RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Restricted Groups gotchas ?

2005-09-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Worked like a charm! You have the possibility to use Member option and/or memberof option Using the member option you ENFORCE (or replace) which objects (users/groups) are a member of a group. If you add an object as a member of the group and it is not on the restricted groups list, it

[ActiveDir] Manually data corruption in exchange

2005-09-26 Thread Manjeet Singh
All, I am looking for different ways - How to manually corrupt 1. Mailbox Store 2. Public Store 3. A single Mailbox 4. Public Folder 5. A single message in the mailbox We have created an application for Exchange and I want to test my application with by manually corrupting the

[ActiveDir] PST 2003

2005-09-26 Thread rakesh jakhar
ALL, How to access outlook pst 2003 in outlook 2000. -Rakesh Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

RE: [ActiveDir] Extend the UI ofADUC on one machine

2005-09-26 Thread TIROA YANN
no one can help me please ? :o( Have a nice day :) Cheers, Yann De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de TIROA YANNEnvoyé: vendredi 23 septembre 2005 21:32À: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgObjet: [ActiveDir] Extend the UI ofADUC on one machine Hello, Is there a way

[ActiveDir] Manually data corruption in exchange

2005-09-26 Thread Manjeet Singh
All, I am looking for different ways - How to manually corrupt 1. Mailbox Store 2. Public Store 3. A single Mailbox 4. Public Folder 5. A single message in the mailbox We have created an application for Exchange and I want to test my application with by manually corrupting the

Re: [ActiveDir] PST 2003

2005-09-26 Thread ASB
If the PST file is a Unicode PST, then the answer is that you can't access it with any downlevel client. -ASB FAST, CHEAP, SECURE: Pick Any TWO http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ On 9/26/05, rakesh jakhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ALL, How to access outlook pst 2003 in outlook 2000.

RE: [ActiveDir] out look 2003

2005-09-26 Thread jon.gimpel
Yes, but you still need OL2003 to do so. The easiest would be to simply create a new PST file using the option PST 97-2002 PST Files. Then copy from one PST to another inside OL2003. Other than third party software, this would be the easiest way. Reminder that OL2003 extends beyond 1.8 GB

RE: [ActiveDir] out look 2003

2005-09-26 Thread rakesh jakhar
Thanks Jon. This is done. -Rakesh[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but you still need OL2003 to do so. The easiest would be to simplycreate a new PST file using the option PST 97-2002 PST Files. Then copyfrom one PST to another inside OL2003. Other than third party software,this would be the easiest

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: TS Security Warning and GPO

2005-09-26 Thread jpsalemi
I would probably try user configuration/administrative templates/system/code signing for device drivers: Determines how the system responds when a user tries to install device driver files that are not digitally signed. This setting establishes the least secure response permitted on the

RE: [ActiveDir] (OT) Trust Issues

2005-09-26 Thread walls
Normally, I would look at the restrict anonymous configuration if experiencing communication issues between NT 4.0 systems and = 2000 systems. A setting of 2 seems to break legacy communication. Thanks, Dave Waller Booz Allen Hamilton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Extend the UI ofADUC on one machine

2005-09-26 Thread Brian Desmond
Theres a sample in the platform sdk for doing this. You have to write a little COM shell extension in C++. Its not trivial, but, its not rocket science either. Takes a lot of patience the first try. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From:

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Deployment Question.

2005-09-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Title: SSL question Hi, You cannot tell which user authenticates to which DC. Clients determine their authenticating DC querying DC for a SRV RR. With SRV RRs you designate a weight factor and a priority factor. By default the weight is set to 100 and the priority is set to 0. SRV RRs

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Deployment Question.

2005-09-26 Thread Smith, Brad
Title: SSL question Jorge, Thanks for the links. I have already got my schema upgrades done, but your comments light up another possible option. What if I weighted the new DC with a really low SRV weight such as 5. Would this mean that a very small number of clients would authenticate

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Deployment Question.

2005-09-26 Thread Brian Desmond
Title: SSL question You can use 32 bit subnets if you want to designate half a dozen IPs or something in that site. That said, why not just put one DC in general deployment at a couple of these sites and let it burn in for a bit? Thats the only way youre going to get an accurate

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Deployment Question.

2005-09-26 Thread Peter Johnson
Title: SSL question IIRC you can do this with a reg hack that forces the machine to a certain DC. Problem is the machine will not look elsewhere if that DC is not available AFAIK. Regards Peter Johnson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith,

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Deployment Question.

2005-09-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Title: SSL question As I know of the clients do not choose anything. It is the DNS server that makes the choices for the client and after that the client receives a list of servers in a certain order to consult. That is also a way to do it. Setting the weight of the W2K3 DCs to 5 and

[ActiveDir] Distributing AD responsibilty

2005-09-26 Thread Craig Gauss
We are looking at making the department directors here a little more responsible for their users. We are thinking about allowing them to have the rights to change passwords. Is anyone else doing this? If so how are you going about doing it? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List

RE: [ActiveDir] Distributing AD responsibilty

2005-09-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Delegate the right/permission to the directors on the OU where the users are in. To reset user passwords you need the Reset Password extended right on the user object. This is also available through the delegation of control wizard using the common delegated task Reset a user account's password

[ActiveDir] Delegating Terminal Services Profile permissions

2005-09-26 Thread Olegario, Alan
I was wondering if it's possible to delegate the ability to change the settings in the terminal services profile tab on an account. I took a look, and nothing stood out that might work. Thanks. Alan Olegario Lead Analyst, Systems Engineering Tiffany Co. 973-254-7253 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The

Re: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
ok, last time i reply to my own email :) I applied a gpo to add 3 domains to the dns suffix search order. these 3 domains show up in the gui, when you right click a net adapter but the change is not reflected when you do an ipconfig. the output of ipconfig.exe is different than whats in the gui

RE: [ActiveDir] Distributing AD responsibilty

2005-09-26 Thread Brian Desmond
Jorge answered the how part. To answer the other part of your question, yes, this is a very common scenario. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Gauss Sent: Monday,

RE: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread deji
When MS introduced that GPO ability, someone forgot to remember where ipconfig looks for the information it displays. Ipconfig reads the registry for the information, but the suffix adm/gpo is not stored in the same location, so ipconfig will never be able to report whatever you are setting in the

[ActiveDir] Ipconfig vs. network connections(WAS flaky gpo)

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
Okay, i've seen that my custom gpo is applying to append a dns suffix search list but the only issue is there is a difference in output between what i see in the gui via network connections and what i see in the output of ipconfig. In network connections, when i right click the adapter, the dns

Re: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
thanks. disregard that last email... i guess if i find out where ipconfig reads it, i can make a adm to reflect that and push it out? Does this also apply to the real policy that comes with winxp/2k3 as well? thanks again!! On 9/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When MS

Re: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
my gpo sets it at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters. I created a Reg_SZ value called SearchList with the suffix values and that shows up when you right click the adapter under DNS tab. However, windows seems to use the other key for things like ping and drive mappings,etc.

Re: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
oh yeah,- wmic nicconfig get DNSDomainSuffixSearchOrder (from cmd) returns the correct suffix order On 9/26/05, Tom Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my gpo sets it at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters. I created a Reg_SZ value called SearchList with the suffix values and that

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 SP1

2005-09-26 Thread joe
Sorry for the delay in responding but the issues I keep hearing about center around the fact that the SCManager ACL has been locked down. So anything you have monitoring service states, etc may be impacted if they run as non-admins or don't directly ask for the service by name. -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot modify a distribution list

2005-09-26 Thread joe
I thought that is what I said. ;o) "You need to grant the person the ability to update the membership list. Now if you have an older version of ADUC, you won't see that checkbox under the managed by tab" From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, HunterSent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot modify a distribution list

2005-09-26 Thread joe
Well full access rights is a bit like taking off a hang nail with a table saw but if it works for you... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mayuresh KshirsagarSent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:24 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegating Terminal Services Profile permissions

2005-09-26 Thread joe
You can try delegating userParameter as that is where the info is stored, but I believe all of the mechanisms that update it use legacy NET style calls which require Acc Op or Admin rights. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olegario, Alan

RE: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread deji
Cool. Good to know. In the meantime, this http://www.akomolafe.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=change-DNS-Suffixes-thru-GPO.txt tabid=63mid=431 is (IMO) as good as the adm you are doing now, and it *should* take care of the ipconfig discrepancies. Again, I am not able to test it right now to prove the

RE: [ActiveDir] Distributing AD responsibilty

2005-09-26 Thread joe
This is definitely doable, however you may consider using some sort of proxy system to do it so you can answer the question who did it and when as those questions come up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Gauss Sent: Monday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Security

2005-09-26 Thread joe
When looking at group memberships, you will need to look at the group itself, any groups nested into group (and so on), and any users with primaryGroupID set to the value of any of those groups. Primary groups are not represented in the normal group membership with the LDAP interfaces. An

[ActiveDir] Domain-wide operations masters change

2005-09-26 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
I just noticed our domain-wide operations masters levels all changed. We've had the same pdc/rid/infrastructure master for years, and suddenly, it's on a different domain controller. Is there any way this could have changed automatically? Or did a domain admin have to physically make this

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 SP1

2005-09-26 Thread Brian Desmond
I think Windows Firewall is on by default on new 2003 SP1 installations. Check the properties of the NIC and see if it is. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pennell, Ronald B.

[ActiveDir] OT: Additional DHCP server same LAN

2005-09-26 Thread Danny
Two companies sharing the same physical LAN, IP configuration, Windows 2000 servers, two seperate forests, and one DHCP server. In the the not so distant future they will seperate. In the meantime, is there a way to point the XP pro clients from CompanyB to a new DHCP server on the same physical

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 SP1

2005-09-26 Thread joe
1. Is the name being resolved? 2. If so is the server actively refusing the connections or is it not responding at all. You need a network trace for this one, look for returned packets with RST in them. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] global catalog discovery / Outlook XP

2005-09-26 Thread joe
2) If Closest GC registry key set, call UseDsGetDcName() Yep, fall back to whatever the OS says... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org;

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Restricted Groups gotchas ?

2005-09-26 Thread joe
Yeah we need a good search mechanism for this list, this was discussed nearly to death last year or the year before when that functionality change was introduced. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge deSent: Monday, September 26, 2005 2:25

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)

2005-09-26 Thread joe
From my experience it should work fine. It doesn't have to know if the right hand side is a domain or host IP, it simply needs to try and look it up in DNS. I believe it will try an MX lookup and failing that, fall back to a host record lookup. A simple test would be to enable SMTP on some

Re: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
thanks alot!! quick ques- if i machine already has a static entry in the suffix search order, will this script wipe out that entry or append to it? same question for the GPO verison- will it add or wipe out? thanks again On 9/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Good to

[ActiveDir] LDAP filters

2005-09-26 Thread Harding, Devon
Where can I fine more info on creating LDAP filters? Im trying to have Exchange 2003 Address List display users on multiple Mailbox Stores and Groups. I have to do a custom LDAP search to accomplish this. Devon Harding Windows Systems Engineer Southern Wine

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Additional DHCP server same LAN

2005-09-26 Thread Bernard, Aric
Not if they are on the same LAN. Why do you want to do this before the separation? Maybe there is a workaround for what ever problem you are having. Regards, Aric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain-wide operations masters change

2005-09-26 Thread Bernard, Aric
No automatic change mechanism for OM roles. Someone did it. J Regards, Aric From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:12 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Domain-wide operations

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP vs Dell servers

2005-09-26 Thread joe
I am way late on this thread but my experience with IBM has been horrible. At the widget factory I was at, we switched from Dell to IBM because the newish CIO was from IBM. Our DOA rates went up to about 30% from about 0%. We implemented new procedures to burn in every DC for a couple of weeks

Re: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
The guy in link using a batch file to call the VBS Script, You can directly put the VBS file into startup folder, instead of calling it from netlogon. Also, I guess, %logonserver% might create problem, as it might not be defined by the time, script runs. On 9/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
As far as I can tell, DNS Suffix Search Order is not adapter specific, but rather, if you set it from the Network Connections applet, it is applied to all adapters on the system and set in the following registry value:

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: New Child Domain creation error

2005-09-26 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
Nop, this also didn't help... Now I am facing some strange errors, When I open any admin tool related to AD like dsa.msc or dssite.msc or domain.msc I get no domain found error, even though DNS is working fine. If I open adsiedit.msc to see the permission on partitions, it doesn't allow me to

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filters

2005-09-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
... Something that is necessary for almost every one of these tools is an LDAP query. Active Directory is an LDAP-based directory (LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). The queries are based on RFC-2254, The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters (available at

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filters

2005-09-26 Thread Bernard, Aric
This is always a good starting place if you find it consumable: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2254.html Optionally, using the ADUC MMC Snap-in you can build some Saved Queries and see how they are built (Query String) by the snap-in to learn some of the intricacies. Regards, Aric

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain-wide operations masters change

2005-09-26 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
Know of an easy way to find out who? I'm assuming auditing, but our security logs are unwieldy and if it happened over a couple days ago, well you know how that goes. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, AricSent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:58 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Server_Info='00000523: SysErr: DSID-031A0FB2, problem 22 (Invalid argument), data 0.

2005-09-26 Thread joe
It is in the create code. The OS that it must assign SIDs to users, computers, etc. It may be hardcoded to the existence of that attribute as a mandatory attribute for the class or it could just be for certain fixed clases. I have never tested it by creating another class with objectSID as a

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filters

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Linehan
I also find this article helpful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> Thanks, -Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, Aric Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain-wide operations masters change

2005-09-26 Thread Bernard, Aric
Are you asking if there is a way to do this with out using the event logs? The only option I can think of is gathering all of the persons with permissions and beating them about the head until somebody confesses. Come to think of it that could generate some false positives. J If you

Re: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
The adm i set, directly sets the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\SearchList value, NOT the policies key. Its for win2k, so its a tattoo, not a policiy. that other key never comes into play. as i stated, in the net coonections applet it changed the adapter. when doing an

RE: [ActiveDir] finding txt in a message

2005-09-26 Thread joe
I don't have the answer to this other than writing a sink or something that reads every message of every mailbox, neither of which I would consider trivial, but I find this statement to be humorous Sorry for sending an Exchange question to an AD group, but I really need an answer to this

Re: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Kern
when i had the smtp connector point to dns, it failed with remote host did not respond. when pointing to a smarthost it worked. maybe exchange while sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED], thinks servername.domain.tld is a domain and when it gets a nxdomain from domain.tld, it fails? no? sillier things

RE: [ActiveDir] finding txt in a message

2005-09-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Findstr /S /I string \\.\backofficestorage\domain\mbx It'll be slow. And it requires access to every mailbox. But it'll work. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 4:18 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)

2005-09-26 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Why should Exchange not think that servername.domain.tld is a domain? Can you resolve servername.domain.tld from the Exchange server? How about from the smarthost? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Monday, September 26, 2005 5:32 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filters

2005-09-26 Thread joe
Be very careful with this. The RUS doesn't actually use LDAP to execute that filter except for when you test it in ESM. I have seen perfectly good queries that work great in the test (because it actually submits the LDAP query to AD) and then the AL is built all wrong. It is usually around

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)

2005-09-26 Thread listmail
I just tested this, I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and watched Exchange query DNS for the MX record, an SOA record was returned, it then queried the A record and got that and fired the message off. If it isn't working, then I expect it is in the name res area as Hunter is indicating as well.

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Additional DHCP server same LAN

2005-09-26 Thread Marcus.Oh
Are you suggesting counseling, Aric? :) DHCP is based on broadcast. I suppose if you configured your helpers to point to different subnet segments (assuming the two companies don't share the same subnet) you might be able to do this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain-wide operations masters change

2005-09-26 Thread joe
At least the number of people who could do this at least is very limited and hopefully trusted. If you ask each of them if they did it and someone doesn't admit to it, there is obviously an issue. It could have happened in a demotion too and possibly an admin didn't notice it. Was the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Additional DHCP server same LAN

2005-09-26 Thread Bernard, Aric
Counseling indeed! I made the assumption when you said the same LAN that both companies were sharing the same subnet...and you know what they say about assumptions... Of course Marcus is right if my assumption is incorrect. :) Regards, Aric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] flaky gpo

2005-09-26 Thread deji
Yeah. what you said ;) Give me some time - I'll think up an explanation for why I F'ed the whole thing up. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow