RE: [ActiveDir] user logon domain controller discovery

2002-12-14 Thread Free, Bob
Win2k appears[1] to try everything via DNS/Hosts resolution first. Which makes sense. Traces I have done support that theory for name resolution in general, except for the DC discovery process by netlogon which appears to work just as documented - 1. On the client (the computer that is locating

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Update Services

2003-01-03 Thread Free, Bob
A fair portion of the Software Update Services Deployment White Paper is devoted to troubleshooting- http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/susdeployment.asp -Original Message- From: John B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Service Pack overwrite files?

2003-01-09 Thread Free, Bob
Yes there are numerous instances where that can be problematic, much depends on the source of the HF's or QFE's involved. A couple of examples- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281767 http://www.win2000mag.net/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=26166 59 Post-SP3 Hotfixes

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Disaster Recovery Book

2003-01-09 Thread Free, Bob
Compaq services also has a nice one... ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/supportinformation/papers/ps-99-23.pdf -Original Message- From: Tim Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD Disaster Recovery Book See the

RE: [ActiveDir] User's Account Locked out Every morning

2003-01-15 Thread Free, Bob
Also AT jobs with old credentials -Original Message- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:08 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User's Account Locked out Every morning Manual drive mappings with old

RE: [ActiveDir] NT system policies

2003-01-17 Thread Free, Bob
You should be able to transfer the settings (albeit manually They can be migrated with Gpolmig.exe HOW TO: Migrate System Policy Settings to Group Policy Objects [Q317367] -Original Message- From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:07 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Terminal services

2003-02-14 Thread Free, Bob
As others have mentioned you can control this on an individual connection basis with the permissions of the RDP connection. It may be much less administrative overhead to control this using local or group policies to regulate the logon locally user right [SeInteractiveLogonRight] which is

RE: [ActiveDir] security templates

2003-02-18 Thread Free, Bob
Funny, I was just looking at those :-] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/issues/W2kCCSCG/W2kSCGcf.asp -Original Message- From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS?

2003-02-20 Thread Free, Bob
Are you talking SUS-SA? -Original Message- From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS? John, I can't tell you anything more other than the next version should greatly please and satisfy.

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS?

2003-02-21 Thread Free, Bob
- Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 7:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you talking SUS-SA

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Visio Mapping Tool

2003-02-21 Thread Free, Bob
deja vu...just going through this conundrum myself in the last few days...sigh The advanced network features for Visio 2002 were discontinued recently: http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio/evaluation/indepth/network.asp Visio Enterprise Network Tools and Visio Network Center Posted: July

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2003-02-21 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message Taking that one step further, disabling things can get you in trouble further down the GPO hierarchy due to the inheritance of the disabled settings. I'm with the leave it "Not configured" camp unless you have explicit reasons and know all the ramifications... -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] security templates

2003-02-25 Thread Free, Bob
Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Default Domain Controller Container

2003-03-06 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message Domain user rights and domain group memberships apply to Domains, and all DC's in said domains,not OU's, you can't grant or revoke them on individual machines. I don't really get what it would buy you anyway... -Original Message-From: Ninet Segar [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Odd looking object in AD

2003-03-12 Thread Free, Bob
It's fairly well documented in MSDN. Here's something I sent to one of our Product Managers last week when he was asking us OPS folks about a product that he was considering that wanted to add SCPs- SCP is a built-in AD schema Structure class, here are some considerations to help decide-

FW: [ActiveDir] Odd looking object in AD

2003-03-12 Thread Free, Bob
12, 2003 3:16 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Odd looking object in AD Good info Bob, but to further answer the question, this SCP would have been added by Veritas Backup Exec. Linton -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March

RE: [ActiveDir] back the default valeue of password policy

2003-03-14 Thread Free, Bob
Service Explorer is the one I liked best when I looked at the commercial tools for large environments- http://www.smallwonders.com/svctaskmgmt.htm Another possibility is Service Account Manager- http://lanicu.com/ -Original Message- From: Mulder, Joeri (NL - Amsterdam) [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policies Help (Win2k Server)

2003-03-14 Thread Free, Bob
Select the security tab on the properties sheet -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policies Help (Win2k Server) Where is that exactly at? I don't see it in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Anybody see Gil's article?

2003-03-18 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Anybody see Gil's article? Funny you mention that, I had let my subscription lapse and that article was enough to get me off my duff last week to pay up so I could view the article online. :-] Nice job Gil... -Original Message-From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO

RE: [ActiveDir] Old Computer Accts

2003-03-19 Thread Free, Bob
We always used 90 days for NT, haven't gotten around to changing it for W2K [which btw defaults to 30 day password age] -Original Message- From: John F. Hann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:54 AM To: ActiveDir List Subject: [ActiveDir] Old Computer Accts

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain

2003-03-21 Thread Free, Bob
Be good to hear from others, if this also works well on their machines. ID'd my W2Kpro ThinkPad a22m as Notebook Type 10 Thanks -Original Message- From: GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:10 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Account Lockout after password reset

2003-03-24 Thread Free, Bob
Better yet get eventcombMT and search all the DC's at once with the canned account lockout routine. -Original Message- From: Schick, Mary L - CNF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:30 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Account Lockout after

RE: [ActiveDir] MBSA Runas

2003-03-25 Thread Free, Bob
Anyone tried this and gotten it to work? Yes, it will work, but not 100% consistantly in my experience. I have gotten inexplicable domain\computer (10.1x.1x.1x) User is not an administrator on the scanned machine errors using runas where the hostname resolved to a bogus IP address.

RE: [ActiveDir] Restart/Start Services Right

2003-03-25 Thread Free, Bob
I think u can do it Domain Security Policy \Security Settings \ System service Doesn't meet his requirement, Default Domain Policy is common to all DC's in the DC OU. specific office based administrators to restart/start services on specific domain controllers. Conceivably it could be done on

RE: [ActiveDir] Reset BadPwdCount property for users

2003-03-27 Thread Free, Bob
It's a SAM read-only object AFAIK, you can't modify it. -Original Message- From: John F. Hann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:02 PM To: ActiveDir List Subject: [ActiveDir] Reset BadPwdCount property for users Is the BadPwdCount property read only? I have

RE: [ActiveDir] Reset BadPwdCount property for users

2003-03-27 Thread Free, Bob
] Reset BadPwdCount property for users Thing is...You can go into ADSIEdit and modify it -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Reset BadPwdCount

RE: [ActiveDir] Termminal Services Default Session

2003-04-02 Thread Free, Bob
TS in remote administration mode is limited to 2 remote sessions, add the local console and you have 3 total. You could set it up in application mode but I would question having that many people administering remote servers concurrentlyThen you also go down the licensing path.

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Backup

2003-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
Or, as suggested here in the past, do you get kickbacks from Sunbelt?? Heheh, where have I heard that before? One nice thing about dealing with smallwonders is the personalized attention you get from the president, Brian Small. Nice firm to deal with IME. -Original Message- From: Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Management

2003-05-31 Thread Free, Bob
304718-Administering Windows Server-Based Computers Using Windows XP Professional-Based Clients (To get the 2003 RTM adminpak installed) http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304718 Note from above article- The Dial-in tab that configures Routing and Remote Access dial-in or VPN access and

RE: [ActiveDir] w2k replication

2003-05-31 Thread Free, Bob
Im going to ask a really dumb question regarding the ACCTINFO.INI file Where do I put it? Assuming you meant the acctinfo.DLL file... :-) Acctinfo.dll adds a custom property page to the user account object Properties dialog box in Active Directory Users and Computers. For more

RE: [ActiveDir] WinPE and RIS

2003-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
Anyone know where to obtain WinPE? It is hard for me to find It used to have it's own page [1] but it seems to have disappeared. If you have a volume licensing, for example a select agreement, it should me on the last set of CD's. OEMs have another program but that info was on the page

RE: [ActiveDir] OU and GPO Design Comments

2003-06-10 Thread Free, Bob
Because BJ Whalen (Group Policy Program Manager) told me not to at TechEd last week. :-) He told me the same thing at DEC last month so it must be true :-] (It was also prominently featured on one of his slides) As far as your longer answer, that is also clearly noted in the GP white paper.

RE: [ActiveDir] Difficulty joining domain

2003-06-10 Thread Free, Bob
SWAG but sometimes overlooked, is the server's time within 5 minutes of the domain? -Original Message- From: Ian Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I tried that already, I'll have another go. I should say though that

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Tools on XP Clients

2003-06-11 Thread Free, Bob
304718-Administering Windows Server-Based Computers Using Windows XP Professional-Based Clients (To get the 2003 RTM adminpak installed) http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=304718 If you need to manage Exchange- XADM: You Cannot Install Exchange System Manager on a Windows XP-Based Computer

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Tools on XP Clients

2003-06-11 Thread Free, Bob
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Tools on XP Clients Thanks. What if you have Exchange 5.5 and AD and you want to modify exchange settings using ADUC from a windows XP machine, is the Exchange tabs there on the Windows 2003 tools? -Original Message- From: Free

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Monitoring with MOM

2003-06-11 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message NetIQ is more expensive than MOM According to when you bought it... We had AppManager way before MOM was even a gleam in Dad's eye :-) When NetIQ was a new and hungry company the pricing didn't seem that bad. -Original Message-From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2000 Domain

2003-06-11 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message glad you are here, joeware rocks! Don't think I have ever taken the time to thank you for the tools you make available, not because I'm not appreciative, just fundamentally lazy. So, thanks for all past joeware and looking forward to more :-] From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] suggestions for OU delegation information sources

2003-06-19 Thread Free, Bob
, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of the better

[ActiveDir] Virus scaning AD DC's

2003-07-10 Thread Free, Bob
So I'm reading Part 2 of Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations and Day-to-Day Operations, and I see: Part 1 of this guide recommends that the SYSVOL folder be excluded from virus scanning. However, excluding SYSVOL increases the risk of a virus attack on a domain

RE: [ActiveDir] question about dns.exe in w2k/sp4

2003-07-15 Thread Free, Bob
Is there a specific discussion group he might ask his question Try asking in microsoft.public.win2000.dns if it's not already answered in- 327194 - List of Bugs That Are Fixed in Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327194 -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding machines to OU directly

2003-07-16 Thread Free, Bob
If there is another way to automatically make it go in the desired OU I would love to hear how NETDOM ADD with the /OU argument if they aren't CLI-challenged :-] -Original Message- From: Rakes, Brandon A. NMIMC Contractor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:58

RE: [ActiveDir] all printer stop printing

2003-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
Have you recently installed a new driver? While there were other causes in NT it is most often attributed to a bad driver in W2K. -Original Message- From: BOBO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] all printer stop

RE: [ActiveDir] Do you allow users to add computers to AD themselves?

2003-07-25 Thread Free, Bob
Restricted to various admin groups, permissions are delegated to OU/container for specific groups -Original Message- From: David Adner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Do you allow users to add computers to AD

RE: [ActiveDir] Do you allow users to add computers to AD themselves?

2003-07-28 Thread Free, Bob
Where can I find this info about users can create Computers in AD? Lot's of articles, a couple are- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;228146 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gp/526. asp http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251335 The main

RE: [ActiveDir] IP Change

2003-07-28 Thread Free, Bob
In NT I used to delegate that by permissions on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters to give Server Operators access to the TCP/IP related applets and allow changes. Never tried it in later OS's but's it's worth a try. The key structure and perms look very

RE: [ActiveDir] Users Logged In

2003-07-29 Thread Free, Bob
Not to sound like an absolute n00b or anything, Too late :-] start|run|svrmgr -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Users Logged In Not to sound like an absolute n00b or

RE: [ActiveDir] Users Logged In

2003-07-29 Thread Free, Bob
Logged In When I go to start, run, svrmgr it says that the program does not exist. How do I install it? On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Free, Bob wrote: Not to sound like an absolute n00b or anything, Too late :-] start|run|svrmgr -Original Message- From: Richard

RE: [ActiveDir] Installing Files

2003-07-30 Thread Free, Bob
The user should only be able to install files on the workstation they are logged in to Put them in the Power users group **on the workstation they are logged in to** -Original Message- From: Richard Sumilang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:52 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Installing Files

2003-07-30 Thread Free, Bob
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Installing Files Shouldn't they be able to install files using their AD account rather than having 2 accounts? On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Free, Bob wrote: The user should only be able

RE: [ActiveDir] Special DEC offer (was ADAM Doc)

2003-08-04 Thread Free, Bob
Just make sure you have good return transportation after all the fun ... Ask Gil where he rode on the way home the last night in Scottsdale after dinner, drinks and shuffleboard :-] -Original Message- From: Gil Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 9:26 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous Logon

2003-08-14 Thread Free, Bob
We were playing with KIWI and an addin called backlogNT that a lot of others were using and recommending. Looks like it's morphed into SNARE. http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/SnareWindows/index.html -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message Machine account change frequency (default) NT is 7 days W2K is 30. That's how we have always managed machine accounts. Just had to tweak the interval in the PERL script when W2K showed up :-] Over the threshold, whack the account -Original Message-From: Steve

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

2003-08-15 Thread Free, Bob
Same here, more times than I care to remember :-[ Since RAM has gotten cheap it has gotten very t e d i o u s to FTP those huge buggers up, but they do get to the bottom of the problem, usually like you said a 3rd party filter driver. lol -Original Message- From: Rick Kingslan

RE: [ActiveDir] Anti-Virus Software and AD

2003-09-02 Thread Free, Bob
Thanks Todd- That's much better than the previous recommendations I was able to find in the MSKB. I had started a similar thread here back in July as well and we have been bugging our AV vendor for their best practices..The last I heard from our internal AV Product Manager was I talked to

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS - ot? not sure

2003-09-11 Thread Free, Bob
Should I rerun this? The SUS install automagically runs IIS lockdown with the settings deemed applicable to SUS. -Original Message- From: Jennifer Fountain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] SUS - ot? not

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

2003-09-12 Thread Free, Bob
The different tools usually use a combination of determinate factors like Darren said, I usually look at the xml files to see what they use for hfnetchek or \wwwroot\dictionaries\autoupdate\win2k\items.txt file from a SUS server to see what the flavor of the day is for the expression used for

RE: [ActiveDir] replication problems

2003-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
308111 - A Missing Service Principal Name May Prevent Domain Controllers from Replicating http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];308111 -Original Message- From: Don Murawski (Lenox) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:21 PM To: '[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft MOM

2003-09-23 Thread Free, Bob
I believe MOM grew out of the monitoring product that NetIQ acquired from Mission Critical Software called OnePoint. It's early roots were in Mission Critical's SeNTry (before they called it OnePoint) which was a pretty cool idea in it's day. SeNTry had add-ins for products like Exchange, IIS,

RE: [ActiveDir] Bind or Microsoft DNS

2003-09-25 Thread Free, Bob
can someone explain to me what devolution is? Very basically, if DNS resolution to my.foo.bar.com failed the DNS client devolves the primary DNS suffix (drops the left label), and submits a query to foo.bar.com and attempt resolution From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Bind or Microsoft DNS

2003-09-25 Thread Free, Bob
- From: Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Bind or Microsoft DNS can someone explain to me what devolution is? Very basically, if DNS resolution to my.foo.bar.com failed the DNS client devolves the primary DNS suffix (drops

RE: [ActiveDir] SUS failure rate

2003-09-26 Thread Free, Bob
I believe that is contingent on which GPO you use, please correct me if you have found otherwise- My testing has shown that if I use the the Remove links and access to Windows Update Group Policy setting[1] (located in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar) that any

RE: [ActiveDir] hello and a question

2003-10-02 Thread Free, Bob
The best treatment of the Delegation Wizard I have seen so far is in a book by Sakari Kouti and Mika Seitsonen Inside Active Directory http://www.kouti.com/ Must have book IMHO. You can download some tables from their website that would probably help you with the attribute mapping-

RE: [ActiveDir] OT - IE6 Unattended install

2003-10-08 Thread Free, Bob
Read up on the IEAK, you can tweak to your heart's content http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ieak/default.asp -Original Message- From: Rick Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - IE6 Unattended

RE: [ActiveDir] account lockout troubleshooting

2003-10-08 Thread Free, Bob
Checked for an AT job running under the old creds? Seen that often. -Original Message- From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] account lockout troubleshooting Yep, one is the PDCE. That

RE: [ActiveDir] account lockout troubleshooting

2003-10-09 Thread Free, Bob
??? -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] account lockout troubleshooting Checked for an AT job running under the old creds? Seen that often. -Original Message- From: Creamer, Mark

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: SUS on a W2K DC

2003-10-15 Thread Free, Bob
Can anyone tell me where i might find a good maillist for SUS problems Not a mail list but microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs has lots of expertise and MS-SUS folks actively participating From: Abbiss, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Spyware/Adware

2003-10-16 Thread Free, Bob
We have been looking into client solutions and that will probably take a while, since we already use Websense we got the Premium Group III to block MMC at the edge. http://www.websense.com/products/premiumgroups/#pgiii -Original Message- From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] documenting servers

2003-10-22 Thread Free, Bob
Sounds familiar to aida32 which will extract a wealth of information over the network .. http://www.aida32.hu/aida-features.php?bit=32 -Original Message- From: Lou Vega [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir]

2003-10-29 Thread Free, Bob
Microsoft Audit Collection System, formerly known by the codename DAD, is a system for consolidating and analyzing security event logs. It is a client/server application consisting of an agent, which is implemented as a service running on the monitored machine, and a collector, which runs as a

RE: [ActiveDir]

2003-10-29 Thread Free, Bob
is it? -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Audit Collection

RE: [ActiveDir]

2003-10-29 Thread Free, Bob
beta? (Which I'm running.) Sure sounds like it... -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Audit Collection System, formerly known by the codename DAD, is a system

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP wright to certains accounts not happening.

2003-11-03 Thread Free, Bob
Sounds like adminSDholder at work -Original Message- From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:30 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] LDAP wright to certains accounts not happening. What is interesting is these accounts are a

RE: [ActiveDir] Background

2003-11-07 Thread Free, Bob
making me rediscover this tool it is fantastic, as are so many from sysinternals. blantant plug I have always been a fan of the tools and all Mark's books. I have used most all the freeware ones over the years and purchased TCPviewPro and ERD commander in the past. Recently we upgraded to the

RE: [ActiveDir] New Tool... DSREVOKE.

2003-11-16 Thread Free, Bob
I'd start looking around for the AD Delegation WhitePaper, as that was one of the tools that came with that bad boy. It's either out, or very close I've held my breath in anticipation of this paper as long as I can, I think 'soon' is overdue, even in MS time :-[ Does one of you insider's have

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Memory Fragmented

2003-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
/userva switch? 316739 - How to Use the /USERVA Switch in the Boot.ini File to Tune /3GB Configurations: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=316739 -Original Message- From: Chianese, David P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Access Denied with Netsh/DHCP

2003-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
Try it with an account that is a member of the machine's local administrators group. -Original Message- From: Rosenfeld, Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] Access Denied with Netsh/DHCP Hi All: I'm

RE: [ActiveDir] Memory Dump Error!

2003-11-21 Thread Free, Bob
Search the KB for dumpchk there are some good articles on how to extract the basic info you need from the dmp file (without needing access to the symbol files to do really indepth debugging) There was a really good webcast on it a couple years ago by one of the Premier guys, called Basic STOP

RE: [ActiveDir] Terminal Services/Cisco ACS/PIX

2003-11-25 Thread Free, Bob
We had almost the same issue with our Citrix implementation where our proxy only understood the source IP of the Terminal Server and we also lost authentication and logging. The solution offered by the proxy vendor was to insert an ISA server in between and have it act as an intermediate proxy on

RE: [ActiveDir] ADMap 1.6.2

2003-12-03 Thread Free, Bob
Actually I just used the ADmap 1.6.2 utility last night. Came across that also a couple of months ago too, the one I have is versioned 1.7.5. It's an interesting solution. http://www.windows-servers.info/Tools/AdMap.msi He also hosts a similar Exchange/Visio mapping solution

RE: [ActiveDir] Folder Redirection policy

2003-12-05 Thread Free, Bob
See the last item (#26) in http://www.activedir.org/gp_faq.htm Bruce Clingaman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mused on Friday, December 05, 2003 6:18 AM: | I have a policy in place to redirect users My Docs to a | network share, simple. But it works only on occasion. My test | user logs in one day,

RE: [ActiveDir] New version of Portqry V2 is out...

2003-12-12 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message Thanks Todd. I loved the first version and look forward to this one. Kind of ironic that the KB that the 2.0 D/L page leads you to has a link to D/L 1.0 :-( From: Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:34 AMTo: '[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] net time

2003-12-19 Thread Free, Bob
Salandra, Justin A. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone, I have my PDC Emulator on a server that is set to a SNTP server on the web, however all my others servers when I type in net time /set point to a different server that holds no roles what so ever for AD, it is just a DC. What am

RE: [ActiveDir] net time

2003-12-19 Thread Free, Bob
Does anyone have any articles comparing the differences and similarities between these two services? The definitive article from the horse's mouth- http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/security/wintim eserv.asp Very nice paper from a 3rd party perspective-

RE: [ActiveDir] MACS

2004-01-08 Thread Free, Bob
is there a beta/preview of it for lab testing? Yes there is a Preview Release Beta Program, I got in on it in June 02. My TAM had me fill out a nomination form. I don't know if they are still accepting new participants or not. From: Rich Milburn [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Proposed schema changes research

2004-01-15 Thread Free, Bob
Robbie Allen did a great presentation and RoundTable at DEC on that subject. Maybe he will chime in with something more current. http://www.rallenhome.com/conferences/RAllen_Extending_the_Schema_Roundt able.ppt http://www.rallenhome.com/conferences/RAllen_Best_Practices_For_Extendin

RE: [ActiveDir] Help, file locked

2004-01-19 Thread Free, Bob
handle usually always comes through for me- http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml or the GUI relative- http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml -Original Message- From: Rimmerman, Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:33 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Help, file locked

2004-01-21 Thread Free, Bob
? -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 19. Januar 2004 23:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Help, file locked handle usually always comes through for me- http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml or the GUI relative- http

RE: [ActiveDir] Account Expired?

2004-01-27 Thread Free, Bob
Jennifer Fountain mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this is different. This is when a password is about to change. Like Stuart suggested, acctinfo will add a tab to the account properties that displays this as password last set date/timestamp, password expires date/timestamp, even does the

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrade to W3K

2004-01-27 Thread Free, Bob
George Arezina mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, We had a W2K AD setup. Last month we upgraded all our servers to Windows 2003. Since the upgrade we have not been able to properly perform a Windows update task. We hook up to the Windows update site, it starts to scan our db, and

RE: [ActiveDir] logon server discovery

2004-02-03 Thread Free, Bob
joe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one seems to be jumping on this with any authoritative answers, I was hoping Guido or Dean would nail it as I was looking to learn something. :o) I'm hardly authoritative but what I've picked up on the subject :-) Blatantly plagiarized from Gil's

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO explanations

2004-02-03 Thread Free, Bob
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7821C32F-DA15-438D-8E48-45915CD2BC14displaylang=en From: Celone, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:31 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO explanations I seem to remember someone on the

RE: [ActiveDir] NTP

2004-02-13 Thread Free, Bob
Rimmerman, Russ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's everyone syncing all their clocks up with? We have our own enterprise NTP servers, the forest root DCs synch to them. Everything else in AD is in NT5DS mode and time flows down the domain hierarchy. The [gag] remaining NT boxes, have

RE: [ActiveDir] Time Sync in AD

2004-02-17 Thread Free, Bob
Graham Turner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have picked up that w32tm is many times more functional on XP as compared to 2000. seems unless i am mistaken that w32tm on 2k does not support the config domhier to reconfigure the system to use the domain hierarchy. was wondering if

RE: [ActiveDir] SNTP/NTP Settings

2004-02-19 Thread Free, Bob
Title: SNTP/NTP Settings CompatabilityFlags HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient Data type Range Default value REG_DWORD 0x1 | 0x2 | 0x4000 | 0x8000 0x8000 Description Controls flags for behaviors that are

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows XP time sync

2004-02-19 Thread Free, Bob
Yes, they are supposed to automagically change to NT5DS upon joining a domain from all the MS documentation. Is it happening to all of them? Are they Dell PC's by chance? They actually have a patch because, allegedly,some PCs were imaged with different processor stepping levels than ended

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows XP time sync

2004-02-19 Thread Free, Bob
Some of the MVP folks in the XP NG's alluded to other manufacturers as well but since Dell substantiated it by providing a patch, I figured that must be the real deal :-) From: DeGrands, Charles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:58 PMTo: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] GPOs and ICF

2004-02-24 Thread Free, Bob
Not sure where the 6/19/2003 version comes from Checked a W2KSP4 box and that's the stamp it has FWIW Someone editing your GPO's from a 2K box??? If you haven't seen it, the Administrative Templates Background section in the GPMC whitepaper was very enlightening to me. Administrative

RE: [ActiveDir] Off-topic: ISA Server and WMI

2004-02-25 Thread Free, Bob
Title: Message Maybe try the enumeration scripts from the RK? enumclasses.vbs Enumerates Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes within a namespace on a server. enuminstances.vbs Enumerates instances of a Windows Management

RE: [ActiveDir] Find and delete/disable all your old computer acc ounts real easy

2004-02-25 Thread Free, Bob
i must have missed the post, is that free version still available somewhere? OLDCMP web site (www.joeware.net). List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

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

2004-02-29 Thread Free, Bob
Eric Fleischman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Willem do you happen to have the article that talks about it handy? I couldn't track it down. This one? 810076 - Updates to Restricted Groups (Member of) Behavior of User-Defined Local Groups:

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