4 domain to 2003. I need to display attribute employee-number in dsa.msa, on the user's property. With display specifier ? do I need to create dll ? How can I do that ? Thanks, Olivier BATARD, Technicien systme -

RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

2004-07-22 Thread Jacob Stabl
Maybe I am being ignorant but can I use sysprep if I have specialized software that I want to have on my master image?? -- Jake _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[ActiveDir] How to restrict access to event viewer

2004-07-22 Thread JCARROS
Hy, Can you share you experiences about how to restrict access to event viewer to only onegroup ? local and remote access ? Thks.AVISO LEGAL:Esta informacion es privada y confidencial y esta dirigida unicamente a su destinatario. Si usted no es el destinatario original de este mensaje y

RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

2004-07-22 Thread Rutherford, Robert
Title: Message Yep... Sysprep just takes care of the base uniquewindows side of things. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob StablSent: 22 July 2004 14:33To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

2004-07-22 Thread Rutherford, Robert
Title: Message You should of course test it anyway, post syprep to ensure. -Original Message-From: Rutherford, Robert Sent: 22 July 2004 15:07To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance Yep... Sysprep just takes care of the base uniquewindows side

RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

2004-07-22 Thread Robert N. Leali
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance Most likely the answer is yes, speaking from experience in a K-12 setting. What is the specialized software? Why not roll out the software as an msi file using group policies? Robert From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rocky Habeeb
People, OK, I know you guys are the Experts and I know MS says, rename it, but tell me the answer to these questions please. Let's say you run NTFS permissions on your local PCs. Lets say your standards are (for EVERY FILE/FOLDER OBJECT ON THE PC): Full Control for Local Admin, Domain Admin and

RE: [ActiveDir] Display specifier dsa.msc

2004-07-22 Thread Nicolas Blank
Cannot do this with Display specifier, you will have to create your own DLL to do this and register on every machine you want the extension to be visible. Have a look in the archive for this list for some detailed posts on this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rutherford, Robert
1) The easiest way to see would have been to test it - the answer is they would see the accounts and granted permissions. 2)I'm not sure what you mean? What is a standard? There isn't really one as it depends on the environment. A good rule is of course not to give everybody full control and not

[ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Rosales, Mario
Is there a way to restrict access to WINS like DNS in Server 2003? For Example, if we want the DNS admins to Administer the Wins servers, how do you go about give them access just to WINS administration? Any help would be appreciate it! Thanks, Mario

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Depp, Dennis M.
I believe access to WINS requires local admin access. To allow them to administer WINS, they will have to be a local admin on the box where WINS is running. Denny -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosales, Mario Sent: Thursday, July 22,

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Rutherford, Robert
I think Server op will do it. -Original Message- From: Depp, Dennis M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2004 16:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS I believe access to WINS requires local admin access. To allow them to administer WINS, they will have

RE: [ActiveDir] Possible OT: Network boot disk with windows 2003.

2004-07-22 Thread ddh
Barts is the best, especially on CD :) Clyde, Check out www.bootdisk.com. Under the Network boot disks give Barts a shot. It's pretty good and customizable. Dave - - David J. Perdue MCSE 2000, MCSE NT, MCSA, MCP+I

RE: [ActiveDir] Display specifier dsa.msc

2004-07-22 Thread Frost . David
If all you want to do is View the attribute in ADUC's Right pane as a column, you can with display specifies. Start with this link to add the column http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ad/ad/modifying_existing_user_interf aces.asp?frame=true If you need to be able to modify it, you can

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Adams, Kenneth W \(Ken\)
I'll answer the second question first: When assigning NTFS permissions to resources, I select the local Administrators group and the local System account with Full Control. I then select the appropriate control group or groups, or individual accounts (domain accounts) and set them with the

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rocky Habeeb
Rob, We set permissions on our Users PCs according to Trusted Systems Services Windows NT Security Guidelines developed for the NSA in 1999. We run in a moderate to severe lockdown. We open up NTFS permissions only as much as is needed for Users to operate. As such, any User can open up

Re: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Tony Murray
The admin tools resolve the SID to the friendly name for you. In other words, you're not actually working with the friendly names when viewing or assigning permissions, but this is how it appears to you. Tony -- Original Message -- Wrom:

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Fuller, Stuart
Umm... In the default install NTFS permissions are set up via GROUP ACE's instead of the individual ACE for the local administrator account. If you look at the NTFS permissions on %systemroot%\system32 you will see permissions only for GROUPS not individual accounts (e.g. Administrators, Creator

RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

2004-07-22 Thread Jacob Stabl
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance MSI is good for some stuff but not for labs that are reimaged a few times a week. -- Jake From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert N. LealiSent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:19 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE:

[ActiveDir] Exceeding the LDAP Look Through Limit

2004-07-22 Thread Steve Brashear
I have a customer who has created an OU and populated it with objects that have many attributes. He is now encountering this error: [LDAP: error code 11 - 2024: SvcErr: DSID-02050AA0, problem 5008 (ADMIN _LIMIT_EXCEEDED), data -1026 ]; remaining name

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Tony Murray
Rocky You shouldn't actually need to assign permissions directly to the domain Administrator account. Generally the account should be left well alone and only used when absolutely necessary. If you really need to assign permissions to domain administrators, use the Domain Admins group

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Carr, Jonathan \(OFT\)
You can make a Global security group in the AD called Wins Admins and then add the group to the local administrators group of the WINS servers either manually or via a GPO. Then all you have to do is populate the AD group with the users.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rocky Habeeb
Right! My point exactly! So if your policy is to include the Domain Admin in NTFS permissions, there's no point in renaming your Domain Admin account. Thanks Tony. RH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rutherford, Robert
I apologise, but your question was not that clear to me. 1) If you want to stop them seeing an account/permissions then the de-selecting or denying the 'read permissions' advanced permission should work. 2) Permissions are typically based on group anyway, thus they wouldn't see the admin name.

[ActiveDir] W2k3 DNS Scalability

2004-07-22 Thread Eric_Jones
Potentially interesting oddity occurred today... Our primary and secondary Windows 2003 / AD integrated DNS server services abended at almost the exact same time. I have custom WMI monitoring set to auto-restart them, send email, call the president, and of course...raise the national threat

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Deji Akomolafe
If you just remember the principle "put users in group, assign permission to group", then you'll remember that neither JohnDoe nor Administrator should show up anywhere in your ACL enumeration Rather, you ACL will look something like this: Computername\AdministratorS - F System - F etc, etc.

[ActiveDir] W2k3 DNS Scalability - More NFO

2004-07-22 Thread Eric_Jones
Potentially interesting oddity occurred today... Our primary and secondary Windows 2003 / AD integrated DNS server services abended at almost the exact same time with the following error message in the eventlog: Reporting queued error: faulting application dns.exe, version 5.2.3790.0, faulting

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Depp, Dennis M.
Do they have to be local Admins, or will Server op work as well? Denny -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carr, Jonathan (OFT) Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS You can make a

RE: [ActiveDir] Exceeding the LDAP Look Through Limit

2004-07-22 Thread Cotter, Paul M.
By the looks of this - he's getting the error when doing an LDAP query, correct? The Admin limit limits the number of results that are returned in a query, I believe the default is 1000 in w2k and 1500 in w2k3. I think this is the error you're seeing. If you need to retrieve more than this

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rutherford, Robert
Well there is... Not much but you may as well. It just makes it that little bit more difficult for the novice hacker/opportunist shoulder surfer. -Original Message- From: Rocky Habeeb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2004 16:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Passo, Larry
You are confusing several different user/group objects: 1. The domain account named Administrator 2. The domain group named Domain Admins 3. The local account named Administrator 4. The local group named Administrators (note the s at the end) The security guidelines say that you should rename

RE: [ActiveDir] Exceeding the LDAP Look Through Limit

2004-07-22 Thread Eric Fleischman
I could probably tell you which admin limit youre exceeding if you tell me the OS version service pack level. Most admin limits are there to protect perf of the box prevent against DoS attacks. Better than changing the limits would be to change the query to use LDAP RFC compliant ways

[ActiveDir] GP is denying shortcuts.

2004-07-22 Thread Jared Manhat
Title: GP is denying shortcuts. I have created a Software Restriction Policy which is Disallow by default, I have created my additional rules to allow the paths to programs I want to run (ie: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office). The Enforcement properties are to restrict all software except

RE: [ActiveDir] W2K3 with W2K2

2004-07-22 Thread Ken Cornetet
Read KB 325379. Although this document is about upgrading DCs to 2003, it has some good information you need to know - particularly if you are running Exchange 2000. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob Stabl Sent: Thursday, July 22,

[ActiveDir] DHCP

2004-07-22 Thread Kern, Tom
I have an authorized dhcp server. when i add a new scope(i already had one pervious working scope), it won't hand out addresses for that new scope. I have an event id 1051 logged in the event viewer saying it is not authorized. i know i need to be an enterprise admin to authorize a dhcp server

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread deji
You could argue that. But, if you consider the fact that most hackwares and viruses/trojans that carry their own account/password dictionaries don't do SID enumeration, you'd understand the significance of renaming the accounts. Because they don't do SID enumeration/translation, these hackwares

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rocky Habeeb
Deji, You know I love you (and Tony, and Guido, and Robbie and Gil, and Roger and of course joe, and all the other heavyweights), but, we're not confused on the accounts and their memberships. I just feel it's important to have the Domain Admin (the individual) as Full Control on

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread deji
You just prove that you are very confused about membership? Tony, Robbie, Guido, Gil, Roger, and Joe That's an expensive club. Can't afford the membership fee. Next thing I know, you'd be lumping me in with Dean :-P Seriously, let's back up a bit. Let's ask why you'd want to give permission

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Rosales, Mario
Ok so for clarification. If the 2003 Server is a DC and Wins it needs Server Ops If it's a 2003 Standalone server make it a local admin? Did I get that right? Thanks for everyone's help! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Customize Group Permissions

2004-07-22 Thread Brian Desmond
Title: Customize Group Permissions Yes, this is possible. Check out restricted groups in group policy. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the Web! Http://www.wpcp.org v: 773.534.0034 x135 f: 773.534.0035 From: Jared Manhat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

2004-07-22 Thread Brian Desmond
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance Yes. There are no circumstances under which you should not sysprep an image that you plan to deploy. The only time you should not is if youre using ghost to *replace* a machine. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the Web!

RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance

2004-07-22 Thread Brian Desmond
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Summer Maintenance I beg to differ. Im in a highschool with thousands of machines. I image labs, pcs, etc all the time. 95% of software is deployed via group policy and MSIs. Havent had any problems in the past year of doing this. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Brian Desmond
I'm betting there's a control access right (aka extended right) you can delegate this group on your server OUs to manage WINS. No evidence, but, I'm inclined to believe there is such a thing. Look at the Server Ops delegations. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the Web!

[ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Pelle, Joe
Hello! Please assist, sorry for the slightly OT post: Situation: We have a security root domain (root) and below it our primary child domain (Domain A). We recently created a second domain underneath the root domain (domain B) with a two way trust between the two child domains (A and

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread rmcdonald
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RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Justin_Leney
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RE: [ActiveDir] W2k3 DNS Scalability - More NFO

2004-07-22 Thread Mulnick, Al
They can handle more. Sounds like you found a bug of some sort unless you have some other application that is using msvcrt.dll and isn't cleaning up well. I don't see the same results with similar configuration. Al From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] W2k3 DNS Scalability - More NFO

2004-07-22 Thread Mulnick, Al
Sent that last one a little faster than I should have. :) Since I have a similar config and don't see the same issue, it's possible that you have a configuration issue such as a name resolution loop or other problem that results in this type of crash. It might pay to look at the

[ActiveDir] DHCP

2004-07-22 Thread Kern, Tom
I have an authorized dhcp server. when i add a new scope(i already had one pervious working scope), it won't hand out addresses for that new scope. I have an event id 1051 logged in the event viewer saying it is not authorized. i know i need to be an enterprise admin to authorize a dhcp server

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Free, Bob
If the 2003 Server is a DC and Wins it needs Server Ops No sorry, the point I was trying to make was merely that [A] server ops did not exist on a member server and [B] that it is a moot point because even IF WINS is running on a DC, Server Operators can NOT manage WINS.. To be able to

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Do you have any custom recipient policies or did you modify the default recipient policy? Jeremy - Jeremy Burkes SSP MIS Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH: 202-764-1270 -Original Message-From: Pelle, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and WINS

2004-07-22 Thread Free, Bob
I'll take that bet :-) Many have bemoaned the fact that you can't delegate WINS administration or that there is no equivalent of DnsAdmins for WINS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:21 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Burkes, Jeremy [Contractor]
Sorry I meant to say do you have any custom recipient policies above the default recipient policy and/or do you have a RUS for your second domain, domain B. Jeremy - Jeremy Burkes SSP MIS Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH: 202-764-1270

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Rocky Habeeb
Okay, First off, yes the club's expensive. And rightly so, but, do you know what joe wanted to come to my little shop and point out to me exactly what I already know (which is exactly how much I don't know already.)? Now HE was expensive. Serves him right for getting fired. ;-O. No wait. He

Re: [ActiveDir] Question about replication connection objects

2004-07-22 Thread David Adner
Anyone have thoughts on this? --- David Adner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know if I modify an automatically generated connection object, it gets renamed to its GUID and takes on the behavior of a manually created CO (meaning the KCC will no longer automatically maintain it). What if I

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Pelle, Joe
We have a mixed E5.5 and 2003 environment and the only recipient policies we have are the 5.5 policies and the default policy. I have not changed any of them. Joe Pelle Infrastructure Architect Information Technology Valassis / IT 19975 Victor Parkway Livonia, MI 48152 Tel

RE: [ActiveDir] Customize Group Permissions

2004-07-22 Thread Perdue David J Contr InDyne/Enterprise IT
Title: Customize Group Permissions One thing to be really careful of though. It will replace the contents of the local group. The only exception to this is the default local Admin account in the local Administrators group. That account will stay. If you are using software, like SMS, that

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP

2004-07-22 Thread Noah Eiger
Did you authorize it by fqdn or by address? I think it needs to be authorized by address. nme From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] DHCP I have an authorized dhcp server. when i

RE: [ActiveDir] KIX script and Active Directory

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Wassell
If you want to continue using Kix scripting you can create security groups and assign the appropriate users to those security groups, afterwards use the InGroup (Kix) function and assign drive mappings etc. accordingly Atleast that's one way of doing it From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Pelle, Joe
AH, thanks for the clarification. Im a little slow! Anyway, I do have custome recipient policies above the default but they were copied over from the 5.5 sites. do you have a RUS for your second domain, domain B. I have not added anything additional so I guess the answer is NO. Do I

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Pelle, Joe
I have not yet created a RUS. I didnt know I had to I have to domainprep B first, right?! Joe Pelle Infrastructure Architect Information Technology Valassis / IT 19975 Victor Parkway Livonia, MI 48152 Tel 734.591.7324 Fax 734.632.6151 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Jacqui Hurst
As I remember each domain has to have a recipient update service setup in order to update the email addresses. Do you have one for the second domain? Did you run domainprep on the new domain? Jacqui From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pelle, Joe

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread deji
In addition, take a closer look at that Recipient Policy. It's possible that it's configured to stamp ONLY mail-enable objects of DomainA. Will need to create another one for DomainB, if that's the case. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread deji
This is by design. You open adsiedit.msc, navigate to the top DC=youdomainname under the Domain partition, right-click on the DC=yourdomainame and click properties. In the security tab, you will see that Authenticated users have Read access to the whole tree down. You can remove this permission

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Rocky - this thread is actually quite incredible - you're wandering from user and group names and object types to NTFS permission and nesting objects into groups, over to discussing SIDs and friendly names, and now you're talking about the visibility of memberships of groups in AD ;-) Also, I

RE: [ActiveDir] KIX script and Active Directory

2004-07-22 Thread Ken Cornetet
Title: Message I don't understand your question fully. You say you want to "set a variable" which will control drive mappings, but then you go on to say that you want to look up an attribute in AD to set the location. What attribute would that be? Can you be more specific?

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Pelle, Joe
Jacqui, I have not domainprepd the new domain and have not created a recipient update service for the new domain. I did not know I needed to do that thank you for the posts! VERY HELPFUL! Im still learning about Exchange! Joe Pelle Infrastructure Architect Information Technology

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP

2004-07-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
If it's a new scope, is the scope within the range of IP addresses and subnet masks available on that router segment? I fought an issue like this once and it was a subnet mask problem, but we were looking for something harder to fix... :-) Took a while to see it right under our noses...

RE: [ActiveDir] How to restrict access to event viewer

2004-07-22 Thread Jimmy Andersson
Do you mean that you want to control permissions on the different logs within Event Viewer? If so, it's absolutely possible if you change the SDDL in the Registry, however you need to write a customized GPO template to push them out to the servers unless you want to manually edit each

Re: [ActiveDir] AD and Exchange - Slightly OT

2004-07-22 Thread Robert Mezzone
Check out the Exchange Admin guide, Exchange Deployment Guide and Planning an Exchange Messaging System, all on microsoft.com/exchange/library. I'm reading the admin guide, all three have helped with with Exchange 5.5 to 2003 migration. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP

2004-07-22 Thread Kern, Tom
yes it is. the router is fine. if i use a static address on that subnet, it works and there is connectivity. if i configure the client to use dhcp, nothing. all it gets is the scope options. i guess what my question really is, is- if a dhcp server has been authorized by an enterprise admin

RE: [ActiveDir] KIX script and Active Directory

2004-07-22 Thread Brian Desmond
Check out the %USERDOMAIN% AND %USERDNSDOMAIN% environment variables. Run set from a command prompt to get a list of them. --Brian -Original Message- From: Jacqui Hurst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/22/2004 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] NTP server

2004-07-22 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
Where does everyone have their NTP services come from? We are getting rid of our current firewall which has NTP on it and everything is pointed to it for NTP services. Our new firewall won't have NTP built in, so we are going to have to set up an internal NTP server for all our internal hosts

RE: [ActiveDir] NTP server

2004-07-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hey Russ, This link describes how W2K and W2K3 handle NTP: http://www.netpro.com/products/techdocs/ad_timesync.pdf This link lists public Stratum 1 and Stratum 2 time servers: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html It would make sense to use the PDC emulator as the time server for

RE: [ActiveDir] NTP server

2004-07-22 Thread Brian Desmond
I use my PDC. It syncs with the government. All you rclients automatically talk to the PDC unless you told em not to. --Brian -Original Message- From: Rimmerman, Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/22/2004 7:24 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'