RE: [ActiveDir] Largest AD DIT

2007-01-19 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Do you mean biggest production DIT? ~Eric made a 2^31-1 object DIT in the test lab ... in fact he's going to talk about that at DEC. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Isenhour, Joseph Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:41 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Client time sync

2007-01-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
And w32tm /monitor will show to what machine it is actually syncing, if any. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:24 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Client time

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Hello?

2007-01-04 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Only if you had to install Linux. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Gilbert Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Hello? Hey, Santa brought me coupon for a new

[ActiveDir] Directory Experts Conference Early-bird pricing expires this week

2007-01-04 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
, Certificate Lifecycle Manager, InfoCard, and Rights Management Server So now's the time... Check the agenda and register at www.dec2007.com. Thanks, Gil Kirkpatrick Conference Founder MVP, Directory Services List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org

[ActiveDir] Directory Experts Conference 2007

2006-12-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Dingle's ideas for the workshop at http://dec.editme.com/Dec2007CardspaceWorkshop and make your comments. Any feedback on the sessions? Go to http://dec.editme.com/DEC2007Sessions. Thanks again for your time and input, and I hope to see you at DEC next year! -gil Gil Kirkpatrick DEC Founder Meet us

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Reports

2006-12-19 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Or NetPro's ReportADMin (http://www.netpro.com/products/reportadmin/index.cfm) -gil CTO, NetPro From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:08 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Possibility of writing to ntSecurityDescriptor with LDAP and Unix

2006-12-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
in winnt.h. I don't know if the Samba headers have a usable definition or not. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santiago, Felderi (F.) Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:50 PM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager

2006-12-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
- From: Martin Tuip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:16 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager Competition benefits customers. Martin - Original Message - From: Gil Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager

2006-12-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
shamelss plug NetPro has an AD data recovery product called RestoreADmin that competes very well with the Quest product. It's solves the AD object recovery problem nicely. See http://www.netpro.com/products/restoreadmin/index.cfm. /shameless plug -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager

2006-12-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager Does anybody know what independent rankings look like for AD DR tools? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Wed 12/6/2006 9:59 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Pointsec software vs. Active Directory

2006-11-28 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Its curious you saw significant disk I/O with no corresponding increase in LDAP activity. Is the application running on the DC in your test environment? Is it generating a lot of authentication traffic? -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Pointsec software vs. Active Directory

2006-11-28 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
recently changed object on the domain controller. The domain controller holds the highest uSNChanged value in the highestCommittedUSN attribute. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: dinsdag 28 november 2006 20:01

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in Local Administrators Group

2006-07-11 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Set the resolution to 4096x6720, and... ahh, there it is. NOW the whole ego fits on the screen. :Q -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:58 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Computer Account in

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Question

2006-07-01 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I never considered that the license cost of MIIS was all that high. Even if you paid list (which not many of the customers I've worked with did), its not a huge outlay. The significant costs are in the analysis, requirements, engineering, and operations. -gil -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Configuration

2006-06-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
OS, DIT, logs on separate spindles. Enough memory to store the DIT + overhead. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Lilianstrom Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:24 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] DC

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Configuration

2006-06-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Ethics? Thats the stuff the guys in the other party don't have. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 3:52 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] DC Configuration Exactly... Congress: Ethics? What's that?

RE: RE : RE: [ActiveDir] AD LDAP Logging.

2006-06-09 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
You can use SPA, or you can use logman and tracerpt to get detailed LDAP stats. SPA does a lot of analysis for you and diagnoses several classes of AD perf problems. Tracerpt will give you a fairly raw look at all the LDAP traffic. I covered all three in my DEC AD Performance session (which

RE: [ActiveDir] max password age where else to look?

2006-06-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Think divisble by 7 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:36 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] max password age where else to look? I'll second guess joe - 91 stops ppl

[ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I'm receiving this error on subtree searches of the Config NC, on a French version of Windows 2003 SP1. Anyone have any ideas? (From LDP) ldap_search_s(ld, "CN=Configuration,DC=francais,DC=local", 2, "(objectclass=*)", attrList, 0, msg)Error: Search: Erreur d'opération. 1Server error:

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
. If no, sometimes a offline defrag can save the database. Otherwise, what is the backup situation for this domain? Don't be tempted to repair your database, that's unsupported. The hardware should be considered suspect at this point. Cheers, BrettSh [msft] On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Gil Kirkpatrick wrote

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
. Can we see the VHD before you blow it away? I can set up a place for you to upload it to. Please let me now how large it isjust ping me offline and we can coordinate. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Monday

RE: [ActiveDir] Query for user AD info from web application

2006-05-30 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I assume you mean an X.400 address? I would guess that the translation between PseudoSQL and LDAP doesn't properly escape the literal strings. Try using the LDAP escaping rules on the X.400 email address, e.g. instead of 'g=john,s=smith,o=foo,prmd=bar' etc., try 'g\3djohn\3bs\3dsmith\3b'

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
CHKDSK? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 6:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT) How can I take ownership of it? It doesn't have a security tab and xcacls doesn't

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hey Rocky, Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system. Most people on the list won't have a clue as to what I'm talking about anyway... In any case, how do increased operational costs and overhead not qualify as "harm"? I'm confused by your

RE: [ActiveDir] IIFP GAL Sync

2006-04-11 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I'm pretty sure it it works fine with W2K AD. MIIS itself needs to run on WS2K3 though. -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony MurraySent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:16 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] IIFP GAL Sync Hi all I was

RE: [ActiveDir] List problems - resolved

2006-04-11 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hey Laura, did you ever think that maybe it was just you? :) -g -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura E. Hunter Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] List problems - resolved Hey

RE: [ActiveDir] Where's Deji.. (was Quiet? DEC? Related?)

2006-04-02 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related? Just

[ActiveDir] Thanks to all who came to DEC 2006

2006-03-31 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related? Just wrapped up Day 3. 530 people. General consensus is that it was the best DEC ever. More to follow when I can type on something

[ActiveDir] DEC photos?

2006-03-31 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Reset Local Admin Passwords If anyone has photos from DEC 2006, could you please send them to me? I want to put them up on the DEC web site. The presentations that were NOT on the USB drives will be posted up on the site in the next week or so (as soon as Stella

RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related?

2006-03-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Just wrapped up Day 3. 530 people. General consensus is that it was the best DEC ever. More to follow when I can type on something bigger than a credit card. -gil -Original Message- From: Ayers, Diane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Server will not Start

2006-03-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: DNS Server will not Start MY first thought was missing service dependency of DNS on AD, but my DCs dont have one either. Is there any commonality between the servers? -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Saturday, March

RE: [ActiveDir] Individual admin accounts vs Generic admin account.

2006-03-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
There's no way you should use a single admin account. You have no way to track who did what. Managing admin accounts and their group memberships is not difficult, certainly not as difficult as trying to figure out who screwed something up when the audit logs all say Administrator. You shouldn't

RE: [ActiveDir] What do you do when ooops won't work?

2006-03-09 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Thu 3/9/2006 1:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] What do you do when ooops won't work? Can you get the server

RE: [ActiveDir] What do you do when ooops won't work?

2006-03-09 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Thu 3/9/2006 2:12 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] What do you do when ooops won't work? Actually, I think all three of Deji's friends are on this list anyway... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] Cleaning Up AD

2006-03-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
The link on our page is screwed up, and so is the TechTarget search engine. I'll post a working link as soon as I find it. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Singler Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 7:58 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Cleaning Up AD

2006-03-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
16 Steps to a Healthier and Happier Active Directory is archived here: http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=lobby.j speventid=17740sessionid=1partnerref=swsc_sitepost_02_14_06key=F2F27 A63A35B4F457FECDA9201B08DBAeventuserid=5675189 And the slides are at

RE: [ActiveDir] SBS 2003 Domain/Forest Rename

2006-03-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Ni! Ni! Ni! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee, Wook Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SBS 2003 Domain/Forest Rename Importance: Low Dare I suggest a shrubbery? ;-)

RE: [ActiveDir] SBS 2003 Domain/Forest Rename

2006-03-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
One that looks nice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee, Wook Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SBS 2003 Domain/Forest Rename Importance: Low Dare I suggest a shrubbery?

RE: [ActiveDir] SBS 2003 Domain/Forest Rename

2006-03-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
And not too expensive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee, Wook Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SBS 2003 Domain/Forest Rename Importance: Low Dare I suggest a shrubbery?

RE: [ActiveDir] MVP mini summit at DEC 2006

2006-02-23 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] MVP mini summit at DEC 2006 Daft question maybe, but is this open to MVPs only? neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil

[ActiveDir] MVP mini summit at DEC 2006

2006-02-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Alym has scheduled a MVP mini summit session at the conclusion of DEC 2006 in Las Vegas. We'll meet on Wednesday March 29th at 4pm in one of the DEC session rooms (tbd). Drugs, booze, and loose women will follow... or at least that's what I was led to believe. :) Alym is swamped with another

RE: [ActiveDir] admin SD holder

2006-02-20 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232199/. Briefly, AD copies the security descriptor of the AdminSDHolder object (there is one per domain) to all users, groups, and computersthat are members of administrator groups in that domain. This makes sure that delegated admins don't change the

RE: [ActiveDir] admin SD holder

2006-02-20 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
After the flurry of recent hits, its now up to #3! :) -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-WeidnerSent: Monday, February 20, 2006 3:50 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] admin SD holder Number 4 on the google query

RE: [ActiveDir] admin SD holder

2006-02-20 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
You're correct, not many people query adminSDHolder... Most of the queries are something like "disappearing security descriptors" or "Active Directory what the f***" -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-WeidnerSent: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:12

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Announces Vision and Roadmap for Active Directory

2006-02-15 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
The marketing message is finally catching up with what Stuart has been talking about at DEC the last couple of years. -g -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:20 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] DR implementation planning

2006-02-09 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Guido and I did a DR webinar a few months back, and an associated whitepaper... You can get the whitepaper at http://www.netpro.com/welcome/disasterrecovery/index.cfm. The last I looked, you had to register for it (email address, etc.) We recorded the webinar as well. You can get to it at

RE: [ActiveDir] DSQUERY filter for space character only

2006-02-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
That will only work on appropriately indexed attributes. Try \20. That would be the appropriate escaped filter. -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivarez, Sergio J Mr ANOSC/FCBSSent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 11:23 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Links

2006-02-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Adeel, Ah, the old "best practices" question.You'll get a lot of responses regarding the whole concept of "best practices" which will ultimately say "it depends" :) For instance, what sort of administrators do you have? Are they experienced, well educated in AD, reliable, etc? What's your

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Restart

2006-02-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
net stop dns net start dns From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:30 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] DNS Restart Cannot find my notes on this one. What is the command line to restart DNS

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Change Tracking Database

2006-01-30 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Youve pretty much described ChangeAuditor from NetPro. Its not freeware though. See http://www.netpro.com/products/changeauditor/index.cfm. -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Eiger Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:05 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] DC II

2006-01-26 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
If a client can't find a DC in its site, it will then try to find any DC in its domain, regardless of site, based on the weights and priorities associated with the DCs locator records in DNS. Site link cost doesn't enter into the process. However, NETLOGON does use site link cost to determine the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: WMI to retrieve DHCP leases

2006-01-26 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: WMI to retrieve DHCP leases Another tack to take is to use something like NMAP. It's a very effective IP discovery tool. I suppose it all depends on what you mean by "out there". Counting objects in AD will tell you the computers have been joined to the domain at

RE: [ActiveDir] can variables be used in the registry?

2006-01-26 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
It would depend on the app that is interpreting the registry entry. The registry itself doesn't automatically do parameter replacement like that. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes, Michael M. Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Gauging AD experience

2006-01-20 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
But at least you're not bitter... -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CC/DNA) [E]Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 12:06 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Gauging AD experience In my experience, when good

RE: [ActiveDir] OU Delegation

2006-01-19 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
when the GPO guys screwed up on the main account domains. The locked down EVERY single userid to kiosk mode Most people mitigate this sort of risk by technical review, automating the change app lication, and testing in a separate test forest. I can't see creating a separate domain as a

RE: [ActiveDir] Permissions vanishing

2006-01-19 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Token Bloat The fact that nothing showed up in the audit log is disturbing. Can you modify the ACL manually and see the audit entries that appear? Is there possibly a group policy that is changing the ACLs? -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] ADPrep Version Questions

2006-01-19 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
There are no .dlls that it needs outside of whats in systerm32, but I think there are a bunch of .ldf files in \i386 that it uses. -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah EigerSent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:42 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
When you say "lose their account", do you mean the computer object in AD disappears? Or something else? -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda CaseySent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:42 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] AD computer

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DNS in Windows delegation to Novell DNS

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I'm not familiar with Novell's DNS implementation... I assume it is based on BIND? See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/73c0ae36-8058-43d1-8809-046eb03b73fb.mspxand

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Gauging AD experience

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Yikes, I missed that one! When did that happen? -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robinson, ChuckSent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:09 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Gauging AD experience Internosis is now EMC

RE: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
You might enable auditing on the appropriate OU to find out who is doing the deleting. You need to enable AD auditing in the Domain Controllers group policy, and then add auditing entries on the security descriptor of the appropriate OU, e.g CN=Computers to track creation and deletion of

RE: [ActiveDir] OU Delegation

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Tell him he needs to go to DEC. Its where all the cool AD people go :) -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:11 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OU Delegation Boy, I just had a

RE: [ActiveDir] Migrate domain to separate forest

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Someone needs to do a cost-benefit analysis. I would guess that 2 forests = 1.6x the operations costs more or less. I don't know Exchange at all... isn't there some way to constrain the policy to a subset of mailboxes? -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OU Delegation

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I heard you weren't going to make it this year. High suckage factor. -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:21 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OU Delegation Well, if I were going

RE: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Let me find my rolled up newspaper... :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian DesmondSent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:50 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed NO NO NO NO NO BAD

RE: [ActiveDir] Migrate domain to separate forest

2006-01-17 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Just out of curiosity, why do they think they want their own forest? In any case, there's no way that I'm aware of to carve off a domain and make it a new forest root... I think you'll have to create the forest and migrate the users and resources. ADMT would seem to be a reasonable way to go. Or

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 (way OT ...)

2006-01-13 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
When you saved a file, it didn't overwrite the old version... You would have files like foo.txt;1 foo.txt;2, etc. until you explicitly removed the old versions. -g -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley Sent: Friday, January 13,

RE: [ActiveDir] [List Owner] Mailing list is 5 today!

2006-01-13 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
That's really cool. Congratulations on creating the best online forum for AD professionals. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:41 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Congrat Jorge !!!!!

2006-01-13 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Congrat Jorge ! Amazingly I blogged this a week ago (http://www.gilsblog.com/index.cfm?commentID=44 ) How did Jorge not find out till today? Don't they have email over there? :) Congratulations Jorge, you certainly deserve it. -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAPS SRV Records?

2006-01-13 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: LDAPS SRV Records? Try http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> These are relatively new (WS2003 perhaps?) We developed our own DNS functions over Winsock. -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernier, Brandon (.)Sent: Friday, January 13,

RE: [ActiveDir] Congrat Jorge !!!!!

2006-01-13 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
, how did you find out? Cheers, Jorge From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Fri 2006-01-13 22:34 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Congrat Jorge ! Amazingly I blogged this a week ago (http://www.gilsblog.com

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

2006-01-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
 Its not Vegas the Green Valley Resort is in Henderson, NV. :) Nope, nothing to see here. No gambling, no shows, no fast women. Just boring technical sessions. Move along. -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich MilburnSent: Tuesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

2006-01-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I'll get right on that... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Onyszko Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:22 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 Almeida Pinto, Jorge de wrote: it looks like it

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

2006-01-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
 Well, I'm going. But I get a free pass... :) -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark ParrisSent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:17 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 Of the list how many people are

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Request for Test AD Poplulation Data

2006-01-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Try ADTEST from MSFT. Along with creating an arbitrarily large AD population, it can also generate authentication and query traffic so you can load test DCs. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4814fe3f-92ce-4 871-b8a4-99f98b3f4338DisplayLang=en -gil -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: DC Server monitoring tools

2006-01-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Way OT: DC & Server monitoring tools DirectoryAnalyzer from NetPro. http://www.netpro.com/products/directoryanalyzer/index.cfm. Paid for by the Sell More NetPro Products Committee. (c) 2006 All Rights Reserved. -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

2006-01-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
 I've passed your comment on to Stella. We've done nice backpacks the last couple of years that seem to be well-regarded. After seeing King Kong, I now have a much greater appreciation of the term "going ape". -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

2006-01-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
05, 2006 3:51 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 can I get a free pass? jorge From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Thu 2006-01-05 23:36 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request

2005-12-13 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
How about http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/ucs/ds/dmcnmg/default.mspx -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Defrag

2005-12-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits/mo/winsrvmg/adpog/adpog3.mspx#EZAA recommends that you do it on an "as needed" basis, as determined by available disk space, or after large batch delete operations. -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike

RE: [ActiveDir] TCP/IP Filtering in Windows server 2000/ 2003

2005-12-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
If you are talking about restricting access on a DC, you can use the little known feature in AD called the IP Deny List. It was documented in W2K, and still works in WS2K3. Essentially, it is a list of IP addresses and subnets that the DC will not accept AD connections from. You can set the IP

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
... what is the impact of the maintenance task? jorge From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Tue 11/29/2005 6:20 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer I'd move the FSMOs just in case something

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 3rd Book

2005-11-21 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Yes and yes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory 3rd Book Is Robbie Allen still going to MIT for his Masters or

RE: [ActiveDir] Audit Collection Services

2005-11-14 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
They certainly realize that small firms want those features, but they will leave it to the ISV community to satisfy the need, at least for now. There are at least a dozen third-party log collection products, probably more, some of them very inexpensive. Or there's MSFTs own free LogParser. ACS's

RE: [ActiveDir] Directory Experts Conference 2006 call for presentations

2005-11-09 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
and loads of networking opportunities. Feel free to send your proposals to me, or submit them through the DEC web site, www.dec2006.com/callforpapers.cfm. And remember, be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Don''t miss the Directory Experts Confe

RE: [ActiveDir] Netlogon.dns (2)

2005-11-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Were the entries dropped off the end of the file, or were they missing from the middle? Any pattern to the entries that were missing? -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-WeidnerSent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:36 PMTo:

[ActiveDir] Directory Experts Conference 2006 call for presentations

2005-11-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
through the DEC web site, www.dec2006.com/callforpapers.cfm. And remember, be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Don''t miss the Directory Experts Conference 2006. More information at www.dec2006.com.

RE: [ActiveDir] Directory Experts Conference 2006 call for presentations

2005-11-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:02 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Directory Experts Conference 2006 call for presentations Greetings list-members DEC 2006 is coming up in March, and I'd like to extend this invitation

RE: [ActiveDir] Global Catalog

2005-10-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
] On Behalf Of Gil |Kirkpatrick |Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:56 AM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Global Catalog | |I think it is better to describe a domain as a policy and |administration boundary (and a replication boundary), rather |than a weak security boundary

RE: [ActiveDir] slightly OT: MissionControl for MIIS

2005-10-17 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hi David, The licensing scheme is per-production-MIIS-server-processor (like MIIS), plus a charge for each 5 management agents. Test servers, or processors not used by MIIS aren't counted. The rest of the questions I'll leave to others, as I suspect my opinions are biased :) You might get more

RE: [ActiveDir] Global Catalog

2005-10-17 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I think it is better to describe a domain as a policy and administration boundary (and a replication boundary), rather than a weak security boundary. It is more precise, and IMO, given the automatic domain trusts in a forest, there is not much of a security boundary between domains. And given the

RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted.

2005-10-14 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
shameless plug NetPro's ChangeAuditor for AD does this without requiring auditing. The change log includes what was changed, before and after values, when, where, and by whom. See http://www.netpro.com/products/changemanager/ /shameless plug From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted.

2005-10-14 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I get to be Burt Reynolds! :) -g From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-EliaSent: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:33 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted. Ok, now you've done it Gil :-) I guess this is

[ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause of Active Directory failures?

2005-10-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
icious attack by an authenticated user L. Malicious attack by an unauthenticated user M. Other (please specify) Thanks for your feedback. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Don''t miss the Directory Experts Conference 2006. More information at www.dec2006.com.

RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause of Active Directory failures?

2005-10-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
icious attack by a service admin J. Malicious attack by a data admin K. Malicious attack by an authenticated user L. Malicious attack by an unauthenticated user M. Other (please specify) Thanks for your feedback. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Don''t miss the Directory Experts Conference 2006. More information at www.dec2006.com.

RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause of Active Directory failures?

2005-10-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Most common cause of Active Directory "failures"? We usually do a big "State of the AD World" survey at DEC, and certainly will again in Vegas (assuming there are some people left in the room who haven't already headed out to the casino. :) I needed some answers sooner than later for

RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause of Active Directory failures?

2005-10-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
t;? Start a blog? :) Since that takes some time to get traffic, perhaps joe would be willing to post your survey on his blog? I imagine hegets some good traffic to his blog. Phil On 10/10/05, Gil Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We usually do a big "State of the AD World

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD

2005-10-08 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Much of AD's heritage lies in the old Exchange directory, which was ESE-based. -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 8:38 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Roles

2005-10-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
As you mentioned, this topic has been debated frequently on this list. Running other services on a DC raises the hackles on the back of my neck, and I expect that most on the list will have similar reactions. And you've listed most of the reasons why the proposed deployment would be a bad idea.

[ActiveDir] Anyone ever run into this problem?

2005-10-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Anyone ever run into this problem? I haven't seen this myself, and I was curious if anyone else had. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;898613 -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Don''t miss the Directory Experts Conference 2006. More information

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