I've got it out in production now. Not enterprise wide, but in
production on a decent number of machines. Granted, I don't run ISA and
I don't use Trend. I run NOD and they have a Vista ready version of
their AV product out. We rolled Vista to all of our tablet PCs almost
immediately upon release
They won't do it if Microsoft makes it so they CAN'T do it. I feel
Microsoft should be applauded for forcing admins to do their jobs
correctly for a change, instead of giving in to the lazy or uninformed
amongst us.
Just my opinion,
Tim
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Well said. But while you're at it, could you let someone know that I
very upset that I can't manage my Vista GPOs from my Windows ME PC.
Thanks much. ;-)
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Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:26 PM
To:
From: Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Fri 12/15/2006 10:53 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO
They won't do it if Microsoft makes it so they CAN'T do it. I feel
Microsoft should be applauded for forcing admins to do their jobs
correctly
ID and do
user stuff on your workstation with your workstation ID, so doing GP
editing on the workstation isn't best practice, but that's my point of
view =)
Thanks,
Andrew Fidel
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Please respond to
ActiveDir
that we release them for Microsoft Bob, IIRC. ;-)
Laura
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Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 3:49 PM
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Subject: RE
While Laura and yourself make valid points, you are both talking about
solutions that do not exist today. I'm just trying to help the OP with
the problem he is having right now. Getting into the full licensing
overhead of Vista, not to mention LH, could, and undoubtedly will, take
weeks and/or
You need to go to Control Panel System then at the bottom select
Change Product Key. This will allow you to enter your VL key which will
result in Vista activating via the web. Definitely not well documented
unfortunately.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Tim Vander
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Sent: 19 October 2006 22:40
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: TechED 2007
It was beautiful weather there for TechEd 2000. I had thought
that the transportation was less than great, but after Boston this year it wasn’t
bad at all in retrospect.
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With or without the police escorts? ;-)
Tim Vander Kooi wrote:
It was beautiful weather there for TechEd 2000. I had thought that the
transportation was less than great, but after Boston this year it
wasn’t bad at all in retrospect
Richard Nixon?
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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:43 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: wikis
Ummm, what's 6 X 9 ??
Steve Egan
Purcell Systems
It's not speed or resources that scare most of us when it comes to
sharing DC space with other apps, it's security. With SBS Microsoft has
(at least in theory) covered most of those security bases for the admin.
The last time I allowed another admin to install FTP on a server he
inadvertently put
Have you looked at the beta for System Center Essentials from
Microsoft? I think it would do a lot of what you are looking at. And for far
less money than Altiris. Altiris makes a great product, but it is very
much on the high end price-wise. Another product I would recommend looking at
You need to load the ESM on your DCs and/or your XP machine to
see the Exchange tabs. You can load it from your Exchange CD.
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I’m not sure why you say it doesn’t store anything??? It stores
EVERYTHING, it simply doesn’t get the rights to write anything new back to your
core DCs. This is a HUGE breakthrough for those of us with smaller branch
offices that today can’t cost justify putting an entire
Have you looked into the RODC capability coming with Longhorn?
Its really not that far off, and it solves most of the security issues you
are worried about. I was able to use the promise of RODC to get management here
to back off of DCs at all branch locations until next year.
If they
Title: Assigning Software Via GPO
Assign the package to the machine not the user. This causes the
software to be installed under the System account which has permissions. Just
be sure to add Local Computers to the Security list or the install will fail.
Tim
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It means if you kiss...You don't tell.
:~)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark
ParrisSent: Friday, April 28, 2006 1:11 PMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] GC
Promotion
Anyone know what
constitutes domain controller discretion?
If you are asking if there is anything special about Disk 1 of the R2
install set, then the answer is no. Whether you install Windows 2003
Server SP1 from the R2 set or you have 2003 SP1 already installed, it
makes no difference.
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Based on the subject of this discussion: if you have those
regular users, who can't comprehend or remember a password over 7 characters,
signing on to your domain controllers I would say that your domain controllers
are VERY not secure. Secondly, if your domain administrators are so lazy as
I understand/stood what you were saying, just was hoping to
bring out a clearer answer for some of the lurker/newbies on the list (of which
there are many). And you provided exactly that clarification which was
excellent. Thank you.
I still personally believe in the statement that if I can
Being a local admin on a PC does not give them the ability
to see another machine's C$ share. This would occur if youadded a group
(local admins) to the administrators group on all PCs and then added users to
that group instead of doing it on a user by user basis. That said, I would look
That is usually a result of GPO being set to restrict (or direct) use of
Auto Update.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:59 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Windows
I've had this happen before and have always been able to
remove all permissions to the file in question with the exception of Domain
Admins or my personal log in, depending on the situation. Usually it is removing
the System permissions that does the trick though.
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Just about everyone using SQL Server prior to the release of 2005 was
wanting Outlook on their server to enable SQL Mail. Now why anyone would
have Exchange and SQL on the same box is beyond me.
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What are you looking at using them for? I've used their
outdoors wireless solutions for shots of a couple miles between buildings with
very good success.
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EigerSent: Monday, November 21, 2005 1:17 PMTo:
I have both InTrust by Quest and Active Administrator by ScriptLogic on
my network now. I can tell you from real world side by side comparisons
that Active Administrator is MUCH easier to set up and get running out
of the box. It is also much easier to configure with regards to emailing
alerts and
I use Active Administrator and love it, almost as much as our auditors
do.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:21 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Change Auditor
employees using that Sharepoint
server?
Thanks!
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From: Tim Vander
Kooi
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Sent: Tuesday,
October 25, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: RE:
[ActiveDir] OT: Are MS Sharepoint CAL's good for multiple
portals
ubject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Are MS
Sharepoint CAL's good for multiple portals?
For the few extranet users we have, they do have
login accounts in an AD domain on our network.
I appreciate all the info so far.
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To: ActiveDir@mail.act
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From:
Tim Vander
Kooi
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:56
AM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Are MS
Sharepoint CAL's good for multiple portals?
In that case, you are really just running 2 different
intranets, and yesthe 30 CALs
For your described situation a CAL would not cover both
portals. Then again, if you are using it for an Extranet with CALs you are
incorrectly licensed as is. An Extranet setup would require an External
Connector license, as the people connecting to it are not employees of your
company.
Sorry, but redeploying the app is
reinstalling.
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DesmondSent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:06 PMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] .msp
GPOs
Why
would he do that? The MSI is on the share for the
Title: Schema Updates
I agree completely that the strength, or weakness, of your
implementation depends 100% on the abilities of the partner doing your install
and your admins on staff. I've been working with Unity since it was the
voicemail system for NEC PBXs back in the 90's so it's never
Reinstall the msi using the new
msp.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding,
DevonSent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 11:56 AMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] .msp
GPOs
How can I deploy a Symantec patch
file
Title: Schema Updates
Not sure why you don't like Unity, it's the best unified
messaging app there is right now. Actually has been for over 5 years. I believe
that the reason it;s as good as it is, is that it was not created or even
modified much by Cisco, they simply bought a really good
Title: Schema Updates
And I will never run Windows because 3.11 just wasn't that
great at networking. ;-)
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joeSent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:42 AMTo:
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema
Updates
Being
Title: Schema Updates
I understand your point of view completely, I have the same
hang up about anything made by CA. (Not on my network.)
Unity really depends on your use. The things that Cisco has
changed make it awesome to use if you have an AD environment and a Cisco VOIP
system.Pricey to
to reconnect to an existing session with that
user context I see
That pukes out around 14 characters.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE
Title: Schema Updates
I just did this last week to install Cisco Unity and I
still had to enable schema updates in Windows 2003 even though the user was in
Schema Admins. I was under the same impression as Travis, but after enabling
updating in the registry it worked fine.
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Title: Schema Updates
Upgraded.
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Schema Updates
Upgraded to 2003 or
fresh install?
:m:dsm:cci:mvp
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:12 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anti-virus protection in domain enviroment
I agree that most all AV vendors are alike, as are most of their
products. I
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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:12 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anti-virus protection in domain enviroment
I agree that most all AV vendors are alike, as are most of their
products. I have used
I think the biggest problem is cultural. And we as developers and
administrators make the situation worse by giving in to pressure from business
leaders.
The average user when you tell them that they now have to have a password that
is at least 15 characters long including special characters
I've only been on the list a short time, but I must have missed the
mandatory Trend Micro brainwashing. :-)
So far from what I have noticed there seems to be a set answer to all AV
questions.
Question: I'm curious about the capabilities of NOD32.
Answers (en mass): You should use Trend Micro.
We use NOD32 on DCs with no ill effects what so ever. I agree that right
now it is the best anti-virus solution available. We use is for both
servers and workstations using the enterprise edition with Remote
Management console. I love it. We do not use NOD's Exchange product, not
because it isn't
NOD has an admin console very similar to ePO and the others. (does
anyone NOT have a console now days?) Works very nicely to see everything
that is happening throughout your LAN and WAN virus-wise.
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