RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller DNS

2005-06-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi Mohammed, Remember that to have 4 domains you at least need 4 DCs (1 DC per domain). However it is recommended to have at least 2 DCs per domain for redundancy purposes. With 2 DCs per domain you still have 1 DC if the other one dies. At least have 2 DCs for the root domain! If that one

RE: [ActiveDir] find deleted account and shared folders

2005-06-26 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi, For file servers you can use SUBINACL with the option: /cleandeletedsidsfrom=DomainName[=dacl|sacl|owner|primarygroup|all] For disconnected mailboxes see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/exchange/ex03_wmi1.mspx#EGAA Cheers, #JORGE#

RE: [ActiveDir] ? on MCSE Exam 70-290 (W2K3S)

2005-06-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi, No the answer is B. It you use A (%Username%) it then would be replaced by the samaccountname of the user executing the command Zie links and search for $Username$ http://www.ss64.com/nt/dsadd.html http://www.ss64.com/nt/dsmod.html

RE: [ActiveDir] Logon server bad discovery

2005-06-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Are you sure you have mapped the correct subnets to the correct sites? Is the subnet where those clients reside assigned in AD to a site? Check that to be sure. A client gets his site assigned from the subnet-site mappings in AD. If some subnet is not in AD and assigned to a site the client

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: GPO undefined definition

2005-06-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Yep, correct behavior! If you have an OU with servers and a GPO linked to that OU with the setting you mention to enbaled, it will affect all servers in that OU. Default GPO settings do not tattoo so if you change the setting in the GPO to Not defined the servers (all of them in the OU )will

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Admins Group Membership

2005-06-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
the way you want to do it can not be accomplished! Why? The domain admins group is a global security group and global (security) groups can only have members from its own domain and not from other domains. By design What are you trying to accomplish? Cheers, #JORGE#

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Admins Group Membership

2005-06-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
any one have an idea on how else to accomplish this? Thanks, Juan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 8:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject

RE: [ActiveDir] Account Policies

2005-06-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
With the setup you show us the following applies Domain OU - 14 Days - applies to all user accounts in the domain and to all user accounts local to each server/client except for the servers/clients in the sales OU and the finance OU Sales OU - 30 Days - applies to all user accounts local to

RE: [ActiveDir] Account Policies

2005-06-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Date: lun. 27/06/2005 21:24 À: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Objet : RE: [ActiveDir] Account Policies With the setup you show us the following applies Domain OU - 14 Days

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Scavenging

2005-06-28 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi, A quote: ## The refresh interval must be long enough to allow all servers that maintain resource records to update their timestamps. Because the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server is usually the last server to update its records, you can monitor DHCP records to make

RE: [ActiveDir] Move DC server to another site and SRV records

2005-06-28 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
For DNS records to be scavenged you need to enable scavenging on a DNS server and record aging on DNS zones. If this is already enebled select the zone with the records - pull down menu VIEW - select ADVANCED - go back to the DNS zone and right click the record and select properties See

RE: [ActiveDir] Can't get rid of old DC in Sites and Services

2005-06-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Title: Can't get rid of old DC in Sites and Services Do a metadata cleanup See Q216498 Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Orlando Sent: woensdag 29 juni 2005 17:58 To: Active Directory Mailing List Subject: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: scheduler account?

2005-06-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
nope... not a default account in AD. * see the creation date to see if you remember what happened on that date * see the owner to see to who caused the creation Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Thommes, Michael M. Sent: Wed 6/29/2005

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS problem - Urgent

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
That only applies if the zones are DNS primary/secondary en thus not AD integrated Cheers #JORGE# -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carerros, Charles Sent: donderdag 30 juni 2005 17:31 To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS problem - Urgent

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
To re-register multiple servers: CHOOSE A DC (lets say it is called DC01) (other DCs are called DC02, DC03, DC04, etc) ON DC01 RUN: NETDIAG /TEST:DNS /V /FIX OUTPUT_NETDIAG.TXT ON DC01 RUN: PSEXEC \\DC02,DC03,DC04,etc NETDIAG /TEST:DNS /V /FIX OUTPUT_NETDIAG.TXT PSEXEC is from sysinternals.

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Delegating

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
From the delegation wp: Replication Management Tasks Force replication between two servers Extended right Replication Synchronization needed on cn=configuration, dc=forestRootDomain Force a synchronization between two servers Extended right

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC Group Viewing

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
This depends What is the group type universal? Global? Local? Are you looking at it on a DC or GC? Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: donderdag 30 juni 2005 18:38 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC Group Viewing

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Never mind what I said about the type of group and DC/GC thing I think it is time to go home #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: donderdag 30 juni 2005 18:38 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADUC

RE: [ActiveDir] OT - Script to check if reg entry present

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
see: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/os/registry/osrgvb18.mspx Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Cothern Jeff D. Team EITC Sent: Thu 6/30/2005 9:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - Script to

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
why do you say it partially replicates? what errors (event ids and sources) are being logged in the event viewer? #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 6/30/2005 6:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Modify multiple users

2005-06-30 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
ADFIND -b OU=someOU,DC=DOMAIN,DC=TLD -f ((objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(extensionAttribute=*) -dsq | ADMOD extensionAttribute::value not tested this, but I think i will work for more help see: ADFIND /? ADMOD /? #JORGE# From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit

2005-07-01 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Joe... you forgot to type your message! ;-) Jorge From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of joe Sent: Fri 7/1/2005 3:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupted NTDS.dit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Permission to Join a pc to domain.

2005-07-02 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi, Using the delegation of control wizard you can delegate the creation of computer accounts to the domain. This does not mean the same user/group can also JOIN the computer to the domain. In the DELEGWIZ.INF file (%WINDIR%\INF) look at template 6. By default the AppliesToClasses is set

RE: [ActiveDir] Ds commands

2005-07-02 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
executing the DS commands on a w2k3 box against a w2k AD domain will work Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kern, Tom Sent: Sat 7/2/2005 9:16 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Ds commands I'm sorry. I wasn't

RE: [ActiveDir] GC

2005-07-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
I also don't agree with what you are saying concerning the maintenance of the GCs. If you only have 1 domain in the forest there is NO OVERHEAD in making all DCs GCs. The size of your DIT will not grow in size because there are no other domains. For its own and single domain the GCs will use

RE: [ActiveDir] GC

2005-07-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
will that cause a problem? the 2 that I chose to set as GCs are accessible from all VLANs. thanks. r.c. On 7/5/05, Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also don't agree with what you are saying concerning the maintenance of the GCs. If you only have 1 domain in the forest

RE: [ActiveDir] GC

2005-07-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
controllers accessible by all VLANs, if I set all the domain controllers to GC will that cause a problem? the 2 that I chose to set as GCs are accessible from all VLANs. thanks. r.c. On 7/5/05, Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also don't agree with what you are saying

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Config Question

2005-07-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
AD Integrated DNS zones are only possible on DCs and that is the preferred way as these zones have more benefits like replicating the information through AD instead of doing zone transfers, secure (preferred) and non-secure secure updates. Every DN/DNS server with AD-I zones and dynamic

RE: [ActiveDir] Novell/AD/Exchange

2005-07-06 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
If you don't have AD yet, install it and join the clients (presuming windows clients) to the AD domain Install and exchange org and establish interoperability between notes and exchange for mail and free/busy (one of the third party to consult for possible tooling might be Quest

RE: [ActiveDir] Novell/AD/Exchange

2005-07-07 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Novell/AD/Exchange If you don't have AD yet, install it and join

RE: [ActiveDir] Force Outlook to use closest GC to Outlook client

2005-07-07 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
What I know is: Outlook clients are not AD site aware (see Q319206) and will use the GC provided by the DSPROXY/DSACCESS process on the exchange server where the user's mailbox is hosted. By default it will not use the closest GC. For outlook 2003 the complete process is something like: (1)

RE: [ActiveDir] Can a 2003 server be a domain controller in a 2000 domain?

2005-07-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
It depends what you mean with temporary... To introduce w2k3 DCs in a w2k AD forest you need at least to prepare the forest and the domain that will host a new w2k3 dc. As you may know schema updates cannot be undone, but you can introduce a w2k3 dc and later on remove it as needed. For

RE: [ActiveDir] Can a 2003 server be a domain controller in a 2000 domain?

2005-07-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
I don't understand this one. to me he wants to introduce a temporary w2k3 DC for testing purposes. I agree that is you want to test things you need a test environment and not your production environment to test this Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attributes from users restored.

2005-07-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
what we are trying understand is why you need to restore objects that frequently. At least in my opinion you should not try to solve the problem by also undelete additional attributes, but you should look at how your delegation is configured. Are the correct people deleting the objects? Should

RE: [ActiveDir] joining to a domain

2005-07-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
(1) each authenticated user may add/join 10 workstatiobs to the domain and the objects are owned by the administrators (2) yes (3) no! it is better to set the quota to zero or remove the authenticated users from that user right or do both. The best way is to delegate the right to create

RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attributes from users restored.

2005-07-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
their attributes too, rather than trying to remember their lost informations and importing them in AD. I agree It is not critical, but rather a comfortable way. Cheers, Yann De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Date: ven. 08/07/2005 18:29 À

RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attributes from users restored.

2005-07-09 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] de la part de Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Date: sam. 09/07/2005 01:04 À: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Objet : RE: [ActiveDir] Keep existing attributes from users restored. Hi, You could also do it another way... If for some reason the user account is not needed anymore

RE: [ActiveDir] branch office and dns

2005-07-11 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Assuming you have windows 2003 dns you can use conditional forwarding I suppose you could configure forwarding for certain internal domains to the HQ DNS servers if needed and for all other DNS domains forward to the local ISPs Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO question

2005-07-11 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
yep! are you asking because of: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823862 Cheers #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Cothern Jeff D. Team EITC Sent: Mon 7/11/2005 10:08 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] GPO question You have

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 Replication Issue

2005-07-12 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
what is the outout of DCDIAG any event log errors? cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Yates SFC Robert W (C212 Network Engineer) Sent: Tue 7/12/2005 3:10 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] 2003 Replication Issue All,

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 Replication Issue

2005-07-12 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
what is the exact notification concerning the tombstone lifetime. Please paste it here From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Yates SFC Robert W (C212 Network Engineer) Sent: Tue 7/12/2005 4:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 Replication Issue

2005-07-12 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Replication Issue Here is the output from DC Diag. I am learning fast, but still learning on most on the problems that just do -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:37 AM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] DC Backups

2005-07-17 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi, Check if the exclusions definitions are the same in NTBACKUP (tools - options - exclude files) Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Figueroa, Johnny Sent: Sun 7/17/2005 11:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] DC

RE: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2005-07-19 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
not tried it myself, but it should work as I know Quest DMW does this (setting a different default domain) when migrating computers Cheers, #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Tue 7/19/2005 10:03 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Does a domain require a GC?

2005-07-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Another solution to this problem (I have not seen mentioned) might be the use of DNS priorities or as I like to call them DNS costs. By default each SRV record is set to 0. A higher value (also possible to configure through GPOs) would the DC/GC would always be the last on the list for

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT]Delegation of privilege

2005-07-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
English? Is that what we are supposed to be speaking? I speak a red neck northern lower Michigander form of North American. Anyone want to go smelt dippin? How about goin' and snagging us some suckers? Or fishing fer bullheads, I got the nightcrawlers all ready. Course we could always

RE: [ActiveDir] How to identify SIDs in AD?

2005-07-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
it may sound stupid but you could see each member computer as a very small domain with its own local users. As domains that trust each other have trusts in between the same applies for the member computer in the form of a computer account in the domain (with the domain sid and a unique RID in

RE: [ActiveDir] Hiding an OU

2005-07-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
each time you create an OU beneath that OUx remove from the OUs authenticated users. The objects in the OU also have authenticated users and everyone explicitely defined. you also need to get rid of those too. Remove the members of the Pre-Windows 2000 compatible Access group (if possible and

RE: [ActiveDir] How to find creator of computer account?

2005-07-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
if you have delegated the creation of computer accounts look at the owner of the computer account. when an object is created the user who creates it automagically becomes the owner of it. If I'm correct this, however, does not apply for members of the administrators, domain admins and

RE: [ActiveDir] How to find creator of computer account?

2005-07-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
is the owner. I was hoping for a more specific userid which I guess we could get if we provision the ability to join computers to the domain differently than we do now. -mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de

RE: [ActiveDir] Hiding an OU

2005-07-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 15:52 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; activedir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Hiding an OU each time you create an OU beneath

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory-Please Advice

2005-07-24 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi, In my opinion you need more answers before on deciding what the main structure will be... Answer the following quiestions first... * How is each company located worldwide (same continent, different continent)? * Does the info from each company to be available everywhere? * What are the

RE: [ActiveDir] Hiding an OU

2005-07-24 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Samstag, 23. Juli 2005 01:15 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Hiding an OU Guido, Removing read for auth users

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster Recovery Training

2005-07-25 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
also take a look at: Active Directory Disaster Recovery http://www.netpro.com/events/adrecovery/index.cfm NetPro and HP invite you to join Active Directory experts Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO at NetPro, and Guido Grillenmeier, Senior Consultant of Enterprise Microsoft Services at Hewlett Packard, as

RE: [ActiveDir] turn off replication to a DC in same site

2005-07-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
As for FRS replication ntfrsutl forcerepl [computer] /r SetName /p DnsName = Force FRS to start a replication cycle ignoring the schedule . = Specify the SetName and DnsName. computer = talk to the NtFrs service on this machine. SetName

RE: [ActiveDir] Startup Scripts...

2005-07-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
oh yes they do... however only when the server is starting the startup script will run. while the server is running then the startup script will not run Sam applies for shutdown scripts, logon scripts and logoff scripts - only when resp. shutdown, logon, or logoff occurs What you want to use

RE: [ActiveDir] Startup Scripts...

2005-07-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
groups is limited, but from what I read its quite powerful. Does Restricted Groups remove the existing members of a local administrators group on a Server or Workstation once it's been enabled. Almeida Pinto, Jorge de wrote: oh yes they do... however only when the server is starting

RE: [ActiveDir] Add domain user to local group?

2005-07-27 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
better exists use the restricted groups feature of a GPO where you can dictate who the MEMBERS are of a group or where you can define to which group a user or a group is a MEMBER OF Works great! Cheers #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of

RE: [ActiveDir] Multiple Domain Trees in a Single Forest

2005-07-28 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
see the archives as a few days ago I answered to a similar question http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/msg31336.html #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Johnson Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 2:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] _gc and _ldap SRV records

2005-07-28 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Each DNS zone representing an AD domain has a _MSDCS DNS subdomain. All DCs register belonging to a certain domain register their DNS domain wide records in their own _MSDCS DNS subdomain. However each DC and GC also register forest wide records (e.g. CNAME and _GC, etc). It is a best practice

RE: [ActiveDir] _gc and _ldap SRV records

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:09 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] _gc and _ldap SRV records Each DNS zone representing an AD domain has a _MSDCS DNS subdomain. All DCs register belonging

RE: [ActiveDir] Control Delgation

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
grin yep... that is what I would have said../grin ;-)) #JORGE# From: TIROA YANN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 7/29/2005 3:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE : [ActiveDir] Control Delgation Hi From a search in the acctivedir archives

RE: [ActiveDir] Security Groups vs. Distribution Groups

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
each group in AD (distribution and/or security) must have a unique samaccountname (pre-windows 2000 name) within the domain and must have a unique common name within a container/OU. Your groups have the same common name and they can exist because they are in separate OUs. That's OK. Moving

RE: [ActiveDir] _gc and _ldap SRV records

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
a subfolder? Thanks -Original Message- From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:13 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] _gc and _ldap SRV

RE: [ActiveDir] Search User Accounts for Password Reset Date

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Determine the max time of the password in the password policy and retrieve the pwdLastSet attribute from each user. As the attribute pretends it is the moment the password was changes the last time Cheers #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Intra-forest migration

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
when doing intra forest migrations some tools are destructive menaing the old user account is deleted before the new one is created. Reason is with a intra forest migration the GUID does not change (SID does) the problem with this is it does not provide fallback. In fact it is a MOVE. As I

RE: [ActiveDir] Advice

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
the first thing that comes up is: who is able to access a DC (as in logon locally or through TS). I'm not going forward with I want to say, because I don't want to give wrong ideas! Cheers #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kern, Tom Sent: Sat

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MIIS, ADAM, AD

2005-07-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
the only way I know of with the AD/AM sync is from AD to AD/AM and not the other way around. #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Guy Teverovsky Sent: Sat 7/30/2005 1:58 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: MIIS, ADAM, AD

[ActiveDir] Partial Attribute Set - 2000 DCs and 2003 DCs

2005-07-31 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi Everyone, I was looking something up concerning the partial attribute and its behavior with DCs. Now... * If all DCs = w2k3 and PAS is changed, then only the changes to the PAS will be replicated * If all DCs = w2k and PAS is changed, then a full resync will be done for all objects and

RE: [ActiveDir] Partial Attribute Set - 2000 DCs and 2003 DCs

2005-07-31 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
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RE: [ActiveDir] Partial Attribute Set - 2000 DCs and 2003 DCs

2005-08-01 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:29 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Partial Attribute Set - 2000 DCs and 2003 DCs Hi, I realize know the text layout did not come

RE: [ActiveDir] Partial Attribute Set - 2000 DCs and 2003 DCs (AGAIN - HIT THE SEND BUTTON BEFORE FINISHING)

2005-08-01 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
(got a link)? -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com http://msetechnology.com/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Monday, August 01

RE: [ActiveDir] Replicating AD

2005-08-02 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Title: Message Use LDIFDE to export the OU structure and user accounts. (export only the organisationalUnit class objects and the user class objects) Don't forget to remove the Domain Controllers OU from the output as it already exists by default You may also like to export groups incl

RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-02 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
A while ago I put some AD feature thoughts in a textfile not knowing what to do with them at that moment Here goes: * Active Directory thoughts: * OU = security principal * Possibility to merge Forests * Cut and paste a domain from one forest to another * Domain

RE: [ActiveDir] copy or migrating local to domain accounts

2005-08-02 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
third party migration tools can do this for you anyways: * Add the server to the domain * create a script to get users, groups and memberships and create those accordingly in AD and assign new passwords * use SUBINACL to re-acl the data on the file system (resource kit tool, but download new

RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-02 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
not making it a security group... being able to use it as a security principal and also being able if it will be used just as an OU (so it is not added to the access token) or as a security principal OU (so it will be added to the access token) As a user is a child object of the OU and in

RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-02 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:06 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes A while ago I put some AD feature thoughts in a textfile not knowing what to do with them

RE: [ActiveDir] End-to-End AD Authentication

2005-08-03 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
How about Darren's article: AD Network Interactions Understanding AD logon and replication procedure http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/37928/37928.html Cheers #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rachui, Scott Sent: Wed 8/3/2005

RE: [ActiveDir] Distribute a template delegation.

2005-08-03 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Yep, the tool you mention can do that because natively through AD it is not possible. However you could do with scripting and some of the free tools around Use could use a VB script (see script repository from MS) to create all groups and with DSACLS you can assign permissions to the group

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 Functionality - (Was Biggest AD Gripes)

2005-08-04 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:06 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes A while ago I

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain DFS Roots hosted on DC

2005-08-04 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Very true! However, this will change in R2.. Better delegation etc. #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Holme Sent: Wed 8/3/2005 9:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Domain DFS Roots hosted on DC There's one much

RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-04 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
I'm not sure if I understand what you say, but if you define a query in the Saved Queries node and run it, you are able to export the result to a textfile by right-clicking the query and selecting 'Export List' Cheers #JORGE# From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] Replicating AD

2005-08-04 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
can he predict the future now? ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hutchins, Mike Sent: Thu 8/4/2005 4:06 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replicating AD lol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-04 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
, thanks for pointing that out! It seems a little backdoorish but it'll work. Any idea why the operator contains is not available? Mike Thommes Ps. joe, don't ever go GUI! LOL! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Question

2005-08-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
worked and the box is unchecked at all branch sites. The errors persist at all branch sites. Any further thoughts? -- nme -Original Message- From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:21 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] Merging two domains

2005-08-06 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
yeah... this is also the first thing I thought. I also thought of something else. Will those users ever need to access their old resources? (like mail, files ,etc) If no access is allowed how are you going to do that? Exmerge all mailboxes into PSTs en burn files on DVD or something like that?

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Question

2005-08-06 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
and the box is unchecked at all branch sites. The errors persist at all branch sites. Any further thoughts? -- nme -Original Message- From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Question

2005-08-07 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
. DCs and GCs are correct; no custom site links or connections; site membership is correct. -Original Message- From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 11:59 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject

RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Question

2005-08-07 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
# From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Sun 8/7/2005 11:56 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Branch Office Question To answer your question: You can use each DC you want. In the end it will replicate to the location where it applies You need however

RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
In fact you are saying that Dean's shirts can do more than your DIT tool, and they are not as expensive as your tool. Stop working on the tool and ask Dean for one of his shirts! ;-) jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlos Magalhaes

RE: [ActiveDir] Preferred Bridgeheads

2005-08-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Rick, Don't you mean the bridgehead server role instead of the ISTG? I think you were saying: As long as DCs on the static BH list are up, everything is OK. When all DCs on the static list are for some reason unavailable the ISTG will not choose other available DCs as new BHs as it will

RE: [ActiveDir] user profiles

2005-08-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
When a user logs on for the first time the system the users logs on to wil first look in the netlogon share for a default user profile and if it does not find one it will use the default profile from the local computer the user logs on to. If you don't want the users to change the profile (as

RE: [ActiveDir] AD migration

2005-08-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
What do you mean with In fact, they are cut off from the root domain pyhsically. ? Do you mean as in there is not replication between the two domains? If yes... dare I ask for how long? As I know of you can migrate the child domain without the root being available because you will be having a

RE: [ActiveDir] Integrating IIS and AD

2005-08-09 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
I presume you are asking how can I make the IIS servers use the user accounts and groups in AD? If that is the question The answer is: * Add those IIS servers to the AD domain (right click my computer, select properties, click on tab computername, click on change, select domain, enter

RE: [ActiveDir] MailAlias in AD

2005-09-07 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Those fields are not available in the default ADUC GUI. It needs to be extended for that. You could however for attributes that are not available through the GUI use the method as explained in: http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=169630seqNum=1

RE: [ActiveDir] Associated External Account right

2005-09-07 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi Tom, When using the Associated External Account (AEA) in an account forest and resource forest scenario the account in the resource forest that is mailbox enabled is AD disabled and the account in the account forest is assigned the AEA right on the mailbox. This automagically puts the SID

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Permissions

2005-09-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Hi Sakari, Just tested the script on my home DC. Works great. Minor Minor Minor issues.. ;-)) * Last line states This table was generated at 09-Sep-2005 01:47:40 by ACLsToExcel.vbs the last should be ACLReport.vbs Instead of hardcoding the name of the file add WScript.ScriptName * The

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Permissions

2005-09-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Oh... forget to mention... run the script from the command-line like CSCRIPT scriptname otherwise you need to click away popup boxes Cheers Jorge From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Fri 9/9/2005 2:06 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Joining computers to a 2K3 domain

2005-09-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
What I know is: If you disjoin a computer you will get the credentials box asking for credentials to DELETE the computer account. If you just click OK without giving credentials the computer account is disabled and will remain in the container or OU it resides in If you give credentials

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange issues again(ot)

2005-09-08 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
This is a builtin feature of E2K... XADM: Exchange 2000 Installation Requires Access to Schema Master (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=280178) http://www.petri.co.il/exchange_disasterecovery_switch.htm It is a check the exchange schema update has been applied I also remember another buggy

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