RE: [ActiveDir] Perform gpupdate, start or shut downs through ADUC

2006-04-21 Thread Alexander Suhovey
- Show user data (last logon, last bad logon etc) I thought you could have it already with Acctinfo.dll from Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. --Alexander -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Hacking up QB to run under user rights (the official Intuit answer)

2006-03-19 Thread Alexander Suhovey
http://www.threatcode.com/testing.htm I was scrolling through article when I stumbled upon following text that (as I understand) QB2004 displays for LUAs: Your user account for Windows was created with Restricted access to system resources. This will prevent QuickBooks from operating properly.

RE: [ActiveDir] HP Insight Manger Question

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
Well, I'm not an HP employee but... AFAIK sensors data such as temperature or fan speeds are not collected by Data Collect jobs so they are not in SIM database. You can check that by querying CIM_Sensors table in your Insight_ SQL database. Additional information on this topic can also be

RE: [ActiveDir] Hash-based Software Restriction Policy

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
Of Alexander Suhovey Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:02 PM To: Alexander Suhovey Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Hash-based Software Restriction Policy I wonder if this approach would work in modern hostile environment where patches just keep coming. Don't you think that locking down workstation(s

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 and W2K3 SP1

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
All the answers are there on official R2 web site. microsoft.com is full of info on what's, why's, where's about R2. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx F.e.: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/R2/R2FAQ.mspx

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 and W2K3 SP1

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta, Nathaniel V Contractor NASIC/SCNA Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] R2 and W2K3 SP1 [..] Microsoft does not declare the

RE: [ActiveDir] Hash-based Software Restriction Policy

2006-02-14 Thread Alexander Suhovey
I wonder if this approach would work in modern hostile environment where patches just keep coming. Don't you think that locking down workstation(s) in this way will put a great deal of additional work to the change management process? In case you don't have one you'll really need it. You see,

RE: [ActiveDir] Hash-based Software Restriction Policy

2006-02-14 Thread Alexander Suhovey
I wonder if this approach would actually work for today's situation where patches just keep coming. Don't you think that locking down workstation(s) in this way will put a great deal of additional work to the change management process? In case you don't have one you'll really need it. You see,

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:50 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] password changer That's what I'm after. I was hoping Al had a way to query

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer I think AlM is pointing out that it isn't generic. Everyone would

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-21 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:40 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] password changer RE: ...have all GUI tools output MONAD output for

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
If anyone knows how to query a password against complexity requirements, I'd like to know how. When it comes to string validation the answer is almost always Regular Expressions. The vbscript example below tests arbitrary string for compliance with Password must meet security requirements

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-17 Thread Alexander Suhovey
@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] password changer Al, just so I understand you're not querying for the password complexity in this script, but rather just making the script check what you already know the password complexity to be. Correct? Al On 12/17/05, Alexander Suhovey [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS vs NETBIOS name? Or something else?

2005-11-23 Thread Alexander Suhovey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, Aric Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:27 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS vs NETBIOS name? Or something else? The NetBIOS domain name and the DNS

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Desktop vs. Remote assistance

2005-07-14 Thread Alexander Suhovey
Just for reference: Use following to create shortcuts to remote assistance UIs. 1. Offer remote assistance: explorer.exe hcp://CN=Microsoft%20Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US/Remote%20Assis tance/Escalation/Unsolicited/Unsolicitedrcui.htm 2. Ask for assistance: rcimlby.exe -LaunchRA

RE: [ActiveDir] Purge Stale AD Records

2005-04-05 Thread Alexander Suhovey
Isn't it as simple as Start Run dnsmgmt.msc , open Forward/Reverse zone in question, sort by name, shoot? Technically, if you have AD-integrated DNS zones they are *stored* in AD but you still manage DNS with DNS MMC snap-in... -- Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Deny logon from nondomain workstation.

2005-03-05 Thread Alexander Suhovey
Artem, If you are looking for something built-in then IPSec may be an answer. Take a look at this article: Ask Us About... Security - December 15, 2001 Building a Trusted Computing Infrastructure with IPSec AH http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/askus/au

RE: [ActiveDir] Write Cache Enabled

2004-11-03 Thread Alexander Suhovey
I will second the thanks to Al for great answer. I'm not an expert in this field but just as addon - according to MS docs on this matter the reason this event is appearing at every boot is that not all HDDs have NVRAM to save changes to Write Cache settings. So this setting falls to HDD's default

RE: [ActiveDir] Install only Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in

2004-11-03 Thread Alexander Suhovey
To answer the question: http://www.petri.co.il/extract_specific_tools_from_adminpak_msi.htm Al. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Seet Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir]