[ActiveDir] objects names cannot be shown in their user-friendly form

2006-05-04 Thread Milton Sancho
Message: Some of the objects names cannot be shown in their user-friendly form. This can happen if the object is from an external domain and that domain is not available to translate the object's name Example: CN= S-1-5-21--21253782); it is thedomain\user. Scenario: WIN2000 Domain (IT has

[ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread James Carter
I would like to find a way to extract all the users who have 'Smart card is required for interactive logon' ticked within their account.I have looked at LDIFDE and CSVDE but I can't see how I can get retrieve this listthanksJames Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+

Re: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires...... WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?

2006-05-04 Thread Sem 3
Normaly I just lurk but I just have to mention Monad. You can brows adam with it too. and add and delete all at the cmd (msh) prompt. AMr scriptosparadise :) It is still in bete but you can download it from M$. Hope this is usfull. SEM On 5/3/06, Joe Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is the

RE: [ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread Kurzdorfer Michael TSgt 107CF/SCBN
(((objectCategory=user)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=262144))) will do the trick //SIGNED//Michael Kurzdorfer, TSgt, NYANGNetwork Administrator107CF/SCBN Niagara Falls ANGBComm 716.236.3064 DSN 238.3064 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James

RE: [ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread James Carter
Thanks for responding Michael.What would be the fullcommand if you don't mind me asking?JCKurzdorfer Michael TSgt 107CF/SCBN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (((objectCategory=user)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=262144))) will do the trick//SIGNED//Michael Kurzdorfer,

RE: [ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread Kurzdorfer Michael TSgt 107CF/SCBN
I am using thisthru ADUC. Using LDIFDE you could use: (Change out the -s and -d to your site) ldifde -f SCLEnabled.ldf -s 107ARW-DC-01 -d "OU=107 ARW,OU=NYNIAG,OU=ANG,DC=ang,DC=ds,DC=af,DC=mil" -l "userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=262144" -r

RE: [ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread joe
Two quick items. First the query can be simplified a little, there is an unneededlevel with the operand in there. You onlyneed something of the format ((something)(something)). It isn't a big deal, the engine will strip it out when it optimizes the query but it does make it look more

RE: [ActiveDir] Several IMAP Accounts-Outlook fail

2006-05-04 Thread Bruyere, Michel
I followed the MS recommendation to delete and recreate the IMAP account; it didn't work in the first time but worked the second one. It's the only resolution that I found. My 0.02$ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Milton Sancho Sent:

[ActiveDir] Odd NtFrs warning

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Rochford
I'm getting messages like the following in the event log at 24 hour intervals. Is this really just an information message - ie a check was carried out and there were no errors or is it trying to tell me something but being very secretive about it?? Steve Event Type: Warning Event Source: NtFrs

RE: [ActiveDir] Odd NtFrs warning

2006-05-04 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
how about: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=13562eventno=662source=NtFrsphase=1 Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, Ing. Jorge de Almeida Pinto Senior Infrastructure Consultant MVP Windows Server - Directory Services LogicaCMG Nederland B.V. (BU RTINC Eindhoven) ( Tel :

RE: [ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread James Carter
Wow, thanks joe, I really appreciate the effort you've made to respond.joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two quick items. First the query can be simplified a little, there is an unneededlevel with the operand in there. You onlyneed something of the format ((something)(something)). It

RE: [ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread James Carter
Thanks - this worked a treat!Kurzdorfer Michael TSgt 107CF/SCBN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using thisthru ADUC. Using LDIFDE you could use: (Change out the -s and -d to your site) ldifde -f SCLEnabled.ldf -s 107ARW-DC-01 -d "OU=107 ARW,OU=NYNIAG,OU=ANG,DC=ang,DC=ds,DC=af,DC=mil" -l

RE: [ActiveDir] Query AD for Smartcard enforced users

2006-05-04 Thread joe
No problem James, I am happy to help. None of this below is rocket science, anyone can start working out query efficiencies by testing various queries against Active Directory (or ADAM) and telling AD to return STATS info. There are two main tools available that I am aware ofto allow you to

[ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-04 Thread Dan DeStefano
I was wondering if anyone can point me to any MS document that discusses optimizing the page file on an Exchange box. I found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815372, but this article does not discuss the page file. I am running SBS 2003 on a 3 GHZ Xeon with 4GB physical memory and a 3-disk

[ActiveDir] Exchange queue(OT)

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Kern
I have an issue where a user sends an email to about 1800 recipients using Outlook DL's. The email always gets stuck in the messages awaiting directory lookup queue for hours(sometimes days). The only thing logged in the app log is- Event Type:WarningEvent Source:MSExchangeTransportEvent

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange queue(OT)

2006-05-04 Thread Katherine Coombs
Hi Tom, I'm sure that you've spent more than the 5 seconds that I did trying to find a solution, but I came across this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=884996 HTH, Katherine From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: 04 May 2006

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange queue(OT)

2006-05-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Had that once with a 1000 user dist. list on our exchange server. It was a bunch of nest groups, along with global groups tossed in. The groups, specifically the global groups seemed to be the cause. Took for ever to enumerate the addresses. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Wade
There is no point in messing about with memory config if you only have a three drive RAID 5 array. Disk config is critical. How many users do you want to put on this box. less than 100? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan DeStefano Sent: Thu 04/05/2006 20:16

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange queue(OT)

2006-05-04 Thread Tom Kern
No, I spent about 2 secs before finding that. Alas, it doesn't apply to my enviorment. I sometims have an itchy send finger but, I try not to waste your guys time fi I can help it. Thanks On 5/4/06, Katherine Coombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tom, I'm sure that you've spent more than the 5

RE: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-04 Thread Dan DeStefano
Yes, far less than 100, on this box it is under 20. You do not think it is necessary to mess with the page file, even if only to make it static? Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Wade Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:06 PM To:

[ActiveDir] Intermittent 680 events.

2006-05-04 Thread Laura E. Hunter
So this one is puzzling me. Brand new 2003 R2 AD, all XPSP2 workstations. A few user accounts are getting continually locked out with Event 680, error code 0x006a (invalid password.) The usual culprits don't seem to be at fault since there are no services or scheduled tasks running under

[ActiveDir] InetOrgPersonFix.... Do I need it?

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Pochedley
Quick question that I can't find a simple, definitive answer to with a Google search... I've got a AD 2000 Forest (2000 FFL). We're preparing to upgrade our first DC to Server 2003 (planning to use the ADPrep off the R2 CD). I've already verified the AD, FRS, and other items are running well so

RE: [ActiveDir] InetOrgPersonFix.... Do I need it?

2006-05-04 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
I've already got Exchange 2003 running on the forest/domain. Do I need to run the InetOrgPersonFix.ldf in this environment or were the fixes incorporated into the Exchange 2003 forestprep/domainprep? No need to run InetOrgPersonFix.ldf Yes already incorporated into E2k3 Met vriendelijke

RE: [ActiveDir] InetOrgPersonFix.... Do I need it?

2006-05-04 Thread David Adner
When you installed Exchange 2003 you extended the schema and fixed the problem then. So no, you don't need the InetOrgPerson fix now. Running the Exchange 2003 schema extension (and allowing it to fully replicate out) before the 2003 AD schema extension is a common recommendation to avoid having

RE: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Wade
If you have 4gig of RAM then you should get minimal paging. (I know this is a great generalization) 1) Log file access is sequential, database is random 2) Keeping Log files write queue down is key to performance 3) log files are write only 4) raid-5 tends to have poor write performance (again

[ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-04 Thread Teo De Las Heras
We have a citrix server that where we're trying to add user accounts to from a trusted Windows 2000 domain. When we add the user account, only the SID shows up. In addition, we get an error when trying to save the permissions change. A trace of the communication between the citrix server and the

RE: [ActiveDir] InetOrgPersonFix.... Do I need it?

2006-05-04 Thread Lucas, Bryan
Stretching my memory banks... seems to me one of the steps of upgrading Exchange 2000--2003 was to verify the changes made by the LDF import. Why not just look at the schema and see if the changes have already been made. I interpret your email as you never had Exchange 2000, you started with

[ActiveDir] Remotely Migrating Machines

2006-05-04 Thread Brian Desmond
Ive got a good sized chunk of PCs which are joined to domains which no longer exist. Id like to migrate those machines into a domain that does exist. I have local admin access to the boxes. Id also like to do this remotely (either running the commands remotely or psexecing something out to

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange queue(OT)

2006-05-04 Thread joe
That would have been my logical response too; googling your erroragainst the support site pulls that exact KB and you didn't mention it in your initial post...So what else have you done and discounted before a bunch of other responses come through? Some additional questions to make the

RE: [ActiveDir] Remotely Migrating Machines

2006-05-04 Thread joe
You may be on your own there Brian... If you really start looking at writing something check out the API call NetJoinDomain. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-04 Thread joe
I am not a citrix (or even TS for that matter) person so you will have to bear with me. What do you mean you are trying to add user accounts? Is this a citrix thing? Add to what? Is the citrix server a DC or is it a member in a domain? If you try to add user accounts to local groups on the

RE: [ActiveDir] Intermittent 680 events.

2006-05-04 Thread joe
If the machines are consistently sending auths then sit down with them and watch them and start killing off processes. It is very likely software specific to them or some process they are following. Have fun! -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires...... WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?

2006-05-04 Thread joe
That was in the original specs I saw for MONAD. They backed off of it, I think some part of it might have been too tough for MSFT in the few years they had available... -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From:

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires...... WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?

2006-05-04 Thread joe
I was thinking of something a little more robust than ADUC with extensions. More of a combination of ADUC, DSSITES, ADSIEDIT, Schema Managemer, and some yet to be publicly seen ADAM specific management stuff. Maybe some form of tie in to MIIS/IIFP/ADAMSynch for easily configuring those products

RE: [ActiveDir] objects names cannot be shown in their user-friendly form

2006-05-04 Thread joe
(3) Broken secure channel -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:13 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires...... WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?

2006-05-04 Thread Brian Desmond
How about some good COM Addins so you can be consistent like MS? Then I can implement IJoePlugin17 to add a tab to your thing. Addins with .net are rather easy to architect though - would be my preference. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] exporting list of members of a security group

2006-05-04 Thread joe
Wow, you are lucky you learned that lesson so painlessly. That is like writing on some passed out person's face with crayon instead of permanent marker. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] TScmd help

2006-05-04 Thread joe
And understanding completely that those aren't actually attributes, they are properties that are being exposed through a special Terminal Server COM interface that is in a special DLL. Why is that important or different? Try to pull those attribs with a search instead of an enumeration?

RE: [ActiveDir] TScmd help

2006-05-04 Thread joe
Yes some Novell stuff can be found in there as well as some other things I have heard of through the years. Just clearing that attribute is a great idea... especially if you use Novell stuff as well as TS stuff. :) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -

FW: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires...... WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?

2006-05-04 Thread joe
Title: RE: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires.. WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?  Brian what did you do on that message, that came through blank for me unless I looked at it in OWA or forwarded it from OWA to myself again stripping something from it.

Re: [ActiveDir] Remotely Migrating Machines

2006-05-04 Thread steve patrick
If these are XP clients - check out WMI and JoinDomainOrWorkgroup method - I *think* this will work for you ( specifically in the case where the domain it is currently joined to is no longer available) but I havent tested this... steve - Original Message - From: joe

RE: [ActiveDir] which GC answers?

2006-05-04 Thread joe
“Originating DC” is also the “owner” of the object, right? Originating DC is simply the DC that the originating write occurred on, contrast with a replicate write. What DSA was the attribute for the object modified on. But, if the “owner” is no longer around, the object is garbage

RE: [ActiveDir] Query regarding Windows Time Service

2006-05-04 Thread joe
I would certainly check into it, it is implying the machines aren't syncing their time which could be bad for you. Normally I just set this with net time /setsntp:server However it would appear they just do the same thing. It used to be w32tm had a cool switch for testing the time

RE: [ActiveDir] GPResult incorrectly reporting DC's security groups?

2006-05-04 Thread joe
That is odd. Here is what one of my DCs shows BUILTIN\Administrators Everyone BUILTIN\Users Windows Authorization Access Group NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users This Organization ServerName$ Domain Controllers NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS The first thing I

RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone knows how to fix this?

2006-05-04 Thread joe
What is the attribute definition? 2K/K3/ADAM? -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 11:15 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Windows Vista - Windows Defender

2006-05-04 Thread joe
Probably, but I expect that would be a mighty small command prompt. :) I expect the stuff is there to make a normal transparent window as well, it just doesn't appear that MSFT went that direction for their apps for some reason. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-04 Thread joe
Wonder if you have a dorked up ACL, what happens if you try to take ownership of it? -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 8:58 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] GC Promotion

2006-05-04 Thread joe
Not sure how well that would scale, say you have 50 GCs in a site and only one DC of a certain domain, all GCs would want to replicate with that one DC which I wouldn't expect. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] GPResult incorrectly reporting DC's security groups?

2006-05-04 Thread Brian Desmond
Have you any idea what the this organization thing is? I noticed that when I went and did gpresult on one of mine in reference to this thread. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] GC Provider

2006-05-04 Thread joe
adfind -gc -b -f somefilter ;o) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian DesmondSent: Friday, February 24, 2006 1:10 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] GC

RE: [ActiveDir] TScmd help

2006-05-04 Thread Jef Kazimer
I meant that was the advice we were given from PSS on how to solve the problem. :) Though...we did end up clearing it after finding out they were not TS users. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] TScmd helpDate: Thu, 4 May 2006 21:17:34 -0400

RE: [ActiveDir] GPResult incorrectly reporting DC's security groups?

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Linehan
The This Organization security principal is used for selective authentication. More details on this can be found here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/1f33e9a1-c3c5-431 c-a5cc-c3c2bd579ff11033.mspx Thanks, -Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] which GC answers?

2006-05-04 Thread adriaoramos
I have a problema running that: this is one of the objects I want to delete, foudn with ldp Dn: CN=adriao,CN=Users,DC=esgoto,DC=sabesp,DC=com,DC=br 1 canonicalName: esgoto.sabesp.com.br/Users/adriao; 1 cn: adriao; 1 distinguishedName:

Re: [ActiveDir] TScmd help

2006-05-04 Thread A P
Thanks for the correction Joe. Userparameters would be the attribute and the properties can be pulled using the sample code. Of course, this works better if you have a small list or subset of target user IDs (which is how I used the sample code listed in the earlier post). Inspecting the values