RE: [ActiveDir] LegacyExchangeDN

2005-07-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
However, seeing joe's reply - go with his suggestion. He's got a better instinct for this stuff than I do. But, strangely he's not an Exchange whiz kid either funny, that. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-07-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
have Rick Kingslan and sometimes let him post. The list isn't really just about posting a KB and sending someone on their way, you will often get a lot of opinion on the KB and/or the poster as well substantial background information on how things work and how they REALLY work. No one should

RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

2005-07-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom - you do not have to have Win2k3 DCs to use the DS commands. However, I think there are a lot more reasons to run Win2k3 than just being able to use the DS commands. I trust that wasn't your only decision criteria. I would hope that the Security improvements, the reliability, the

RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

2005-07-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
Or a Windows XP against Win2k. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:48 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

RE: [ActiveDir] OT - just a bit OT. Visio and AD

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep - it *IS* very cool. Guido showed us this during a Pre-Conference session at this year's Directory Expert's conference. However, I should note that even though there were many requests, Guido flatly REFUSED to give away free copies to all attendees. Guido is not very generous[1] ;o)

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
In all honesty, just because it's in a KB does not make it less confusing or misleading. There are many procedures and policies that make no sense at all - they just haven't been changed, clarified or deleted. I'd suggest that everyone just take a deep breath. Rick -Original Message-

[ActiveDir] Change of status - Job-wise, at least.

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
to the list with this change of job. Also - please don't post replies to the list. Send them to me directly. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:52 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Mike, I agree with what you are saying, that from a best practices standpoint, one SHOULD eventually remove the old CNAMEs. However, the point of this discussion seems to be centered around what will or will not cause problems with replication. Old CNAMEs pointing to deprecated DC GUIDs is not

RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

2005-07-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom, Minimal mode would be Mixed. Operations that you might attempt that aren't supported in your current mode will fail. e.g. Trying to use DSADD to create a Universal Group in a mixed mode domain. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange SSL Certificate Client Authentication

2005-06-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
certificate thus provides an added level of security as the Certification Authority (CA) does not need to issue certificates directly from its CA root certificate. From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:48 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange SSL Certificate Client Authentication

2005-06-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
Noah, I suspect that youre missing a root certificate. Review your process of creating and importing the certificate into the certificate store to ensure that you, in fact, did have and use the proper Root CA, and that its in the correct store. Ironically, (and I know that this is

RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy question

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy question Charlie, Can you post the rest of the USERENV log? There should be some more lines after the: USERENV(e8.8338

RE: [ActiveDir] Increase ICMP packet size on a PIX - GPO related

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
I initially started looking at this from one viewpoint, and then I began to think about slow link detection. You've taken traces to determine the size... What is the return message from ICMP when this large packet is detected by the PIX? Or, does the PIX just discard it? If the PIX is

RE: [ActiveDir] Advertising RPC services - best practices

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Advertising RPC services - best practices Neil, What are you trying to restrict? Access to the App, access via RPC, or access via AD? I can help, but the scope is pretty big at this point. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruston,

RE: [ActiveDir] Increase ICMP packet size on a PIX - GPO related

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
have expected it, either in the access list commands or in the icmp command. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:23 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Increase ICMP

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tool from Sysinternal at Winternals http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:27 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Wow! They do that at your company, too? And here I thought *I* was the ONLY one with a non-communicative, dysfunctional network engineering group. Huh. Well, that ruins all of my 'these are the worst EVER network folks' excuses. You've just matched me! ;o) Rick -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows - MIT Cross-realm auth to domains not in the same dns hierarchy

2005-06-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
IIRC, the trusts are defined and stored as GUIDs. So, determining the GUIDs are going to make it much easier to determine where the information is stored. Let me poke around a bit. As I mentioned yesterday - things are a bit frantic right now, so I might not get to it today. But, soon the rush

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows - MIT Cross-realm auth to domains not in the same dns hierarchy

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
for unqualified hostname resolution in windows is to Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix. So if the trusted domain doesn't happen to be in parent suffix it never looks there. But that's just a guess. andrew --On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:04 PM -0500 Rick Kingslan [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Site IP Change

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Nathan, Typically, the change of IP address, subnet, default gateway and associated DNS entries will take care of most of what you need. However, there is one more thing that needs to be done. Pull up a command prompt on the DC that you've re-IPed, and type this at the prompt (in its entirety:

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Justin, My experience with this is simple: Sometimes, trusts fail. And, then the existing elements no longer work. It sucks, but it's true. You can reset and verify, you can NETDOM it to death - it's physically there, but no trust is home. As long as your WINS entries, DNS and/or LMHOSTS

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
and still no good. No errors in the event logs to post, I get the following message when I try to choose a name or group from the domain The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Jose -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact Yep - what assist do you need, or what information related

RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yeah Those are fun, huh Mark? ;o) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 6:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust I had an

RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy question

2005-06-23 Thread Rick Kingslan
Charlie, Can you post the rest of the USERENV log? There should be some more lines after the: USERENV(e8.8338) 17:04:15:113 GetDeletedGPOList: Finished. For all intents and purposes, the call CheckForGPOsToRemove does exactly what it says. They next line enumerates the GPOs that need to be

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO configuration

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
However, this solves part of the problem, yes? Seems that this won't prevent the closing of Windows Explorer windows... But, I could be wrong - I haven't tried it. :-) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir][OT] File copy with security intact

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep - what assist do you need, or what information related to it? Happy to help Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 6:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir][OT]

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows - MIT Cross-realm auth to domains not in the same dns hierarchy

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Andrew, Really interesting problem that you're experiencing here. I can't say that I have seen this, but I would say in my experience I've worked with a few multi-tree and multi-forest scenarios. Both the multi-tree and forest would naturally use a different DNS namespace for each tree or

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripts

2005-06-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Fully agreeing with what ~Eric and Nazim states, another way to do this and lessen the security risk SLIGHTLY is to feed the password in as a parameter OF the startup script, rather than as part of the script in the first place. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Scripts

2005-06-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Could we get some more detail on that? I've used Hyena, but I'm not sure how to use that in a scripted fashion. Thanks! Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haaker, Chris Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:57 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Batch Script Fun

2005-06-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Heh. I see that Dean has already answered this, so Im most interested to see what the Wizard of the Shell Script has come up with. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:00 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Batch Script Fun

2005-06-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
interesting this time I'm afraid ... Anybody interested in a script that resets every DC's DSRM password to the same value? ;-) -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] RRAS pptp issue

2005-06-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom, I think what Ravi is saying that this is a client side issue, and given the information on this event hes likely as right as anyone else is going to be, given the information. The problem with the 20159 event is that anytime anyone disconnects, a 20159 can be generated. So, its a

RE: [ActiveDir] Event log settings in GPO

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yes youre correct in that you can set this on a per OU basis with GPO. As Jorge points out, make sure that you are complying by the processing rules of the GPO list so that your settings are not reverted by another GPO inherited to that OU. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Guy, Though it might seem trivial, it's not really easy in any way. If you're not in mixed-mode, or have child domains - forget it (IIRC). You've passed the last bastion of 'easy' in a hard process. The way to do this, and not have tons of lingering issues is to demote all other DCs back to

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
off to recuperate ( I rather have the time off then a small bonus any day ). Peace, Jose :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:07 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name

2005-06-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rick Kingslan Sent: Thu 6/16/2005 5:07 PM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Lost and found

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
OK. We now have the Dean and joe version of what is happening. I'm good with it. So, why is Tom's LastKnownParent blank? Now I'm interested. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:58 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: LDAP performance Nice machine name.. descriptive, to be sure. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP performance From port 42217?

RE: [ActiveDir] My LDAP Query

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe said: I am a bit tired and a little high from sniffing tile adhesive And, then later emoted: state how to make it performant without listing by name every other mailbox server by full Looking at the first statement, and the LACK OF COMPLETENESS to the second, I think the fumes

RE: [ActiveDir] Passwords from SQL

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
Maybe they need an 8-way, or more than 2GB of RAM for the database that runs on it. Honestly, though - this has gotten way off the point. He's running MySQL, and doesn't look like he's going to change just because we thought MSSQL is a better fit. Or not Rick -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] Passwords from SQL

2005-06-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
--- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Passwords from SQL Maybe they need an 8-way, or more than

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 DC Hardening

2005-06-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
Though I know that there will be as many opinions as people on this list as to the subject, my preference is from Microsoft themselves. They have developed a very comprehensive Security Configuration guide which includes templates that mimic the best practices from the guide, as well as other job

RE: [ActiveDir] Bionet trojan,

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
I understand the reason for your request. And, it's admirable that you want to insightfully inform your user base. However, looking for live virus or Trojans is not the way to do it. If one wants to show how things can go horribly wrong, controlled environment or not, this is likely a good

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:BigIP LB, --- Was Load balancing LDAP request among my DCs

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep. Have used it for application and web services load balancing. Also have used the Cisco CSS. As long as your Engineer knows the traffic to look for, the destinations, and if it is to be statefull or stateless - then it will work. Obviously, the LDAP on 389 is not the only thing to take

RE: [ActiveDir] Bionet trojan,

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. -Douglas Adams -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
. This would make the discussion more real world like. /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Samstag, 11. Juni 2005 05:30 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins joe, Yeah, you

RE: [ActiveDir] Using AD Sizer

2005-06-13 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Using AD Sizer See inline below.. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Using AD Sizer Im trying to run through the

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-12 Thread Rick Kingslan
same sort of thing. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins joe, Yeah, you had to know it was coming Ricks $.02

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-12 Thread Rick Kingslan
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins joe, Yeah, you had to know it was coming Rick's $.02 worth. Remember what we both were

RE: [ActiveDir] troubleshooting object permission inheritance

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
Funny I asked that about, oh, 4 days ago. I didn't get an answer. Maybe you carry enough weight, Jorge! ;o) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 3:38 PM To: 'John Singler ';

RE: [ActiveDir] troubleshooting object permission inheritance

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
John, You're still not asking the question that has been asked at least twice: What groups is the problem accounts a MEMBER OF? You might have answered this in a manner that doesn't register with me - are you saying that this user is a member of Domain Users and nothing else? Rick Kingslan

RE: [ActiveDir] Bionet trojan,

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
Hmmm. let me think about that. NO! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com

RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console switch for non admins

2005-06-11 Thread Rick Kingslan
access to the food on the dishes and from that point on only saw dishes that had been scraped. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] mstsc /console

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Image Pushing Using Ghost Cast Server and DHCP

2005-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
The type of server is going to be of great importance. If you are planning to do this with a Domain Controller - just don't. It's not worth the trouble, and is technically not a sound practice. If you are talking about a member server, are you thinking of imaging just the base build and then

RE: [ActiveDir] Security permissions on user object

2005-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Security permissions on user object OK this is odd, I changed admincount to 0 and an hour later it was changed back to 1. How frustrating. What gives? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Wednesday

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits

2005-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
Outlook .pst files have a problem with corruption at 2GB. Mailbox size - how big is the store? :0) We had one lady who saved every report, every e-mail, I mean EVERYTHING, since the day she started. Her e-mail box on the Exchange server was (might still be - not my problem anymore) approx.

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits

2005-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
ROTLMAO! I share your pain, Brian. Yeah Gotta love those 'Send to ALL' DLs - and the obvious misuse of same. Black bronco in the north parking lot, second level - your lights are on Ummm, which city/site? I only have 50 of them. And, I'm guessing the sender knows where he/she is.

RE: [ActiveDir] Longhorn Beta

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Thanks, Mark. I, too, would believe that AD will be in the initial betas, but that all remains to be seen. Glad to see that things are moving along with the next iteration. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Active directory migration and security standards issues

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
When you say Disk Encryption, are you referring to EFS (Encrypted file system)? If so which disk is encrypted, and is your account a recovery agent? Finally, which OS? Honestly I dont know of anything that would prevent a system configured with the basic information that you provide

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming user and group object CNs

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
As Phil states, this can be done. However, some of these characters are in there for good reason (such as the '/' as an escape character for the ',') and I would seriously suggest setting up a complete test environment to test out your proposed changes before you run a script against your

RE: [ActiveDir] Security permissions on user object

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
In fact, yes it will, Russ. Looking back at the thread, I don't see any discussion about HOW these users came to have the admincount attribute set to 1. Do you have a root cause? The reason that I ask is because I've dealt with this before when someone (who I never caught) added a group to a

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe, Toss a command line out there for this. Some might be interested in how you collected this - now that we kno what flags we're looking for! Thx! Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:53 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Alternate install Directory for W2K3 load

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
in the GUI setup mode, but this is to be made for a fresh install, not an upgrade. Any ideas on how to load W2K3 into c:\winnt from the start? Thanks, Nate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:35

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:33 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging joe, Toss a command line out there for this. Some might be interested in how you collected this - now that we kno what flags we're looking for! Thx

RE: [ActiveDir] Event viewer Log files

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
My first guess is that all auditing is shut off. Something has to be turned on to audit - otherwise nothing will be posted to the Sec Log. If this is on the DCs, check the Default Domain Controller Policy. If this is Member Servers, look Default Domain Policy, OU GPO where Member exists, or the

RE: [ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
the first version of it about 2 weeks after I loaded my first domain controller back in like 1999/2000. I got sick of doing windiff of two manual dumps right quick. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP SSL and Ipsec.

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
There is no dependency between IPSec and the LDAP/S function. That being said, is there any reason that you NEED to disable IPSec? I'd leave it running - but that's just me. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TIROA YANN Sent: Monday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Alternate install Directory for W2K3 load

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
for a fresh install, not an upgrade. Any ideas on how to load W2K3 into c:\winnt from the start? Thanks, Nate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:35 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP SSL and Ipsec.

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
to disable services that do not need to run on DC in order to reduce open ports :-), and i do not need Ipsec service for my DC BUT only LDAPs. Regards, Yann -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Rick Kingslan Envoyé : lundi 6 juin 2005 17:24 À

RE: [ActiveDir] DFS and Bandwidth

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
Ravi, Though your thought process is likely correct for your environment, I think that the math is off just a magnitude: 55GB * 5% = 275MB So, rather than being ~1MB per hour over a 24 hr. period, it's closer to 12MB per hour over the same 24 hr. period. You know your infrastructure - the

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP SSL and Ipsec.

2005-06-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
, it is going to be off. Anyway, it is pretty easy to turn this stuff back on again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:21 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP SSL

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
all of this well and integrates the pieces to provide a complete end-to-end solution. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
you think you have enough DC's Probably would depend on the remote vs. local campus environment, I suppose! :o) Company that I was just with had over 100, but we had high demand for redundancy in over 50 remote sites supporting anywhere from 200 to ~1200 production users at each site. Given

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking AD monitoring software recomendations

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
NetPro is focused on Directory Services - and in this case, AD. It's the primary thing that it does. MOM, on the other hand can be configured to be focused on AD, but the depth and breadth, IMHO, is not as good as NetPro. MOM is great for a overall view of lots of Microsoft (and non-MS if you

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Error

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
I've seen exactly the same when an Infrastructure Master was missing. Check all FSMO owners to be sure that they really DO exist. To do this, it's best to run DCDIAG /v /test:KnowsOfRoleHolders You will need to run this in each domain for the domain FSMO roles, but it will query the

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Error

2005-06-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
will run the test against every DC in the Forest. Might be good to make sure every DC is seeing the same thing as all others. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 19:24 To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

2005-06-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
For instance... If you connect to a resource via IP, kerberos will not be used, instead passthrough NTLM will be used. joe, I'm not sure that I know the reason for this. Can you help? (Book versions appreciated! :o) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp-

2005-06-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
of the ticket. -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:13 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] _msdcs question

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Kingslan
But, my experiments have shown that though you might be able to get rid of WINS for Exchange purposes, the Office team hasn't quite grown past its use. Outlook (including 2003) has a bit of a hard time finding its mailbox if WINS is not active (or, at least an LMHosts file in place). Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] Need AD Query Suggestion Please

2005-05-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Oh, Jorge! Please stop! We can barely get joe's head through most doors as it is now He REALLY doesn't need another cheerleader! ;op Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:40 AM

RE: [ActiveDir] Sticky group membership - Solved

2005-05-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Sticky group membership - Solved Dean, Would you be as kind as to elaborate on the other issues with Group

RE: [ActiveDir] Sticky group membership - Solved

2005-05-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
have long-since been resolved ... haven't checked) That's all I can think of ... hope it proves useful! Dean -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why?

2005-05-21 Thread Rick Kingslan
apologies. I'm sorry for the 'tone' of my message. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com

RE: [ActiveDir] Sticky group membership - Solved

2005-05-21 Thread Rick Kingslan
Dean, Would you be as kind as to elaborate on the other issues with Group Membership Crashing? I know you're not into the 'joe' model of writing novels, but I'm interested in what you've noted and why it occurs. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why not?

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
not broke, Todd. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food _ From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to log you on because if an account restriction

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Mark, Please post the link to the white paper, if you would. I'm sure that you can imagine that there are more than a few white papers that we all know about Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why?

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Todd, With all due respect, I think there are more people doing this than you think. You aren't using a Lag Site, so it's 'whacky'. Your opinion, so you're entitled to it. PSS blessed our implementation, BTW. If you'd like, I'll be happy to provide you with contacts for the ROSS tech (out of

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why?

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Arden, Validation - I'm not the only one that MS is telling that 'whacky' things are a good thing. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A P Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:52 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD

RE: [ActiveDir] Export user info

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Adfind and CSVDE comes to mind. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Benway Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 2:00 PM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: [ActiveDir] Export user info Is there a way to export all the user

RE: [ActiveDir] Export user info

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
I guess it's just a normal response anymore Adfind will do that =) -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Export user info The tool

RE: [ActiveDir] removing a DC from AD

2005-05-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
, or replication inner workings aren't there - it's my job as an instructor to go beyond what they already have. That's how *I* teach it. YMMV. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Just two things... Disable Netlogon. If it's disabled as a policy or by going to services and changing the service properties, restarting on reboot won't be an issue. Disabled is disabled, regardless. As to DNS records, I suppose that if the Netlogon service is disabled (primary for

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yann, If you remember the situation that I proposed for you (it's working in my environment today, so I'm fairly certain of its viability) I use a VMWare server with multiple DC instances. Each instance is staggered for replication - from 30 minutes to 30 days. In the instance of a problem in

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site----Why not?

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Todd - I personally don't have a problem with Recovery Manager. That being said - Last I checked, Microsoft still didn't allow it as a SUPPORTABLE solution for the purpose under discussion. With our company being an Enterprise Agreement customer with a PSS agreement scaled to 'Get Ballmer out

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Marcus, I kill off the specific rules on those servers. If I'm not interested in a particular message, it's gone. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:24 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Joining pc to domain over vpn

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Sounds like there might be some NATing going on. Get with your Network folks. I suspect that there is something going on at layers 2 and 3 that are going to prevent what you want to do until the DCPromo is completed. -rtk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD alerting tools

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
There are a number of freeware event log - syslog tools that will scrape the event logs for what you are looking to dump out to the syslog server. Obviously, the second part of this is a syslog server. Those are a dime a dozen or free. Choose your OS (Windows, *nix, Mac, whatever) and

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Of Rick Kingslan Sent: 19 May 2005 15:59 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site Just two things... Disable Netlogon. If it's disabled as a policy or by going to services and changing the service properties, restarting on reboot won't be an issue

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR - replication lag site

2005-05-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
: Administrative Templates System Netlogon DC Locator DNS Records These settings are disccused in Chapter 4: Planning DNS of the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Branch Office Deployment Guide. -Arden On 5/19/05, Rick Kingslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right - to each his

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