RE: [ActiveDir]DHCP Client service failing

2004-10-07 Thread james . blair
Title: Removing A W2K Domain Where The Host Server No Longer Exists Jeff, My guess would be that the DHCP client service permissions have been changed. What I would do is from the particular server run RSoP.msc and check the resultant set of policy on Computer Configuration/Windows

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows XP SP2

2004-08-22 Thread james . blair
Justin, A quick handy setting until you get to play with additional AD settings in XPSP2 is, run from a command prompt: netsh firewall set opmode mode = disable profile = domain netsh firewall set opmode mode = enable profile = standard This turns off the firewall when connected to the domain

RE: [ActiveDir] RIS Headaches

2004-08-22 Thread james . blair
Edwin, Get the latest driver set from Intel and copy the *.cat; *.sys *.inf directly into: \\%ServerPath%\REMINST\Setup\English\Images\%ImageName%\i386 folder This has worked for me in past and also subverts the necessity to use $OEM$ etc. which in my experience is not always

[ActiveDir] GPO Issue...

2004-08-18 Thread james . blair
information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. James Blair

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Issue...

2004-08-18 Thread james . blair
. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help. ). Group Policy processing aborted. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. James Blair

[ActiveDir] Slightly OT Possible AD - Exchange issue

2004-08-05 Thread james . blair
following syntax from the command prompt: FIND /I Cannot find %SYSTEMROOT%\Security\Logs\winlogon.log which returns SERVICES so I remove it and the Event ID "goes away". If anyone has any ideas I would be greatful. James Blair

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 to 2003 upgrade/migration

2004-08-05 Thread james . blair
Laura, We have recently gone through this procedure and it is not as painful as you would expect...The ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) is the way to go if you the target domain is going to be in native mode and if you Google ADMT NT 4.0 - 2003 migration you get all sorts of information,

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 attachment blocking

2004-06-28 Thread james . blair
Manjeet, Is the problem definitely at the Outlook level? The below registry entry would allow exe's and mdb's through. Are you running a content control tool or similar on your Exchange box? Are the customers "E-Mail Solutions" deleting the attachment? Windows Registry Editor Version

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 attachment blocking

2004-06-27 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Manjeet, Purely from a security perspective I would advise that you leave the default Outlook Level 1 security enabled and train your users to zip (or alternate compression format) or rename the file extensions to an "allowed" format e.g. *.123, you could even remove the

RE: [ActiveDir] Setting Desktop Settings via Group Policy

2004-06-07 Thread james . blair
Raymond, You may want to take a look at assigning a mandatory profile for your users... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307800sd=tech http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak1591.aspx Under group policy take a closer look at User Config-Administrative Templates in Group Policy

[ActiveDir] Group Policy Security Templates:

2004-05-18 Thread james . blair
All, We are in the process of testing security templates on a new windows 2003 domain model and there is one attribute I am having trouble putting a value on. The particular node is the Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options/Interactive Login/Number of

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to demote Additional DC

2004-05-18 Thread james . blair
Title: Unable to demote Additional DC Mohammed, From what you have posted you I would advise the following: Verify what server holds the PDC and RID master roles. The best way to do this is through Active Directory Users and Computers, right mouse click the domain and choose

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k SP4

2004-05-03 Thread james . blair
Russ, MS04-001 (Q835732): Windows2000-KB835732-x86-ENU.EXE http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx Sasser worm... http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sasser.b.worm.html James From: Rimmerman, Russ [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows XP time sync

2004-02-18 Thread james . blair
Title: Message In XP you are able to set a local time server through a registry entry, you can run this as a login script if you like. Have not tried this on servers yet. TEST BEFORE YOU USE IT IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT... Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Delete Time Server

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 startup screen

2004-02-05 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Russ, As Kathrine advised or registry entry, see below...your choice: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Add Legal Notice Caption Legal Notice[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]"LegalNoticeCaption"="WARNING

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 startup screen

2004-02-05 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Russ, Sorry about that...an idea...you can have a legal message integrated into the CTRL+ALT+DEL bitmap... What you could do is use reshacker http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/, getan MSGINA.DLL from a machine of the same type and service pack that you are using

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Mark, Easily done, maybe the rep meantthat you couldn't roll the hotfixes directly into the i386 dir like the service packs, they have to be added as an "after thought"we usean unattendedbootable CD for our more remote locations and roll all the available hotfixes into

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs for Spyware

2004-01-08 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Russ, SpyWareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htmlis Freeware/Donationware and can be installed "silently" using a login script using the Inno Setup command line parameter /VERYSILENT eg. code used during a batch: ECHO.ECHO Installing SpyWareBlaster

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange Windows 2003 behavior after joining AD do main

2003-09-11 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Ninet, Try the following on the 2003 servers: From within a command prompt: ipconfig /flushdns nbtstat -RR route print (check and see whether or not you have inadvertantly put in a persistent route) Make sure that you don't have any "rogue" entries in the host file...

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] RPC DCOM WORM (MSBLASTER)

2003-08-14 Thread james . blair
Charles, Our remote satellite sites were hit and infected 3/7 (broadband satellite), Internally no problems. Info @: Trend describes best way to do a manual removal. Easy Way: If you were infected and PC keeps restarting goto Services-Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Right Mouse Click goto

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Printer Moves

2003-06-24 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Haven't been very helpful for a while hope this makes up for it... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315983 Microsoft Printer Migrator 3.0: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/fileandprint/print/download.asp James -Original Message-

[ActiveDir] OT RIS ISSUE:

2003-04-02 Thread james . blair
Title: OT RIS ISSUE: I am currently trying to RIS servers on a tested and am able to do so however I wish to set partition sizes so that the system partition is 10GB but RIS seems to just format and utilise ALL the available space even when I have FDISK'd and set the primary partition size.

[ActiveDir] OT Password Policy:

2003-03-24 Thread james . blair
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/webcasts/wc022703/wcblurb022703.asp The below is referenced from: http://winxp.bink.nu/ : Interesting password points: Password length and possible permutations 6 characters = 689,869,781,056 7 characters =

[ActiveDir] ADS Replication Through Satellite Connection

2003-03-11 Thread james . blair
All, I was wondering if any of you have utilised this method for ADS replication, I am having a bit of trouble. I have a USB satellite modem with integrated NIC which has a statically assigned IP Address and a class C subnet mask with an assigned default gateway, these were configured by the

[ActiveDir] RIS INSTALLS:

2003-03-03 Thread james . blair
All, Is there any other way to specify a specific partition size to install the OS on or do you have to create the partition "manually" and use the ExtendOemPartion=0 switch in the answer file. This would apply to our servers as we want an 8GB primary partition. James

RE: [ActiveDir] Service Pack 3

2002-09-17 Thread james . blair
Justin, Broke our Adobe Acrobat PDF printer (Had to roll back to SP2 and re-install) and know of issues with Hummingbird Exceed other than I have had no problems... James -Original Message- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2002 8:07 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Update Services:

2002-07-16 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Dennis, My apologies I must have been on a rant I stand corrected. James -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2002 3:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Software Update Services:

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Update Services:

2002-07-15 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Dennis, Download the SUS Deployment White Paper approx. 2.3MB: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/susdeployment.asp Page 55 of the White Paper starts explaining how to utilise Group Policy and Administrative Templates in order to redirect

[ActiveDir] Software Update Services:

2002-07-11 Thread james . blair
All, Havent contributed for a while but this will more than make up for that. In a nut shell Software Update Services (SUS) allows you to synchronise an internal server with the Microsoft Update servers and test and approve updates to deploy...too good to be true, no more hfnetchk,