RE: [ActiveDir] OT perhaps.. Connecting non-admin to remote console in Win2k3 DCs

2003-07-02 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Stephen- On the DCs, have you tried granting the Allow Logon through Terminal Services user right to your non-admin group? -Original Message- From: Wilkinson, Stephen (DrKW) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:25 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] OT

RE: [ActiveDir] Missing Sysvol and Netlogon

2003-07-03 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Yusuf- With respect to your Default Domain Policy problems, recopying the SYSVOL files should have been enough if that's all that was damaged on your GPOs. Keep in mind that a GPO has two parts--the part in SYSVOL and the part in AD under domain naming

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DOS vulnerability

2003-07-07 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I think this refers to the issue recently identified where a member of the Domain Admins group, with access to a domain controller within a domain in the forest, could, for example, start a process within the security context of LocalSystem (e.g. using the AT scheduler), and thus gain privileged

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DOS vulnerability

2003-07-07 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD DOS vulnerability I think this refers to the issue recently

RE: [ActiveDir] Proxy Server

2003-07-08 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Richard- Where are the GPOs linked? Have you checked permissions on them to ensure that the workstation machine accounts have Read and Apply Group Policy perms? Authenticated Users will do. -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08,

RE: [ActiveDir] Proxy Server

2003-07-09 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
that? As for Authenticated Users group, yes. On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 01:48 PM, Darren Mar-Elia wrote: Richard- Where are the GPOs linked? Have you checked permissions on them to ensure that the workstation machine accounts have Read and Apply Group Policy perms? Authenticated Users will do

RE: [ActiveDir] Computer Management Snap in?

2003-07-22 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
On other issue to consider is whether the user account your using has sufficient WMI permissions to access the box in question. The Computer Management snap-in largely uses WMI to cull data about the box. WMI has a set of permissions associated with it that controls who can access that WMI data.

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-22 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Kenneth- Its not much help, but did you see this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281457 ? Do you have individual user accounts in your ACLs rather than just groups? Darren -Original Message- From: Garello, Kenneth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Applying Group Policies

2003-07-25 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Richard- From the client computer, you can manually force a background refresh of policy using secedit.exe on Win2K (e.g. secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy). However, if there are problems with the workstation processing policy, this won't really help much--you need to get to the root

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows Server 2003 authoritative Restore

2003-07-29 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message I think what you're referring to here is the new tombstone reanimation (cute name, huh?) API that has been added to Server 2003. This allows you to programmatically retrieve deleted AD objects from the Deleted Objects container before their tombstone interval has expired and

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Packaging Software for Deployment

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I believe that the last time I tried using a ZAP file, it didn't take UNCs, only drive letters (e.g. z:\myapp\setup.exe). Probably worth testing yourself though, since its been a while. As Rod's webpage notes, ZAP files don't provide privilege escalation like MSIs do. So, the user will need to

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Well it doesn't give a lot of info but the RegOpenKey failing on GetHKeyCU (Get a handle to the user's profile in HKEY_CURRENT_USER) looks like a problem. The policy extension can't access the user's profile. The strange thing is that it returns a 0x0, which usually means

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Try turning that off (make it synchronous). -Original Message-From: Charles Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:46 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security These are all 2000

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Yuck (technical term). Dr. Watson isn't a good thing. Loading a Win2K .adm should not cause a Dr. Watson on the MMC. Not sure why you're getting a SQLServerAgent error--that's pretty unrelated to policy. If its possible, you may want to delete this GPO and start from scratch.

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message IE Maintenance has two modes--preference and mandatory. Preference says, "hand down IE policy but then let the user change it" whereas mandatory says, "reinforce it all the time". You can see this by right clicking the IE Maintenance node and choosing either Preference mode

RE: [ActiveDir] Pagefile sizes... Its that time of year again.

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I think the standard formulas work well as a starting point, but over the years I've gotten stingy on pagefile size, since you can get defragmentation in the pagefile and really big ones can get correspondingly more fragmented if they start to get up to a fair percentage of total disk space. In

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message What you're looking for is any log items from the IE Maintenance extension as it tries to process the policy during user logon. Look for messages as to whether it skipped processing for some reason or couldn't process the policy. -Original Message-From: Charles

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy and IE Zone Security

2003-08-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Charles- Have you checked out this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306915? Its not exactly the same but could be your problem. Darren -Original Message- From: Charles Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/11/2003 6:10

RE: [ActiveDir] how can you trace a logon

2003-08-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
verbose userenv.log logging (check out this article for details: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;221833) That log will timestamp and describe every event during the logon process related to profiles and policies in gruesome detail. Good luck, Darren Darren Mar-Elia

RE: [ActiveDir] Interface IDsBrowseDomainTree, values of DS_TRUSTED_DOMAIN.Flags?

2003-08-28 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Jens- In my platform SDK docs, the ulFlags field says that the possible flags are the same as those shown in DsEnumerateDomainTrusts, which show as the following: DS_DOMAIN_DIRECT_INBOUND Enumerate domains that are directly trusting the domain which has ServerName as a member.

RE: [ActiveDir] Template to Test Group Policies

2003-09-03 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Jenn- Check out the Server 2003 deployment guide related to GPO deployment at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b671967b-ef65-4ccf-9d00-89d6ae428edcdisplaylang=en Its not really specific to having Server 2003, but rather just leverages features in GPMC to handle the

RE: [ActiveDir] The specified network name is no longer available

2003-09-03 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
This may sound unrelated but make sure the workstation's time is fairly close to that of your domain controllers. Like within 5 minutes. -Original Message- From: Mehmet AVAR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 9/3/2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating SystemHotFix

2003-09-12 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Typically the better patch management tools use more than just whats in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Hotfix to determine if patch is really applied. For example, they will use hash checks or version checks of the actual patched system files

RE: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating SystemHotFix

2003-09-12 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
in uptime to assure the system has been rebooted before we consider it patched. -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating

RE: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating SystemHotFix

2003-09-12 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Any AD GURUS who Patch Systems? - using operating SystemHotFix Joe- On your request to MS, have you already looked at the mssecure.xml file that is used

RE: [ActiveDir] New RPC DOS

2003-09-12 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Of course, you realize that RPC over HTTP is basically the same thing as the latest craze in application integration--SOAP--part of the pantheon of Web Services protocols. The encoding may be different, but that's about all. And SOAP usage is exploding. So, the problem of

RE: [ActiveDir] connecting Mac OS 10.2 to Active Directory

2003-09-22 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message John- What kinds of services are you looking to tie into the Mac? Authentication? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John ParkerSent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:27 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Security Logs

2003-09-24 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
James- I think that the riskiest thing that someone can get out of the security logs is information on all of the user accounts and groups within your domain. Since there isn't a way to block this information if they have access to the live logs, it may not be something the other companies would

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Install to DC's via GPO

2003-09-29 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
What is the application that you're trying to deploy? In general, what you're doing should not be a problem. This works as advertised. Here's a few things to try. Run gpresult on the DC and make sure that the policy is being received and processed. Next, you'll probably want to enable some verbose

RE: [ActiveDir] Secedit Errors

2003-10-02 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Jef- I don't know if it helps but the flags (145) thing means the following: Machine Policy is being applied as opposed to user policy This policy is being applied as a background refresh (rather than foreground) No changes were detected to the GPO during this processing

RE: [ActiveDir] Child domain delegation

2003-10-07 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Steve- In order to delegate creation of GPOs, you need to grant access to the System\Policies container within the Domain, and within the Policiesfolder under SYSVOL rather than grantinga right at the domain level. The easiest way to do this, without getting in and modifying

RE: [ActiveDir] OT Received Packets

2003-10-08 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Justin- I have to believe that you're somehow not capturing the correct NIC with your sniffer tools. You might just want to use the PerfMon Network Interface object to verify which interface is registering all the traffic and then make sure that the MAC address of that interface corresponds to

RE: [ActiveDir] Which GPO Prevails

2003-10-13 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message George- Yes, if you set policyin both the Default Domain and Default Domain Controllers GPOs, then what applies to your domain controllersis any policy from the Default Domain GPO that does not conflict with policy in the Default Domain Controllers GPO. That is, you will get

RE: [ActiveDir] Controling the Internet Explorer Cache size

2003-10-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Irwan- I don't think that particular setting is currently exposed in policy. At least, I didn't see it. A quick glance with Regmon seems to indicate that this setting is controlled using the following registry value: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP/Netsh - Other ways of working with DHCP

2003-10-22 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message Clyde- Somewhere buried on Microsoft's site, I once came across a WMI provider for DHCP Servers. I will see if I can track down a URL. Darren -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burns, ClydeSent: Wednesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Silly Question probably....

2003-10-23 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Steve- Check out Sid2User, written by Euvgenii Rudnyi. You can get it at http://www.securityfocus.com/tools/544. It will translate a SID to a text user name. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Technology Listserves Sent: Thu 10/23/2003 2:10

RE: [ActiveDir] GPMC on XP

2003-10-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Mike- I'm assuming that when you talk about viewing Windows settings, you doing this against the GPO itself, rather than doing an RSoP logging report? If so, then you might want to verify that you don't have a problem with the permissions on the SYSVOL portion of that GPO, stored under

RE: [ActiveDir]

2003-10-28 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Shawn- You can use AD auditing to see changes to a GPO, since any GPO that is modified touches both the Group Policy Container object in AD as well as SYSVOL. Using the AD auditing event is a quick and dirty way of finding out who changed the GPO, although, as Gil mentioned, you can't really tell

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs and additional sites

2003-10-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Marcus- The answer to your question is yes. Basically, if a slow link is detected, the various Client Side Extensions for stuff like Software Installation and Folder Redirection will simply not fire, even if the bits (e.g. MSI package) are on a fast link. One way around this is to use Admin.

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs and additional sites

2003-10-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs and additional sites Marcus- The answer to your question is yes. Basically, if a slow link is detected, the various Client Side Extensions

RE: [ActiveDir] Group policy

2003-11-03 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
John- Best thing to do is use security group filtering on your GPO to exclude those servers. You can either remove the Authenticated Users ACE from the GPO and then grant Read and Apply Group Policy permissions to the computer or user groups you wish the GPO to apply to or you can put your few

RE: [ActiveDir] Userenv.log error

2003-12-12 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
KC- What this event is saying is that an application--probably a system application--is trying to create an event so that it can receive a notification when a GPO changes. However, for some reason, that application is unable to create the event for security reasons. It would probably be useful to

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy Infrastructure problems

2003-12-16 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Brad- A quick suggestion is to make sure that the DC servicing those GPO processing requests is correctly registered in DNS. Missing SRV records for LDAP, for example,can cause GPO processing to simply fail, which would result in no GPO processing at all on a given client. Another option

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Justin- Because of the way software installation works in Group Policy, adding MSTs is a one time operation. I believe this is because, as a function of initial deployment of an application, an application advertisement script (.aas) file is created in SYSVOL that includes the definitions of the

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution Justin- Because of the way software installation works in Group Policy, adding MSTs is a one time operation. I believe this is because

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
It must recreate that each time you redeploy -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution Not sure but I don't think so, because

RE: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings

2003-12-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Graham- Generally speaking, when you need to change CSE processing behavior, its typically done where the CSE is registered, which is under hklm/software/microsoft/windows nt/current version/winlogon/gp extensions/. I don't have the 1st reg key you listed on my machines, so I'm not sure where that

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Deployment to Computers using GPO

2003-12-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Russ- How are you trying to trigger the install? If its a machine-based assignment, the install will only happen on machine reboot, rather than by using secedit or gpupdate. The message displayed below is simply saying that software installation can't happen in the background (i.e.

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Deployment to Computers using GPO

2003-12-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
You did the right thing. I've never understood why MS enabled fast logon optimization by default on XP. It causes no end of problems with Folder Redirection and Software Installation. It won't have a huge effect for your users unless you get paid based on how long it takes for them to get a

RE: [ActiveDir] Bug in GPO?

2003-12-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Mark- This worked for me on XP as expected--I chose to hide the C: drive using this policy and it was hidden in both My Computer and Explorer. One thing I did note was that, if I enabled this policy while I had Explorer up and running, the C: drive would only get "partially" hidden. That is,

RE: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings

2003-12-31 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
- Original Message - From: Darren Mar-Elia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:51 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings Graham- Generally speaking, when you need to change CSE processing behavior, its typically done where

RE: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings

2004-01-02 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
location of msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.grouppolicy but here i have an ongoing thread with MSFT - this seems to have run its course. help in the further debug of this will be most gladly received GT - Original Message - From: Darren Mar-Elia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings

2004-01-04 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
- i assume they are written to the registry somewhere ? GT - Original Message - From: Darren Mar-Elia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 6:35 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] group policy processing of IE settings Happy New Year Graham- Yes, I think

RE: [ActiveDir] Where in the world is Micky Balladelli?

2004-01-04 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Hey Joe- You're right, AOD did not become Quest's Spotlight on AD. I haven't seen AOD since the Win2K JDP, but Spotlight does have a graphical site/replication topology viewer similar to what I remember about AOD. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO problem

2004-01-05 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Russ- Couple of things to check. The easy thing to check is to make sure you don't have the view option checked in the GPO Editor that says, Only show configured policy settings. If that is checked, that would explain why the other stuff is gone. If that isn't it, then it could be that the

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO problem

2004-01-05 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
the same GPO editor? -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO problem Russ

RE: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins

2004-01-06 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Mark- What you're doing should work. The only differenceis that I usually also includethe Read permission in the Deny, but since you need both Read and Apply GPO to process a policy, your wayshould work.Is it possible you have a loopback policy enabled on that GPO? Darren From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins was - GPO Loopbac k problem

2004-01-06 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
No, the merge/replace issues should't affect the fact that your admins are still getting desktop lockdown even though they no longer have permission to process that GPO. Desktop Lockdown (i.e. Admin Template policy) should be undone (un-tattooed) when the GPO no longer applies. Have you tried

RE: [ActiveDir] Undoing a GPO for Domain Admins was - GPO Loopbac k problem

2004-01-07 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
for that policy, those user settings | will still be applied (!!) which is not what I'd expect at all, but it | is (unclearly) | documented) | | --On 06/01/2004 12:03 -0800 Darren Mar-Elia wrote: | || No, the merge/replace issues should't affect the fact that your || admins | || are still getting

RE: [ActiveDir] Intellimirror Question

2004-01-16 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Intellimirror Question Cory- What I have found is that GPO-based software installation is keyed off the MSI Product Codethat comes in an MSI package. If the MSIproductCode of the version that is installed already is the same as the one you're deploying via GPO, then GPO won't install

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and GPO registry question

2004-01-19 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: AD and GPO registry question Neil- HKCU is simply an alias to the key under HKEY_USERSthat you're seeing the changes appear in below. In reality, you should see it in both places since they should be one in the same. Darren From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] AD and GPO registry question

2004-01-19 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message I know this may seem obvious, but are you refreshing the view in regedit when you're focused on HKCU? I tested this to confirm and I can see the changes appearing simultaneously in both places (well as simultaneously as I can switch from one key to the other). From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] How to track object deletion?

2004-01-19 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Check the lastKnownParent attribute on the deleted object. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 7:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] How to track object deletion? Hello, AD

RE: [ActiveDir] effective policies blocking local policies

2004-01-21 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Marvin- Given where this computer resides, its likely that its receiving policy instructions from whatever GPOs you have linked to the domain. It could just be the default policy settings in the Default Domain Policy, in this case under Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security

RE: [ActiveDir] Limiting GPO's to Network Logons

2004-01-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I read with interest this post. don't suppose there is any related policy that allows the administrator to suppress the processing of login script (as set in the user a/c property) when logging on locally ?? GT - Original Message - From: Darren Mar-Elia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Logout script

2004-01-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Clay- Are you sure you're talking about user logon and logout scripts here? My tests have always shown the these scripts run in the context of the user while machine startup and shutdown scripts run under LocalSystem. A quick test that I've done to confirm this is to use the whoami.exe utility in

RE: [ActiveDir] Logout script

2004-01-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Bruce- What is the script doing? It may interactively just fine but when run in the background, it could be having problems. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Clingaman Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:02 PM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Logout script

2004-01-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Hmm. I'm assuming that when the user runs it interactively, it doesn't throw up any dialogs or expect response, correct? Also, are you using or relying on any environment variables in the script? I have seen weird behavior in logon scripts related to when certain environment variables are

RE: [ActiveDir] I: Quest to aquire Aelita

2004-01-29 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Or leverage the low-hanging fruit of core competencies to drill down into our game plan and do the heavy lifting to become world class! (courtesy of Business Buzzword bingo: http://isd.usc.edu/~karl/Bingo/bbbingo.html) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] Contents of GC

2004-01-29 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Message This is just a guess, but since this is Win2K, I wonder if forcing a full synchronization of all GCs by adding a new attribute to the PAS would clear this up? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida PintoSent: Thursday, January 29,

RE: [ActiveDir] XP and 2003 ADM templates and GPO's

2004-01-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Todd- Congrats on your MVP! #1 below is correct. #2 is also correct. As far as losing settings that have been retrograded, my experience is that you don't. That is, if you take an XP-created GPO, make some changes to it and then downgrade it by editing it with a Win2K box, when you then go back

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy for allowing software installs - love working the we ekend shift!

2004-01-31 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Joe- If I follow what you're asking for, I think you could use a machine-based Restricted Groups Policy on a GPO linked to the LaptopUsers OU to accomplish what you want. In most cases on XP, the local Power Users group should give a user sufficient rights to install software. So, if you set up

RE: [ActiveDir] Policy not applying and RSoP

2004-01-31 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Bruce- I looked through your script that you had posted here previously (I'm assuming its the same one you're having problems with). I didn't see anything that immediately popped out. One thing I would suggest is to modify the script to add some debugging info at key points, using the

RE: [ActiveDir] RSoP

2004-03-01 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Planning mode requires a service running on a DC that is only available in Win2k3--specifically the RSoP Provider service. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 8:13 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail)

RE: [ActiveDir] RSoP

2004-03-01 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] RSoP Do I will only be able to use the planning mode on 2003 machines? What about XP? I was running the RsoP from an XP machines against a 2003 Member server in a 2000 domain, can this not work? -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] [Slightly OT] Delete inhibit DOMAIN\Remote Management group from local admins...

2004-03-01 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Todd- You should be able to do what you want actually, without having to be at a DC. Its kind of kludgy, but just try typing the word Administrators (without quotes) into the dialog where you would normally browse for the group. This is perfectly acceptable and should be resolved to the SID of the

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory users and Terminal Server in NT4.0 domain

2004-03-03 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
If I follow your scenario, then it is entirely possible to get user group policy from a Win2k device within an NT 4 domain. I can't think of any good way to prevent them from getting that policy, other than using user or user group-based security filtering on that GPO to prevent these users from

RE: [ActiveDir] Custom ADM

2004-03-09 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Edward- I've never seen a way to delete a value using ADM files. In fact, I've never seen a way to rename a value, so I'd like to see how you do that if you could share it. Thanks Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parker, Edward

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2004-03-15 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
DCs get their Account Policy, and a couple of other security settings, from any GPO linked to the domain, not necessarily just the Default Domain Policy. If you have no domain-linked policy, then the DCs will just use the local policy they have by default, out of the box. A quick test with my

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to modify GPO Policy

2004-03-15 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Enterprise Admin should be able to do this. You might want to double check the permissions on the GPO in the child domain you're trying to edit. Make sure EAs really do have write perms on that GPO. You should be able to view and change GPO perms by either looking at the Properties on the GPO in

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2004-03-15 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy DCs get their Account Policy, and a couple of other security settings, from any GPO linked to the domain, not necessarily just the Default Domain Policy

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2004-03-15 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Yea, that's the right way to do it Joe. Guy, I'm kinda surprised you actually saw that behavior. I was under the impression that password complexity was one of those account policies that was completely ignored by DCs unless its linked to a domain policy. -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to modify GPO Policy

2004-03-16 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to modify GPO Policy Enterprise Admin should be able to do this. You might want to double check

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading W2K GPOs to XP GPOs (The KB Number would Help)

2004-03-17 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Robert- I've seen this behavior too, and yes, manually adding the XP ADMs into a GPO is safe. However, because XP is supposed to support this automatically, you might want to check the following policy on your XP machine that you're using to edit those GPOs: User Configuration|Administrative

RE: [ActiveDir] Mirror OU structure to Test

2004-03-19 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
I'll add one more to the mix. Not sure its much better than using an CSVDE dump, but the GPMC comes with two scripts that are designed to create a test domain that is a mirror of your production one. They are called: CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf (dump production) CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy - Overview

2004-03-24 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
For everyone's reference, the spreadsheet of all ADM settings is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7821C32F-DA15-438D-8E48-45915CD2BC14displaylang=en From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004

RE: [ActiveDir] Linking other GPO objects to Domain Controllers

2004-03-24 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Agreed. Not much downside to this as long as you're not putting policies on these other GPOs that conflict with any set in the DDC policy. Even in that case, you just have to manage the conflicts. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] Linking other GPO objects to Domain Controllers

2004-03-24 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
. Is this the expected behavior? If so, how could we accomplish this? TIA! Mike Thommes -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Linking other GPO objects to Domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Desktop

2004-03-25 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
You can use this custom ADM to enable that little check box. I can't claim credit for it however. It was posted by a guy named Joe Elway from Ireland on the GPO forum I moderate. Pretty useful. ;;; CLASS MACHINE ;; ;;; CATEGORY

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Membership

2004-03-25 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Server Membership 30 days is the default machine account password renewal interval--I believe--on Win2k and above. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Strand, TedSent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:45 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Server

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Desktop

2004-03-25 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
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RE: [ActiveDir] Domian VS Local

2004-03-26 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Actually, if you want to set local user account expiration date, this isn't a policy option, but rather an attribute on the local SAM account. You can set it using a script like this: Set usr = GetObject("WinNT://machinename/darren")usr.AccountExpirationDate = "06/06/2005"usr.SetInfo

RE: [ActiveDir] Linking other GPO objects to Domain Controllers

2004-03-27 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
behavior? If so, how could we accomplish this? TIA! Mike Thommes -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Linking other GPO objects to Domain Controllers Agreed. Not much

RE: [ActiveDir] Linking other GPO objects to Domain Controllers

2004-03-28 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Linking other GPO objects to Domain Controllers Oh get over it Joe. Don't be such a weenie. Live life on the edge and use security group filtering on GPOs. Its good fun and good for you

RE: [ActiveDir] DEC Chatter - Was something else...

2004-03-28 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
That would be cool. If I'm not mistaken, I think NDS has allowed a similar capability for years in that you can cleave off parts of a tree and replicate it to those servers that need it most. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to modify GPO Policy

2004-03-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
to manage the domain from the Parent DC. It just does not work from my desk nor logging into the child DC. Could there be a communication problem, operations master, etc.??... I guessing here.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to modify GPO Policy

2004-03-30 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
/fwlink/events.asp. Hope this helps. Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to modify GPO Policy I think Tim has a good idea

RE: [ActiveDir] Testing other GPO's to DC's

2004-03-31 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Yes, that's exactly it. Grant those specific DCs the Read and Apply Group Policy rights on the GPO. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devan Pala Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Testing

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Custom .ADM (Code Included)

2004-04-03 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Michael- Anything is possible, so a DC reboot *might* help. A couple of questions. Where are you defining this policy? Is it on a GPO linked to someplace in AD or on the local GPO? If an AD-linked one, then have a look on the DC that the workstation is authenticating to (echo %logonserver% from

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Replication

2004-04-06 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Chuck- Try granting the Replication Synchronization right on the domain object (domainDNS class) that you want the user to be able to replicate. Note that this provides the synchronization right for just that domain NC. You'll have to do the same thing to the schema and config objects to delegate

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