Re: [ActiveDir] Terminal Server profile path in ADSIEDIT?

2004-06-02 Thread Steve Patrick
The terminal server profile is stored as part of the userParameters blob. This attribute is made of a number of other settings, not just terminal server specific ones.You can manipulate these settings via WTSSetUserConfig() BOOL WTSSetUserConfig( LPTSTR pServerName, LPTSTR pUserName,

Re: [ActiveDir] FRS errors

2004-06-02 Thread Steve Patrick
A few items to note. 1) This appears to be a domain based DFS root\link which is located at : d:\public\geos2 2) It also appears that you may be scanning d:\public\geos2 with some type of anti-virus solution, hence the event ID 13567, when the AV software checks these files, FRS is triggered and

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-02 Thread Steve Patrick
It is indeed NOT a good thing. I would not do this. FRS is not meant to replicate this type of dynamic data (profiles) you may experience data loss or perhaps FRS breakdowns (depending on size, number of files, and amount of change per file). Clarification on the data loss - this would not be

Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policy at the Site Level With Remote VPN Us ers - Wrong Site Applied

2004-06-02 Thread Steve Patrick
Title: [ActiveDir] Group Policy at the Site Level With Remote VPN Users - Wrong Site Applied See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816045 - Original Message - From: Jeff Salisbury To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:32 PM Subject: RE:

Re: [ActiveDir] event logs

2004-06-03 Thread Steve Patrick
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8cde4028-e247-45be-bab9-ac851fc166a4DisplayLang=en or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824209Product=winsvr2003 you may want to look at these.. -steve - Original Message - From: Kern, Tom [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] Tracking the machine from which user logs in

2004-06-06 Thread Steve Patrick
There is also an app called CConnect - or concurrent connections. This requires a SQL backend (or msde I suppose) but the next version will use NDNC's if I recall. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=237282 -steve - Original Message - From: Eric Fleischman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Very OT

2004-06-07 Thread Steve Patrick
Here is a (cheap hack) way: copy the text below to a script: ' set events = getobject(winmgmts:\\.).ExecNotificationQuery(select * from __instancedeletionevent within 2 where targetinstance isa 'win32_process' and targetinstance.name =

Re: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Patrick
If you simply want: Same users\groups Same OU structure Same GPO's I highly suggest you look at GPMC (group policy mgmt console) scripts... CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf -steve - Original Message - From: Glenn Corbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] NTDS Replication Problems

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Patrick
Do you have the full text for the 12294 error? The error data may be of interest here. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 8:57 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] NTDS Replication Problems Here is something

Re: [ActiveDir] Security

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Patrick
How does this one relate specifically to restricted groups? This applies to a whole slew of items.. the worst offender IMO being a hub and spoke topo with file system permissions being pushed down to sysvol or dfs link\root which is replicated. -steve - Original Message - From: joe

Re: [ActiveDir] AD domain changes

2004-06-22 Thread Steve Patrick
Title: Message Windows Server 2003 - if you are at forest functionality level 2, will allow a domain rename. That may be a reason to move.. is that what you are asking? - Original Message - From: Ken Rinehart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Re: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restores

2004-07-06 Thread Steve Patrick
I may be a bit off here on the scenario thought i'd comment. 1. You can do an Auth restore without a non-auth restore in Simon's scenario. 2. If this is Win2k3 you could optionally re-animate the object from the deleted items, and we retain the SID as well as a few other key (relative) attributes

Re: [ActiveDir] Having Activer Directory server set time on workstations

2004-07-06 Thread Steve Patrick
On the wildly off chance that you are running XP RTM - also see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320258 - Original Message - From: Bob Free [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Having Activer

Re: [ActiveDir] disable_outbound_repl

2004-07-07 Thread Steve Patrick
DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL will just refuse the sync request. If you want it to override it you can use /force option. - Original Message - From: Graham Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:59 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] disable_outbound_repl just

Re: [ActiveDir] disable_outbound_repl

2004-07-09 Thread Steve Patrick
seems to disable intrasite in my test... repadmin running command /options against server Criscolablpr06.Stevechild.Stevedom.Stevedns.Criscolab Current DC Options: DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL --- Replicate Now --- The following error occurred during

Re: [ActiveDir] Redirecting Comps

2004-07-11 Thread Steve Patrick
in 2003 you can use redircmp.exe or redirusr.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32redircmp.exe /? Usage: redircmp CONTAINER-DN where CONTAINER-DN is the distinguished name of the container that will become the default location for newly created computer objects Note: The domain functional

Re: [ActiveDir] Redirecting Comps

2004-07-11 Thread Steve Patrick
aware of this. I'm trying to figure understand if the manual change will work in 2k domains/dcs. --Brian -Original Message- From: Steve Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 7/11/2004 1:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Redirecting Comps in 2003 you can

Re: [ActiveDir] Share creation permissions

2004-07-16 Thread Steve Patrick
You can indeed have a user be a power user - or even an admin, and remove the ability to create shares. Bruce already pointed out, if they are not power users or admins then they already cannot create file\print shares. There is a registry value called SrvsvcShareFileInfo under

Re: [ActiveDir] Share creation permissions

2004-07-17 Thread Steve Patrick
a generic SD modifer tool, you point at the binary store and it yanks out the value and displays it or modifies it. I may actually make, inshock a gui! /inshock. :o) joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Patrick Sent: Friday, July

Re: [ActiveDir] W2K DC Performance - ADC Failure

2004-08-07 Thread Steve Patrick
Have you investigated why your DIT is over 20 gigs? IMO this is abnormal for MOST orgs.. -steve - Original Message - From: Eric Fleischman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:28 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] W2K DC Performance - ADC Failure Ok if

Re: [ActiveDir] unable to generate ssl cert

2004-08-23 Thread Steve Patrick
Can you elaborate on the sentence: " But a few days ago, I had to reinstall my AD exchange server due to AD crash. After that, I was unable to generate ssl cert." Was the Certificate Server installed prior or after that event? I assume you installed an Enterprise CA - please correct me

Re: [ActiveDir] One of our DCs is requesting a client cert on SSL/LDAP connections

2004-08-26 Thread Steve Patrick
Can you enable Schannel logs per http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;260729and then make the app and system logs available? -steve - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:09 PM

Re: [ActiveDir] Large-scale Location Tracking

2004-08-28 Thread Steve Patrick
Hi Eric You can get client site information from nltest.exe: C:\nltest /DSGETSITEotherThe command completed successfully You could call DsGetSiteName() directly as well. You can also parse the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters

Re: [ActiveDir] DC DNS Suffix does not match Domain's DNS Suffix

2004-08-28 Thread Steve Patrick
Hi Tim, Allow me to summarize and see if we are on the same page :) AD domain name: childdomain.domain.com Primary DNS suffix for DC1 and DC2: domain.com Out of curiousity - is there an AD domain called "domain.com"? I assume that at some point "... a number of years ago" someone

Re: [ActiveDir] Deleted computer account

2004-08-28 Thread Steve Patrick
Not a great situation there, if it were me I would probably back my CA services, DB, logs, registry and key(s) - then uninstall the service. Disjoin the machine , rejoin - reinstall cert services and follow procedures like: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;Q298138 my

Re: [ActiveDir] DC DNS Suffix does not match Domain's DNS Suffix

2004-08-29 Thread Steve Patrick
input. Tim From: Steve Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 11:04 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] DC DNS Suffix does not match Domain's DNS Suffix Hi Tim, Allow me to summarize and see if we

Re: [ActiveDir] ACL Attribute

2004-08-29 Thread Steve Patrick
Hi Brian Be careful about adding acls to the domain head like this - it can result in a large increase to the size of your database (in Win2k - 2k3 fixes this via an improved single instance store) As for your how to... Go to the domain head - properties, security. Go to Advanced, click ADD

Re: [ActiveDir] Loading Drivers

2004-10-04 Thread Steve Patrick
In XP Sp2 there is a reg key to prevent USB drives IN A LIMITED SCENARIO from loading... This is NOT a GPO but you can push it via GPO\ADM etc.. ( tattoo) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control \StorageDevicePolicies Data Type: DWORDValue Name: WriteProtectValue: 1 Also

Re: [ActiveDir] sysvol problems

2004-10-31 Thread Steve Patrick
Dunno if this is still a problem for you - but if it is: Given that SYSVOL is really just a dfs root - is the DFS service running on the DC? If this were me I would: Install Etherreal on a client (free net sniffer) Run ipconfig /flushdns Run klist purge - say yes to purge all tickets Start the

Re: [ActiveDir] DHCP

2005-01-03 Thread Steve Patrick
If you are only concerned about the RSL - does it help to know that in XP and greater this isnt an issue? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292726 steve - Original Message - From: Brett Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday,

Re: [ActiveDir] Deploying certificate using group policy

2005-01-20 Thread Steve Patrick
Hi In order to deploy user certificates (versus machine) you need to use a Win2k3 CA. It is not clear from your mail which type you need to deploy, user versus machine, so I just thought I would mention it. steve - Original Message - From: Halonen Sami [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Exclude a specific user (or group) from a GPO (WMI Filter?)

2005-02-08 Thread Steve Patrick
For users\groups you can use a security filter as opposed to a WMI filter. see http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/Default.asp?url=""> steve patrick - Original Message - From: Jason B To: ActiveDir@mail.

Re: [ActiveDir] Problem using Certificates to connect to AD machine

2005-02-28 Thread Steve Patrick
If you installed the CA on the PDC then did you install it as an Enterprise CA? If this is a production environment you should reallyunderstand the PKIneeds for your company currently, andany future plans. In a nutshell you need a Domain Controller certor Server Auth cert on the DCwith the

Re: [ActiveDir] SYSVOL Question

2005-03-15 Thread Steve Patrick
See http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_dfs_how.asp for info and controlling it in 2k3 In windows 2000 you can use

Re: [ActiveDir] Accounts disappearing from AD

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Patrick
Just a note - you can find the where the object was deleted from in 2k or 2k3 by looking at the metadata via repadmin /showmeta on the deleted object. You can pass it the objectGuid had via looking at the deleted object. If you had auditing cranked up for AD then you should be able to hit

Re: [ActiveDir] Display Specifiers

2005-04-02 Thread Steve Patrick
There is sample code in the PSDK - Original Message - From: IAN FRASER To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:03 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] Display Specifiers Hi I''ve knocked together a few custom scripts to against a

Re: [ActiveDir] 2003 SP1 RTM

2005-04-02 Thread Steve Patrick
#16 Looks like this has been around since early 2004 ( i dont have a non SP1 2003 DC to test on right now) Basically you set the first bit on the flags attribute of the Display Specifiers object - cn=Display Specifiers,cn=Configuration etc... and then it will disable drag and drop. #15 - You

Re: [ActiveDir] Display Specifiers

2005-04-02 Thread Steve Patrick
HA! My email was sorted backwards in date.,. sorry bout this. steve - Original Message - From: Steve Patrick To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Display Specifiers There is sample code

Re: [ActiveDir] Dont understand AD certificate mapping very well

2005-04-03 Thread Steve Patrick
correct. Your first case uses implicit mapping - it requires the UPN of the user match the AltSubjectName in the cert. Your 2nd and 3rd case are correct as well. Here are some more links for you: Step-by-Step Guide to Mapping Certificates to User

Re: [ActiveDir] User privilege on Server.

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Patrick
SC.EXE can reset the perms on the SCM See http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2005/05/20/420624.aspx C:\sc sdshow scmanager This is SP1 info D:(A;;CC;;;AU)(A;;CCLCRPRC;;;IU)(A;;CCLCRPRC;;;SU)(A;;CCLCRPWPRC;;;SY)(A;;KA ;;;BA)S:(AU;FA;KA;;;WD)(AU;OIIOFA;GA;;;WD) This is the RTM info:

Re: [ActiveDir] DCPROMO over a 128\256K line

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Patrick
Curious.What kind of pruning are you talking about? steve - Original Message - From: Dean Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Send - AD mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:11 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DCPROMO over a 128\256K line The pruning is undocumented

Re: [ActiveDir] ESE Perf Mon problems

2005-06-14 Thread Steve Patrick
Did you verify that you had proper settings under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ESENT\Performance Perhaps export the key and paste it in here? steve - Original Message - From: WILLIAMS, J.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [ActiveDir] ESE Perf Mon problems

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Patrick
Message- From: Steve Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] ESE Perf Mon problems Did you verify that you had proper settings under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ESENT\Performance

Re: [ActiveDir] ESE Perf Mon problems

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Patrick
counter info) lodctr %systemroot%\system32\esentprf.ini steve - Original Message - From: Steve Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] ESE Perf Mon problems remove the value for Disable Performance

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Missing Offline Files

2005-06-21 Thread Steve Patrick
Be careful here as you have possible data loss - I suggest contacting PSS as there is some experience with this situation and you may be able to recover the data from the CSC info you mentioned. If I recall they were adding some switches to CSCUtil to deal with this. my .02 steve -

Re: [ActiveDir] The Administrator Certificate Template could not be loaded. Element not found.

2005-06-21 Thread Steve Patrick
A few questions: 1. The Enterprise CA is running on 2003 Sp1 - is this 2003 Standard or Enterprise editions OS? 2. When you open the MMC for cert templates - do you see the templates available? 3. If you run this cmd: certutil -template what is the output? 4. If you run certutil -config

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain Policy Issues

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Patrick
What OS and what Service pack are all DC's at? steve - Original Message - From: Devan Pala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Default Domain Policy Issues Hi all, After making changes to the Password Policy

Re: [ActiveDir] FRSDiag - EPT_S_NOT_REGISTERED

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Patrick
So even though you are replicating fine both ways and you don't see any real problem - you want to open a PSS case for this error in a debug log? Is this a consistent error in your FRS logs or was it a one time error? I dunno - just seems kinda silly to me to tshoot something which may have been a

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain Policy Issues

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Patrick
Sonar and Ultrasound may indeed tell you everything is OK - since FRS is actually doing its job (replicating the data back in properly) However you could have enough latency in site replication where something (like the AD in some cases) is causing the file to be replicated back out towards the

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain Policy Issues

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Patrick
One more thing - since you are on Win2k you might as well make sure you are on the latest Win2k FRS version - which is 896712 (youll need to call into PSS to get this one) steve - Original Message - From: Steve Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain Policy Issues

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Patrick
in the domain. I'm hoping this will work, already put in a change for bouncing all DC's tonight. Then put up a case for recovering the cost for the call. Will keep you posted. Thanks, Devan. Original Message Follows From: Steve Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ActiveDir

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

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Patrick
Of Steve Patrick Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 2:12 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] How to find creator of computer account? You may want to test setting this policy on the DC's Computer Configuration \ Windows Settings \ Local Policies \ Security Option

Re: [ActiveDir] Replicating AD

2005-08-03 Thread Steve Patrick
Ha! Nice response... On another note - GPMC has built in APIs for this and there is a script included with it that will export your OU,groups and users as well as GPO's of course, to an XML file and then you can use that to reimport. I cant recall the name of it right now.. something about

Re: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes

2005-08-04 Thread Steve Patrick
Check out Dsrevoke.exe: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=77744807-c403-4bda-b0e4-c2093b8d6383DisplayLang=en From the docs and stuff.. Dsrevoke is a command-line tool that can be used on domain controllers that are running Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server

Re: [ActiveDir] Task scheduler

2005-08-12 Thread Steve Patrick
In the Scheduled Tasks UI - goto Advanced and view log what shows up? steve - Original Message - From: Cothern Jeff D. Team EITC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:30 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Task scheduler Nothing is showing up in

Re: [ActiveDir] OMG, the most aweful ESE event info ever!!! ...

2005-08-19 Thread steve patrick
Sorry about the name - I just setup my new computer and email last night - not trying to mask myself or anything. steve patrick - Original Message - From: me [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OMG

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Top running processes?

2005-09-07 Thread steve patrick
If the target is XP+ something like: wmic /output:data.htm path Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process GET PercentProcessorTime,NAME /FORMAT:htable.xsl start data.htm Might work for you - you can even target machines remotely with the /NODE switch. Leave off the /format param if you

Re: [ActiveDir] Offline Files Question

2005-09-08 Thread steve patrick
This is by design (albeit bad IMO) IIRC this wont occur if 3 or fewer profiles sync , due to design. steve - Original Message - From: Noah Eiger To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Offline Files

Re: [ActiveDir] Offline Files Question

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Patrick
://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811660 steve patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] st.netTo Sent by: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: TS Security Warning and GPO

2005-09-25 Thread Steve Patrick
perhaps the following reg key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Non-Driver Signing steve - Original Message - From: Creamer, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 6:52 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: TS Security Warning and GPO We

Re: [ActiveDir] Maximum distinguished name length?

2005-09-29 Thread Steve Patrick
There is no hardcoded limitation on DN - there is a max 255 RDN length. steve - Original Message - From: Chuck Chopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:47 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Maximum distinguished name length? Looking at the

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread steve patrick
This is definitely an upgradeable component. Can you gather the following data: certutil -dstemplate dstemplate.txt certutil -ds ds.txt And make them available ( or email them to me ) thanks steve - Original Message - From: Harding, Devon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED**

2005-11-11 Thread steve patrick
Depends - If the backup was made on a DC which was the CA - and it is a System State backup ( recommended method for CA's ) then Yes If the backup was made on a DC which was the CA - and it is the CA database and key(s) then no. If the backup was made on a member server CA - no. BTW here

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED**

2005-11-11 Thread steve patrick
clarification added to my Yes and No answers... - Original Message - From: steve patrick To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED** Depends - If the backup

Re: [ActiveDir] User accounts getting locked out..

2005-11-16 Thread steve patrick
 for starters - check out: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/security/bpactlck.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7AF2E69C-91F3-4E63-8629-B999ADDE0B9Edisplaylang=en steve - Original Message - From:

Re: [ActiveDir] FRSInlog

2005-11-26 Thread steve patrick
The inlog is the inbound change orders. It would help to know what the actual error was.. steve - Original Message - From: Rick Kingslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 6:51 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FRSInlog Both of the

Re: [ActiveDir] Active Dir web based management

2005-12-17 Thread steve patrick
There was an older package from MS which was free- noted here: http://weblogs.asp.net/conrad/archive/2003/12/29/46329.aspx If you want a copy of it ( no guarantees warranties blah blah..) I can send it to you, it may be a good place to start and you can modify it to suit your needs. steve

Re: [ActiveDir] Active Dir web based management

2005-12-19 Thread steve patrick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve patrick Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 12:36 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Active Dir web based management There was an older package from MS which was free- noted here: http

Re: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-02 Thread steve patrick
If you really want to test the smartcard dealy, I built a whole lab around smartcards and VPC , just have to TS to the client using RDP and SC redir. But, I too wish VPC had true USB ports.. steve - Original Message - From: joe To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Generating EFS Recovery Certificate

2006-01-05 Thread steve patrick
Title: [OT] Generating EFS Recovery Certificate You can use an MS Ent CA to do this ( just copy and edit the V2template) .. or youshould be able to specify the OID "1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.3.4.1 " in your call to CryptEncodeObject to create one. Optionally, you can try makecert.exe ( but I have

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Encrypting shared folders

2006-01-24 Thread steve patrick
Just a note: Specific to EFS built in to the OS: You dont have to have AD integrated CA's to do this, but the Server hosting the file share must be trusted for delegation. There are a number of 'gotchas' in this scenario and it is difficult to track all the crypto keys involved. If you plan

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Encrypting shared folders

2006-01-25 Thread steve patrick
Interesting viewpoint Joe, Care to expand on this specific to EFS? steve - Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 6:22 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Encrypting shared folders One good need for this is to

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Encrypting shared folders

2006-01-25 Thread steve patrick
- 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of steve patrick Sent: Wed 1/25/2006 10:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Encrypting shared folders Interesting viewpoint Joe, Care to expand on this specific to EFS? steve

Re: [ActiveDir] IIS 6.0 LDAP Auth

2006-02-23 Thread steve patrick
Take a look here: http://www.inflectioncorp.com/downloads.html spat - Original Message - From: Lev Zdenek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:10 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6.0 LDAP Auth I would like to auth. users access to

Re: [ActiveDir] [ABUSE] - WAS: Perform gpupdate, start or shut downs through ADUC

2006-04-21 Thread steve patrick
Seems fair enough to me, its a free tool right? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:43 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] [ABUSE] - WAS: Perform gpupdate, start or shut downs through ADUC Tony, When did you relax the

Re: [ActiveDir] Remotely Migrating Machines

2006-05-04 Thread steve patrick
If these are XP clients - check out WMI and JoinDomainOrWorkgroup method - I *think* this will work for you ( specifically in the case where the domain it is currently joined to is no longer available) but I havent tested this... steve - Original Message - From: joe

Re: [ActiveDir] Trust for delegation error

2006-05-05 Thread steve patrick
Can you expand on this statement? I have already applied an instrution to change local user rights This should be enabled by default in the Domain Controller policy -- Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation +r Administrators. Make sure the you have the user right

Re: [ActiveDir] New DC can't find the machine account

2006-05-31 Thread steve patrick
A bit confused here... you said: All that I see in there is netlogon pausing. and then DFS and netlogon are both running. thanks! steve - Original Message - From: Al Lilianstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:03 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [ActiveDir] New DC can't find the machine account

2006-05-31 Thread steve patrick
So after you boot and wait for a bit- if you run gpudate /force , it comes back successful yes? And netlogon is only paused for a time. Do the DC's point to themselves for DNS? If so - you probably are hitting the behavior where we have some delay due to waiting for an initial AD sync... Im

Re: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain

2006-06-01 Thread steve patrick
 Check out USMT 2.6.1 - free download - it is scriptable. steve - Original Message - From: Al Mulnick To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain Suggestions? More

Re: [ActiveDir] Service time-out

2006-06-27 Thread steve patrick
You can try http://support.microsoft.com/?id=824344 How to debug Windows services Specifically the section: When a service starts, the service communicates to the Service Control Manager how long the service must have to start (the time-out period for the service). If the Service Control

Re: [ActiveDir] Unable to reset SC for Multiple Computer Accounts

2006-06-29 Thread steve patrick
I can think of 2 things that may help - 1 is the netlogon log - and 2 is a network sniff from the client during the "nltest /sc_query:domain" The netlogon log may simply show the denieds but - it may shows something else which may be useful as well. steve - Original Message -

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-11 Thread steve patrick
You cannot move from 2000 to 2003 as the database has changed. You could upgrade to 2k3 ( this would be temporary ) and then move to another 2k3 server. I know that you said that the HW was old - but perhaps a temporary sloow 2k3 machine? You should keep the hostname the same - if

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-11 Thread steve patrick
One morepoint - you dont have to have the CA on a DC just wanted to make sure you knew this. So, in the future ,you dont have to worry about removing\moving the CA in order to upgrade DC's steve - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-13 Thread steve patrick
Please run "certutil -ds cert-ds.txt" and sendus ( or me ) the text file. steve - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:42 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread steve patrick
 - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:29 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority Hi Laura, Indeed, I have moved the CA to a new server of the same name using

Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread steve patrick
Title: Group Policy won't rerun a few random ideas - not having any idea where the problem really lies... You can gather some basic app deployment extensionlogs - see q249621 You can make sure you check the event logs for any related userenv \ related errors You can enable MSI logging ( if

Re: [ActiveDir] Secure LDAP queries from the outside

2006-08-22 Thread steve patrick
You cannot remove a CDP extension from a specific template - it is configured for all certs issued from the issuing CA. If he plans to have clients from outside his network access the DC's of LDAPS - he should reconfigure the CA to include a CDP which is available outside of his network.

Re: [ActiveDir] Rid Master

2006-09-04 Thread steve patrick
 For more info see: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305475 stuff like: RidNextRid DN Path: CN=Rid Set,Cn=computername,ou=domain controllers,DC=domain,DC=COM The RID that is assigned to next security principal that is created on the local domain

Re: [ActiveDir] Reset Password GUI Issue

2006-09-28 Thread steve patrick
try this; http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832481/ User must change password at next logon check box is unavailable - Original Message - From: Steve Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'ActiveDir.org' ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:44 PM Subject:

Re: [ActiveDir] DC crashing / LSASS -- memory leak

2006-11-05 Thread steve patrick
If you have the data I can help now... It sounds like there is a mixup - or miscommunication, is this lsa crashing or a memory leak? Data collection will differ depending on which. steve - Original Message - From: Lucas, Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Script or utility to dump certificates on a remote server?

2006-11-29 Thread steve patrick
Certutil can do this like so: certutil -store \\mymachine\MY or you can use a capimon script and CAPICOM.Store or you can call CertOpenStore see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccrypto/security/system_store_locations.asp System store locations are opened

Re: [ActiveDir] Delegate VPN rights

2006-11-30 Thread steve patrick
Keep in mind that this is only via the ADUC UI - since you have already delegated this to the user you can use ldp\script etc.. to set the msNPAllowDialin == true. It should reflect properly in ADUC when you next view that user.. spat - Original Message - From: Ulf B.

Re: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation

2006-12-29 Thread steve patrick
Hi Ken Based on your mail you seem to have the following setup: F1 F2 | | M1--- ISA--- IIS---AppServer UserA UserA logs on to M1 and hits the IIS Server which needs to access AppServer

Re: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation

2006-12-29 Thread steve patrick
: steve patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation Hi Ken Based on your mail you seem to have the following setup: F1 F2

Re: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation

2007-01-01 Thread steve patrick
- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve patrick : Sent: Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:11 AM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation : : Wow that turned out ugly didnt it? : : Basically it should

Re: [ActiveDir] I thought we weren't supposed to be doing GP editing stuff on DCs in the first place?

2007-01-05 Thread steve patrick
They mean that you should focus the GP mgmt tools on the PDC ( which is the default config IIRC ) steve - Original Message - From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:25 PM Subject: