RE: [ActiveDir] Replication of linked attributes between domain and sub-domain

2004-06-11 Thread Solange Desseignes
Thank you all for your responses ! If I understand well: My problem is not due to the Infrastructure Master... You are right, Guido, the DC for titi.com is a GC and the DC for toto.titi.com is not a GC. To correct my problem and see the directReports attribute of usertoto correctly set at

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication of linked attributes between domain and sub-domain

2004-06-11 Thread Solange Desseignes
I made the DC of the domain toto.titi.com a GC and the directReports attribute of usertiti has been immediately correctly set ! Magic !!! Thank you all for your help ! -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Solange Desseignes Envoyé : vendredi 11

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication of linked attributes between domain and sub-domain

2004-06-11 Thread Jimmy Andersson
True, I typed without thinking (or rather reading closely...) I just saw PAS and typed away a canned answer... I must go on a break and clear my head g /Jimmy - Jimmy Andersson, Q Advice AB Principal Advisor Microsoft MVP -

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
Robert, Yep, that is essentially a DR strategy, which does work. I'm looking for a non DR-style method to do this as well. Glenn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Robert Sent: Friday, 11 June 2004 1:21 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
Hunter, Agreed, have looked into this, but am waiting for the full release of virtual server before I start doing things like this in the prod environment. This will most likely be the go in the long run, and also affords some really nice flexibility in the production environment with respect to

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Sysprep and workstation images

2004-06-11 Thread Hunter, Laura E.
Title: [ActiveDir] OT: Sysprep and workstation images Try setting a compliant password in the image, and then putting Whatever has to go in the AdminPassword key to prompt the user. Yeah, that's the part the only -sorta- works. The password policy in the image is onlybeing enforced for

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-11 Thread Glenn Corbett
Thanks Guido. I'll check out the IADsAccessControlEntry stuff. At the moment we are setting up a replica of the prod environment (same namespace), however the AD design (group layering structure, security) was inherited from the previous owners, and doesn't *quite* fit our security model. What

RE: [ActiveDir] Security

2004-06-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Sounds like the rebuild is a good thing, given the little angels' propensity to do things they shouldn't. The approach I'd take is to monitor the update sequence number on the Domain Admins, Schema Admins, and Enterprise Admins groups. If the USN changes on any of the groups, then you know that

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
VMWare has a couple of fully released products right now ;-) You may have valid reasons for wanting to go with Microsoft's product, though. -Original Message- From: Glenn Corbett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

[ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Kern, Tom
My users are inundated with spyware and adware, what are the ways you guys deal with this? do you change the zone settings in I.E via gpo? can you turn spybot/spyblaster into an msi and push it out? Its hard for me to block access to web sites via an application firewall as we're a liquor

RE: [ActiveDir] Security

2004-06-11 Thread Mulnick, Al
Additionally, it would be helpful to know how they did what they did and what account they used to do it. I can think of many ways it's possible, but it would be good to know what avenue they are using. You should be able to correlate the change of USN with the Event log entry (audit) of the

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
You can do a combination of your suggestions. We will change the IE zones for problem users; so far that's worked OK for us. I'll lock down the internet zone so nothing much will run at all. We use Spybot and Ad-Aware to clean up when needed. You can also use Websense (or maybe another filtering

[ActiveDir] Roaming Profile Permissions

2004-06-11 Thread Edwin
I would like to be able to view the files contained within a users roaming profile but keep getting a permission denied error. I have a Windows 2003 DC and testing on a Windows XP machine. I have enabled Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles\Add the

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Manuel Santos
I distributed AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) and made my users use it in a regular basis (once a week, at least) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: sexta-feira, 11 de Junho de 2004 15:16 To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Kern, Tom
can you distribute ad-aware and spybot via a gpo? also, for internet zones, what are some good things to disable without losing too much functionality. should i disable all active x(is most adware activex and javascript?)? thanks -Original Message- From: Manuel Santos [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Dale, Rick
I have SpyBot (http://www.safer-networking.org/) installed on all PC's and it runs as part of the local machine's Friday night routine (A/V, SpyBot etc.) using the AT / scheduler some .bat files. If you don't have SpyBot installed already then I would just push out what ever program you choose.

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Al Garrett
Another option would be to make the shift from IE to another browser like Mozilla. Better pop-up stopper, too. We've had issues with AdAware causing more problems than it cures. Al -Original Message- From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:16 AM To:

Re: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread jpsalemi
There was an interesting article the other day : http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci969259,00.html?track=NL-120ad=484520 Because of licensing issues we try to not let our users download adaware etc John |-+-- | |

RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profile Permissions

2004-06-11 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
You can take ownership of those files and change the permissions to include your account, as long as you don't remove the user's ACE or the localSystem ACE,without affecting their behavior. The only caveat here is described in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327462

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Kern, Tom
how would you go pushing out the kill bit .reg file for active x? gpo? batch? i would like to push this out silently with no user intervention or even knowldge if possible. thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:00 AM

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Rod Trent
In case no one has mentioned it, this solution works great: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manuel Santos Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Craig Cerino
Been using it for quite some time myself. This, in conjunction with the SpyBot Resident have kept me free for months -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Trent Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Christopher Hummert
We use spybot along with the resident program that came out in the 1.3 release. So far it's been pretty good. I was wondering, what did you do to get it to run with the scheduler and bat files? I haven't been able to get it to cooperate yet. -Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Dale, Rick
SpybotSD.exe /AUTOCHECK /AUTOFIX /AUTOCLOSE is the command I run in the scheduler file. It runs off of a local account. I am not sure if it would work running as system or not though. If you use the advanced features of SpybotSD there is a scheduler option under Settings/Scheduler that helps out a

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samba guest access?

2004-06-11 Thread Rob Freeman
The only other idea I can think of is to create a user account on the samba box with the exact same name / password as the user on the windows box. Then use smbpasswd -a to grant them access to smb. Sure there is a better way, but I can not think of one at the moment. - Original

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread jpsalemi
You could probably put it into a gpo, might be a lot of work maintaining... Probably a login script, using vbs or something...You can set them to run silently in the GPO. I was looking at the reg.exe command, doesn't seem to be a silent switch on import. I'm sure one of the scripters would

RE: [ActiveDir] Security

2004-06-11 Thread Passo, Larry
Thanks for the details, but I was hoping that Guido would provide some of the reasons whay Restricted Groups was a bad idea. Although, I would consider having all of the Domain groups be locked out to not be a graet idea. -Original Message- From: Aaron Visser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] Kerberos Delegation

2004-06-11 Thread Isham, Alan A
Can anyone share an end-to-end business process or a listing of security controls used to manage Kerberos Delegation in Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003? Thanks, - Alan

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Raymond McClinnis
Personally I like using VB for any registry manipulation, and I usually do sneaky things (Read: things that keep the users from doing what they shouldn't be doing anyways) at log off or shutdown through GPO. Just my $.02 Thanks, Raymond -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Doug Hampshire
So you are saying that liquor leads to porn and gambling? - Original Message - From: Kern, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 7:16 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT) My users are inundated with spyware and adware, what are the ways you guys deal

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
It always has for me :-) I'm kidding. No Really. mc -Original Message- From: Doug Hampshire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT) So you are saying that liquor leads to porn and gambling? - Original

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Kern, Tom
always. isn't that the point? -Original Message- From: Doug Hampshire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT) So you are saying that liquor leads to porn and gambling? - Original Message - From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication of linked attributes between domain and sub-domain

2004-06-11 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
glad you got it working - how I love this magic, although at times it is difficult to explain to folks how certain things in AD really work... now all that's left to do is to rename those domains ;-)) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Burns, Clyde
Don't know about the rest of the list server folks. But I'm all for a field trip to test out that theory. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

[ActiveDir] OT MS automated deployment systems (ADS)

2004-06-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Anyone using MS ADS? I've run into an odd issue... I'm trying to PXE-boot a Dell dimension into the deployment agent. When it gets to loading Ramdisk image it seems to load it but then tosses a windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt windows

[ActiveDir] Problem adding child domain machine accounts to SQL logins

2004-06-11 Thread Kirk Marple
(All servers running Windows 2003 Standard. Domain/forest functional levels all set to Windows 2003.) I have a two-level domain structure, like this: DOMAIN - DOMAIN-CHILD1 - DOMAIN-CHILD2 My SQL Server lives in DOMAIN, and i'm trying to add the machine account for a machine in

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samba guest access?

2004-06-11 Thread Brent Westmoreland
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samba guest access? I can put it in the lab on Tuesday and probably have you an answer by that afternoon. I just need a little time. From: Kirk Marple [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Agnostic Media, Inc. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:30:28

Re: [ActiveDir] spyware(OT)

2004-06-11 Thread Robert Mezzone
There was a thread about this on another forum. Some guy figured out how to do this and run scheduled scans without user intervention. It was one of the security forums, securityfocus, perhaps. One thing I have noticed, at least for me, is SpyBot hasn't released any updates for a while now, a

RE: [ActiveDir] Security

2004-06-11 Thread Raymond McClinnis
Why not create a group and modify the default rights to it (allow interactive logon and the like) then set as the default group for the people in question. I have done this for questionable users in the past with decent results. Thanks, Raymond -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Phone list

2004-06-11 Thread Deji Akomolafe
Late to the Party, as usual. Better late than never, uh? Someone asked this same question on this list about a month or so ago and I responded that I would post some code snippets of how I do this in some of my environments. I never really got around to contacting that person. I have a demo