Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policy Utility?

2002-01-16 Thread Joe
Title: Group Policy Utility? I personally recommend Quest's (Fastlane) ActiveRoles tool. I am working with it now and it is awesome. - Original Message - From: Alexander, Phillip To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:22 PM Subject: RE:

[ActiveDir] Trust between forests

2002-04-23 Thread Joe
I have two forests that I need to create a trust relationship between. Do I have to do a zone transfer of their respective zones to gain name resolution to the other domain or do I need to create a lmhost record for the netbios name of the domain?? Also, there is a very tight firewall policy

[ActiveDir] Trust between forests

2002-04-29 Thread Joe
I posted this question a couple of days ago and received no responses. Hopefully someone today is familiar with the process. Thx again. I have two forests that I need to create a trust relationship between. Do I have to do a zone transfer of their respective zones to gain name resolution to

[ActiveDir] Where should DNS point? (Clarification)

2002-06-06 Thread Joe
address or to a different domain controller. Thx again, Joe - Original Message - From: Hayes, Shawn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:03 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Where should DNS point? Active Directory Sites and services, add subnets

[ActiveDir] NTDS.pat

2002-06-10 Thread Joe
Anyone know what the ntds.pat fileis used for? Located in the same directory as log file edb.log. Thx, Joe

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DNS: CNAME/Alias

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
of the name table though it has worked fine for me in the past on workstations and member/standalone servers. From: Pelle, Joe Subject: [ActiveDir] AD DNS: CNAME/Alias Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 02:28:15 -0700 Hello! You all have been very helpful

RE: [ActiveDir] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2000 Domain

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
with all of the certified drivers and antivirus software so we don't want anyone deploying anything on it because anything they deploy we know will have to be revisited and is a possible breeding ground of viri, worm's, and support issues with no escalation paths. Tough love I guess. joe

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Permissions

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
And you must be in native mode for the domain otherwise the domain local groups have the same scope as they do in NT4. Note that I think some of the other notes captured this but some security pickers do not correctly allow you to select domain local groups on member machines, the most notable

RE: [ActiveDir] Looking up all email addresses

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
cts at the very end of the run. SorryI didn't postscript code, shouldn't be hard to put it together though if you understand the concepts I am trying to propose. Should be a ton of stuff you can leverage at the script center or in microsoft.public.adsi.general that you can convert. joe -- www.jo

RE: [ActiveDir] Possibly OT - DFS vs 3rd party DR

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
Title: Message Rick was the distaste DFS or FRS? If FRS, I have to say that I too have not been as thrilled as one could possibly be and that is simply in terms of policy and netlogon share replication, I am shellshocked from it now. However it's all fixed in the next hotfix or SP though...

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2000 Domain

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
paths. Tough love I guess. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick KingslanSent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 7:24 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Installing Windows 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2000 Domain

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
love those tools. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick KingslanSent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:41 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers

RE: [ActiveDir] Possibly OT - DFS vs 3rd party DR

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
Title: Message Thought so. FRS always meant bad day when I had to change a GPO or something in netlogon share. Makes me itch every time I hear I have to make a change and this is simple stuff. I haven't had anything fail in a long time but then I haven't changed anything in a really long

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2000 Domain

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
and start arguing opinions because you know there is going to be some seriously good fighting. :o) joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick KingslanSent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:02 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2000 Domain

2003-06-11 Thread Joe
pretty hard. I also finally killed the midi's that everyone bitched about. I started seeing how much bandwidth those little things were taking up and decided I didn't like them that much either. eg Anyway, thanks for the welcome. Hopefully I can contribute my share. :o) joe -Original

[ActiveDir] Joeware Perl Script for showing AD ACL's

2003-06-12 Thread Joe
that touches it and I won't argue this point. You can do simple things simply and bigger things with a little more work and you don't have to keep going back to a book for objectclass references. Once simple webreference page will generally do the trick. Hope it is helpful. joe Usage

RE: [ActiveDir] Joeware Perl Script for showing AD ACL's

2003-06-12 Thread Joe
Title: Message Oh yeah I should have shown a sample output. Here is what it looks like with verbose option: F:\LAPTOP\F\Work\Office\pc\Dev\CMPACCperlchksec.pl dc=joehome,dc=com /verbose PerlChkSec V01.00.00pl Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) June 2002 Control : 33796

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2 000 Domain

2003-06-13 Thread Joe
to Windows 2 000 Domain Welcome, Joe. I am one of the biggest joeware leaches. On top of that, I get to brag that I know you personally :) Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I www.akomolafe.com www.iyaburo.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2 000 Domain

2003-06-13 Thread Joe
to Windows 2 000 Domain Deji, You've got that over a lot of MVPs. I've been waiting two years to meet Joe face to face - and the one function that I can't go to, he goes. Can he go to Summit? No Can he go to Win2k3 Server Launch? No I'm beginning to get a complex. Well, OK - I've

RE: [ActiveDir] Searching the AD

2003-06-13 Thread Joe
Title: Message I actually use adfind and do it from the command line. Adfind is a tool I wrote you will find at www.joeware.net on the free win32 tools page. C:\WINDOWSadfind -gc -b "" -f name=joe AdFind V01.12.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) May 2003 Using server

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Query Permission

2003-06-13 Thread Joe
: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Query Permission I have an LDAP query (see below and thanks Joe). Runs fine when _I_ run it under my account. When I put it into an SMTP event sink (Ex2K sp3) - I get zero results. I presume it's a permissions issue. How do I fix this intelligently

RE: [ActiveDir] Unlock and Password Reset Script

2003-06-13 Thread Joe
Title: Message Assume the account is always locked and write a 0 to lockoutTime attribute. That will force it unlocked. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond McClinnisSent: Friday, June 13, 2003 6:50 PMTo: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2 000 Domain

2003-06-13 Thread Joe
Well thanks for the compliment. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of deji Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Installing Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2 000 Domain Don't worry, Joe

RE: [ActiveDir] Unlock and Password Reset Script

2003-06-13 Thread Joe
Title: Message NOD Make sure you delegate WP for that attribute to the help desk folks via some group... -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave MillsSent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:47 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re:

RE: [ActiveDir] Updating pwdLastSet

2003-06-16 Thread Joe
Without hacking into LSASS this isn't possible except for being able to write a 0 or -1 which will set or clear the password must be changed on next logon flag. What you may consider doing is setting your test lab password policy to about 1 or 2 days and then you don't have to wait an exceedingly

RE: [ActiveDir] A number of NT4.0 to AD upgrade questions

2003-06-19 Thread Joe
and more unfeasible as it will involve rebuilding your DC's that have been migrated to W2K. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rick reynolds Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] A number

RE: [ActiveDir] A number of NT4.0 to AD upgrade questions

2003-06-19 Thread Joe
Define your troubles. My guess would would be name res issues because people start to forget about WINS once they move to AD and W2K Machines. I have tens of thousands of Win9x and NT4 clients and hundreds of NT4 Servers that are functioning well in a Native mode domain environments and have

RE: [ActiveDir] suggestions for OU delegation information sources

2003-06-19 Thread Joe
be set up to take advantage of things you know are set up in specific ways in your environment. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] suggestions for OU delegation information sources

2003-06-20 Thread Joe
are NOT EVEN gonna get this started again! Huh-uh! ;-D Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Thursday, June

RE: [ActiveDir] suggestions for OU delegation information sources

2003-06-20 Thread Joe
_on_ my desk or in the car, that's as high of a tribute as I can pay to any book. In all honesty, I must admit to being veyy envious of Rick and Joe who have already seen Robbie's new book. The rest of us mere mortals must wait till it's published. I knew I should have kissed up to Robbie at DEC

RE: [ActiveDir] suggestions for OU delegation information sources

2003-06-20 Thread Joe
. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] suggestions for OU delegation information sources Bob: I agree on the book

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Link to Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

2003-06-25 Thread Joe
Shawn, I didn't catch that drift personally from what people were saying. I saw the Premier announcement this morning myself and went onto the next email, didn't even think about clicking on the link. Most of your Premier customers are big customers and the chance that they are just going to go

RE: [ActiveDir] MS SharePoint Server

2003-06-27 Thread Joe
Title: Message You probably want to look at the microsoft.public.sharepoint.* and microsoft.public.sharepointportalserver.* newsgroups through your local News Server or news.microsoft.com for suggestions/help on that product. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-29 Thread Joe
the official IT and probably has more money to spend because it is all of these different pockets of business. They are slowly coming into the fold as we find them because they come to us because of some major failure they had but it is still pretty wild west. Thanks for the insights. joe

RE: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003

2003-06-29 Thread Joe
Active Directory. Enough of that though... joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn CorbettSent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 7:17 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] MMS 2003 and ADAM 2003 Rick, Agreed, VMware

RE: [ActiveDir] Acct about to expire?

2003-06-29 Thread Joe
You can check it from the command line with Net user userid /domain Or Getuserinfo domain\userid Getuserinfo you can find on the free win32 tools page of www.joeware.net Obviously you could script something as well. Ex: F:\Dev\cpp\CPAUnet user joe /domain The request will be processed

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP API

2003-06-29 Thread Joe
Programming by Gil Kirkpatrick. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reva S Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 6:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] LDAP API Hi, Does anyone know how to bind to RootDSE object of a server

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP API

2003-06-30 Thread Joe
the returned values or if you know specific ones you want pull them directly. Gil's book will walk you through this very simply and is a good reference. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reva S Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 6:21 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-04 Thread Joe
Title: Message How are they planning on doing those tests? If they just want to test the password complexity/strength it isn't required to give them a whole DC, only a hash dump of the password in the DIT which can be done via pwdump3. Then they can use lc3/4 to go through the text file

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DOS vulnerability

2003-07-04 Thread Joe
Also note that there is another D.O.S. capable bug that SP4 fixes if I recall correctly. It was something with referrals. Note that there are several things that can be done to W2K AD by a bright programmer with internal access who has had a chance to sit back and think about it that can hurt AD.

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Joe
check tools, it is hacking. Treat the admins accordingly. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Joe
Title: Message I agree 110%. But then thereall sorts of bad security ideas out in the field because that is the only way people know how to do certain things. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger SeielstadSent: Monday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-07 Thread Joe
calls though it would slow the program down a bit. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simpsen, Paul A. (HSC)Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:09 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline Hey Joe

[OT]: RE: [ActiveDir] Finding things in the AD Users/Computers

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message As it should be. All of the advanced view everything features should be enabled on servers and any workstations that get admin tools installed on them. I don't understand the MS thought to hide things from admin level users in the gui's and making them learn enough to turn

RE: [ActiveDir] what to do with DMZ servers

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
a script or unfortunately TS into a machine that is part of the domain in question. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pelle, JoeSent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:59 AMTo: ActiveDir ([EMAIL PROTECTED])Subject: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
computing resources. Have they placed any boundaries on how long they will plug away at the security database before declaring that a passwordis deemed to be secure enough? Glenn - Original Message - From: Joe To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesda

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
-Original Message-From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 2003 20:26To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline Check out unlock at www.joeware.net. Its free, its fast. Will display locked accounts or unlock them. Saves you the sc

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline nice tool Joe, but you should add a time filter. In an attack-scenario (be it hacker or auditors), you don't necessarily want to unlock all the locked accounts you find - instead you want to unlock the ones that were locked after a specific

RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
:-) Steve -Original Message-From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 July 2003 20:26To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Taking DC Offline Check out unlock at www.joeware.net. Its free, its fast. Will display locke

RE: [OT]: RE: [ActiveDir] Finding things in the AD Users/Computer s

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 8:08 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [OT]: RE: [ActiveDir] Finding things in the AD Users/Computers As it should be. All of the advanced view everything features should be enabled on servers and any

RE: [ActiveDir] Identity Management using AD

2003-07-10 Thread Joe
to keep the Identity portion in place. c) Nope - see D d)ADAM - Active Directory Application Mode. Synching available, greater level with MMS (MIIS??) multiple instances and truly designed for the application depository e) Joe is going to be the man to answer this - he's been doing

RE: [ActiveDir] Quick AD integrated DNS question :)

2003-07-14 Thread Joe
the data into the config or domain partitions. joe -Original Message- From: deji Agba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quick AD integrated DNS question :) Yes, you did

RE: [ActiveDir] Service pack 4 and DCs

2003-07-15 Thread Joe
over your core security (authentication/authorization) infrastructure. falls off soapbox I think if I had to sit in your shoes I would be relegating that admin to guest level access and giving him a 1MB email quota so he can't hurt himself as well as anyone else. good luck, joe

RE: [ActiveDir] Quick AD integrated DNS question :)

2003-07-15 Thread Joe
a few more. J -Original Message-From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:22 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quick AD integrated DNS question :) Hey Deji, slap a smiley face on that postor a disclaimer about sarcasm

RE: [ActiveDir] Quick AD integrated DNS question :)

2003-07-15 Thread Joe
for kicking off such a storm. My keyboard is now reprogrammed to detect and insert my smileys appropriately. So, Gil, it's MY BAD. Brian, I'm sorry. Thanks for the clarification and education, Joe. I know I can always count on you to get me out of a jam :). It made sense to call it a GC-Less config

RE: [ActiveDir] Service pack 4 and DCs

2003-07-15 Thread Joe
to leave... Ok. I feel better now. :) Thanks again! Jenn -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/15/2003 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Service pack 4 and DCs Jenn, I expect you will be ok. The biggest issue I can think of would

RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD

2003-07-16 Thread Joe
inherited perms for them. Heck while I'm at it... I want operatingSystemHotfix to be updated on computer objects automatically (and make it multivalued)or at least someone to publish the format it will be using when it is published so I can write something to do it in the meanwhile... As joe patche

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding machines to OU directly

2003-07-17 Thread Joe
Title: Message Alternatively reduce the value of ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota to zero. This is easily scripted if you have to manipulate more than one domain. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO

RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD

2003-07-17 Thread Joe
Title: Message Oops I missed that piece. TelephoneNumber is type 2.5.5.12 which is case insensitive unicode string. You need that because people want to put in () and -. unfortunately they can also add other letters/characters. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD

2003-07-18 Thread Joe
with business rules? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hazelman, DougSent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:29 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD Joe, There are plug third party tools

RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD

2003-07-18 Thread Joe
in AD Lock things down and only allow updates through interfaces with business rules. -doug From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 7:31 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD True to your

RE: [ActiveDir] Installation Priviledges only on a DC

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
Unfortunately this won't work for reasons discussed in other threads recently. The people who are domain admins will still be able to muck up AD. A lot of permissions granted to admins and domain admins in Active Directory is through direct explicit ACE's. Inherited DENY ACE's will bounce off of

RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
)...we couldn't justify the cost. -Original Message-From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:31 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Locking Down User Information Fields in AD True to your overall statement, if you lock

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Membership

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
Title: Message Nope, this is not possible. The granularity only extends to WP (write property) for the members attribute which does no verification of what you are writing so you could clear values or add new values. In order to do this you would need to set up some sort of proxy method

RE: [ActiveDir] Installation Priviledges only on a DC

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
permissions. (Now, Joe - what am I missing...?? ;0) ) Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List

RE: [ActiveDir] Duplicate group memberships

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
I would look at the SID History attribute on the accounts. Most likely you migrated the users with some tool that knows how to populate SID history and that is being resoved into group memberships. You can use ldp and I believe it will decode SIDHistory to readable SID's, if not you can use

RE: [ActiveDir] Installation Priviledges only on a DC

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Installation Priviledges only on a DC Yep - makes sense. But, I'll have to test this, as I'm not sure

RE: [ActiveDir] Default User Settings

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
of hundred thousand or million userids. Here is a quick example of finding users whom have been created since a fixed USN value: G:\joeware.netadfind -default -f "(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user)(usncreated=1163453)" usncreated AdFind V01.12.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Terminal Services Permissions

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
Errr check your admin group, who is listed there. Either everyone that is connecting to that box is an admin on that box or someone has modified your rdp permissions. I would most likely expect the former versus the latter. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Installation Priviledges only on a DC

2003-07-21 Thread Joe
/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Installation Priviledges only on a DC LOL. You kill me Rick... I haven't heard of anyone yet who has cracked

RE: [ActiveDir] slow guid resolution

2003-07-22 Thread Joe
First off, it is a SID translation not a GUID translation, retry your searches based on that as I'm sure that confused the matter. How many security principals do you have in the ACL chain? If it is greater than 6 or 7 you probably need to start looking at a better security structure utilizing

RE: [ActiveDir] Do you allow users to add computers to AD themselves?

2003-07-25 Thread Joe
. an OU only enterprise admins have access to and wipe the ACL on the server object and disable it. It prevents them from using it and reusing the name. Also if we find workstations not following the standards we jail them as well. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [ActiveDir] Do you allow users to add computers to AD themselves?

2003-07-26 Thread Joe
for doing it! :-D But, I still LIKE IT! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] Do you allow users to add computers to AD themselves?

2003-07-28 Thread Joe
I personally just recommend changing ms-ds-machineaccountquota. You can script the change so if dealing with multiple domains it is easy, plus you don't have to dork around with a GPO. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Users Logged In

2003-07-29 Thread Joe
connection to a given machine without a corresponding interactive logon will most likely not spawn a session on a DC. Here is an example of netsess run against one of my test DC's at home: F:\Dev\cpp\NetSessnetsess \\wserver1 NetSess V01.01.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) October 2002

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Do you allow users to add computers to AD themselves?

2003-07-29 Thread Joe
No offense taken, I'm not average. I'm one of the worst users you know. :oP Heh. Couldn't resist. Happy Tuesday. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 10:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin

2003-07-29 Thread Joe
You can do it with a computer start up script GPO option that executes a simple net localgroup command; it will work fine because that script executes as local system. The restricted groups GPO option will definitely overwrite though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-07-30 Thread Joe
By any chance is this product called PSYNC from MTEC? I have worked with them for a couple of years on various things, if so you can email me separately and we can chat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it isn't, consider it as they are doing a decent job now and I am sure there are some people who watch

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin

2003-07-30 Thread Joe
-on user, who does not have the privilege to add him/herself to the admin group - otherwise there would be no need for a script in the first place. bragging rights Finally found an interesting puzzle that will likely stump Joe :) /bragging rights Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
ill likely stump Joe :) /bragging rights Sincerely,Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+Iwww.akomolafe.comwww.iyaburo.comDo you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
Just install 812499 and get away from the whole silly notion of having to figure out which DC you need to do the set at. MS was silly for ever requiring that in the first place. -Original Message- From: deji Agba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Local Admin

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
. We have since done it the old-school way - sneakernet. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I www.akomolafe.com www.iyaburo.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Joe Sent: Wed 7/30/2003 2

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
Yes replication is USN based. However if you make a change to an attribute normally that is the same exact value, AD tricks you and responds to the request like it made the change but doesn't really update anything. I haven't tested that with the password fields but would expect that it works the

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
(on purpose !), so I'm hoping not to implement that feature. Dave -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs By any chance is this product called PSYNC from

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
Title: Message http://www.psynch.com/ The self-help reset stuff is very nice to have. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mayet, Yusuf YSent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:14 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] how to re-establish a w2k trust after offline for more than 60 days?

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] how to re-establish a w2k trust after offline for more than 60 days? Don't do it. Wipe the machine and manually remove from AD. You run the chance of resurrecting dead objects because

RE: [ActiveDir] Object Attribute replication priority

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
There are only a few pieces of critical security data that should replicate faster than a majority of the data and that really is only within a site unless you have enabled change notification between sites. Changes still queue up on bridgehead and replicate out to other sites through them during

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-07-31 Thread Joe
The changes are all passed immediately to the PDC FSMO holder (assuming the mastering DC can reach it) and then the changes replicate out from both places slowly converging around the domain. If you change on multiple domain controllers all of those would be passed to the PDC FSMO and then the

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-08-01 Thread Joe
it would be good to hear from Dave again as well. Thanks. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change

RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs

2003-08-01 Thread Joe
- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Simultaneous password change on multiple DCs Yes replication is USN based. However if you make a change to an attribute normally that is the same exact value, AD

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-07 Thread Joe
Yeah who needs comments for something like: while (1) {print Robbie Allen is cool\n}; snicker Love ya Robbie! joe P.S. For those who don't grok perl but recall BASIC 10 PRINT Robbie Allen is Cool 20 GOTO 10 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] Seeking some feedback ... use of 2003 Admin. tool s against a non-forest prep'd 2000 only directory ...

2003-08-08 Thread Joe
Title: Message OT but So the question is, are you that good! Dean is really really really really good. Not a fortune teller, but if it is all based on technology, he is the man. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] Password change issue

2003-08-08 Thread Joe
Get Q812499 or SP4. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carr, Jonathan (OFT) Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Password change issue OK here it is... PDC emulator at a central site

RE: [ActiveDir] Turn off account lockout feature on a account.

2003-08-09 Thread Joe
Title: Message I believe that is hard coded functionality as it does get locked out for network ops just not local interactive console logons. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger SeielstadSent: Friday, August 08, 2003 7:11

RE: [ActiveDir] Turn off account lockout feature on a account.

2003-08-10 Thread Joe
Title: Message Unfortunately this is not possible from anything I have ever seen. Be tricky and try to figure out how to make the service *safely* use the machine account (but not on a DC)... I don't think those can be locked out (though that is me guessing). -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] System Shutting Down

2003-08-10 Thread Joe
Try coming up in AD Restore Mode. If the problem is an AD problem it shouldn't reboot then because you will be in single user mode with AD off line. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sumilang Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:40 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify what got changed in a user's account?

2003-08-11 Thread Joe
1154 2001-03-24 00:15:461 dc Caching GUIDs. .. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] how to identify what got changed in a user's account

RE: [ActiveDir] os version

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
Check out gettype from the reskit. It will return a string and an errorlevel based on the OS. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Graham Turner Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] os

[ActiveDir] [OT] RPC DCOM WORM (MSBLASTER)

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
In case you been sleeping on the RPC DCOM hole (MS03-26), the time to patch was a couple of weeks ago, but if you still didn't... Duck... No actually patch! Now is not the time for your company to discover that a firewall doesn't protect all entrances to your network.

RE: [ActiveDir] Non-dictionary passwords

2003-08-14 Thread Joe
. There are some third party tools out there but I have never investigated them to see how good they are. Note that they tend to be licensed by both number of users and number of domain controllers because the DLL must be loaded on every DC. joe -Original Message-From: [EMAIL

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