Re: FW: [ActiveDir] Repadmin error message

2006-04-18 Thread adriaoramos
We have many lingering objects in our domain (we have a main domain and 18 subdomains), Microsoft´s support detected that. I am trying to rehost informations from a good server (GC) to another that has a wrong information. I have already done that last year because we had the same

[ActiveDir] lockout account

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Kern
How can you programatically lockout an account? Do i have to manipulate the userAccountControl attribute or lockoutTime attrib? Can you just do this using Adsiedit.msc or LDP.exe as well? Just curious. Thanks

RE: [ActiveDir] lockout account

2006-04-18 Thread neil.ruston
When testing, I simply use a "net use" command and provide the correct userID but wrong pw. Repeat until the account locks. Simple but effective :) neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: 18 April 2006 14:31To: activedirectorySubject:

Re: [ActiveDir] lockout account

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Kern
I guess what I want to know is what attrib you can set to just lock it out... Thanks On 4/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When testing, I simply use a net use command and provide the correct userID but wrong pw. Repeat until the account locks. Simple but effective :) neil

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS addition - event error 4010: unable to create RR for AD zone

2006-04-18 Thread Danny
On 4/17/06, Al Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you talk about deleting and such are you thinking about the newsgroups posts like this one: http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.dns/2005-05/msg00245.html ??? Yes, along those lines. But, the zone

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rights slow to become available

2006-04-18 Thread Navroz Shariff
Seems to be areplication issue. You could manually forcereplication to your DC(s) and member serversusing the active directory sites and services. -Shariff From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al MulnickSent: Monday, April 17, 2006 9:30 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Time Service Errors

2006-04-18 Thread Feigin, Andrew
After you run the below command to set the registry and restart the time service, it fails the time service advertising: w32tm /config /syncfromflags:domhier /manualpeerlist:pdc /reliable:yes If you use the below with /reliable:no stating it is NOT a reliable time source, it works

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rights slow to become available

2006-04-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
See Microsoft KB 327378 (Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 mailbox size limits are not enforced in a reasonable period of time; fix requires Exchange 2000 SP3) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Egbert Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:50 PM To:

[ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
All Could someone please explain how Non-indexed queries (e.g. objectClass=user) fall in this category? I saw this mentioned in some slides by Gil and couldnt quite understand what he meant. Isn't objectclass indexed as part of the partial attribute set? Thanks M@ List info :

[ActiveDir] any experiences with PassFilt Pro software?

2006-04-18 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Anybody out there have any experience with the PassFilt Pro software by Altus Networks Solutions, Inc.? TIA, Mike Thommes 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] lockout account

2006-04-18 Thread Brian Desmond
You can try setting the lockout bit (below) on userAccountControl but Im nearly positive only the system can set that bit. What is your end goal/why are you trying to do this? ADS_UF_LOCKOUTADS_UF_LOCKOUT The account is currently locked out. = 16, // 0x10 Thanks, Brian Desmond

RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Brian Desmond
Not sure I understand the question fully, but, no objectClass is not indexed. objectCategory is. So if you want to get all users you do: ((objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)) Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] NT 3.51 trust verification lies

2006-04-18 Thread Douglas M. Long
Anyone experience the following NT 3.51 to 2000 Native mode trust Nltest validates the trust GUI validates the trust Cannot enumerate users of 3.51 domain from domainA Can enumerate users of 3.51 from another 2000 native mode domain... domainB Trust no longer validates to domainA after about 30

Re: [ActiveDir] lockout account

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Kern
Only the sytem can change that. Just curioisity. No real reason. I was just interested that if you wanted to lockout an account for testing purposes, you could do it with a script or mainipulating an attrib instead of making ldap or net use calls with bad passwords. Thanks a lot for all your

Re: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
Thanks for the reply. In that case why does adfind -schema -f (objectclass=attributeschema)(ismemberofpartialattributeset=T RUE) ldapdisplayname -list returning objectclass amongs the others? Doesn't this mean objectclass is indexed? The reason I ask is because I wanted to make sure I didn't write

Re: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
sorry that was meant to be adfind -schema -f (objectclass=attributeschema)(ismemberofpartialattributeset=T RUE) ldapdisplayname -list On 4/18/06, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. In that case why does adfind -schema -f

Re: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
bummer! I meant adfind -schema -f (objectclass=attributeschema)(ismemberofpartialattributeset=TRUE) ldapdisplayname -list On 4/18/06, Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry that was meant to be adfind -schema -f (objectclass=attributeschema)(ismemberofpartialattributeset=T RUE)

RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I think you are confusing indexed with "is in the global catalog". They are not synonymous. You can have one without the other just fine. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matheesha WeerasingheSent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:14 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] NT 3.51 trust verification lies

2006-04-18 Thread deji
You are kidding, right? Please say yes. 3.51 You work in a museum or something? :) Sincerely, _ (, / | /) /) /) /---| (/_ __ ___// _ // _ ) /|_/(__(_) // (_(_)(/_(_(_/(__(/_ (_/

RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Brian Desmond
No. isMemberOfPartialAttributeSet just means that the attribute is replicated into the GC. Being in the GC does not imply that the attribute is indexed. Theres an attribute (I think isIndexed) which says the attribute should be indexed in the database. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] NT 3.51 trust verification lies

2006-04-18 Thread Douglas M. Long
Lol. Yeah, I am serious. Probably over 20 3.51 domains. Part of a migration project -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:42 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NT 3.51

RE: [ActiveDir] NT 3.51 trust verification lies

2006-04-18 Thread deji
Man, you sure are brave :) Anywhoo, I was going to suggest that you whip out the trusty lmhosts magic file and see if that helps you. That used to solve a lot of trust and resolution issues for us in those days. But then I read that DomainB has no beef with the 3.51. So, I don't know what to

RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Lee, Wook
I never understood why Microsoft chose not to index objectclass by default. I indexed it in our directory as soon as we got the go ahead from Microsoft that it was supported. That was years ago. Wook From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond

RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Marcus.Oh
I did the same after I saw some of the activedir folks post about doing it J :m:dsm:cci:mvp| marcusoh.blogspot.com From: [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Tombstone attributes

2006-04-18 Thread Steele, Aaron [BSD] - ADM
Hi there all, Does anyone here know why Microsoft chose not to include the attributes related to user password and sidHistory in the tombstone of an object upon deletion? Was it a security decision? I would like to get some input from people here before I go and update my schema to enable

Re: [ActiveDir] Tombstone attributes

2006-04-18 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
Steele, Aaron [BSD] - ADM wrote: Hi there all, Does anyone here know why Microsoft chose not to include the attributes related to user password and sidHistory in the tombstone of an object upon deletion? Was it a security decision? I would like to get some input from people here before I go

Re: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
Thanks all for the clarification!M@On 4/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did the same after I saw some of the activedir folks post about doing it… J :m:dsm:cci:mvp| marcusoh.blogspot.com

RE: [ActiveDir] Tombstone attributes

2006-04-18 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
In addition to what Tomasz said... How objects are deleted / tombstoned (simplified!) * The isDeleted attribute is set to TRUE (which marks the object as a tombstone - an object that has been deleted but not fully removed from the directory). * The relative distinguished name (RDN) of the

RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Jef Kazimer
It seems like an obvious idea to implement. Sad we never thought about it. :) Has anyone done any tests to reveal what performance gains this yields on queries? Thanks, Jef Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queriesDate: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:03:35 -0400From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Tombstone attributes

2006-04-18 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Unfortunately the passwords is the same attribute for users and computers. I thought recently to put the password in the tombstone to ease computer account reanimation - after the account is deleted the computer is not able to change it's password, and if it was deleted accidentally it's easy to

Re: [ActiveDir] Tombstone attributes

2006-04-18 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner wrote: Unfortunately the passwords is the same attribute for users and computers. I thought recently to put the password in the tombstone to ease computer account reanimation - after the account is deleted the computer is not able to change it's password, and if it was

RE: [ActiveDir] Tombstone attributes

2006-04-18 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Agreed - as I said I'd put procedures in place to protect user account passwords, but would use tombstones to ease computer account restores. Ulf |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Onyszko |Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:43

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-04-18 Thread Dean Wells
Inline is my take on an IM conv. Brett and I just had, the result and content of which turned up some interesting (to me at least) implementation details. The short story is - * DNTs (to me) are _not_ a component of the directory - they _are_ a component of the layer that bridges the two

[ActiveDir] Exchange 5.5 Upgrade Problems

2006-04-18 Thread Dan DeStefano
I have taken over administration of a w2k AD domain running Exchange 5.5. This domain was a mess and it took a lot of doing just to resolve all the errors in the event logs, but now they are just about all resolved and the DC/Ex5.5 server passes all netdiag/dcdiag tests. My current

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 5.5 Upgrade Problems

2006-04-18 Thread Brian Desmond
Could be all sorts of things here, but lets start simple. Can you do an ldap bind to the exchange box on port 38900 using the ldp tool (or similar) from the support tools? You cant do an inplace upgrade from 5.5 to 2003 which is what it sounds like youre doing when you get the

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 5.5 Upgrade Problems

2006-04-18 Thread Dan DeStefano
Yes, I can connect to the dc/ex5.5 box from the new ex2k3 member server using ldp on both ports 389 and 38900. I can also bind using the enterprise/domain admin account and the ex service account. I am not trying to do a direct upgrade from 5.5 to 2k3, rather I am trying to do an

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 5.5 Upgrade Problems

2006-04-18 Thread Brian Desmond
Why are you doing this interim upgrade when your end goal is a 2k3 native environment? Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan DeStefano Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:05 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 5.5 Upgrade Problems

2006-04-18 Thread Dan DeStefano
We are planning a complete domain migration and restructuring, but that takes a while and the client has not signed off yet, but they want ex2k3 features quickly. So we determined the fastest way to implement ex2k3 would be to do an in-place upgrade of their server. From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] stupid ldap queries

2006-04-18 Thread Marcus.Oh
Itd the same relative gain running a query using objectcategory versus objectclass. Most of the time, I would run into queries that people were using, utilizing objectclass instead of objectcategory. Indexing objectclass made this moot. :m:dsm:cci:mvp| marcusoh.blogspot.com