RE: [ActiveDir] Global Catalogs and the Infrastructure Master

2004-03-30 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yes, this causes no issues, as the GCs contain all the cross-domain links that the IM would update on DCs and thus the IM has absolutely nothing to do. I've also only had good experiences with it. /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald BauerSent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 and Windows 98 issue

2004-03-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
also disable the "Domain Member: Digitally encrypt or sign secure channel data (always)"security option in the Default Domain Controller policy however, don't forget to re-enable this after you've upgraded all your Win98 clients /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Query

2004-03-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
dsquery (come with 2k3, but also works fine on 2000) get OU from DN of user objects get groups from memberOf attribute (will not be complete in multi-domain forests, but maybe good enough for what you need) /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

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

2004-03-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
or create a sub-ou underneath the domain controllers OU which you link the GPO to. then put those DCs into the sub-OU. not only good for testing purposes... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Mittwoch, 31. März

RE: [ActiveDir] MS Audit Collection Service?

2004-04-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
MACS runs pretty well and rather independent of MOM itself though. That should be made clear as well. Not that folks think it's useless unless you invest in MOM. You can use many other plattforms to add reporing and alerting capabilities to MACS as the MACS server has full subscriber API

RE: [ActiveDir] using dsacls.exe

2004-04-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Hey Ulf - I see you got home from the summit safely ;-) In your AD newsgrouppost which your referenced below you answered the following question Is there a comprehensive reference that identifies each permission required to perform a task ? Giving a user the "AddUser" permission is not

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership in trusted domain

2004-04-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
works as designed. Especially if you're using Domain Local Groups (DLG). But in 2003 you can even not see the UG memberships of other domains in ADUC. This will likely be fixed in SP1 as only GCs would have the potential to show UG-memberships from other domains anyways (a filter was added in

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Consultants

2004-04-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
just want to mention, that other companies to AD consulting as well ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)Sent: Dienstag, 6. April 2004 15:35To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Consultants I highly recommend Dean as

RE: [ActiveDir] using dsacls.exe

2004-04-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
would have been nice for me as well to be around with you longer - it was definitely good to put some faces to some of the other names. But you guys must have already been on the bus while I was still chatting with some MS folks. And I'm sure you kept on beating on UGs even if it wasn'tthe

RE: [ActiveDir] Unable to see users group membership in trusted domain

2004-04-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
through all the parent domain groups? And BTW, copying a user no longer copies the parent domain group memberships - argh! Ole Thomsen -Original Message- From: Grillenmeier, Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Consultants

2004-04-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
that was actually pretty convincing Joe.And I have to say, I pretty much agree with you. It's probably my own position thatdoesn't allow me tospeak up the same way.May be a personal thing too. And I do like Canon digital cameras ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Photos in Active Directory

2004-04-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
://www.cafeshops.com/joewarenet  (wear joeware) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Photos in Active Directory WARNING: let's look

RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts

2004-04-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
domain admins is a global group and as such you can't add users from other domains to it. While other global groups can be converted to universal groups, you can't do so for the domain admins group. a solution to your problem is to use the restricted groups GPO feature (which will not work

RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts

2004-04-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
won't Restricted groups remove any groups that are in the administrators group now except for the ones you specify? not if you have Win2k SP4 or Win2k3 and use the "MemberOf" option of the restricted groups. /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Sites and SYSVOL

2004-04-19 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Message actually, the SYSVOL folder is "just another" share redirected via DFS (which also allows the folder to be replicated via FRS...). I've never really thought about it, but Jorge's comment makes sense, as in a Win2k DFS hierarchy the client will receive a list of link-targets

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Management and monitoring

2004-04-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
ofcourse I'm biased, but I'd also compare OpenView for Windows with the AD SPI to the rest - it's pretty powerful and has some awsome features (such as the 3D-View of the AD topology etc.) You'll like this whitepaper, which is generally rather useful to understandwhat you need to monitor

RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts

2004-04-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
ou tell??) J Thanks for your help on this issue! mc -Original Message-From: Grillenmeier, Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:47 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] enterprise-wide accounts domain admins is a global group and as such you can't

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify the servers (Domain Controllers) using File Replication service - - - And how to enable/disable FRS service on these servers

2004-05-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
can you add, roughly WHY you want to do this? FRS is enabled on ALL DCs in an AD forest, and that's the way it should be as SYSVOL replication uses FRS.FRS is one of those special services, that you don't want to screw around with (such as turning off, make a lot of file-system changes,

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Query Question

2004-05-07 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
retrieve the memberOf attribute of the users - if multi-domain forest, use a GC to also catch UGs. If you want the complete picture, you'll have to run the query against all domains to also catch local group memberships. /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication issues

2004-04-30 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
as Joe already wrote, there is a difference between "out of band" and "urgent" replication. any DC that you use to set a PW for a user also apply this change "out of band" to the PDCE of the domain = this is NOT urgent replication. It is referred to as immediate replication,

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication issues

2004-05-01 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
as Joe already wrote, there is a difference between "out of band" and "urgent" replication. any DC that you use to set a PW for a user also apply this change "out of band" to the PDCE of the domain = this is NOT urgent replication. It is referred to as immediate replication,

FW: [ActiveDir] Replication issues

2004-05-03 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
reposting this again, as I still can't see it on the list... From: Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Samstag, 1. Mai 2004 10:20To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication issues as Joe already wrote, there is a difference between "out of band" and "urge

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Replication issues

2004-05-03 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, GuidoSent: Monday, May 03, 2004 8:17 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: FW: [ActiveDir] Replication issues reposting this again, as I still can't see it on the list... From: Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Samstag, 1. Mai 20

RE: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU

2004-05-03 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yes, the basic restores in 2003 work the same way as in 2000, however, depending on your forest-functional level and number of domains in your environment you'll have additional tasks IF you run at Win2003 forest functional level AND IF this is NOT a forest that was upgraded from Win2000

RE: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU

2004-05-03 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
thanks for the pointer Eric - this article was long overdue, but at least it's available now and it contains most of the information required to be prepared for a successful recovery. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric FleischmanSent: Montag, 3. Mai 2004

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Cats dogs (was A root dc question)

2004-05-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
what's the problem Joe? even Cats could be members of Universal Groups ;-) /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Sonntag, 16. Mai 2004 16:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Cats dogs (was A root dc

RE: [ActiveDir] FOREST MIGRATION

2004-05-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
going from one AD domain to a new forest requires the same approach, as migrating from an NT4 domain. Depending on the complexity of your environment, the free MS ADMT tool can do this for you (but will only migrate security principals, i.e. users, groups, computers). If you want to migrate

RE: [ActiveDir] FOREST MIGRATION

2004-05-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
with the admt? thanks again. -Original Message- From: Grillenmeier, Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FOREST MIGRATION going from one AD domain to a new forest requires the same approach, as migrating from an NT4

RE: [ActiveDir] ms04-011

2004-05-19 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
what's the primary suffix of your clients? and how are the search suffixes configured? or WINS? also, did you not only check that you're service records in DNS exist, but that they're also registered by the right machines? It's potentially possible, that other non-DC clients could have

RE: [ActiveDir] win98

2004-05-19 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
what's the DNS config of this client? don't remember if Win98 has nslookup, but from a different client that has, you should run nslookup %DNSname_of_domain% = should get back a list of your DCs for that domain - do you? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] User modifiable attributes

2004-05-19 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question another option is to adjust the default property sets, which can be done in 2003 (but not in 2000) - this will even allow to change the effective permissions instantaniously on all objects ACLed with this property set without any re-acling on the

RE: AW: [ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
list mode won't help you for hiding a specific link from a group's membership list. You'll also have to worry about many other permissions to use list-mode effectivly. E.g. Authenticated Users by default has explicit Read-Permissions on every OU and on every object contained within. So denying

RE: [ActiveDir] 5.5 to 2K migration and A.D.

2004-05-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I'll take a quick shot at this - see inline /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefano CrivellaroSent: Freitag, 21. Mai 2004 09:08To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] 5.5 to 2K migration and A.D. Hi all I have read a lot of documentation on

RE: [ActiveDir] Discontinue Mail Membership

2004-05-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
that's spelled FEMAIL ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig CerinoSent: Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2004 15:25To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Discontinue Mail Membership Please continue FEMALE membership J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] how many domain controllers ?

2004-05-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
as few as possible just roughly: depending on how you define small, medium, large, this would translate to none for small, 1 for medium and usually no more than 2-3 for large (mainly depends on other services using the DCs/GCs, such as Exchange). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Security...

2004-05-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
what's the size of these 4 locations? and their network connectivity to the next larger location that has a DC? the locations may be large enough to absolutely require a fileprint server - but they could very well be fine without placing a DC in the location and you'd still find authentication

RE: [ActiveDir] OT, How to change wording on screen when computer is locked

2004-05-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
it's called Resource Hacker (reshacker.exe) and is available at: http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/ Quite nice - I've also used it - but only for lab-purposes to easily distinguish machines at logon time. However, we've moved to bginfo from sysinternals, which is obviously much

RE: [ActiveDir] Discontinue Mail Membership

2004-05-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
aren't those the rules that apply to post to this list? ;-)) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Svetlana KouznetsovaSent: Freitag, 21. Mai 2004 15:32To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Discontinue Mail Membership I like the etiquette rules,

RE: [ActiveDir] Password set and enable account

2004-05-24 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Sysvol Damaged here's a sample-batch that should help you get started /Guido set inputfile=%1if '%inputfile%'=='' goto ErrInput set logfile=.\%inputfile%_log.txt echo.echo Updating password settings for user listed in: %inputfile%echo Logfile: %logfile%echo. echo. %logfile%echo

RE: [ActiveDir] MACS

2004-05-29 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
That was the impression I got too, when looking throught the ACS slides (wasn't at the session either): here's what it says on some slides * ACS will ship with MOM management pack * ACS is a Windows platform technology- not a complete solution * ACS is specifically focused on security event

RE: [ActiveDir] Username and Password

2004-05-31 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you've not been particularly verbose on your infrastructure setup: - do the two forests (or domains within) trust each other? - what do you use for backing up? /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pyron Sent: Sonntag, 30. Mai 2004 10:48

RE: [ActiveDir] Logging access to windows folders

2004-06-01 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
auditing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Scalas Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juni 2004 10:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Logging access to windows folders Hi everybody, Is there any way to logging accesses to a specific

RE: [ActiveDir] Protecting Domain Data in Forest

2004-06-01 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Message this is not what firewalls are for = someone needs to manage the FW as well... - who's this going to be? Typically the same admins that you want to protect the data from... And since the server is in a domain, they can still do everything they need on the server via GPOs...

RE: [ActiveDir] SRV Record registration by Non-DC's

2004-06-03 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yep, this is related to the installation of MS04-011 on XP clients - you shouldn't see this bug on other machines. I had mentioned it before when I reported of a related issue, where MS04-011 causes Win2000 DCs to FAIL registration of certain SRV records. have a look at

[ActiveDir] AD in NATed environments

2004-06-05 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
last time I looked at replication of DCs in a NATed network, I was rather disappointed - basically this is was no-no. Simply due to name-resolution of the DCs (i.e. the IP-Address of a DC on one side of the NAT is not what it should be on the other side of the NAT etc.). wondering how

RE: [ActiveDir] AD in NATed environments

2004-06-06 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
thanks for your input Willem - yes, I was also thinking about somethink like VPN, but maybe in a dual-homed manner = one of the legs for replication between DCs accross NATed sites, another one for authentication in the respective site...There's no way I can change all resources in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Identify STATIC records in AD DNS

2004-06-08 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
usually static records also have different ACLs - i.e. records that were registered by machineX have an ACL which grant machineX write privs to the respective DNS AD object. note that by default in Win2000 a static record added to DNS by an administrator was granting Authenticated Users

RE: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you have different options when you're trying to implement the exact same namespace in a physically separated lab, or when you want to integrate your lab into the production network, choosing a different domain name. For the first option you can go the clone DC or grab DC method as described in

RE: [ActiveDir] Security

2004-06-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
don't use the Restricted Groups feature on domain groups, especially domain admins. This has caused various issues for companies and thus they've backed away from this approach. However, using restricted groups on member servers and clients works well. \Guido -Original Message- From:

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

2004-06-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
first of all, if titi.com and toto.titi.com are real names, then I'd switch jobs - this would drive me crazy ;-) Rgd. adding the directReports to the PAS: that would be nice, but isn't possible for the backlinks of linked attribute-pairs - this is the case here for the directReports attribute =

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

2004-06-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you may not be using a GC query, but the directReports backlink is still read from the same linktable on a DC when it is also a GC. in your scenario, the DC used to lookup the titi.com user must have been a GC and the other one a normal DC. This has nothing to do with the domain hierarchy.

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

2004-06-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Tony, as just mentioned in my other post, this is not an IM topic, as this is about visibility of backlinks (which are not influenced by the IM). Backlinks are only visible on DCs, which host the naming context of the object with the forward link (i.e. for directReports this would be those,

RE: [ActiveDir] Preventing a DC from authenticating users

2004-06-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
if your test clients are all win2k/xp, you could also use the NT4emulator registry key on the server to prevent the machine from accepting the kerboros auth. protocol = win2k/xp clients will search for other DCs that allow kerb.auth. (check MS Q298713) initially the key was added to prevent the

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

2004-06-11 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
make the DC for toto.titi.com a GC. Right ? Solange Desseignes -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Grillenmeier, Guido Envoyé : vendredi 11 juin 2004 00:57 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: [ActiveDir] Replication of linked attributes between

RE: [ActiveDir] LogonServer

2004-06-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
In a site called Pune we have 2 domain controllers which are physically located in 2 different buildings connected by 8mbps line. that's your problem = DCs in the same site will be treated the same - and if both buildings are in the same subnet, then there's not much that you can do about it (you

RE: [ActiveDir] LogonServer

2004-06-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
are in different subnet and I really don't want to change any property of other sites. Is there anything I can change in PUNE site ? -dinesh -Original Message- From: Grillenmeier, Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] SID question

2004-06-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Message how about first _MOVING_ the accounts from the child domain to the root domain (can be done via ADMT or the movetree command) - then update these from your LDAP source afterwards. = user will keep GUID and UG/DLG memberships and will be dropped from GGs= user will keep same

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication problem related to large groups.

2004-06-15 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
not bad, especially since AD prior to 2003 (at 2003 forest functional level, whichactivates LVR - link valure replication) only supports roughly 5.000 members to a group, due to these version store limitations... I doubt you can increase the storage for the version store, but an intermins

RE: [ActiveDir] When a domain is Switch to Native Mode... what event Event ID is logged and where?

2004-06-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Todd, you'll find out when you switch your domains ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) Sent: Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 20:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] When a domain is Switch to Native Mode... what

RE: [ActiveDir] User Icons

2004-06-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
this can also be a phantom object from a foreign domain in a domain local group or UG on a DC (not a GC), which has changed it's name in the original domain, but wasn't yet updated in the domain by the infrastructure master. or it could just be a very old user account ;-)) -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving FSMO RH to another site

2004-06-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
there's no problem moving the FSMO roles to your DC in A in a working environment - no need to move the hardware, unless you have other requirements to do so. you can easily move the roles via NTDSutil or via various UIs (ADUC, AD Domains Trusts, Schema Manager) if you preferr. _should_

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Monthly E-Mail Newletter?

2004-06-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
hey Robbie - you're still alive! Good to read you ;-) nice blog - cheers, Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robbie Allen Sent: Dienstag, 22. Juni 2004 18:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Monthly E-Mail Newletter?

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 9x Clients

2004-06-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
domain mode (mixed or native) has nothing to do with it. This is often confused: the domain mode (or in 2003: domain and forest functional level) only determine, which type of DCs are allowed to be used in a domain - this then determines the features available in the domain (e.g. an NT4 DC cannot

RE: [ActiveDir] Enterprise Admin members

2004-06-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
some more 5. trigger replication of config/schema partition between DCs of different domains 6. trigger replication of domain partition to GCs of other domains 7. manage replication topology at the forest level 8. create child domains 9. add any new objects to the config container (e.g. for

RE: [ActiveDir] How to change the computer name of a Domain contr oller

2004-06-27 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: Message there is an important difference between 2000 and 2003: true, in 2000 de-moting, renamingand then re-promoting the DC was the only way to change the hostname of the DC (lenghty andbandwidth intensive procedure requiring 3 reboots). But in 2003 (once your DOMAIN is at 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook 2003 attachment blocking

2004-06-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you might appreciate this little Outlook Attachment Options tool: http://www.pcworld.co.nz/PCWorld/fileworld.nsf/0/1FEB65E47ADDAF37CC256DFE0078B067?OpenDocument /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ManjeetSent: Montag, 28. Juni 2004 06:59To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] 2 NT4.0 domains to a Forrest

2004-07-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Only 5 user accounts exist and these have full admin rights. These accounts are required to start the SAP applications and are contained within the SAP app. for its built in security. why in the world would you want to setup a seprate domain to manage a different PW policy for your 5

RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restores

2004-07-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
nope that's wrong - it is absolutely no problem to do an Auth Restore of an object, whithout first doing a non-auth restore (e.g. from tape). the challenge is to have a valid object in the database you're trying to do the auth restore against... - i.e. you'll need to be sure, that the respective

RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restores

2004-07-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I didn't yet do a comprehensive check against every possible attribute, however I do know that you can't include back-linked attributes in the tombstone (e.g. memberOf). This mainly causes issues for multi-domain environments and even single-domain, if Win2000 AD. Likely there are also some

RE: [ActiveDir] Exporting Workstation Information

2004-07-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
What specifically? e.g. the capability to udpate existing objects in AD... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Freitag, 9. Juli 2004 04:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exporting Workstation Information

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Promo Question....

2004-07-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I can confirm that you have to tranfer the role manually - 2003 won't try to do this by itself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Wells Sent: Freitag, 9. Juli 2004 16:32 To: Send - AD mailing list Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Promo

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC Promo Question....

2004-07-12 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
now as I had it in my mind it was a possibility. Now it seems it insn't so what happened? joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 DC

RE: [ActiveDir] 2000 to 2003 Migrations

2004-07-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
unless you really have a badly designed or misbehaving Win2k AD today, there is no reason for you to go through a migration with all the hassles involved (the hassles are worth it for consolidation and other reasons, but not to go from 2000 to 2003). So stick to an inplace upgrade and check out

RE: [ActiveDir] Redirecting Comps

2004-07-13 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
as far as I know, you have to be at 2003 domain functional level (native domain), since 2000 (or even NT4) DCs wouldn't know how to handle the redirection. /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Sonntag, 11. Juli 2004

RE: [ActiveDir] User changing account properties

2004-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
if this is normal or not really depends on the security you've set in your AD or on the objects. With the default permissions this doesn't work (i.e. would it not be normal), since a normal user can only edit specific attributes on his own account object (everything that's granted to be writable

RE: [ActiveDir] 2000 to 2003 Migrations

2004-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
that tells me what items are using old OS configurations versus new configurations and what I would have to do to correct them to the new configurations. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8

RE: [ActiveDir] Weird KB article

2004-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
maybe it's useful when you have problems with creating new users in either a child domain or it's parent domain ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2004 22:38 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming the Administrator account

2004-07-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
there's no issue renaming it - in 2003 you can actually disable it to make the environment more secure (but caution - this is the only account that doesn't get locked when you have configured a lockout threshold in your PW policy) /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Empty Group Lists

2004-07-21 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
sounds like groups with hidden group-memberships, where the Exchange store process kindly "screws-up" the ACLs of the groups for you = Exchange puts the ACEs in a non-canonical order, which basically allows an Allow ACE (for the Exchange Enterprise Server group) to be listed before the Deny

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming The Admin Account

2004-07-22 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Rocky - this thread is actually quite incredible - you're wandering from user and group names and object types to NTFS permission and nesting objects into groups, over to discussing SIDs and friendly names, and now you're talking about the visibility of memberships of groups in AD ;-) Also, I

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] NTFS Read-only Status

2004-07-25 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
first of all - are you sure you're a) talking about a volume (e.g. physical or logical disk?) that you want to mount on one box, or b) are you talking about a share with data, which you want to make available to others, but they should only read from it? if a), this is simply related to

RE: [ActiveDir] Apply GP to computer account or user account?

2004-07-26 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
really depends on your situation - if you always want the same user-policies to be applied to these machines, then you can live with a single GPO and configure it for loopback-processing. This will then apply the computer-policy part for the machine and will apply the user-policy part for any

RE: [ActiveDir] group structure -universal groups

2004-07-27 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yes, for DLs this would definitely be an issue - in a multi-domain forest be sure only to use UGs as DLs... (and DON'T nest GGs into the UGs). In a single domain forest it doesn't matter. /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony

RE: [ActiveDir] Batch Account Creation and Removal

2004-07-27 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
there are a lot of provisioning and sync-apps that can do this for you in a very automated fashion - search for "user provisioning" and you'll get lots of hits on google alternatively, you can leverage the new DS cmdline-tools from 2003 (DSADD, DSMOD etc.) and/or a couple of scripts that

RE: [ActiveDir] Accented characters in a CSVDE output

2004-07-28 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
it's not a CSVDE *problem* - it is the *solution* to keep the data transferrable via CSVDE... You'll find the same issue when trying to export address-fields which include carriage returns. you should be able to export the data in a readable format via normal LDAP queries e.g. via DSQUERY or

RE: [ActiveDir] w2k authoritative restore

2004-08-17 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
this would seem to contradict the concept of authoritative restore? that's because of everyone's notion of what you EXPECT an auth. restore to do and how it is being promised in trainings etc. = "Auth. Restore" will allow you to turn back the hands of time... But once you dig into it and

RE: [ActiveDir] w2k authoritative restore

2004-08-17 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
, and the link reference/membership was added post forest mode change, then we even auth restore restore references. That's sort of merging from the other angle. Cheers, Brett Shirley (msft) AD Dev On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Grillenmeier, Guido wrote: sounds like you need a forest (or full domain

RE: [ActiveDir] w2k authoritative restore

2004-08-17 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
USN for an attribute that has no data and which can be overwritten ?? GT - Original Message - From: Grillenmeier, Guido Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:57:32 +0200 To: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] w2k authoritative restore sounds like you need a forest (or full domain) recovery if you screw up

RE: [ActiveDir] w2k authoritative restore

2004-08-18 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
depths of AD but would you be able to expand on this concept of version number - it must relate somehow to replication which i thought to be based on USN's ? GT - Original Message - From: Grillenmeier, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:35:37 +0200 To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] DFS on Domain Controllers

2004-08-23 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: DFS on Domain Controllers there's nothing wrong with what you're doing - DCs can host DFS roots perfectly well and can contain link targets which point to shares on any server in your infrastructure.The one thing that you need to be aware of in this respect is that whoever manages the

RE: [ActiveDir] Joining Computers to a Domain

2004-08-24 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Hey Kevin - good to "read you" ;-) just want to add, that you, Edwin, need to differentiate where you want your non-admin user to place the computer account. The method given by Kevin is only applicable to add computers to the default computers container in the domain. Unless you're running

RE: [ActiveDir] File Replication Services

2004-08-24 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
The File Replication Service cannot replicate f:\users because it overlaps the replicating directory f:\users. are you trying to use a LOCAL drive as a link target in DFS and then replicate data from this to a local drive on some other server (via FRS)? you should always use UNC path's for

RE: [ActiveDir] admt2.0 permissioning

2004-08-24 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
actually, it all depends on how you run ADMT. Often you'd want to split the requirements between user/group migration and computer migration. The rules for migrating users and groups are: 1. for the PES (Password export server) to work, the account used to migrate the users must be a member of

RE: [ActiveDir] admt2.0 permissioning

2004-08-24 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] admt2.0 permissioning actually, it all depends on how you run ADMT. Often you'd want to split the requirements between user/group

RE: [ActiveDir] windows 2000 directory permissioning

2004-09-02 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Hello Graham - as always: it depends... and this is mostly about if you're in a single domain or multi-domain forest. in a single domain, the group-scope obviously doesn't matter - you can even nest groups of the same type to achieve any nesting, if you need it. Nesting still makes sense at

RE: [ActiveDir] Using CMD

2004-09-02 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
You actually did something - you just didn't see it: you switched the current directory for the C: drive to C:\directory. So if you'd switch to the drive (via c: [enter]) even after you typed the change directory command, you should be in C:\directory. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Sid Filtering will not disable

2004-09-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I have a new empty forest root (efr.something.com which is W2K3, brand new and I have not set a functional level yet, it's what it would be natively upon creation). That would be Win2000 mixed mode at the domain level (which doesn't support SID-History anyways) and Win2000 mode at the forest

RE: [ActiveDir] Raising of functional levels

2004-09-04 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
usually works like a charm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stockbrugger, Brian L.Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:09 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Raising of functional levels We are getting ready to raise the forest and domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Fun with Kerberos

2004-09-09 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
that's correct - even if you configure an additional UPN suffix for the forest (or for an OU) and assign this to an account when you create the account (e.g. via ADUC), every account will still have an implicit UPN suffix that is made up of his samAccountName + the domain-suffix of his AD domain.

RE: [ActiveDir] Fun with Kerberos

2004-09-10 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Fun with Kerberos Al, realize that the user accounts Guy is talking about are all in one forest - so the issue is not related to UPNs being unique accross more than one forest. They're just logging in from a machine in a different forest. I've already discussed

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