RE: [ActiveDir] Advice

2005-07-30 Thread Tony Murray
First of all, good luck in the new job. I've experienced a similar environment to that (at least on the AD front). You can find out quite a few things about the AD infrastructure with a standard domain account. For example, you can load the adminpak and support tools on an XP workstation. Fire

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 sp1 security agent

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Desmond
No there's a mechanism to remote deploy the policies from sec wizard. I never used it, though. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005

RE: [ActiveDir] DCPromo Answer file....no DNS.

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Desmond
Title: DCPromo Answer fileno DNS. You have DNS installed? You need to use the sysoc stuff (look it up in the ref.chm in deploy.cab) to install DNS first Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

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2005-07-30 Thread Dmitriy
Hello ActiveDir, -- Best regards, Dmitriy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

RE: [ActiveDir] Intra-forest migration

2005-07-30 Thread Chris Flesher
Destructive migration is not sounding real good at the moment. Restoring all of the user and objects back the way they were probably isn't an easy proposition either, I'm guessing. As for the profiles, would the profiles be "migrated" as well with admt version2, meaning when the user

Re: [ActiveDir] Intra-forest migration

2005-07-30 Thread Phil Renouf
ADMT v2 will do what you're looking for. Play with it in the lab so you can see how it works and get the procedure down. Phil On 7/30/05, Chris Flesher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Destructive migration is not sounding real good at the moment. Restoring all of the user and objects back the way

RE: [ActiveDir] Advice

2005-07-30 Thread joe
You can get a lot of information as a normal user unless they have locked it down. I expect they haven't as that is something usually only done in better installations and I doubt the company would be kicking out the outsource partner if they were doing things well. On top of that, try to get

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MIIS, ADAM, AD

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Where is this going to be located? Extranet or Intranet? If you are going to be doing some very simple syncing, I would look at writing something myself or maybe implementing one of the lighter syncing tools like SimpleSync or HP's LDSU. If you need to do a lot of transforms or complex

RE: [ActiveDir] Search User Accounts for Password Reset Date

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Title: Search User Accounts for Password Reset Date This might work for you http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/findexpacc.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 3:57 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Security Groups vs. Distribution Groups

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Jorge answered this pretty well. Yes the name/cn can be the same if the groups are in different containers. The sAMAccountNames need to be different if in the same domain. The displayName should be different or you could get some serious confusion if you mailenable both. The Distribution

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO to enable a service at restart

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Does fast user switching work on domain PCs? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-EliaSent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:06 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO to enable a service at restart A startup script is probably your

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Macintoshes in AD not updating account password

2005-07-30 Thread joe
I have seen this with many different OSes or applications (Samba and other CIFS implementations) that do things to pretend to be Windows machines. Generally there is some configuration change you have to make in the config to force them to change their password on some frequency. This isn't

RE: [ActiveDir] Need AD Query Suggestion Please

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Ok so the request is to have unique output capability built into adfind? I.E. The ability to say, give me all unique values for the xxx attribute listed on all objects that match this specific ldap filter? Hmmm interesting, I will add it to the list of things to look at but I am not promising

RE: [ActiveDir] Logon script with Admin rights **Work Around**

2005-07-30 Thread joe
I absolutely agree with this. Unless the policy files have been locked down to only allow computer access and the users can't get localsystem context windows open this is easily viewable in the share. Even if that is the case, a simple network sniff on the client will see the files coming down.

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO to enable a service at restart

2005-07-30 Thread Rick Kingslan
U not in my experience.. shrug Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:12 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO to enable a service at restart Does fast user switching work on

RE: [ActiveDir] turn off replication to a DC in same site

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Great post Brett Makes me miss dstalk even more. Now get to your blog. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:39 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] turn off

Re: [ActiveDir] Advice

2005-07-30 Thread Kern, Tom
I haven't started there yet. What the head AD guy told me was that they had no DA/EA, Exchange Full Admin access. He was just hired a month ago. Until then, they completely outsourced the whole AD/Exchange infrastructure(whatever that means, exactly.). What he's been doing for a month, I have no

RE: [ActiveDir] How to identify SIDs in AD?

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Your issues with home dirs and such could and in my opinion probably are related to something other than the computer SIDs. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hanumara, Rao Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 9:27 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Domain Trees in a Single Forest

2005-07-30 Thread joe
I seriously dislike multi-tree forests. They tend to confuse support admins and some programs just aren't written properly for them and break. For instance I have the domain joe.com, what is the DN for my configuration container? Well you would like to assume cn=configuration,dc=joe,dc=com,

RE: [ActiveDir] Advice

2005-07-30 Thread joe
Ok let me give you some great free advice right up front. :o) It is almost certain you will NOT be telling us all about it in the next few weeks, at least it is fairly certain that if you do, you may be asking our opinions on some other new job shortly. Financial companies, especially big NY

Re: [ActiveDir] turn off replication to a DC in same site

2005-07-30 Thread Steve Schofield
Hi Brett/Joe, Great information and from your perspective this probably seems like an out of the normal request which goes against best practices. In most cases things like this sooner or later causes issues and the I told you so applies. I definitely don't have the exposure to AD

RE: [ActiveDir] turn off replication to a DC in same site

2005-07-30 Thread David Adner
I don't agree with your overall plan, but regardless, do you know you can define a single IP address to a Site of its own? Just define it as, for example, 10.10.1.1/255.255.255.255 (ie: a 32bit mask). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve

Re: [ActiveDir] turn off replication to a DC in same site

2005-07-30 Thread Steve Schofield
That is fine, I'm glad people speak up about different ideas, I don't claim to be an expert just was given the direction to come up with a solution. I'm not a Cisco expert and we currently do not have a private network all machines are publish IP based. This also has to be pretty hands off

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO to enable a service at restart

2005-07-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
No, it doesn't. There is only one service that I know of associated with Fast User Switching, and that is the Fast User Switching Compatibility service, which doesn't enable FUS in and of itself. I'm not sure what enabling this service buys you because its used to help apps that weren't

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO to enable a service at restart

2005-07-30 Thread David J. Kinsella
Yes I merely wanted the compatibility. There are programs out there that allow you to use FUS in a domain; its just a shame that they dramatically alter the logon experience. (Its actually for a Media Center Extender (where the PC is in a domain) for the board room). Thank you for