RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-28 Thread Rocky Habeeb
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Hey Rocky, Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system. Most people on the list won't have a clue as to what I'm talking about anyway... In any case, how do

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-28 Thread Rocky Habeeb
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Hey Rocky, Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system. Most people on the list won't have a clue as to what I'm talking about anyway... In any case, how do

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-28 Thread neil.ruston
@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Gil, I hear that all the time, plus "Hey Rocky, where's Bullwinkle?" Heehee hee. Anyway, for people like me who couldn't see Dean and joe and all the rest of youse guys even if I had the Hubble telescope, beca

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-28 Thread Jef Kazimer
etc. These are 'harmful' to the firm in the same way as a network outage is, IMHO. my 2 penneth, neil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky HabeebSent: 28 April 2006 14:51To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-28 Thread joe
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jef KazimerSent: Friday, April 28, 2006 11:01 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Neil, In some ways they may be even more harmful. Network outages have their own fixes, hardware failures have

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
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RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread al_maurer
Mark, I'm in the same place you are: single forest, single domain, but 30 DCs in a global deployment with 45k users and 37k computers. Ran that way for 6 years. Now we've sold off a business unit of a couple thousand users and they outsourced to a big 3rd party service provider who insisted

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
to have an empty forest root domain or not... (things I just thought of) POSSIBLES FOR TO HAVE: * Large, complex and dynamic organizations * Organization with independent departments and decentralized IT departments (because of this one or more IT departments

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
forgot to mention in my previous post.. always go for a single domain forest! unlessblabla...yadayada...(and this should be a STRONG reason) Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, Ing. Jorge de Almeida Pinto Senior Infrastructure Consultant MVP Windows Server - Directory Services

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Dave Wade
14:56 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Your subject is your answer. They need to justify a root domain. Is there an actual reason for it? There are only three reasons to have one, imho(cut and pasted from a google search) 1. Security

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Wade Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:29 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Number 1 of these really drive me nuts

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification drifting off topic slightly

2006-04-26 Thread Dave Wade
, perhaps this is a real design flaw in AD, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: 26 April 2006 15:44 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification I view number 1 security issues

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Brian Desmond
] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification I view number 1 security issues more at the GPO level than the resource level. Password and lockout policies

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Jef Kazimer
offerings. :) I admit I was wrong :) Jef Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:03:19 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Mark, I'minthesameplaceyouare:singleforest,singledomain

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Jef Kazimer
. Of course this can all be done using different ACL's and task groups and what not, but is there a a simpler way that I am missing? Jef Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:03:13 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 16:03 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Mark, I'm in the same place you are: single forest, single domain, but 30 DCs in a global deployment with 45k users and 37k

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jef KazimerSent: Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 17:48To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification I would tend to agree that a single domain is optimal with the current AD and infrastructure

Re: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Mark Parris
Thanks Guido, Mark -Original Message- From: Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:04:39 To:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification There isn't much official documentation available on this topic and if you search

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Jef Kazimer
On Behalf Of Jef KazimerSent: Mittwoch, 26. April 2006 17:48To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification I would tend to agree that a single domain is optimal with the current AD and infrastructure that is available. Other than security, legacy

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Myrick, Todd \(NIH/CC/DNA\) [E]
From: Jef Kazimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Guido, My thoughts exactly. I always start my complaining with It was designed with what we knew at the time

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread al_maurer
they should re-evaluate their service offerings. :) I admit I was wrong :) Jef Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:03:19 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Mark, I'minthesameplaceyouare:singleforest

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Rocky Habeeb
CTED]Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:49 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Jef, We dont have a root domain because somebody smarter than I made that decision before I took over. I was convinced at the time we had made a m

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread RM
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification I spoke to an MCS engineer on this very topic a while back and he confirmed that Microsoft has gotten away from recommending a dedicated forest root unless there's a compelling reason to have one.  Sorry I can't be more specific

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Jef Kazimer
Of Jef KazimerSent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:51 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Al, If you had asked me in the year 2000, I could see issues that would drive a root domain to anchor multiple domains. I would caution against it now. I

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Jef Kazimer
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:49 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Jef, We don’t have a root domain because somebody smarter than I made that decision before I took over. I was convince

Re: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Mark Parris
Dean/Joseph Anything to add? Mark -Original Message- From: Jef Kazimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:15:09 To:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification RH,   It comes in the management issues.   I currently deal

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
ed by your question... -gil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky HabeebSent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:03 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification "Where's the harm?" Don't tell me about economics

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread Jef Kazimer
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification "Where's the harm?" Don't tell me about economics or overhead or other things. Tell me where the "harm" is. Please. RH _ -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread joe
justification Dean/Joseph Anything to add? Mark -Original Message- From: Jef Kazimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:15:09 To:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification RH, It comes in the management issues. I currently deal

RE: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification

2006-04-26 Thread joe
This is quickly becoming one of those religious type argument items. Top post -vs- bottom post. Universal Groups -vs- Domain Local Groups. Open -vs- fixed naming standards. Open Source -vs- proprietary. Linux -vs- Windows. Linux -vs- BSD. IIS -vs- Apache. MySQL -vs- SQL Server. PHP -vs Perl. Coke