Re: [ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Adding users to local Admin group Doesn't matter. Computer policy is computer policy. You can also simply link the GPO to the domain and filter it based on another security group - one that simply holds the computer accounts in question. Here's an article on what you want to do: --

Re: [ActiveDir] Major issue not sure if 2003 created this problem

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Williams
I believe the _msdcs sub domain is Microsoft/ Windows only. Non-Windows clients will use _ldap._tcp.domain-name or _ldap._tcp.site name._sites.domain-name. - Original Message - From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org;

Re: [ActiveDir] security problem

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Williams
Logon as an administrator and take ownership of the drive. Then grant adequate permissions again. Reinstalling Windows will obviously fix it, but is a drastic measure. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 5:43

Re: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted.

2005-10-16 Thread Paul Williams
Yep. Me too. - Original Message - From: Al Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:38 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted. I'd be interested to see that argument as well, Brett. -Original

Re: [ActiveDir] Query out all user members in nested groups

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Williams
I believe Joe's memberOf tool is what you are looking for: -- http://joeware.net/win/free/tools/memberof.htm List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

Re: [ActiveDir] Quest Migration manager(OT)

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Williams
They're being rebranded anyway. I believe the DS guys at the summit said IIFP will become Active Directory Meta Directory Services. Not sure if MIIS' name will change. Certificates and AD as we know it are all going to be rebranded, in what would appear to be a much more meaningful set of

Re: [ActiveDir] Forest Trusts Accessing Resources

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Message I always do it this way: -- Global group in source contains user objects. -- Domain Local in target is assigned permissions to resource. -- Global group is a member of the domain local. Throwing universal groups into this mix is just silly. Also, bear in mind there will

Re: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Williams
It's a good way of preparing management for what you want at the Christmas party. We also put quantity in there! - Original Message - From: Dean Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Send - AD mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:29 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

Re: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Williams
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute Uhh..hmmm! You're British, not American! Don't forget about Wales! Cardiff has been on the news quite a bit - there's been that much drunken violence... - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Interesting events of note in the log files [in that SBS box that has the 'corrupted' file

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Williams
is there anyway to have these log files save things not by size, but by day to ensure that tracking between the logs can be done? [I'm pretty sure the answer is no, and the only thing we can do is bump the size of those logs but I thought I'd ask the blonde question anyway] Yes. There are a

Re: [ActiveDir] Obsolete Domain groups

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Williams
Only when it was last modified. Groups don't have passwords or the like. Objects that have a group as an ACE in their ACL don't need to speak to the group about it at all. So you'd have to search for old groups by modified date. Or you could dump all groups, their locations and modified

Re: [ActiveDir] Delegate disable/enable user accounts

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Williams
WP on the user object's userAccountControl attribute.

[ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Williams
Morning all, If we delete the NETLOGON.DNS file and restart NETLOGON it is recreated. Where is it (NETLOGON) getting those values from? Tell me it's not hard-coded and I can modify it somehow. Thanks, --Paul List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ:

Re: [ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Williams
file? I hope I make sense?? Regards David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: 26 Jan 2006 9:24 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] NETLOGON.DNS Morning all, If we delete the NETLOGON.DNS file and restart

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS vs NETBIOS name? Or something else?

2006-02-02 Thread Paul Williams
What are the options in the Winlogon box? You should only have the choice of the NetBIOS domain name or the local box (and any trusted domains). To use the DNS name you need to use a UPN. --Paul - Original Message - From: Douglas M. Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] R2 Schema..

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Williams
If you're running 2003 then I don't believe you need to run /DOMAINPREP. That's only to do what it does for 2k domains. So it's just /FORESTPREP. - Original Message - From: Brian Desmond To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 4:01 PM

Re: [ActiveDir] Rights for Authorizing DHCP Server

2006-07-11 Thread Paul Williams
You don't even need full control (an error in Microsoft's documentation if you ask me). You just need create and delete dHCPClass objects in that container. You need to do this via ADSIEDIT, DSACLS, LDP or code. Note. If I remember correctly, some of the behaviour changed between 2k and

Re: [ActiveDir] Kerberos MaxTokenSize and too many groups issues

2006-07-11 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Kerberos MaxTokenSize and too many groups issues You might also want to review this interesting white paper: -- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22dd9251-0781-42e6-9346-89d577a3e74aDisplayLang=en (that took me ages to find so please read it ;-) --Paul

Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers

2006-07-12 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Multihomed Domain Controllers Couple of points. Most have probably been covered, or read by you: Clearly label the NICs, e.g. LAN00 and BACKUP00. Adjust the binding order so that LAN00 is above BACKUP00. If you don't require NetBT, disable it on BACKUP00 (BackupExec will

Re: [ActiveDir] Planning for the future

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
If you create a new domain in your forest for this requirement, and in the future they are bought by another company, then your only supported option is to migrate to the new or existing forest on the other side. It is probably easier, and safer, to create a new forest with an external trust.

Re: [ActiveDir] SFTP with AD Auth

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
The last place I worked, we used WinSSH for this purpose. Trivial to setup and cheap (about $100/ £65). This allows you to tunnel FTP and use Windows auth. There's also additional options to allow some additional access control, e.g. only specific groups can use the tunnel, etc. If I

Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
We team everything. It seems stupid not too. Use fault tolerance only (as opposed to load balancing) and you've got additional resilliency. FT works fine with different paths, e.g. different switches. --Paul - Original Message - From: Freddy HARTONO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Williams
corruption issues (Taken from the Directory Services Blueprint - page 29) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 13:50 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain

Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Paul Williams
I can't see how you can get a duplicate NDNC as the creation of such objects is targetted at the DN master. The DN master will check the existing crossRefs and stop this happening, as we can't rely on the DS stopping it as the RDN is different for each NDNC (unless they've used well-known GUIDs

Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Williams
Nice answer Steve. Thanks for the info. and the KB. - Original Message - From: Steve Linehan To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:41 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS

Re: [ActiveDir] Virtual DCs

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
Agree. Due to the number of servers some of our guys have to look at virtualisation. I've said a flat no to the DCs though. We're standardising on x64 with 32 GB RAM for our DCs. There's no way we're going to take a perf hit because someone much further up the chain wants fewer boxes. I

Re: [ActiveDir] Virtual DCs

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
The problem with this is delegating the ability to support the remote systems. Possible of course -web based admin of the VM, and all that, but usually a pain. ANd if done wrong... --Paul - Original Message - From: Matt Hargraves To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Domain List

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
Are you talking about having Options minimised by default and educating users to logon with UPN or domain\samaccountname syntax or are you talking about actually modifying the list built by Winlogon? There's probably a number of options. As Tony says you can modify the list of domains

Re: [ActiveDir] Rights Required to Rename Computer Objects

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Williams
Write all properties is overkill! Joe'll go wild when he sees that that is written in the MSFT delegation guide... :P I believe you require: WRITE_PROP for name and cn Summarised, you're modify the RDN. --Paul - Original Message - From: O'Brien, Cathy To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Different (open)LDAP Question

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Williams
Check out Ryan's take on it... -- http://dunnry.com/blog/msDsUserAccountControlComputedNotSoSpiffy.aspx --Paul - Original Message - From: David Aragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:49 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Different (open)LDAP

Re: [ActiveDir] Automating GC promotion during dcpromo

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Williams
Yeah, I'm in the same boat now. Got a requirement for fully autonomous DC deployment with a largish DIT. Single domain forest so everything is GC. I was frustrated to find out that one of the scripting guys told me that that option didn't work. I plan on working round this by promoting the

Re: [ActiveDir] OT - Adding disclaimer on E2K3 on a SBS 2K3 box

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
I've done this a couple of times, but on the exchange gateway servers, not on an SBS box. I've never seen SBS. Anyway, the easiest way to do this is to create a second virtual SMTP server and set it to listen on port 26 (and send on 25). Configure the first virtual server to send on 26 (its

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: SBS question

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
I've never seen SBS, but my younger brother has just started a new job (first one since leaving Uni) and bought a new server and it came with SBS. When he built it it appeared he had no choice but to make it a DC, even though he only wanted it as a member server -there's already an SBS box

Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest It might be worth looking at the %systemroot%\system32\schema.ini file again. I just had a poke around in there after reading Dean's answer to your question yesterday and the first section, the [DEFAULTROOTDOMAIN] section is

Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest Ah nice, you got there before me with a better answer! :P I'm poking around in there now, as I'm in a similar position to Neil a the mo'. Question: Can I provide schema.ini as an argument to the promotion or unattended or

Re: [ActiveDir] Remove Defunct domains..

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
 See kb216498 for the info. on the NTDSUTIL cleanup. Basically you need to perform a metadata, DNS and FRS cleanup. ThatKB details all the necessary steps. You'd determine the IP address of the workgroup by the 1B and 1C records registered for that name. The domain master browser is

Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest Am hwyl, dwi am ymateb drwy beidio a dweud dim byd mwy nagadlewyrchu dy bwynt! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:10 PM

Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest Ha ha. (I don't actually speak Welsh. A friend of mine translated my English sentance into Welsh for that witty reply). - Original Message - From: Dean Wells To: Send - AD mailing list Sent:

Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest "Am hwyl, dwi am ymateb drwy beidio a dweud dim byd mwy nag adlewyrchu dy bwynt!" = "Just for fun, I'll respond with an answer that says nothing but simply illustrates your point." - Original Message -

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange attributes..

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Williams
 You simply need to install the Exchange Admin tools on the system that you want these tabs. Therefore, in your case, you should install them on your computer and possibly on a DC or two too (depending on how you work). --Paul - Original Message - From: HBooGz To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Williams
schema.ini would qualify as very not supported ... -B On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Paul Williams wrote: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forestIt might be worth looking at the %systemroot%\system32\schema.ini file again. I just had a poke around in there after reading Dean's answer

Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Williams
in forest Touching schema.ini would qualify as very not supported ... -B On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Paul Williams wrote: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forestIt might be worth looking at the %systemroot%\system32\schema.ini file again. I just had a poke around in there after reading

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: DNS entry

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Williams
If you've got the necessary auditing enabled in your domain, and you had auditing ACEs configured on the DNS zone (location depends, generally you'd set it on CN=MicrosoftDNS folder) then yes, you can. But you'll have to search each DCs security event log for this info. Otherwise, you

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving Sysvol .

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Williams
Yes, you can relocate the SYSVOL. It's just a little more involved (couple of extra steps, not difficult) than moving the DIT. See: -- http://support.microsoft.com/?id=842162 However, if I might be so bold as to make a suggestion here, I would recommed you leave SYSVOL where it is, giving

Re: [ActiveDir] DCs Hyper-Threading

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Williams
I believe, from a past conversation, that disabling hyper-threading on bridgehead servers with lots of inbound connections, i.e. in enterprise deployments, should be *considered* as the replication queue has two parallel threads for processor, core or hyper threading processor as the system

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving Sysvol .

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Williams
I believe the school of thought here is that the person has write access to the same volume as the DIT, which means he/ she can easily perform DOS attacks, etc. by filling up the disk. I agree it's unlikely, but there you go. Take the [real] examples of where people with write access to

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving Sysvol .

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Williams
Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with what you and Darren say. In fact, I mostly agree. I'm just working in a high security environment where every detail is scruitinised and extra care needs to be taken with everything. I've always been one of these people that try and look at both sides of the

Re: [ActiveDir] UPPER case for username

2006-08-09 Thread Paul Williams
I've not tested this (just hashed it up as I read your post, so there's probably going to be some syntax errors, etc. --please test first). But here's a quick and dirty vbscript that should change all uppercase accounts to lowercase. set oConn=createObject(ADODB.Connection) set

Re: [ActiveDir] Weak AD passwords

2006-08-09 Thread Paul Williams
Title: Message Lophcrack was purchased by Symantec and is now sold as an enterprise security product. It's called LC5, I believe, but has recently been discontinued (after symantec stopped selling it to people outside of North America) and support runs out at the end of the year. Which is a

Re: [ActiveDir] machine GP load

2006-08-10 Thread Paul Williams
I just whipped up this _vbscript_ to get you started. Idon't have time to provide a more detailed breakdown as that involves a little extra thought, but this should point you in the right direction... Save, for example, as c:\count.vbs and run, from CMD, like so: cscript c:\count.vbs

Re: [ActiveDir] machine GP load

2006-08-10 Thread Paul Williams
Ha ha. That's why my post says to run using CSCRIPT. --Paul - Original Message - From: Ramon Linan To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:31 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] machine GP load I tried it out, I was hitting

Re: [ActiveDir] Restoring RID

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Williams
Restore it as you would any other DC. The documentation that you refer to is either out of date, or incorrect. The DS will invalidate the current RID pool when you restore and request a new one from the RID master (itself) which should be the same value as it was when it went down (if the

Re: [ActiveDir] fRSMemberReference - NTFRS

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Williams
Which object are you trying to modify the fRSMemberReference attribute on? You need to modify that attribute on the nTFRSSubscriber object called CN=Domain System Volume (SYSVOL) which is located in the CN=NTFRS Subscriptions container underneath the computer object for the DC. You do not

Re: [ActiveDir][OT] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Williams
Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:33 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed

Re: [ActiveDir] ADFind Query

2006-08-15 Thread Paul Williams
Yeah right! Our customers still have hundreds of NT 4 boxes... I saw some (three) production 3.51 boxes four months ago... --Paul - Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:34 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADFind

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Logon Name

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Williams
Not quite. You need to escape the comma like so: ((objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(displayName=phelps\, k*)) --Paul - Original Message - From: Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:46 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Logon Name

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Williams
You need to escape the comma, as a comma is a delimiter and in the case of displayName it shouldn't be a delimiter: ((objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(displayName=phelps\, k*)) I've not read the whole thread, so can't discuss whether or not this is the best way to do what you

Re: [ActiveDir] Recreate BUILTIN\Incoming Forest Trust Builders

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Williams
I'm not in a position to test whether this is a forest-wide or domain-wide principal. However, when you can't find something you think should be there, you should search the GC. I've seen numerous people have issues with a user or group not existing only to find it's in a parent domain.

Re: [ActiveDir] FMSO roles split, patch question.

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Williams
Valid point. But you should [try and] restore from the backup that ran the night before and that you verified successfully completed before you applied the patch... ;-) If you have a document process that goes through the proper change control, then there shouldn't be any reason to do

Re: [ActiveDir] FMSO roles split, patch question.

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Williams
I have. When bulk-patching NT 4 servers several died (OS was trashed, not the h/w) and had to be restored from the backup the night before. There was that issue where the patch wrote ntoskrnl beyond the 7.8 GB section of the disk, although that hit workstations more than servers as they'd

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Longhorn Beta

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Williams
http://connect.microsoft.com/ --Paul - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:35 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] Longhorn Beta Outside of my MSDN account is there a preferred way to

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Longhorn Beta

2006-08-18 Thread Paul Williams
environment to create a Longhorn DC. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:01 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Longhorn Beta http

Re: [ActiveDir] Problem in AD

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Williams
Then your problem is likely a DNS issue. Ensure that all clients are pointing to at least two DCs. Ensure that your DCs are pointing to at least two as well, as they're also DNS clients. --Paul - Original Message - From: Pankaj Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] nslookup. AD beginer question

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Williams
If you do NSLOOKUP DOMAIN-NAME.COM then you will get a list of all the DNS servers for that domain. For example, if you are using AD-Integrated DNS, you will get a list of any DCs that are also DNS servers. Basically, that command returns the (Same as parent) records for the domain. If you

Re: [ActiveDir] nslookup. AD beginer question

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Williams
Probably because it's a secondary server. Check to see if that IP is hosting a secondary copy of the zone. --Paul - Original Message - From: Ramon Linan To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

Re: [ActiveDir] Site down for 36 hours so far - anything proactive to do?

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Williams
Not much that you can do other than filter out the replication errors from your monitoring solution, so that calls aren't needlessly raised. A couple of days won't cause you any issues. Just ensure that everything is replicating and talking properly when things come back online. --Paul

Re: [ActiveDir] nslookup. AD beginer question

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Williams
If you don't have a host record (A) for the hostname "sami", then you should delete the SRV record [1]. If that isn't a DC, look at the KB mentioned by Steve and I. I've seen a bunch of XP workstations registering in DNS in the past. --Paul [1] Assuming of course that you don't have a

Re: [ActiveDir] nslookup. AD beginer question

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Williams
be sure to drink my first coffee of the day _before_ replying in the future! --Paul (No I didn't spot the error; I was notified offline ;-) - Original Message - From: Paul Williams To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:43 AM Subject: Re

Re: [ActiveDir] Completely OT: Maroons

2006-09-04 Thread Paul Williams
Posh! I prefer browns myself. Well, actually, reds... --Paul - Original Message - From: Mark Parris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir.org ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Completely OT: Maroons The only notes I use are

Re: [ActiveDir] Rid Master

2006-09-04 Thread Paul Williams
 Google RID FSMO for the functions of the RID master. Many people, including myself [1], have documented this. This info. is easily findable on the big wild web. As for how to view the RID of a user object, there are several ways. An easy was is to download ADFIND (www.joeware.net) and type

Re: [ActiveDir] Rid Master recovery

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Williams
 Use NTDSUTIL to seize the role(s) - kb255504. Follow the steps in kb216498 to clean AD (metadata and FRS objects) and DNS. --Paul - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:02 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Williams
PWD_NOT_REQ is 32. You can create an account with this set and bypass the need to set a password (ADSI does this automatically if you dont set a password when you create an enabled user without a password), but you cant set it back to 512 (normal) when its blank, like Al says:

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Williams
Pressed send before I finished typing! : ( Following on from the last mail You can, however, modify the policy so that you can have shorter passwords, create the user, and then change the password policy back. Perhaps someone did this? If you test this, when you set the policy to

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Williams
But you cannot set UAC to 512 if the password is blank, as it doesn't comply with the password policy. Try it. The other half of my post shows the error. I also tried it through the GUI (ADSIEDIT gives errors that are easier on the eyes, although less specific) and it said it wasn't

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Williams
check the password length. Andrew Fidel "Paul Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/07/2006 07:35 AM Please respond toActiveDir@mail.act

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Williams
Yeah, I think I saw your post last night. Mail was taking 70 minutes to come through last night. It's not really academic or obsolete, as this proves that it couldn't have been 544 and set back to 512. Which means that it is more than likely the password, or lack of, was set when the

Re: [ActiveDir] AD object (User accounts) Permissions dissappearing

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Williams
If the permissions are being reset it is the result of DSPROP. Google adminSDHolder or look at this: -- http://www.msresource.net/content/view/38/46/ The reason this is happening is because these users are members (directly or indirectly) of groups considered protected, e.g.

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-08 Thread Paul Williams
Impossible/irrelevant. If it's a domain account, the policy applies regardless, because the account is stored in AD. If it's a local account, then the policy doesn't apply regardless; domain account policies don't apply to local accounts. Is this a local account or a domain account? Any

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-08 Thread Paul Williams
But it's possible that someone changed this policy, created the account, and changed it back. I've done this myself (several times for service accounts to avoid [HP] protect tool's obfuscation process). It might not even have been intentional. One admin could have messed with the policy

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Williams
Have you actually seen this behaviour? As it was my understanding that this particular policy is processed by SCE outside of normal policy application (by the PDCe - I can't remember how often, 60 minutes comes to mind but I don't know why). I've tried to document this here: --

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Williams
_summary.shtmlPolicy Log Reporter(Free)http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedirf=policyreporter.shtml- Original Message - From: Paul Williams To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] S

Re: [ActiveDir] dsget error

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Williams
It must be some kind of issue with the DS* tools. I was using a combination of ADFIND and DSMOD last week to enable ~200,000 user objects (I forgot to set a password in a scrpit that created a bunch of objects and therefore had a shed load of objects with uac of 546) and it would die every

[ActiveDir] Handling different schemas - managing maintaining updates

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Williams
I can't get too specific about the requirements, so please don't ask ;-) I'm looking for your ideas, opinions and experience on how you maintain different sets of schemas for different forests that you manage (for the same customer). Basically, consider this: you have an internal domain

Re: [ActiveDir] Handling different schemas - managing maintaining updates

2006-09-13 Thread Paul Williams
You know ITIL. It's all guidelines and advice, etc. It's not hands on processes for you (or if it is, I slept through all that). We obviously have a structured process for testing additions. My question is more around technically implementing such a process, with minimal intervention,

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Williams
Not really, as it's now 512 and can't get to that state without a password meeting complexity. --Paul - Original Message - From: Akomolafe, Deji To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 4:52 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Strange

Re: [ActiveDir] Elevating privileges from DA to EA

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Williams
Neil, Try a re-read of the first couple of chapters of the first part of the deployment guide book designing and deploying directory and security services. Obviously it doesn't spell out how to do this -it doesn't even allude to how this is done- but does emphasise when and when not to go

Re: [ActiveDir] VBScript Container Security

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Williams
Title: VBScript Container Security I can't point you at any examples, but most of the documentation I read and from what MSFT people said at conferences, reckons you should grant full control to the group for SMS servers on that container. That's horse sh!t -you need to grant create and

Re: [ActiveDir] need help

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Williams
Look into the Win32_Service class for info. on how to view and manage services via script. Or, if you fancy calling EXEs and not handling everything in code, use the SC.EXE tool. --Paul - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] Elevating privileges from DA to EA

2006-09-17 Thread Paul Williams
Lucky you : ) I'm in an environment where we're doing this now, and I'm not happy with how its being done (I think we can be even more secure ;-), which means I've accidently volunteered to re-look at it all for the next iteration of the design cycle... (bollocks) --Paul -

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-17 Thread Paul Williams
No worries. It'sa big thread that has spawned serveral different threads of discussion. --Paul - Original Message - From: Akomolafe, Deji To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Strange password

Re: [ActiveDir] Elevating privileges from DA to EA

2006-09-17 Thread Paul Williams
especially if the layer-8 issues are not resolved up front. Al On 9/15/06, Paul Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil, Try a re-read of the first couple of chapters of the first part of the deployment guide book designing and deploying directory and security services. Obviously it doesn't

Re: [ActiveDir] Elevating privileges from DA to EA

2006-09-17 Thread Paul Williams
DAs got nothing to do with it. It makes it easier, but this can be done by someone without any account at all. --Paul - Original Message - From: Bernard, Aric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:33 PM

Re: [ActiveDir] different version of R2 available?

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Williams
When we spoke with the PM out in Redmond it was said that the feature that allows you to copy a file on one replica and that file get made up on another with very little replication traffic, e.g. a comparison taken on the local source and then only the deltas replicated (just like the rest

Re: [ActiveDir] DC Establishing Session to client on TCP139

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Williams
It's probably SMB (CIFS). The NT5.x client service attempts to establish SMB sessions using both 445 and 137/8/9 (whichever one). The first to reply is what is used. If 445, it's SMB over TCP/IP. If the NetBT 3, then it's SMB over NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT). Note. It doesn't use all three

Re: [ActiveDir] How are folks setting hidden user attribs?

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Williams
We populate this on user creation because we use provisioning systems (bespoke stuff that was written for the project(s)). For some of our smaller customers, there were scripts that were run to populate this stuff. Initially a bulk import, followed by monthly updates or adhoc updates via the

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] mSDS-Approx-Immed-Subordinates - How does it work?

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Williams
Joe, How is the DS calculating these values? The reason I ask is I've always found it to be way off. For example, take a look at the following output against one of my ADAM instances: D:\dev\dotnet\vb\dsadfind -h .:5 -b ou=people,dc=test-lab,dc=com -s one -f

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP query assistance

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Williams
Something like this, against a GC: (|((objectCategory=person)(memberOf=dn of group 01))((objectCategory=person)(memberOf=dn of group 02))((objectCategory=person)(memberOf=dn of group 03))) You can also do it the way you want using ASQ if you don't mind DN as the output. Here's an

Re: [ActiveDir] ADFS and certs

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Williams
Perhaps Tomasz and I should blog about this more for now. :) Yeah, you guys do that please! This looks like it's taking off, and some of it is a real black art for some infrastructure people... --Paul - Original Message - From: Joe Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP query assistance

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Williams
Great answer Joe. I completely missed the multi-domain issue, thinking (as I wrote) that was only an issue for DLGs. Oh well, you've certainly refreshed my memory and answered the question admirably. As you can tell from this, and from our off-line conversation, I'm just using ASQ all the

Re: [ActiveDir] choose between SOAD and Netpro directory Troubleshooter.

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Williams
I assume you mean NetPro Directory Analyser? I've not done much with any, but we've got NetPro Directory Troubleshooter here and from what I've seen of it, it doesn't compare with Quest's SOAD as it does more proactive, task oriented stuff. I've not seen NetPro's analyser. Quest's SOAD is

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