RE: [ActiveDir] moving server local groups to AD?

2007-01-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
ADMT (even in V3) doesn't support this directly, however, you can still use it to do the re-ACLing if you want, since you can feed it with a list of SID mappings. You would still have to perform the bulk of the work yourself, which would be to re-create matching groups in AD and to add the

RE: [ActiveDir] Add or Remove Programs GPO

2007-01-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
What other things did you change in the same or other GPOs that apply to the machine you're logging on as admin? If you've applied some lockdown GPOs for file-system permissions, those will also apply for your admins /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart

RE: [ActiveDir] Add or Remove Programs GPO

2007-01-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
in it. Otherwise I would be blocking myself and that's just the point I don't want... Thanks, Bart On 1/25/07, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What other things did you change in the same or other GPOs that apply to the machine you're logging on as admin

RE: [ActiveDir] Who needs that much ram anyway?

2007-01-17 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
So you might have had a bit too much of the Microsoft Cool-Aid :) Exchange 2007 may not have memory limits that you'd reach - but there are limits as to what makes sense to use with E2k7 (32GB are being communicated by MSFT). And of course there are limits as to how much memory a 64bit OS

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Sorta... AD and the 3/07 Time Change

2007-01-02 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Happy New Year to you too J Mexico hasn't joined in, which is why it's a bit of a hassle if you have machines in Mexico as well: right now they use the same time zone as used in the US [(GMT-08) Tijuana, Baja California]. But since they're not jumping on the time zone change track, MSFT will

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Why would you want to modify the change password rights on your OUs? That doesn't make sense to delegate: unlike password reset, it's the right that only allows you to _change_ the password if you know the old one... So this is typically what the rights the users would need to change the PW on

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
That's a legacy group from NT4 that you shouldn't leverage in an AD environment. In fact, you should remove it from the default security descriptor of your user and group objects to keep your AD clean from unused ACEs. /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Built in Security groups

2006-12-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Not putting any users in the groups is basically the same effect as removing them from an operational perspective. If you don't have a user in the group, nobody has the rights to change things that only these groups have rights to. That's probably what your mgmt wants to achieve. You'd then

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I don't - I like leveraging the capabilities of AD and this is something where it can perform quite well. That's not true for other things you can delegate, such as creation of objects, where you might really want to add a business logic. These actions are often combined these days with

RE: [ActiveDir]Groups

2006-12-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
We have a tool that does this (although this is not its main feature), but it's not free. It's actually a backup tool of all links in your AD forest (i.e. all domains in the forest). As we store all of these in an SQL DB, we can easily run reports on group-nesting across the whole forest,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Let's see how many wrong things are in this web site

2006-12-20 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
They're mixing up different statements and rephrase them to their advantage - it is true that SBS doesn't support a second SBS DC in the same domain/forest (as every SBS has to hold all FSMOs), but another non-SBS server can act as a second DC in the SBS forest just fine. /Guido -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] How to completely isolate a DC?

2006-11-17 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
This is a common procedure, but realize that it will still not completely isolate replication - forced replication will still go through (i.e. in an out of the 'schema mod' site). You may not do the forced replication yourself, but if some other friendly administrator chooses to do so in order

RE: [ActiveDir] How to completely isolate a DC?

2006-11-17 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
]] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: 17 November 2006 11:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgmailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] How to completely isolate a DC? This is a common procedure, but realize that it will still not completely isolate replication - forced

RE: [ActiveDir] Applying Permissions to 'cn=Schema' Container

2006-11-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I certainly support joes second solution: dont delegate this. As with some other suggestions described in the Delegation Guide (which overall is very useful), you shouldnt implement every role just because you can. Your AD infrastructure will not be in any danger if the Schema FSMO

RE: [ActiveDir] OT for those in California

2006-11-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Nope, there weren't any updates on hypervisor during WinConnections - at least none I heard of. So this info is actually quite useful. Did they actually demo it at VMworld? Or just talk about it? Thanks Mark for sharing. /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: M$

2006-11-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Ah - now I see - that must be their back-door to access every system Windows is running on ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Lefkovics Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 9:36 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Change default User-Account-Control behavior

2006-11-02 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Well, the tabs and even the user account creation dialog in AD can be extended, it's just not an easy task to do for the normal administrator. Some dev-work with c-programming would be involved. I'm not aware of mechanisms to extend the UI or dialogs for local accounts. /Guido -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] sysvol replication

2006-10-19 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Yes, not only for Win2k, but also for Win2k3 (won't change until you deploy Longhorn and switch to LH DFL) /Guido --- sent wirelessly using iPAQ 6900 -Original Message- From: Graham Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: activedir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] sysvol replication

2006-10-19 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Nederland B.V. (BU RTINC Eindhoven) ( Tel : +31-(0)40-29.57.777 ( Mobile : +31-(0)6-26.26.62.80 * E-mail : see sender address From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thu 2006-10-19 19:25 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: File Server Permissions Design Question

2006-10-12 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
ABE won't necessarily reduce the number of groups you need to control access, although it certainly controls the visibility for those that don't have any rights to specific data in your shares. Your approach is a very common approach and certainly nothing unusual. Not sure how you get from 15

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trust divestitures

2006-10-11 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
else not asking the right question(s). I'm curious if that's the case? If so, is there more information to be aware of in this scenario that can be shared? On 10/10/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al, what risk has been assumed? You're

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trust divestitures

2006-10-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
If I were the security officer for Company B, I would have real issues with this plan. Most companies with sufficient understanding of AD Security would not want any of their DCs placed in any location where the other companys network is still active (i.e. DCs from company A and

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trust divestitures

2006-10-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
idea. I had intended to bring up a test forest to dry-run the migration in company A environment, but I didn't follow the train of thought through to suggest that the actual migration be done to that forest, and moved to the target company. On 10/10/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: wikis

2006-10-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
So, where would the ant be 5 seconds after the box started to tumble, assuming it walks at 1 inch per hour (really slow ant). I'd really like to know :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:41 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] what is the meaning of OT in front of the subject

2006-10-05 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
While this thread is OT, I'd actually consider your example to be right on-topic ;-) /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:28 PM To: ActiveDir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] what is the

RE: [ActiveDir] Single forest with two domain trees to splut up.

2006-10-05 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
The DomainB that you want to split off still needs the root domain (DomainA) to work. So you can't just say screw DomainA and cut it off. You'll need at least 1 (2 for redundancy) DCs of DomainA to remain in the site you wish to split off. No problems to get rid of DomainB in the site that

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trusts

2006-10-05 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
It will, but it is a solvable problem. You'll also have some headaches for the trust itself, but that's where the nifty Win2003 features such as Name Suffix Routing and Top Level Name Restrictions come into play. /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] forest disaster recovery plan.

2006-09-26 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Microsoft is working on an updated Forest Recovery guide for Windows Server 2003, however, the basic procedures for full forest recovery are still the same as youd have to do for a Windows 2000 AD forest.  And for the later a guide already exists:

RE: [ActiveDir] How are folks setting hidden user attribs?

2006-09-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Common question its fairly difficult to extend ADUC with a new tab that allows you to edit the attributes you want, but its fairly easy to add a context menu (e.g. when right-clicking on a user account) to start a script that would pop up a dialog box and allows to enter the appropriate

RE: [ActiveDir] Elevating privileges from DA to EA

2006-09-20 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Not commenting on the elevation of rights strategies - should be clear by now that it is simple once you know what you're doing (and Google will help you and your enemy) But a quick comment on using domains as a replication boundary due to the following statement: Replication wise, the Global

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: WinRE

2006-09-18 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Well, it will basically sit in between everything - you boot into this environment and then you're able to restore your OS or parts of it, including AD. The whole backup mechanism has been rewritten in LH and WinRe is the environment used for recovery. Unsure at this time, if you'll actually be

RE: [ActiveDir] Handling different schemas - managing maintaining updates

2006-09-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
The AD schema analyzer is quite useful for comparing schemas to find missing attributes and classes (and to export them to LDIF so as to allow an import to the target schema).  Note however, that it doesn’t find differences at the level of properties you have set for your schema

RE: [ActiveDir] Isolating a DC

2006-09-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Agree, isolating by site is often confused with requiring a separate subnet and thus extra efforts on the networking infrastructure. Thats actually not the case. You can create your AD site and just assign it a 32bit masked IP address as the subnet if the other sites are properly

RE: [ActiveDir] Block Inheritance on DC OU

2006-09-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Are we actually talking blocking GPO inheritance, or ACL inheritance? If GPO I tend to agree with Darren (as with anything on GPO J), as I dont think that any change in either the Default Domain or the Default Domain Controller policy should be implemented without testing (so if

RE: [ActiveDir] Any impacts to domain controller when changingits IP?

2006-09-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] Any impacts to domain controller when changingits IP? Yep, that was Win2k – once you’ve reached Win2k3 domain functional level, you can start adding another name to your DC, make it primary, reboot, ensure everything replicates well and registers in DNS,

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-09-02 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
a big fan of illogical hacks to help out less-cluefull admins. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:58 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy Agree

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-09-02 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 2:15 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy Eric, can you already state publicly, what the chance of this feature is to make it into Longhorn, if at all

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-08-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Agree, a separate domain is certainly a very high price to pay itll cause ongoing headaches with very little benefit. Other companies add requirements for smartcard logons for Admins or also solve it via organizational rules as mentioned by ZV. Ive heard of plans to allow setting

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging successful logons in AD security log

2006-08-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
That would be the Audit Collector Services (ACS) - been in Beta forever and due to internal struggles they couldn't release it for free. AFAIK, ACS is still planned to be a part of MOM. The Longhorn Eventsystem is a completely different story - can handle many more events (incl. great filtering

RE: [ActiveDir] Seperate Administrator password policy

2006-08-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Dont think that auto disabling them when they dont follow your organizational rules is too harsh. They will be certain to follow the rule in the future. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA Sent: Thursday, August 31,

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Site replication settings/costs

2006-08-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
For Win2000 AD thats quite a common approach. Really depends on how many domains you have and how youve placed your DCs of these domains. /Guido From: Rimmerman, Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Printers AD GUI

2006-08-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I forget if this is unique to SBS's AD setup or what. but any network attached printer will automatically get attached to each workstation that is set up with the /connectcomputer wizard I'm pretty sure this is unique to SBS - at least I would hope - nothing like adding thousands of

RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core

2006-08-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Publishers,CN=Users,DC=X CN=Enterprise Admins,CN=Users,DC=X CN=Schema Admins,CN=Users,DC=X CN=krbtgt,CN=Users,DC=X -Nathan Muggli RODC Program Manager From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:38 AM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] management of group policy links (GPMC)

2006-08-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
The GPMC scripts include the ListSOMPolicyTree.wsf script which at least creates a useful text report of which GPOs are linked to which OUs (and sites). Combine this script with the BackupAllGPOs.wsf and the GetReportsForAllGPOs.wsf to be well prepared to restore GPOs (and then link them back to

RE: [ActiveDir] management of group policy links (GPMC)

2006-08-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Yep - but I'd also run the GetReportsForAllGPOs.wsf script during your backup job - these reports are very useful to discover what may have changed in a GPO after the last backup... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner

RE: [ActiveDir] Exclude from GPO

2006-08-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Nope youll have to either create a second GPO without the setting and apply appropriate filters to both so that only one GPO is applied to your special set and the other GPO to all others. Or you trim your existing GPO so that it is more generic (i.e. it doesnt contain the unwanted

RE: [ActiveDir] management of group policy links (GPMC)

2006-08-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
No, in case you screw up a GPO (vs. deleting it by accident) there's no need to first delete and then restore the backed-up GPO. The values won't be merged - the existing one will be completely overwritten. /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] UAC Question

2006-08-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Adding a dummy workstation will hinder the user to logon interactively – this could be all you want to achieve. But it won’t hinder network logons – this may be undesired. Another thought – if the users aren’t really using their AD account, couldn’t you just change the

RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems

2006-08-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Mike, can you be a little more specific about the steps that you took to do your restore? This should work fine using the ntdsutil - authoritative restore - restore object Cn=test user, ou=it,dc=mycorp,dc=com command. Obviously provided you previously took a backup, rebooted to DSRM mode

RE: [ActiveDir] Admt Migration question.

2006-08-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Nice one... :-) BTW, I didn't know GOWAN was still around - used to make great music when I still lived in Canada ;-) /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Strongosky Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 1:33 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems

2006-08-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
. Thanks, Mike From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems Mike, can you be a little more specific about the steps

RE: [ActiveDir] Vendor Domain

2006-08-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
and Exchange, that only works a little bit. :) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:32 PM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become?

2006-08-02 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
? /Guido -Original Message- From: RM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:32 AM To: Grillenmeier, Guido Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become? On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:29:24 +0100, Grillenmeier

RE: [ActiveDir] Revoke domain administrator's right to create GPO?

2006-08-01 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Well, at least Darren posted another mail regarding security by obscurity which this is. Its just like removing the Domain Admins group from the local administrators group on member servers to secure the member server Just because many of those domain admins dont know why they may be

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become?

2006-08-01 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
on employees so everything goes into the GAL which means everything goes into AD. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become?

2006-08-01 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
, GPOs, OUs, computer objects etc user count might be a reasonable guage, but I don't think that ~6k DIT per user object is a reasonable assumption unless it's a newer environment with a nice spanking new RBS model. On 8/1/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard

RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core

2006-07-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
to suck bits of the AD into an ADAM for kind of the same purpose as an ROGC would perform? I may be totally babbling now. RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core From: Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:14:51 +0100 Al, thats

RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core

2006-07-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Not sure if it makes sense, but this could potentially be combined with the confidential flag RODCs wouldnt cache any confidential attributes, unless a Confidential Data Caching Policy would allow them to do so The confidential flag is already used by the Digital Identity Management

RE: [ActiveDir] W2K3 Upgrade Domain Controller or Exchange Servers?

2006-07-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
We thought to upgrade the DC's first because it takes care of the extension of the schema and all which has to be done prior to EXCH2K3 anyhow The upgrade of the DCs does not take care of the schema extension youll have to prepare your schema as a separate step prior to being able

RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core

2006-07-29 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 1:33 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core Could be worth to note that an RODC can also be a DNS server for the respective BO. As it is designed for one

RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core

2006-07-29 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Only if your sisters name is Cindy ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:42 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server

RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1

2006-07-29 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
easier to put back together and very simple to work out who has access to what. joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration without domain admin rights possible?

2006-07-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
. ~ On 7/27/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can migrate most objects from the source even without admin rights to them - the default auth. user already has plenty of permissions to read most attributes you would care to migrate. You could still setup passwords

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become?

2006-07-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Exchange rollout - How much larger does NTDS.DIT become? Assuming this is after defrag, 650MB without Exchange is quite a large AD guess youd be close to 100k users in your forest, if youve used the standard attributes of the objects in AD (and havent added stuff like thumbnail

RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1

2006-07-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1 Guido, which changes to you want to see in dsacls in B3? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:22 AM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Read-Only Domain Controller and Server Core

2006-07-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Could be worth to note that an RODC can also be a DNS server for the respective BO. As it is designed for one-way replication from a writeable DC, it does not allow direct dynamic updates of DNS records that are requested to be updated by clients that use the RODC as a DNS server (same is

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration without domain admin rights possible?

2006-07-27 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you can migrate most objects from the source even without admin rights to them - the default auth. user already has plenty of permissions to read most attributes you would care to migrate. You could still setup passwords migration without giving themdomain admin privs to your source domain

RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1

2006-07-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I guess Matheesha's original question has been answered as good as it can for now with the information given. I just quickly want to comment on the 3rd party tool aspect joe is mentioning below - naturally, before spending considerable money on the tools, you'd need to test if they do what you

RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1

2006-07-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
, the kind words, hugs Control-H,Control-H,Control-H,Control-H,Control-H, etc... On 7/25/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess Matheesha's original question has been answered as good as it can for now with the information given. I just quickly want to comment on the 3rd party

RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1

2006-07-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Control-H,Control-H,Control-H,Control-H,Control-H, etc... On 7/25/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess Matheesha's original question has been answered as good as it can for now with the information given. I just quickly want to comment on the 3rd party tool

RE: [ActiveDir] Have you built an R2 Forest?

2006-07-24 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
hehe, yep I've seen that (the difference of the Schema.ini files; i.e. missing entry for the tombstonelifetime property) but didn't think too much of it because for now I've only had to handle upgrading from Win2000 or 2003 to R2 where the Schema.ini doesn't play a role. It is "only" used to

RE: [ActiveDir] Have you built an R2 Forest?

2006-07-24 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
just to be clear: step 3 (R2 adprep) is NOT needed at all if you build a new forest - your not doing an upgrade here. Whenever you do an upgrade, you do NOT change the TSL. The documentation is wrong as the TSL is always the hardcoded value of 60, if the value is "not set". If you've

RE: [ActiveDir] Raid 1 tangent -- Vendor Domain

2006-07-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I don't have a lot of experience yet with x64 DCs but my gut says that assuming you have enough RAM to cache the entire DIT and you aren't constantly rebooting the DC or doing things that force the cache to be trimmed, the disk subsystem is really only going to be important for writes (which

RE: [ActiveDir] 64bit Windows

2006-07-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Renaming the thead due to change of focus topic I've been doing quite a bit with my own 64bit notebook (using WinXP x64) in the past few weeks and I do have to say that there are plenty of little surprises. Many of which don't play a role for servers, which are used with a much lesser

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Trusts.

2006-07-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
t; any more :) On 7/22/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you might want to describe to us what your actual goal is for creating a non-fully trusted domain in your AD forst. Maybe you can reach a similar goal by using the fairly powerful capabilities in AD to del

RE: [ActiveDir] 64bit Windows

2006-07-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
doesn't have a released 64 bit client released for a 64 bit Windows and you have to set them up as securenat clients. adoption by vendors has not occurred. Grillenmeier, Guido wrote: /Renaming the thead due to change of focus topic/ I've been doing quite a bit with my own 64bit notebook

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Trusts.

2006-07-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
first item... On 7/23/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because the objects that need to go in that domain really do need to get out of our current user environment. Matt, this doesn't yet sound to me like administrative isolation. Really depends

RE: [ActiveDir] Vendor Domain

2006-07-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Will the application run off of an ADAM instance instead of a full blown forest? That was going through my mind as well - why would the vendor want to use a NOS AD for his application? Again, there must be some reason for this. joe makes great points rgd. the support issues of an

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Trusts.

2006-07-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you might want to describe to us what your actual goal is for creating a non-fully trusted domain in your AD forst. Maybe you can reach a similar goal by using the fairly powerful capabilities in AD to delegate administration of objects within a domain. You can also use these features to

RE: [ActiveDir] Vendor Domain

2006-07-20 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I think everyone would be conceptually opposed - would be good to hear the vendor's reasoning for this. What does the app do? What benefit do you have from running their app in a speparate (single domain) forest? I can think of many downsides, but if the app is supposed to protect really

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trust - domain drop down list

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yes Tony, this is standard behaviour - you'll only see domains that are directly trusted. Trust type doesn't matter. Even though a forest trust will be transitive to all child domains by default, you'll have to use UPN to authenticate to a child domain. Which is another reason why empty

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
of is new to me, and another one of those slight, interesting changes, so thanks for that. Can you elaborate on this new behaviour? What, exactly, happens and in what order? --Paul - Original Message - From: Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
several fixes related though and that behavior might have changed several times. On 7/14/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd have to do some more digging as to *why* the duplicateapp-partitions were created, but I've had to troubleshoot this prior to SP1

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
just found the description of the error and the pre-SP1 hotfix to the duplicate DNS app-partitions issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836534/en-us From: Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 20:34To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
a tenedancy to wreak havoc with integrated dns zones when a dc would come up and create a new zone and then replicate that. There were several fixes related though and that behavior might have changed several times. On 7/14/06, Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd have to do some more

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
note that DNS startup behavious changes with SP1, which is another reason not to choose the DC itself as the preferred DNS server: with SP1, AD will not allow the DNS service to read any records, until it has successfully replicated with one of it's replication partners. This is to avoid false or

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Sites Rename

2006-07-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
not a problem for AD or most apps that use it - potentially an issue with scripts that use hardcoded names. Clients will fail to find their DC that they've last used and will need to do a generic DNS query prior to finding the renamed site again. Usually no big deal. If your DFS root

RE: [ActiveDir] Object Auditing

2006-07-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I'd have to check out myself if an OU move is possible to audit with the built-in auditing events - I'm pretty sure though it is possbile with AD specific auditing software such as NetPro's ChangeAuditor AD and Quest's Intrust for AD. you may also want to disable drag drop in your forest,

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 sp1 DNS problem

2006-06-29 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I wasn't aware that this was a change in SP1, but it sounds as if StrictNameChecking is enabled on your server after you've added SP1 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281308) You ca disable it in general by configuring the DisableStrictNameChecking reg-key as the KB

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-29 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
1.7GB for 250.000 users is pretty small already - I guess you don't use Exchange for messaging or use extremely few attributes of your objects in AD. With the steps outlined by Ulf you should get a fair idea on how much whitespace you currently have, however, you shouldn't expect to have

RE: [ActiveDir] Deny permissions in AD

2006-06-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
... because there could be other explicit rights on the objects further below in the tree that do allow to view all kind of objects and properties. For example: Authenticated Users. Unless you've removed these rights, it is likely that if you search for objects in you the OU (if it has

RE: [ActiveDir] Servers or Workstations

2006-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
servers first? workstations first? first what? I assume you're talking about migrating your servers and workstations from an NT4 domain to an AD domain - correct? If so, the order strongly depends on various aspects, such as the status of your user and group migration and how you handle

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] Errors During Authoritative Restore

2006-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
glad Brett picked up on analysing the different errors you were getting - I've not seen these before. curious to hear what type of issue you aretesting to recover from? From what you write, I gather you are testing to restore your production domain to another (hopefully physically

RE: [ActiveDir] can I exclude a particular user account from authenticated users?

2006-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
same question here: there's nothing you can really do to control the addition of specific SIDs to the security token of any account during logon - the Authenticated Users SID is one of those (besides many other well-known-security-principals controlled by the system). but if you tell us

RE: [ActiveDir] How to block particular Subjects

2006-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
not until you send us your resume ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajay KumarSent: Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 08:38To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] How to block particular Subjects Hi all, I just wanna to know that, Is that possible

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] Errors During Authoritative Restore

2006-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
"Isn't this what you want?" yes and no - it really depends on what you're trying to achieve. Josh was trying to do a complete AD DR - not a recovery of a failed DC. For a failed DC you'd want it to replicate the other changes after a successful (non-auth) restore. But if you want to

RE: [ActiveDir] Servers or Workstations

2006-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
unchecked 5. Migrate Servers using the Security Translation Wizard and then the Computer Migration Wizard. john -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:48 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] Errors During Authoritative Restore

2006-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yep, that's it - no need to perform the auth restore of AD in your scenario From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua CoffmanSent: Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 17:56To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: Re: [ActiveDir] Errors During Authoritative Restore

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross forest issue

2006-06-15 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Mike, as others have mentioned, users and groups from externally trusted domains can only be added to domain local groups (DLG) in another forest. This is by design for any type of trust that you establish. If all you're trying to do is to manage the member servers in your DMZ with the

RE: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain

2006-06-07 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
just in case you've not yet proceeded with any of your actions: a trust is not a requirement to migrate your users and do the profile updates on the clients or in fact to migrate objects from one domain to another. You can work just fine with passthrough-authentication instead (i.e. using

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