RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?

2006-05-17 Thread nelson yong
Return Receipt Your document: RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain? was received by: nelson yong/IT/KSL at: 17/05/2006 02:25:29 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
first thing comes to mind is using WMI and check for the DNS server service and that it is also started 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) (

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread deji
For /F %a IN ('dsquery server -o rdn') do portqry -n %a -e 53 -i|find /i listening This will check if the server is listening on 53, but it won't tell you whether its MS-DNS or not. Sincerely, _ (, / | /) /) /) /---| (/_

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO wierdness during forest migration

2006-05-17 Thread Nicolas Blank
Darren, SA rocks, although things are a bit cold at the moment - for us cold is single figure above 0 ;) Hm, have seen stuff around the profile as well, but not always consistent enough to point a shaking finger at it and lay blame there. Turns out that ADMT failed to migrate sid-history and

Re: [ActiveDir] OID For A New Attribute

2006-05-17 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
Feigin, Andrew wrote: Does anyone know how to request one from MS? I used OIDGEN for my test environment, however for production I was advised to use a real one to avoid a possible collision. Use this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/certification/ad-registration.asp -- Tomasz Onyszko

RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?

2006-05-17 Thread Dave Wade
Providing you have up to date scripting engines loaded you can encrypt the script to keep casual eyes away:- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E7877F67-C447-4 873-B1B0-21F0626A6329displaylang=en -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Hello Freddy, Interesting post I am (with a few others) building the same type of tool: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/carlos/archive/2006/04/26/891.aspx this tool is built in .net though. One of the outputs we where going to be HTML (I like what you have done) maybe you want to integrate we

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any tak ers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Freddy HARTONO
Hi Carlos Cool, are you guys building ADST similar clones? :) Thank you and have a splendid day! Kind Regards, Freddy Hartono Group Support Engineer InternationalSOS Pte Ltd mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (+65) 6330-9785 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?

2006-05-17 Thread ASB
You can change them remotely. http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=Passwords.TXT Changing them via GPO simply means that the password will have to reside locally on the system, and there's no reason for that... -ASB On 5/16/06, Joe Lagreca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergio,That is the approach

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any tak ers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Lets take this offline so we don't pollute Tony's list ;) To answer you question: ADST clones - No I was not even aware of ADST :P I was just tired of always doing things manually or using different scripts. C Freddy HARTONO wrote: Hi Carlos Cool, are you guys building ADST similar clones?

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any tak ers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Ok just spoke to Freddy offline ADST is known now as ADRAP internally ;) just so we clear things up:) Carlos Magalhaes Carlos Magalhaes wrote: Lets take this offline so we don't pollute Tony's list ;) To answer you question: ADST clones - No I was not even aware of ADST :P I was just tired

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any tak ers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread neil.ruston
Carlos, If you were asked to 'sell' your new utility, how would you pitch it? What is its purpose? Why would someone buy it? What is its 'raison d'etre'? :) Given that we have various tools out there which help to troubleshoot and/or administer and/or monitor the environment, I wondered where

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells
Title: OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev? I'd be happy to take a look Freddy, I'm permanently on-site now so my joint dev. efforts would be sporadic at best but I would hope I'll have something of value to contribute. Nice work! --Dean WellsMSEtechnology*

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells
Dump the msDs-masteredBy attribute of the forestDNSzones NC head to determine the DCs running 2K3 upon which MS' DNS is installed and is (or at least was) running. You can further qualify that list using WMI or SC.EXE or any means of remotely querying the installed services. This is quite

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
I agree Dean it is very good work :-) -Original Message- From: Dean Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Send - AD mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17/05/2006 12:38 Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev ? I'd be happy to take a look

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any tak ers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Hello Neil good to hear from you :-) as a Microsoft employee I am not allowed to sell software ;-) which will *probably make it free. That alone will position the application as I am aware of the prices on similar applications. Its not ment to be a killer app its ment to help you guys as i sure

[ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Krenceski, William
I was reading Carlos's blog about not running DNS on the PDC emulator. It all makes perfect sense to not have DNS running on it. In my relatively small setup we have @60 servers, 560pc's, on 8 networks (some remote some vlans). I have 2 DC's at my main site with one at each remote site. All

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Hi Deji, I was thinking about the following but the results are wrong (and I don't understand why!): For /F %a IN ('dsquery server -o rdn -forest') do srvinfo \\%a |find /i DNS Server Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks! Mike Thommes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[OT] RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?

2006-05-17 Thread Al Mulnick
Have you not figured it out yet joe? I'm tormenting you ;) not really - this is really friggin' annoying actually The reason I haven't gone back to hotmail is that it's extremely annoying to try and read threads. Gmail is great for that vs. hotmail which can't cope. To date, I must be the only

Re: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?

2006-05-17 Thread Al Mulnick
Not that I can read these easily, but... What occurs to me is that you want the users to start using the domain logon only. If you set the cache to 0, as you likely reasoned out already, the user would have to be always connected. That's not good in an increasingly mobile clientele. "Force"

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Craig Cerino
At the very least it (DNS) should be on ONE of the DCs. I personally do not have an issue with DNS running on all of my DCs - -- which it is. I have heard/read all the arguments for and against. I still have no issue - - (Searching for wood to knock) Ive not had an issue/conflict once.

[ActiveDir] GPMC error with settings tab

2006-05-17 Thread Krenceski, William
For some strange reason when I use the GPMC, highlight a policy and select the settings tab I get an "unspecified error" and the policy settings do not display on the right side. Anyone aware of anything causing this problem. I installed the 2003 SP1 GPMC when it came out. Please help.I

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread ASB
Which blog entry... -ASB On 5/17/06, Krenceski, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading Carlos's blog about not running DNS on the PDC emulator. It all makes perfect sense to not have DNS running on it. In my relatively small setup we have @60 servers, 560pc's, on 8 networks (some

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Krenceski, William
This one http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/carlos/archive/2006/05/10/939.aspx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ASBSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:20 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT Which blog entry... -ASB On

RE: [ActiveDir] GPMC error with settings tab

2006-05-17 Thread Krenceski, William
Never mind...I just re-installed GPMC (with sp1) and it works now.. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krenceski, WilliamSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:18 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] GPMC error with settings tab For some

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Let me put that into perspective (and from reading the post again I thought it came across), the blog entry refers to networks with a large client load. I don't mean do NOT have DNS on your server it recommends (Option 2) releasing some of the load with the two registry settings, i.e.

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
If your DNS is integrated, find a big piece of wood to knock on... Or keep it around to bang your head on later. I'll run DNS on DCs if I have to. I will run it integrated if threatened badly enough. I recently ran into a nasty DNS problem in an integrated DNS where DNS would start but

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread ASB
Depending on how many DCs youhave in your environment, this might be a non-issue overall. We have DNS on all our DCs, and no adversity has been observed thus far... -ASB On 5/17/06, Krenceski, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
SO you are concerned about overall load then. This is something that is addressed in larger orgs often by segregating the PDC off in its own logical site which is hung off the main site it would normally be part of. That means it will usually not be used for autocoverage of other WAN sites and it

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Deployment

2006-05-17 Thread Robert Rutherford
Thanks Darren that worked. I Should have figured that out for myself from the error message. Its been a tough week J Much appreciated From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread neil.ruston
Interesting stuff joe .. Many of us have used ADI zones for many (well 7+) years now with little or no issue, in various orgs sizes and types. I'd like to hear more about this issue, since IMO, ADI zones offer huge advantages to a typical org over BIND text files. [I won't expand upon

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any tak ers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Freddy HARTONO
Title: OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev? Thanks Dean, ive sent it to you guys via my other mail account. let me know offline if you have problems on it, cheers Thank you and have a splendid day! Kind Regards, Freddy Hartono Group Support Engineer

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Krenceski, William
I'm clear now... Yeah, our infrastructure is very tiny compared to what you were referencing. I believe a little tweaking the registry will at least allow us to share the load a little better. As for Joe.we actually are AD Integrated DNS and have been since win2k came out. I don't have any

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Jef Kazimer
We have it on all of our DCs as well worldwide and have not seen an issue. But a question about integrated zones. I had an issue recently where a system owner wanted to know if people were resolving an old CNAME for one of their systems. They wanted to remove it from the zone, but wanted to

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Stuart Kwan
Oh ye of little faith.* _ * My personal views and not those of my employer, of course. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:55 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Al Mulnick
William figured it was best to leave it alone without registry tweaks (assuming anyone can read this email, I'm hoping I read that right - William, you likely don't have to worry about it.) Carlos was aiming that concept at people that have overloaded PDCe's and might need to off-load some

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Neil, I dont agree with you. when you say compared with the other services that a DC provides which services are your refering to (I was refering in my post to non AD Suite services i.e. NOT: AD Replication, FRS, DFS) I would like to know what other services you are referring to... Carlos

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Ken Cornetet
Since we are talking about DNS and DCs, I'll post my usual request: AD integrated secondaries would be a REAL handy thing! winmail.dat

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread deji
The output of the -forest switch is quoted. This is why you are running into issues This is what your Do statement would look like when using the -forest switch: srvinfo \\Name-Of-a-DC|find /i DNS Server The double-quote is throwing srvinfo off. Someone needs to fix the -forest switch in

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
I would say that, in general, ADI zones probably work well for most people. When it works and things are sunny everything is great, however when the shape is more pear like it just adds unnecessary issues into the puzzle. It is very much like most MSFT tech, when things work great, everyone

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Too bad you couldn't enable request logging in DNS itself. Auditing the entry is only going to tell you at least one thing asked for it, once in the cache, who knows how many asked. Scale is everything. :) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Oh my... Stuart Kwan of the Ottawa Kwan clan Should have known a thread combining DNS and AD could bring him out of the woodwork[1]. :) Good to see your postStuart. Come to share any interesting tidbits? How about ADI DNS running on members with ADAM? joe [1] Good morning,

RE: [OT] RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to force users to logon to domain?

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Dean marks his messages special so you have to pay attention to them. What's this windows live stuff? ;) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al MulnickSent: Wednesday, May 17,

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Ah crap. There Al goes again. That didn't last long. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al MulnickSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:26 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject:

[ActiveDir] (OT)Non authenticating DC

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Parris
With the upcoming release of Longhorn will it be possible via a tick box or GPO to disable authentication on a DC? For example when its used as a replication hub or as a lag site DC? I know how I could do do it now, ie SRV records\pause netlogon but something like this I could control via

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread Bernard, Aric
How about just performing a query against the directory for all objects have a value of DNS/* in their servicePrincipalName property? Of course you could restrict this query more by limiting it only to computer objects, etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread joe
I think you should also be able to look at the msDS-NC-Replica-Locations on the crossRef object as well. Maybe something like adfind -config -rb cn=partitions -f dnsroot=forestdnszones* msDS-NC-Replica-Locations -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread AdamT
Hi, I'm up for helping out a bit. Not quite sure how I'll fit in. I've got quite a bit of experience with batch file scripting, and some with VB6. Currently playing about with VB 2005 Express (before I fully commit to .NET). I also have a fair bit of experience with PHP and PERL, and limited

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Jef Kazimer
joe, I had considered the cache issue, but I figured that since it would be an integrated zone, it would exist on multiple DNS servers. So if eachDNS serverread the record once, it would generate enough audit flags to let us know it is still being used globally. :) As I said, it was a standard

RE: [ActiveDir] How to Determine Who Has Authenticated Against DC

2006-05-17 Thread Noah Eiger
Oh yes, obvious like that. ;-) Thanks. -- nme From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:39 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to Determine Who Has Authenticated Against DC Noah- Yes, any

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells \(MSETechnology\)
That was actually my original post ... but it was harder to identify the DN of the crossRef than that of the NC head (which is kinda easy ;0) and keeping the "query efficiency" mantra in mind,I preferred not to query period and thus changed my thinking and subsequently my post. In

RE: [ActiveDir] how to find DNS servers in a forest?

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells \(MSETechnology\)
hmmm ...interesting idea but since it must be scoped to a onelevel query at best, a subtree query at worst ... it consumes more resources than merely dumping a single property from the NC head (using a base scope). It may provide a more up-to-date state though ... I don't recollect if the

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells
It's not the thread's topic per se... you inferred a criticism directed toward his "@work" children ;0) ... haha --Dean WellsMSEtechnology* Email: dwells@msetechnology.comhttp://msetechnology.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent:

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells
Ignore joe ... he's just an LDAP/DS purist ... as a general rule of thumb, keep the AD representative DNS zones within the directory configured to accept secure updates only. Use app. NCs or don't depending upon the forest's config., too many variables and much discussion for me right now on that

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Laura E. Hunter
On 5/17/06, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But enough about DNS, I don't speak about services that start with D. You have to draw the line somewhere. DFS, DNS, DHCP, Damn SQL Server... You get the drift. ;) Doesn't 'Exchange' start with an 'E', though? Or are we dismissing that as an Off by 1

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
No I save up my D strength so I CAN talk about Exchange. I talk about and troubleshoot Exchange more than any AD person who hates Exchange that I know. :o) Dean and I just had our annual (or is it quarterly) IM debate on ADIDNS. We apparently have no influence over each other's opinions in this

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Jef Kazimer
I think my company users Lotus Notes just because it doesn't integrate with anything so less headaches. :( From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] DNS on a DC or NOT Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:32:15 -0400

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Ignore Dean. He's going to try and D.O.S. a couple of companies I specified to him. If you see Dean's name in the papers next to buildings that are burning to the ground then you can listen to the conspiracy theories that require running S-DDNS. ;o) How many times was your NT environment DOS'ed

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells
LOL! -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] DNS on

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Jef Kazimer
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mucker mucker \Muck"er\, n. A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [Slang] Let the Ragin' begin! (Thought I could have sworn it was a lazy way to say "mofo" :) ) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

[ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Milton Sancho
I have a Win 2003 -installed exchenge server 2003Scenario: I have an user who has configure her exchange mailbox properly; the user is using a cache mode file(.ost), so far good. Yesterday I configured her laptop because she is leaving the country, I configured (Exchange access over HTTP) plus

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells
Try again - http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/m.htm- "Noun. Friend. E.g."Alright my old mucker." [1940s]" ... Neil or Mark or any of the other English folk will no doubt attest to its usage. --Dean WellsMSEtechnology* Email: dwells@msetechnology.comhttp://msetechnology.com From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Did I not get the memo about this list changing to the Exchange list? Hmmm... Maybe I need to re-evaluate my filters. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Milton SanchoSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 1:24 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir]

Re: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Laura E. Hunter
BTW, anyone know what a mucker is? I am trying to figure out if I am supposed to be morally outraged. eg joe I use mucker as a compliment, but in my vernacular it's used in reference to a semi-skilled hockey player whose lack of scoring ability is balanced by his ability to check an opposing

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Ah, so that would be a no. I am indeed a low and vulgar laborer. Some of my best work was done when I was a perl diver and I don't mean writing code in a language that came from Larry Wall or dating lovely women in the orient. eg Course anyone else tries to call me a mucker and I will have

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Don't back peddle now ya bloodylimey. (a) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean WellsSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:35 PMTo: Send - AD mailing listSubject: RE:

[ActiveDir] [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM

2006-05-17 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
Title: [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM OKI've got a nice issue here and I've been bashing my head against my desk to the point where I need help. I'm writing a very directory intensive application in C# with ASP.Net 2.0. If I authenticate to the webpage via NTLM my directory calls will fail, this

[ActiveDir] ADAM Bundle Docs

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Just an FYI to anyone working on ADAM SP1 and looking to bundle it... the bundling docs are all wrong. The commands and switches do not work for ADAM SP1. I have started workingwith MSFT on getting that corrected in the help file, bundling doc, and some otheritems on the ADAM downloads

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Milton Sancho
Sorry ... I don't understand your comment On 5/17/06, Hutchins, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did I not get the memo about this list changing to the Exchange list? Hmmm... Maybe I need to re-evaluate my filters. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Milton

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Tony Murray
Milton (and everyone else), it would be good if you can use OT: in the subject field if you plan to post something off the topic of AD. That way others can use Inbox rules to filter the messages out if they dont want to see them. In response to your question, I think we need a little

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Rich Milburn
Whats all this mucking about, eh? Enough skivin off, ya buggas, theres workabe done, and every little elps ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Wells Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:35 PM To: Send - AD mailing list Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT]

[ActiveDir] Removing ADAM from configuration set

2006-05-17 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
Title: Removing ADAM from configuration set I'm currently blowing away the server object and nTDSDSA object I wish to separate from CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,CN=GUID. Is there a better way to knock it out of the configuration set? I tried using

[ActiveDir] ADAM Schema Questions

2006-05-17 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
Title: ADAM Schema Questions 1.) If you have a ton of server in a configuration set, when you do a schema extension and one box is down will it work? In my test I had two ADAM servers and it would not take the schema update because it couldnt replicate (I purposely broke replication with

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Dean Wells
That would imply I had a reason to ya pillock ... believe me, you'll know when I insult you ;0) --Dean WellsMSEtechnology* Email: dwells@msetechnology.comhttp://msetechnology.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Arnold
Laura, a Mucker is, in English, a good friend. You are probably not to be termed a Mucker, other words might apply, but Jimmy is one of mine and Dean/Joe is one of yours. Oh, and Joe is old and smells of wee, so pay no heed to his Exchange rants. Exchange is indeed special because it's such a

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Self grown AD webtool sample output - any takers in joint dev ?

2006-05-17 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
What are your requirements? Also if you can get over .Net big footprint, it's very easy to learn (I came from a VBS background). Nowadays I struggle more trying to write cmdlets in powershell then anything I can do in C#. -Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Parris
Give the guy a break, instead of giving him a hard time, suggest an alternative method of resolution. Reading his message he is trying to do the best with the tools he has/knows about. -Original Message- From: Hutchins, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:36:14

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Presley, Steven
Milton, What he is suggesting is that the topic of discussion typically is about Active Directory (although there are a few off topic posts about Exchange). I think you'll find that there are better lists out there that deal specifically with Exchange (the exchange2003-yahoo group is a good

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM

2006-05-17 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
Bernier, Brandon (.) wrote: OK…I've got a nice issue here and I've been bashing my head against my desk to the point where I need help. I'm writing a very directory intensive application in C# with ASP.Net 2.0. If I authenticate to the webpage via NTLM my directory calls will fail, this is

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread deji
We've always tried to answer Exchange questions here. YMMV, but most Exchange admins I know are also buried deep in AD world. Most AD admins I know also work daily on Exchange. With the close integration between Exc and AD, I feel that asking Exc-related question here is to be expected. I agree

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread deji
then he reconfigured the mailbox and set to use a new .ost file . The missing emails are very likely sitting in a .pst on the user's computer and just needs to be attached to the new profile. Sincerely, _ (, / | /) /) /)

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Ensure that there is no filter view on that Outlook client. Attach via remote access to those workstations. There are times that the end user has clicked things in Outlook. It's amazing how things just work when I walk near a desktop.. don't know what that is... If you can see the ost file

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Well, nothing against him at all. I think it is fair enough to ask a tremendous pool of talent on this list a vaguely (potentially) directory related question. I am merely voicing my opinion that there seems to have been a rash of Exchange related questions to the list in the last week or so.

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Hi Mark, You are right - Exchange is great - what I love especially is it's capabilities of administrative delegation. See you in Boston? Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner Profile Publications: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=35E388DE-4885-4308-B489-F2F1214C811 D

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread Thomas O'Brien
As well as referring to thugs in the NHL, a mucker also refers to a mineworker. The act of removing recently blasted rock is known as mucking. Thomas P.S: The old Ricci, Sundstrom, S Thornton line (during the D. Sutter days) for the Sharks were also known as the Mucking Line. Principally for

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] DNS on a DC or NOT

2006-05-17 Thread joe
LOL. For those not at the DEC 2006 Dean and joe show presentation, Mark's 'Exchange is SPECIAL' comment is a direct reference to something I said when bouncing around talking about AD and bad applications. I miraculously stopped and looked straight at a Microsoft MVP for Exchange (Mark) while

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread joe
As much as it pains me, I have to agree with Deji, we do handle a considerable number of Exchange questions here. Most tend towards server side operation over outlook but all should get the OT badge because they aren't strictly AD unless the question is Exchange but directly related to AD

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Sorry, should have been a smiley in there somewhere around the first line. ;o) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:25

RE: [ActiveDir] OT - W2K/E2K upgrade to W2K3/E2K3

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Yep... Attributes added to the global catalog. ms-DS-Trust-Forest-Trust-Info. Trust-Direction, Trust-Attributes, Trust-Type, Trust-Partner, Security-Identifier, ms-DS-Entry-Time-To-Die, Message Queuing-Secured-Source, Message Queuing-Multicast-Address, Print-Memory, Print-Rate, Print-Rate-Unit

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Milton Sancho
Thnaks very much to the people who understand my concern about the question... I posted the question here altought it is not the right place because there are many intelligente people who might understand my petition. I am going to consider your comments and try to find the right please to

RE: [ActiveDir] How to Determine Who Has Authenticated Against DC

2006-05-17 Thread joe
If by period of time you mean "ever" then you have a "cute" little trick you can use and it doesn't require that you ever had auditing enabled... adfind -h somedc-default -f "(samaccounttype=805306368)(logoncount=1)" logoncount -csv I know some folks who track that attribute on all DCs

RE: [ActiveDir] (OT)Non authenticating DC

2006-05-17 Thread joe
I am not familiar with anything like this being on the drawing board. Doesn't mean it isn't though. This is one topic that definitely doesn't need the OT moniker in my opinion. joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Overriding local computer logon scripts - anyway to do it?

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Absolutely concur. In fact, one of my recommendations to Microsoft for the RODCs that get admin delegation is to disallow domain admin interactive logons to them once the administrator delegation is enabled. Anyone who allows non-DAs onto a DC and then still logs on with their DA ID is asking to

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Name (Pre-Win2k) - Is it important

2006-05-17 Thread joe
Don't you love GPOs? I was just chatting with a good friend about them the other day about GPOs. Seems someone modified a GPO (allegedly only one small unrelated thing) and all of a sudden the NIC was broken and clustering was screwed and all sorts of stuff was happening. This prompted me

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Hutchins, Mike
I agree 100% that it is NOT exchange intolerant, again, just makin an off the wall comment, didn't mean to p*** anyone off. :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:10 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange Cache Mode -Help

2006-05-17 Thread Hutchins, Mike
You just like it. :-) And, for the record, I up until about 2 months ago did Exchange as well as the AD stuff, we are trying to separate the 2 so I now I do AD and just help out as sort of Tier 3.5 on Exchange. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Overriding local computer logon scripts - anyway to do it?

2006-05-17 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Wasn't one of the infamous Dr. J stories about how they had attempted to gain access to one of the msn servers by having a boobie trap script like that. If a person had logged in with certain creds it was indeed set to fire off a script? Pen test proof of concept story? joe wrote:

[ActiveDir] OT: Remind me to go look closer at my Vista box....

2006-05-17 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Events and Logging The Group Policy infrastructure has changed significantly in Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn. Group Policy processing no longer exists within the Winlogon process but is hosted as its own service. Additionally, the Group Policy engine no longer relies on the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Overriding local computer logon scripts - any way to do it?

2006-05-17 Thread Freddy HARTONO
Hi guys Just wondering is there a techie solutions to this, example like putting on a logon script for the domain admins or any other priv accounts - that pauses any logon scripts or override local scripts. Logon scripts are still performed LSDO (local site domain ou) models isnt it? So Local

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Overriding local computer logon scripts - any way to do it?

2006-05-17 Thread joe
The solution is do not log on interactively on non-trusted machines. There is no technical solution. If you think you found one, I can assure you it can be sidestepped. Administrators own the machines they administrate completely, there are not levels of ownership where say a domain admin is more

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