RE: [ActiveDir] DFS use question

2004-04-14 Thread E Brown
If you decide to use dfs\frs do the following as tuning guide... 1. Create as many separate trees as opposed to one large one. 2. Use latest frs hotfix 3. Have each partner have only one upstream downstream partner 4. Do a backup so that recovery is easier. 5. Connect server to switch and use

RE: [ActiveDir] How to remove ADC from domain

2004-04-14 Thread simon.geary
You need to perform a metadata cleanup to remove a failed DC from Active Directory http://support.microsoft.com/?id=216498 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mike Celone Sent: Wed 14/04/2004 00:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

RE: [ActiveDir] Wlan AD Security

2004-04-14 Thread Rutherford, Robert
I haven't read the MS doc on securing 802.11 networks, but using a VPN is the your safest bet.. May also be worth using 2-factor authentication in this scenario. What system would authenticate you? W2k, firewall, etc? -Original Message- From: Chris Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[ActiveDir] Using Security Configuration Template instead of Ksetup...

2004-04-14 Thread Lara Adianto
Hello, In 'Step-by-step Guide to Kerberos 5 Interoperability' document, it is stated as follows: To deploy realm configuration data to multiple computers, use the security configuration template mechanism instead of using Ksetup explicitly on individual computers Is there any good document /

RE: [ActiveDir] DFS use question

2004-04-14 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
I have another question, how do you prevent the situation where a user at one site opens a document and a user at the remote site opens and starts editing the same document? What happens then? How do you prevent that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] GPO

2004-04-14 Thread SysPro Support
Justin, I would agree... it should all work. One way of debugging this is to look at the article here. http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBH/tip3700/rh3799.htm It explains how to enable logging and creates a log that shows everything that is happening as the policies are applied in the machine. It's a bit

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO

2004-04-14 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I can't remember at this point what I was e-mailing about, I think that I reliazed what happened, I was logging in as a user that did not have the policy inheritied. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matja Ladava Sent: Tuesday, April 13,

RE: [ActiveDir] Updating Schema to Windows 2003

2004-04-14 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
You are right, I have seen that article and I have not seen any articles that say that that can happen when Exchange 2003 is deployed already. It appears that this problem only affects AD when Exchange 2000 is deployed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Wlan AD Security

2004-04-14 Thread Mulnick, Al
I saw that this morning. I'm incredulous that it made it out the door with hard coded passwords in this day and age (although I shouldn't be, I suppose. ;) Let's keep it in perspective though. No matter what you install, it will eventually get compromised if that's the desire of the attacker.

RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts

2004-04-14 Thread Celone, Mike
Thanks for correcting me on this. I would much rather use restricted groups than have the script I run everytime the machine is booted up. Mike From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:55 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide

RE: [ActiveDir] How to remove ADC from domain

2004-04-14 Thread Mulnick, Al
Just out of curiousity, why do you need to remove the computer account? Wouldn't it just be easier to bring up a new ADC machine and have it take over with a new computer name? Deleting the computer account is fine, but is it necessary in your test lab? Al From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL

RES: [ActiveDir] logon scripts

2004-04-14 Thread Elton GouvĂȘa Pimentel
Title: Mensagem The first three steps are : 1 - You should install the Windows Scripting Host version 5.6 (It can be found at Microsoft downloads site) 2 - Install DSClient for Windows 9X (It can be found at Microsoft downloads site) 3 - As in Windows9X you are not going to have all the

RES: [ActiveDir] logon scripts

2004-04-14 Thread Justin_Leney
Return Receipt Your RES: [ActiveDir] logon scripts document :

RE: [ActiveDir] Firewall

2004-04-14 Thread Jones, Rick J.(Desktop Engineering)
Have you tried isolating this problem to the computer or user rights? What I mean is have you had someone else log onto the suspect system to see if this is a problem with the system or have the suspect user log into a different computer known to work ok and see if the problem follows the user?

[ActiveDir] Migration Dilemma

2004-04-14 Thread Morris, Adam
Hello, We are in the process of planning our migration from NT 4 to Windows 2000 AD. Last year we deployed a minimal AD site in order to roll-out Exchange 2000 for our users. User accounts and mailboxes were created in the new domain but no users were migrated. Some initial testing with the

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration Dilemma

2004-04-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
What are the desired results? How were the user accounts and mailboxes created in the new domain initially? Are the users authenticating against the mailboxes with their NT 4 accounts, or with the AD accounts? Is there an Exch 5.5 organization and an ADC in the mix? Hunter -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration Dilemma

2004-04-14 Thread Ellis, Debbie
My company used Net IQ and had great results. Cost was about 6.00 per user for the whole suite. (Includes Exchange Migrator) We tried ADMT but had problems with the local profiles migrating over to the new domain. -Original Message- From: Morris, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread England, Christopher M
Title: SUS 2.0 Beta Greetings, I guess SUS 2.0 Beta has been released: http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?articleID=18400592 Does anyone have a Guest ID to get in on the Beta? Or is there just a download somewhere? Thanks all, Chris

RE: [ActiveDir] Migration Dilemma

2004-04-14 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
We use Quest Fastlane Migrator to migrate the users with their existing SIDs. We migrated a long time ago with ADMT, and Quest will 'merge' the user with their existing account, and retain all the SID history. Works pretty well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Robbie Foust
Looks like you can sign up for the open evaluation version here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/wusbeta.mspx But I haven't been able to locate the beta version yet. Haven't found a Guest ID yet either. - Robbie Robbie Foust, IT Analyst Systems and Core Services Duke

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
I believe its currently considered a closed beta, by invitation only. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Robbie Foust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Philadelphia, Lynden - Revios Toronto
How will we be notified when it is ready for public use Lynden -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta I believe its currently considered a closed beta, by

RE: [ActiveDir] Using Security Configuration Template instead of Ksetup...

2004-04-14 Thread Arden Pineda
Lara, I am trying to refresh my memory since I had to perform the same steps while rebuilding our test environment a while back. Basically, we had to do it in 2 steps in the order listed below. 1. Create and import a custom ADM template that predefines the Kerberos REALM key in the registry.

RE: [ActiveDir] moving domain admins

2004-04-14 Thread Mulnick, Al
Heck of a cross post, isn't it? Moving the domain administrators group is not something that should cause this type of issue. What else was done during those changes? -Original Message- From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:45 PM To: Admin

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
Same way all other products are announced. My information has it that you've got a few months still before it goes public. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Does anyone know what the upgrade process is going to be from SUS to SUS 2.0? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta Same way all

RE: [ActiveDir] moving domain admins

2004-04-14 Thread Kern, Tom
another labyrinthine cross post(sorry)- Also, i fire up adsi edit from their domain and i can only get to the organization in the config partition. when on go to the security tab, there are no entries. how can they just lose permissions to certain parts of the config paritition? the only change

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Rod Trent
Most likely from your friendly neighborhood MVP. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philadelphia, Lynden - Revios Toronto Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta How will we be

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Christopher Hummert
Waitisn't the next version called WUS now or am I mistaken? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta Does anyone know what

RE: [ActiveDir] scripting admin

2004-04-14 Thread Ken Cornetet
I'll second this. I've only run into one thing where I couldn't get Perl to work (deep, dark, ugly MAPI stuff...) Other than that, it's almost trivial to look at VBScript and convert it to perl. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
You are correct - at least that's the current name for it. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I was hoping I would be able to install SUS 2.0 over my existing SUS server since I do not have the resources to have it on another server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Yes, painfully, that is true. MS Marketing strikes again. I can just see the advertising: Trust your network to a WUS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Hummert Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] DFS use question

2004-04-14 Thread E Brown
This falls to conflict resolution of last-writer wins. You can leverage something like sharepoint to checkout documents if this is too much of an issue. But FRS is for seamless file replication and out of scope for design considerations. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Celone, Mike
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta There will be an upgrade path for WUW/SUS 2.0. However it hasn't been worked out yet. Mike -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Rod Trent
This was asked and answered in the recent Microsoft public chat on WUS, but I can't seem to locate the chat transcripts page. Anyone have a link? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:57 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Philadelphia, Lynden - Revios Toronto
Try using a PC until you reinstall your SUS to WUS Lynden -Original Message- From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta I was hoping I would be able to install SUS 2.0 over my

RE: [ActiveDir] moving domain admins

2004-04-14 Thread Mulnick, Al
If you open it up in LDP, what do you see (authenticated of course)? Is it possible that there's a replication issue? Have you checked the logs of the domains to see what's logged when you attempt to connect? Just where did they move the domain administrators from/to? Just from cn=users to

Re: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 and Windows 98 issue

2004-04-14 Thread Michael Wallendahl
Downlevel clients (win9x/nt) do not support NTLMV2 authentication unless you install the Active Directory Client Extensions for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0 on the client machines. NTLMV2 is not turned on by default on Windows 2000, but maybe Windows 2003 turns it on automatically? If so,

RE: [ActiveDir] moving domain admins

2004-04-14 Thread Kern, Tom
I see nothing strange in ldp and no replication errors in event log or rep monitor. I think its a permissions issue but i have nowhere to begin looking and as far as i know nothing has been changed. They don't really have an IT dept(we admin them) so no one would even know how to change

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
At the MVP summit, even the WUS product team was appologizing for the name. I was kinda hoping they're rename MIIS to the Windows Identity Integration Server. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Bernard, Aric
And I was hoping that they would rename SUS2.0/WUS to Microsoft Product Update Services... - Aric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Rod Trent
SUSServer.com is hosting a contest for a better name: http://forums.susserver.com/index.php?showtopic=2032 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Seielstad Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 4:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Christopher Hummert
Oh man this is a wonderful site. Thanks for passing along the link. Hopefully I'll be able to find the answers to some of the SUS questions I have. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Trent Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:52 PM To:

[ActiveDir] moving domain admins

2004-04-14 Thread Kern, Tom
I know moving the default exchange groups out of the users folder can screw things up as exchange expects to find them there, but will moving the domain admins from the users folder into another ou(no gpo applied) screw things up with exchange or any other services in ad? I only ask because

[ActiveDir] re: domain move

2004-04-14 Thread Kern, Tom
Also, i fire up adsi edit from their domain and i can only get to the organization in the config partition. when on go to the security tab, there are no entries. how can they just lose permissions to certain parts of the config paritition? the only change made was the root domain of the forest

Re: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
It is a closed beta at this stage. I spoke to some of the WUS people, and they said that until they had finalised and filed some patent applications, there were legal reasons they couldn't take on more than x people. Cheers Ken ~~ From: Robbie