[ActiveDir] Minimum Password Age

2004-10-04 Thread Travis Riddle
Our password policy is set up as follows: Minimum 8 characters Remember 6 passwords Maximium Password Age 90 days Minimum Password Age 15 days Require Complex passwords Windows 2003 3 Sites GC at each site So we just created approximatly 50 new users and assigned them a semi-generic passowrd

RE: [ActiveDir] Minimum Password Age

2004-10-04 Thread Travis Riddle
Title: [ActiveDir] Minimum Password Age Dean's explinationis why we implimented the minimum password age. We use tohave the number of passwords remembered set at 3, so users would just change their password 4 times in a row (the 4th time setting it to what it was originally) so they could

RE: [ActiveDir] Minimum Password Age

2004-10-04 Thread Travis Riddle
Title: [ActiveDir] Minimum Password Age The error message at the workstation is: Password does not meet the requirments of the password policy. Make sure the password is meets the minimum length, complexity and age requirements or contact your system administrator. I can set the password

RE: [ActiveDir] NTP

2004-09-01 Thread Travis Riddle
Title: Message I know my unix servers (which use NTP only) can use ntpdate to update their clock from my rootDC and then maintain that with the DC specificed as the primary NTP time server. I imagineCisco would work the same way. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] small domain upgrade strategy

2004-08-17 Thread Travis Riddle
Title: small domain upgrade strategy You should dcpromo the old win2k server afterwards to remove it as a DC and then remove it from the domain. You may have already planned on doing this you just didn't mention it :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer,

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-07-30 Thread Travis Riddle
Without a backup and without having another DC you can't recover the domain. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=240362 Specifically the part where it reads: If the Ntds.dit file is missing, it cannot be re-created or refreshed by other domain controllers, and you cannot log on

[ActiveDir] Moving FSMO RH to another site

2004-06-22 Thread Travis Riddle
I was wondering if anyone had any experience/advice that they would be kind enough to share J Our current environment includes 2 sites. Lets call them Site A and Site B. We will be adding Site C soon. Site B has the first DC/GC and FSMO RH along with our first exchange server and a

RE: [ActiveDir] FRS 2k - What is the Latest version?

2003-11-03 Thread Travis Riddle
From what I have read, 07-May-03 is the latest FRS release, its included with SP4 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811370 ) I don't think you can upgrade FRS beyond this without contacting MS with a need to do so (if they even have anything newer at all) What kind of replication problems are

[ActiveDir] Password Policy

2003-10-02 Thread Travis Riddle
I made a slight error when creating a group policy, and now need some advice on how to fix it. Hopefully some one will be kind enough to help out. I have a single domain with 2 sites. I created a Default Policy for the entire domain with fairly minimal settings (such as password policy,

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Policy

2003-10-02 Thread Travis Riddle
as domain policies only. -tom -Original Message- From: Travis Riddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Password Policy I made a slight error when creating a group policy, and now need some advice on how

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000

2003-01-21 Thread Travis Riddle
Exchange on a DC, it was a member server. Travis Riddle -Original Message- From: John Hicks/MIS/HQ/KEMET/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000 I am in the process of setting up Exchange 2000

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2000

2003-01-21 Thread Travis Riddle
after you install Exchange, BEFORE the initial reboot. I hope this helps with your problem. As a side note, I did NOT install Exchange on a DC, it was a member server. Travis Riddle -Original Message- From: John Hicks/MIS/HQ/KEMET/US [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January

[ActiveDir] ISA Server/Security

2003-01-16 Thread Travis Riddle
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has read or looked at ISA Server and Beyond: Real World Security Solutions for Microsoft Enterprise Networks by Tom Shinder and had comments about the book, or maybe recommendations for other ISA books that are worth purchasing. I am also interested

[ActiveDir] Password Creation Date

2002-12-02 Thread Travis Riddle
Hello, I was curious if anyone knows how to change the password creation date on all user accounts. Here is why: When we upgraded to Win2k we also upgraded all clients to WinXP. Windows XP would not display the Password Expires pop up at login, we found this out the first time passwords

RE: [ActiveDir] User List from AD

2002-11-01 Thread Travis Riddle
+ s.telephone + s.givenName); } -Original Message- From: Travis Riddle [mailto:triddle;apfc.com] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] User List from AD Hello everyone, I would like to retrieve a list of all of my users in Active Directory. I

RE: [ActiveDir] User List from AD

2002-11-01 Thread Travis Riddle
need a hand with the syntax. Fred LVBrands T: 919 990 3532 -Original Message- From: Travis Riddle [mailto:triddle;apfc.com] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] User List from AD Hello everyone, I would like to retrieve a list of all

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Policy for Users

2002-11-01 Thread Travis Riddle
To apply separate password policies to different OU's you will need to create a Group Policy and only change the password settings, then apply it to that OU. You can make however many you like, and just apply them to the OU of your choosing. I attended a seminar and remember hearing that if you

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Policy for Users

2002-11-01 Thread Travis Riddle
Chris is correct on this, one password policy for the domain. I guess I just assumed that because Quest did it with their software that it was possible without. Thats what I get for assuming I suppose. -Original Message- From: Travis Riddle Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:40 PM

[ActiveDir] Login Scripts

2002-10-30 Thread Travis Riddle
Title: Message Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions or recommendations on web sites or books for writing and implementing login scripts. I am interested in simple scripts such as drive mapping to extended scripts such as creating software distribution points and

RE: [ActiveDir] RAID Configuration on DC's Part 3

2002-10-21 Thread Travis Riddle
I can see where Shawn is going with this. A Raid 0+1 array would handle this situation better by getting the performance of sequential data writes. If it's a high performance controller it will handle the data flow very well. Ironicly you would get similar performance with that much memory

RE: [ActiveDir] RAID configuration on DC's

2002-10-18 Thread Travis Riddle
Title: Message We have around 200 users at our facility, and we are running raid 5 with a spare for our Domain Controllers. We have not experianced any problems thus far performance wise. It all depends on the size of your AD I suppose, but I am with Michael on this one, from the sounds of

RE: [ActiveDir] printer sharing problem

2002-10-16 Thread Travis Riddle
) that you select to list it in the directory. It will be listed and avaliable for anyone to use. Travis Riddle -Original Message- From: Maarten Engelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] printer sharing problem