RE: [ActiveDir] ADS Replication Through Satellite Connection

2003-03-11 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Were you pinging the IP or the host name? Are the DC host names resolving properly through DNS? -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] ADS Replication Through Satellite

RE: [ActiveDir] Topology Pros/Cons

2003-03-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn ol/ad/windows2000/plan/addeladm.asp?frame=true. It pretty much spells out what delegation, autonomy, and security requirements can be addressed by OUs, domains, trees, and forests. -gil -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] Flexible permissions to modify user objects?

2003-03-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
This is all doable through the AD access control mechanisms and security policies. The AD Delegation of Control Wizard is included with the W2K distribution and can help with some of this. You might also look at third party delegation products such as Quest ActiveRoles or FAZAM from FullArmor.

RE: [ActiveDir] Add attributes or use existing ExtensionAttributes ?

2003-03-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
here on out. Good day! -alan -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Add attributes or use existing ExtensionAttribute s ? Hi David, My $.02, I would go ahead

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Link Transitivity

2003-03-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hey Todd, I wrote an article in the March 2003 Windows .NET mag that discusses how to control authentication traffic in this kind of scenario... it may help as well. -gil -Original Message- From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:24 AM

RE: [ActiveDir] Creating Mailbox in Ex2000

2003-03-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best... :) -gil -Original Message- From: Burns, Clyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Creating Mailbox in Ex2000 Ran into the same issue when automating account

RE: [ActiveDir] Add attributes or use existing ExtensionAttributes ?

2003-03-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hi David, My $.02, I would go ahead and extend the schema in all cases. There's too much risk of different applications attempting to use the extension attributes for different purposes. The cost of extending the schema is low, you just need to make sure that when you extend it that the extension

RE: [ActiveDir] Creating Mailbox in Ex2000

2003-03-04 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
What's the error? -Original Message- From: Mirochnik, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Creating Mailbox in Ex2000 I'm trying to create a mailbox in Ex2000 by populating the following attributes in AD:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC

2003-03-03 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message I'll be there ... someone's got to squawk the chicken! -gil -Original Message-From: Sullivan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:00 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC So just curious but who is going

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Design Guidance

2003-03-03 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
in Office B is ~250 There are a mix of 9x, 2000 and XP client, most are 2000. The symptoms show across all clients I'm not sure about the bandwidth It's a native Win2k domain. Hope this fills thing out. -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Design Guidance

2003-03-03 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Design Guidance Hi Roger, How do the DC records get scavenged

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Design Guidance

2003-03-03 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:54 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Design Guidance Hi Roger, How do the DC records get scavenged? NETLOGON refreshes them

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Design Guidance

2003-02-28 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
, most are 2000. The symptoms show across all clients I'm not sure about the bandwidth It's a native Win2k domain. Hope this fills thing out. -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:24 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Time stamp format in your Active Directory

2003-02-27 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message This is probably a misfeature of LDP. AD presents timestamps through the LDAP interface as defined by RFC 2252 section 6.14 "Generalized Time". The RFC defers to the ITU definition in X.208, which was superceded by X.680. Note thatActive Directory includes a decimal and

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove the ability to create computer accounts inthe computer container

2003-02-27 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Ms-DS-machineAccountQuota is an optional attribute of the samDomain class, which is an auxillary class that is attached to the domainDNS class. -Original Message- From: Greg Felzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] IE Maintenance Policy not available on XP ??

2003-02-26 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Yep. Its just you. Everyone else sees it just fine. Maybe you need glasses. :) -gil -Original Message- From: Steve Lithgow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] IE Maintenance Policy not available on XP ??

RE: [ActiveDir] Empty root domain benefits?

2003-02-19 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
is the empty root worth the additional administrative overhead? YMMV, but I would suggest that a smaller organization would be better off with a single domain and stronger physical access control on the DCs. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillann The next

RE: [ActiveDir] Empty root domain benefits?

2003-02-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hi Cliff, There are two pros that I am aware of... 1. In the case of radical naming hierarchy surgery, e.g., acquisition of another company, it provides a convenient place to merge in the new domains. 2. Enhanced security for the Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins groups is often claimed, but

RE: [ActiveDir] Resolving a GUID

2003-02-17 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Resolving a GUID Hi Rick, Apologies

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema change test tool

2003-02-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Alex, As a general rule, schema changes aren't undoable, although there are few trivial things that are. What are you trying to accomplish? WRT the unwilling to perform message, you have to make the changes on the DC that holds the Schema FSMO role, and you have specifically enable schema

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema change test tool

2003-02-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message FWIW, that's not an AD schema tool. Its a Commerce Server schema tool. Unless something really wild has been going with Commerce Server, they aren't at all the same thing. -gil -Original Message-From: Carlos Magalhaes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Security Tab on User Object - Allow inheritable Permissions

2003-02-03 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Hey John, That checkbox is a representation of the inheriteance flags thatare associated with each access control entry (ACE), i.e with each specific permission granted or denied in the ACL. There are five flags in the mask that define how each ACE is inherited: 0x01

RE: [ActiveDir] Minimum permission to Monitor AD

2003-01-27 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Without getting too granular, read access to the Config NC (to discover topology) and to each of the domainDNS objects (to get repl metadata) in the forest should be sufficient. -gil -Original MessageFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Global Catalog replication

2003-01-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
The KCC generates a separate GC replication topology based on the usual connection objects. -gil -Original Message- From: Reva S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Global Catalog replication Hello, I

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: SQL 2000

2003-01-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
1. No. 2. Not sure. 3. I believe that it publishes database location information. -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:50 PM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: SQL 2000 Does SQL 2000 require the

RE: [ActiveDir] Child Domains Programming

2003-01-21 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Its binding to a DC in the domain of the current security context, probably something in the root domain? So you're getting the domainDNS object from a replica of the root domain NC, and there are no subordinate objects in that NC. If you specify the DN of the object you *really* want to bind to,

RE: [ActiveDir] Other application/uses on DC's. Was: OT: Exchange2000

2003-01-21 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Common sense tidbit #1: Security... A DC contains the keys to the kingdom, and reducing the applications running on a DC reduces the surface area exposed to attack. -gil -Original Message- From: Neceda,Thomas W - LGCRP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:20 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Problem: Using JNDI to add new entries

2003-01-16 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Rafael, If you could post the complete schema definition for your new class it would help. Some things to look at: If your new class is derived from something other than "top", there may be additional mandatory attributes. What did you define for "possSuperiors" and

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP

2003-01-16 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Roger, Wouldn't it be possible to make the CN of the user object a 10 character name and the sAMAccountName and/or UPN the longer form? That way the LDAP-based app can authenticate using the user DN (which is what it will do if it does an LDAP simple bind), and the users can login using the

[ActiveDir] Call for papers - Directory Experts Conference for Active Directory 2003

2003-01-16 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
in attending, watch this space; I'll post the official conference annoucement to the list as soon as its released. Thanks, -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP

2003-01-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
There are several identifiers W2K can use to authenticate a user: The GUID of the user object The SID of the user object The sAMAccountName attribute of the user object (possibly qualified by the NT4 domain name) The DN of the user object (equivalently expressed as a canonical name) The

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lab

2003-01-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hey Roger, Say more about expanding certain groups... that's one I was unaware of. And also, don't GC create some additional indices that DCs don't normally have? -gil -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:50 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Lab

2003-01-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
? There's no replication hit for it... -- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday

RE: [ActiveDir] Extend AD for Exchange

2003-01-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Try attributeSchema. Also make sure you are running this on the schema master and that schema updates are enabled. -gil -Original Message- From: John Shukovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Extend AD

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove second Domain Controler from AD

2003-01-02 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message The more reliable method is to run NTDSUTIL and select the "Clean metadata" (similar option). That ensures you get all the orphaned bits out of the directory. -gil -Original Message-From: Craig Cerino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02,

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove second Domain Controler from AD

2003-01-02 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Controler from AD Do Youthink Q216498 or similarfrom MS KB THX Z. -Original Message-From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:45 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove second Domain Controler from AD

RE: [ActiveDir] AD, DNS, Errors - THE WORKS

2002-12-30 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Sounds like a DNS problem. The permissions message is a canard; the interesting point is that the domain cannot be contacted. Check the DNS config on the DC (make sure its resolver is the one you think it is), check the SRV records in DNS for the domain in question (DCDIAG), and flush the cache

RE: [ActiveDir] Hardening Active Directory

2002-12-27 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Like the infamous "all my DCs just start rebooting themselves every 15 minutes" problem? ;-) -gil -Original Message-From: Tim Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 10:35 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Hardening

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange probem with SecEdit

2002-12-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message I'd look in the usual places: Startup folders Explorer\Run Windows\load -Original Message-From: Amit Zinman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:35 AMTo: ActiveDir Mailing ListSubject: [ActiveDir] Strange probem with SecEdit

RE: [ActiveDir] Auto discovery Active Directory Configuration

2002-12-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Auto discovery of what? -Original Message-From: PALETTO Paolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:23 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Auto discovery Active Directory Configuration Hi, is possible run auto discovery

RE: [ActiveDir] which W2K groups does the 5000 limit apply to?

2002-12-06 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Guido, you're an ACL stud! -g -Original Message- From: GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] which W2K groups does the 5000 limit apply to? One more Bonus to add to

RE: [ActiveDir] Email notification of Event Log items

2002-12-03 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hey Luis, It sort of depends on the scale of your environment. If you are running a handful of servers, you could use VBScript and WMI to do this pretty easily. There are several scripting books around; I'm sure someone can recommend one. There are also some shareware products that do this sort

RE: [ActiveDir] How to get changes from active directory?

2002-11-25 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Naval, There are several mechanisms for getting change information from the directory. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/ad/p olling_for_changes_using_the_dirsync_control.asp Each mechanism has its advantages and disadvantages; the docs do a reasonable

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory

2002-11-21 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
AD is part of the local security authority (LSA), which runs as LSASS.EXE. You can't just shut down the LSA though, and if the LSA crashes for some reason, it will then shut down the DC. So the final result is that you can't just shut down AD and keep the server running. -gil -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] All you DEC attendees

2002-11-20 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
First question re: schema change. You need to enable schema changes by fiddling the registry on the Schema master HKLM/SYSTEM/CCS/Services/NTDS/Parameters/Schema Update Allowed. It is a DWORD, and you should set it to 1 to enable schmea updates. You can do the same thing using the schema MMC, but

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft DNS WMI Provider

2002-11-15 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message We've used it and it has been problematic. I'll ask one of our developers to pass on the issues we ran into. -gil -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:50 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Mutilple questions Schema, ou's

2002-11-15 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
The schema is contained in the directory in CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=your root domain. It is stored with one object for each class and one object for each attribute. Ous are hidden by denying read access (and/or list access in the Ous parent). To unhide them you need to have sufficient access

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring AD

2002-11-09 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Monitoring AD is critical. Note that my company (NetPro) develops and sells monitoring and troubleshooting products specifically for AD, so I have an admittedly biased viewpoint. But Stuart Kwan (GPM for AD at Microsoft), at the last Directory Experts conference stated that monitoring is a

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controllers per users...

2002-11-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message I can't imagine how one could make such a recommendation without at least taking into account the DC h/w characteristics and the network characteristics. -Original Message-From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 07,

RE: [ActiveDir] Psched error?

2002-11-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I've seen this problem when the reg entry for the perf counter DLL points to a DLL that doesn't exist or is somehow broken. -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:jasalandra;chcsnet.org] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:27 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC

2002-10-30 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk;netpro.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC But NETLOGON does

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC

2002-10-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
How much overhead does leaving it up to the locator incur? Ken -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk;netpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:37 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC Hey

RE: [ActiveDir] Clients being logged on by DCs at other sites

2002-10-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
You can delete them, but because the DCs publish them, they might very well reappear. You should figure why they got there and verify that the source of the problem has been addressed. Nothing more frustrating than deleting a bunch of objects just to have them reappear an hour later ;) Possible

RE: [ActiveDir] domain admins

2002-10-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
There is a whitepaper from Lucent that describes how to restrict enterprise admins from domain access at http://www.lucent.com/livelink/161922_Whitepaper.pdf Is that what you are tring to do? -gil -Original Message- From: Lori Demkovich [mailto:LDemkovich;infosysinc.com] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC

2002-10-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
necessarily authenticate to the closeest site. It just doesn't happen. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk

RE: [ActiveDir] Manual Replication

2002-10-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Just curious, but why? -gil -Original Message- From: Linton Smith (WBTQ) [mailto:GWLLES;Weston.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Manual Replication http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechn

RE: [ActiveDir] Clients being logged on by DCs at other sites

2002-10-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q309273 Dave -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk;netpro.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:34 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Clients being logged on by DCs at other sites You can

RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT v2

2002-10-25 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I'm interested too, if you could either post it or email it to me, that would be great. -gil -Original Message- From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:rkingsla;cox.net] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT v2 I'd be interested - Yes, please

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC

2002-10-24 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
: Garello, Kenneth [mailto:KGarello;worcester.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC How much overhead does leaving it up to the locator incur? Ken -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP referral during subtree search

2002-10-24 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
some time ago to figure something else out. It's a good resource. Thanks for reminding me, Tony ! Dave -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk;netpro.com] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:17 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP referral during subtree

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC

2002-10-24 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC How much overhead does leaving it up to the locator incur? Ken -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk;netpro.com] Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP referral during subtree search

2002-10-23 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
for now. Thanks for your insight - very helpful, as always :) Dave -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk;netpro.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 6:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP referral during subtree search David, Yeah, if the app

RE: [ActiveDir] Sites with no DC

2002-10-23 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Hey Don, Is this your first post to the list? If so, welcome. To answer your question, no you don't have to create a site for each subnet. You can associate multiple subnets with a single site. Or you can leavethe subnets unassigned, and the DC locator will do its best to

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP referral during subtree search

2002-10-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
David, Not quite correct... From a logical perspective, your tree has a root NC (DC=XYZ,DC=com) and that NC contains a subordinate config NC (CN=Configuration,DC=XYZ,DC=com), which itself contains a subordinate schema NC (CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=XYZ,DC=com). When you search the root

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP referral during subtree search

2002-10-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
there's no issue of duplicate RDNs to be concerned with... Dave -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:gilk;netpro.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:46 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP referral during subtree search David, Not quite correct... From

RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone attending IT Forum in Copenhagen?

2002-10-22 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir-owner;mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 16:53 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Anyone attending IT Forum in Copenhagen? Are there any people on the list planning to attend IT Forum

RE: [ActiveDir] Not x500

2002-10-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Paul, Well, not entirely true. The naming structure in AD is LDAP/X.500, so objects have unique DNs, and you can have duplicate RDNs in different containers just like a descent[sic] directory. User accounts, machine accounts, and groups (collectively security principals) have an additional

[ActiveDir] Anyone attending IT Forum in Copenhagen?

2002-10-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Are there any people on the list planning to attend IT Forum in Copenhagen Nov 18-22? I just found out from Microsoft that I will be speaking there, and it would be a great chance to meet face-to-face and quaff a few Danish brews. -gil List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ

RE: [ActiveDir] I can't access my adminstrator account!!!

2002-10-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Any chance you created an OU with the same name as one of the groups, or with the same name as a sub domain? See Q240147. -gil -Original Message- From: Kevin Felker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] I

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on Extending a User Object.

2002-10-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Hey Michael, Start with these: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/management/mmcover.asp http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url="/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/mmcsteps.asp

RE: [ActiveDir] Best way to remove exchange objects from AD schema after server reinstall

2002-10-16 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Marvin, Generally speaking, you can't undo schema changes. They are for all intents and purposes permanent. If you want to live out on the ragged edge with Robbie where Microsoft won't answer your support calls, there is a way to delete schema objects, but I'd never do it on a production

RE: [ActiveDir] Secondary DNS setup?

2002-10-15 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message What kind of DNS service are you running? -gil -Original Message- From: Chris J. Popp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Secondary DNS setup? Hello, I have a server at

RE: [ActiveDir] AD AND DNS

2002-10-09 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
USNs aren't replicated. They are only meaningful within the context of the DC where they were generated. Are you referring to specific attributes that contain USNs, e.g., uSNChanged or uSNCreated? Or are you talking about DNS serial numbers perhaps? -Original Message- From: John S

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Migration

2002-10-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Read the following: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/ad/windows2000/plan/addeladm.asp. It pretty much describes the advantages and disadvantages of all these strategies. -Original Message- From: Patton, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide

2002-10-07 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:53 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide shameless plug Stuart and Andreas were two of the stars at the Directory Expert's Conference in Scottsdale this past

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Server SP2 , Problem keeps rebootingevery 2 minutes

2002-10-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
We've had a couple of our customers get their DCs into a similar mode. The problem was a policy setting from an security template that configured the server to "reboot on audit failure". Audit events were failing because of some sort of file corruption, IIRC. In any case, resetting the

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide

2002-10-02 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Operations Guide Hey Gil, who is Mike Barnard? -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Operations Guide I thought *everyone* knew about this... yet another

RE: [ActiveDir] _msdcs records and a weird problem with DNS

2002-09-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Hey Steve, Nope, that's the way its supposed to be. GCs and domains are forest-wide resources, so appear under the forest root and nowhere else. -gil -Original Message-From: Byrne, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 5:56

RE: [ActiveDir] User login takes a long time

2002-09-26 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Tom, Make sure DNS is clean and working properly. It sounds like there may be DNS DC locator records that are referring to DCs that are not available. -gil -Original Message- From: Tom.Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Distro List issue

2002-09-24 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Try LDP or ADSIEDIT. The MMC is trying to read some specific attribute. -gil -Original Message-From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:57 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Distro List issue

RE: [ActiveDir] Active directory object creation and usage

2002-09-20 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672315874/) from MacMillan. It describes how to extend the schema and includes C++ code to do it using either ADSI or LDAP. /shameless plug -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan -Original Message- From: Dipu

RE: [ActiveDir] Locked Accounts

2002-09-17 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
There's EVENTCOMB.EXE from PSS which will let you gather and review event log entries from multiple servers. -g -Original Message- From: Hutchins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Locked Accounts

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and NDS

2002-07-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message Can you describe the problems? -gil -Original Message-From: John Hicks/MIS/HQ/KEMET/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:25 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] AD and NDSWe are in the process of migrating our NT 4

RE: [ActiveDir] New AD announced for web apps.

2002-07-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
The big issue using AD as a standalone LDAP server (as Stuart explained at the DEC) has to do with AD's ties to the Win32 security system... authentication through Kerberos, generation of Win32 security tokens, SIDs appearing in ACLs, etc. ADAM removes these ties as I understand it. -gil

RE: [ActiveDir] New AD announced for web apps.

2002-07-18 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
to consolidate your NOS and enterprise app directory into one. The two are largely not compatible in terms of requirements (e.g. multi-domain vs flat). Robbie Allen -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:06 PM To: '[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Question

2002-07-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
development project with IIS, ASP, and Perl scripts. -g Gil Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory Troubleshooting eBook at: http://www.netpro.com/ebook -Original Message- From: Joanna Days

RE: [ActiveDir] creating sites to avoid random AD replication partners?

2002-07-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Just to clarify, are you saying that within a nominal site, e.g. a building, you would have firewalls separating separate segments? -gil -Original Message- From: Thommes, Michael M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:00 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Real World DNS

2002-07-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Title: Message I would make it a secondary... you wouldn't want the administrative overhead of updating both. If you are using W2K and AD, you can make them AD integrated... you get better and more secure replication that way. And make sure the DNS servers are on separate segments so

RE: [ActiveDir] view a SID or GUID

2002-07-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
plug You can also run NTDSUTIL; security account management; check duplicate SIDs to look for duplicate SIDs. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer, NetPro Author of "Active Directory Programming" from MacMillan Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory Troubleshoo

RE: [ActiveDir] Querying active directory

2002-07-10 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Can you say a little more about the query string and how you're submitting it? For instance, what exactly is the query string you're submitting? And through which tool (or is it C/C++?) are you submitting it? -gil -Original Message- From: pio eqbal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Broke NTFRS

2002-07-02 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/ad/l inked_attributes.asp describes this to some extent. /Pedantic AD Schema Lesson -gil Gil Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory Troubleshooting eBook

RE: [ActiveDir] Can you isolate a virus to an OU?

2002-06-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
of the risks associated with this scenario. If you'd like more information, feel free to email me. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan -Original Message- From: Rick Kingslan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/28/02 5:52 PM Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Default Domain Policy Error

2002-06-25 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
attribute of the nTDSDSA object for the DC to refer to the specific query policy object. Query policies have nothing to do with group policies. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory

RE: [ActiveDir] Cant get client to search active directory

2002-06-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
stop/start NETLOGON on the DC. Make sure updates are enabled for the DNS zone. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer, NetPro Author of "Active Directory Programming" from MacMillan Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory Troubleshooting eBook at: http://www.netpro

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Query Builder

2002-06-04 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
-gil Gil Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory Troubleshooting eBook at: http://www.netpro.com/ebook -Original Message- From: Stephens, Brendan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] Searching LDAP

2002-05-24 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
the complete description of LDAP search filter syntax. Gil Kirkpatrick Chief Technology Officer, NetPro Author of Active Directory Programming from MacMillan Got eBook? Get your free Active Directory Troubleshooting eBook at: http://www.netpro.com/ebook -Original Message- From: Stephens, Brendan

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