[NTSysADM] RE: Reset KRBTGT account password.

2015-02-13 Thread Free, Bob
Nice. Thanks Also be aware there are potential issues with invalidating kerb tix on 3rd party OS integrations such as *NIX. Before you do this (or raise to 2008 FL which will do it for you) you should account for non-MS OS's in your environment For Windows Servers and Clients this should

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Domain Server down

2015-01-20 Thread Free, Bob
It’s has to do with what tool you use, not the FL. When you use Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) or the Active Directory Users and Computers console (Dsa.msc) that is included with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to delete a domain controller computer account from the

RE: [NTSysADM] Because life just isn't difficult enough yet...

2015-01-13 Thread Free, Bob
You really clicked on that link? Time to wash your hands. lol -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Richard McClary Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:47 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM]

RE: [NTSysADM] Did you think your KeePass Master Passwords were safe? PWSafe follow up

2014-12-12 Thread Free, Bob
There are other considerations besides the recent revelations about recovery tools being discussed in this thread... http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/citadel-attackers-aim-to-steal-victims-master-passwords/ The

RE: [NTSysADM] Backing up Active Directory

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
Standard guidance is at least 2 DCs from each Domain in the forest. There are a number of resources on TechNet including a detailed whitepaper that can be used as a basis for planning and testing. Basics- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771290(v=ws.10).aspx Also-

RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel update?

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
Disclaimer: This is all YMMV, Caveat emptor but I thought I'd share what I dug up. --As I was preparing to send I see the bulletin has been re-released as expected so much of this is likely moot. My understanding is that at least one of the roots of the root of the problem is the new cipher

RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel update?

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
2992611 for more information. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:03 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel update? Disclaimer

RE: [NTSysADM] Problems with the schannel update?

2014-11-18 Thread Free, Bob
. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:03 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM

RE: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
Passwords can go in a vaulting solution and have all kinds of rigor wrapped around them. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Matthew W. Ross Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 9:13 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM]

Re: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
? -- Espi On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: Passwords can go in a vaulting solution and have all kinds of rigor wrapped around them. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad

Re: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
this solution? :-P -- Espi On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CFF909.47BB68C0] From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution?

2014-11-05 Thread Free, Bob
...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 6:01 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Has anyone implemented this solution? OTOH, I have found the entire thread invigorating

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-10 Thread Free, Bob
There are multiple options for LastPass including standalone and MFA. I found it was a lot more flexible for personal use. YMMV. They also don't store your passwords in the cloud, read up on the cryptography involved if interested. I repeat- Not a substitute for a full blown on-prem password

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-10 Thread Free, Bob
LOL indeed :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lum Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:00 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management LOL -I store mine in Keepass...on my OneDrive.

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-10 Thread Free, Bob
If folks are interested in some of the capabilities of various commercial offerings, this is a good start for an overview of the playing field http://www.scmagazine.com/password-management/products/81/0/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [NTSysADM] Windows Service account management

2014-10-09 Thread Free, Bob
LastPass runs on all of those platforms and my Kindle :-D Actually I can't vouch for WP because I don't have one but it's supported and it does run just fine on my RT tablet. Also has a level of enterprise support secure password sharing facility. Not a substitute for a full blown on-prem

[NTSysADM] RE: #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow

2014-09-30 Thread Free, Bob
heh, I remember when W2K was called windowsnext before all these goofy hashtag thingamajigs :-D From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:00 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject:

Re: [NTSysADM] #windowsnext is the hashtag to follow

2014-09-30 Thread Free, Bob
You can *sort of* follow here- http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-windows-9-event-live-blog/ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:01 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [spam]

Re: [NTSysADM] Re: Re: Win 2012R@ RDS, Group Policy and folder redirection errors - MORE INFO

2014-09-19 Thread Free, Bob
LOL. I use loopback processing as an interview questionbecause it's so hard to describe properly :-) I've always used loopback as an interview question because it is very easy to describe succinctly *if* you understand it. Same result I guess :-D -Original Message- From:

RE: [NTSysADM] Re: Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
Indeed® Every AD should be designed such that the boss should never have write access to anything important. ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 8:02 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
...@gmail.commailto:oozerd...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:27:16 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: You should

[NTSysADM] The LOL tool

2014-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
This made me LOL he goal of this post is to discuss what causes lingering objects and show you how to download, and then use the new GUI-based Lingering Object Liquidator (LOL) tool to remove them.

RE: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-16 Thread Free, Bob
You should get rid of the manual COs.. (including automatically created objects that have been modified). The KDC won’t manage them. A manual object means you know something the KDC doesn’t which isn’t often the case. Sometimes it’s necessary to create them in a pinch but you should always go

RE: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times

2014-09-16 Thread Free, Bob
Of Michael Leone Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:27 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Confused about domain replication times On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: You should get rid

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-29 Thread Free, Bob
+n Fruitless web search BTW :-D -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 8:59 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-29 Thread Free, Bob
=8c8b6a632be04d9566cc57beff2b2f8c883770e8d6f014b9f475d403a02d385e Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market... On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: +n Fruitless web search BTW :-D -Original

Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Free, Bob
Microsoft's documentation on this is not as good as it could be When I wanted to learn and understand this stuff back in the NT days, I went straight to the Custer(Russinovich)(Solomon book). I have quite a stack of them now. The knowledge within is not available anywhere else in such a

RE: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it

2014-08-28 Thread Free, Bob
principles were best outlined in the original book and provide a lot of context you don't otherwise get. -sc -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 7:00 PM To: ntsysadm

RE: [NTSysADM] Setting auditing in local security policy

2014-08-08 Thread Free, Bob
Modeling isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, actually, it’s really an epic fail IME. Only thing that is truly authoritative is auditpol. I’ve experienced situations where well-intentioned people messed around in 3 or 4 places not understanding all the subtleties and had the system so royally

RE: [NTSysADM] Setting auditing in local security policy

2014-08-08 Thread Free, Bob
auditing in local security policy Can’t be “Commandments” if there aren’t 10 of them. ☺ Thanks for this, Bob! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 1:57 PM To: ntsysadm

RE: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-29 Thread Free, Bob
2 telephone handsets, 4 alligator clips, couple feet of test lead to wire them up, a 9v battery and a pair of wires...or 1 wire and a common ground. Very handy for all sorts of things. I still have a very old pair in my garage. We used to call it a poor-mans-buttinski :) If you guys were real

RE: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-29 Thread Free, Bob
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:49 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? (UNCLASSIFIED) 2 telephone handsets, 4 alligator clips, couple feet of test lead to wire them up, a 9v battery and a pair

RE: [NTSysADM] Consolidating odd-ball fileservers

2014-07-25 Thread Free, Bob
Check the archive for yesterday hmmm, pondering the meaning of archive ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 11:52 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Consolidating

[NTSysADM] RE: 2012 shares?

2014-07-24 Thread Free, Bob
This trick is also part of the supported method to safely rename a domain controller, which is how I learned it in the first place. Supported but not recommended according to my DSE. YMMV I had done it in the past (2K3) and was contemplating doing it again and he asked around internally and

[NTSysADM] RE: 2012 shares?

2014-07-24 Thread Free, Bob
checking you are throttled to SMB1. So I'm very appreciative. And yes, I've done some testing on it now and read up on it. In the toolbag. :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, July 24

RE: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you've heard already...

2014-07-22 Thread Free, Bob
Conversation dear to my heart since the DEC/TEC conference I attended for 10+ years was doomed when Dell absorbed Quest a couple years ago because they didn’t “see it as being worth the expense” It was extremely well supported by MS and the MVP community and was starting to stretch out nicely

RE: [NTSysADM] For any of you router jockey's out there...

2014-07-16 Thread Free, Bob
42 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:28 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] For any of you router jockey's out there... What’s the password? From:

Re: [NTSysADM] Microsoft took-over NO-IP namespace to analyze and stop malware

2014-07-01 Thread Free, Bob
Got a 6MB csv file listing over 22K domains from PSS earlier I bet they are busy. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 1:32 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM]

Re: [NTSysADM] Microsoft took-over NO-IP namespace to analyze and stop malware

2014-07-01 Thread Free, Bob
-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] Microsoft took-over NO-IP namespace to analyze and stop malware What was the context for that - if you can say? -- Espi On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: Got a 6MB csv file listing over 22K domains from PSS earlier I bet

RE: [NTSysADM] Infoblox vs. native Windows

2014-06-25 Thread Free, Bob
+they can do NTP and can be configured in a HA grid. Personally I’m happy with not hosting DNS/DCHP and letting the network folks manage it but that’s what I’m used to. The views and reporting are pretty awesome. The interface overall is …well… weird From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go...

2014-06-20 Thread Free, Bob
=Jek3QSvahmIrNAN1nuPfQA%3D%3D%0Am=EpJMbaUaXCNV5%2BO235cQ0qLzY0n0DUE9OOsiivZ0Cbk%3D%0As=57acefd31392cdfaf2d8fa7d2193f6c6626a714bcdd07d98f4f60b101291503a] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:41 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go...

2014-06-20 Thread Free, Bob
in the last century. You are more exempt than I. Not many others have been here as long as we have…☺ We post with old bits. ☺ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free

[NTSysADM] RE: As data loss disasters go...

2014-06-19 Thread Free, Bob
MBS was exempted from the sarcasm tag requirement sometime in the previous centuryas were a few others... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jake Gardner Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:23 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject:

[NTSysADM] RE: New RODC question

2014-06-06 Thread Free, Bob
I'm having difficulty understanding why this is a case for an RO*C. Seems like a federation scenario to me. You simply need to AuthN your internal users to an external service, correct? Is this a well-known external service or more of a one-off? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: P2V DC

2014-06-06 Thread Free, Bob
Watching this thread reminds me of the old saying…”We ain’t got time to do it right but we got time to do it over” From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 9:19 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com

[NTSysADM] RE: New RODC question

2014-06-06 Thread Free, Bob
AD DS provides no mechanism for an external application to access the password hash. Trying reading unicodePwd (or any other attribute marked as confidential) and see how far you get. :) Yep, try doing SSO with Oracle DBs and see how fast it gets really uglyyou want us to do what to AD?

RE: [NTSysADM] taskkill logon error

2014-06-05 Thread Free, Bob
I'm trying to run taskkill in a batch script to kill a process on from a Server 2008 R2 machine to a W7 workgroup machine. You might want to also try a DA account for the Task kill instead of the local admin. DA = N/A IMO YMMV :-D From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] taskkill logon error

2014-06-05 Thread Free, Bob
...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:15 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] taskkill logon error I'm trying to run taskkill in a batch script to kill a process

Re: [NTSysADM] CRM 2011 SSL cert error - Completely down

2014-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
Did it tip you all the way over? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 10:59 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] CRM 2011 SSL cert error - Completely down And I just listed

Re: [NTSysADM] It has been a while.....Is it just me....

2014-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
it certainly seems like the Microsoft website forums have a much higher concentration of dumb questions. Perhaps they're like flypaper for idiots? ;-) HmmmWhat does that make some of the LinkedIn groups? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] It has been a while.....Is it just me....

2014-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
, 2014, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: it certainly seems like the Microsoft website forums have a much higher concentration of dumb questions. Perhaps they're like flypaper for idiots? ;-) HmmmWhat does that make some of the LinkedIn groups? -Original Message

RE: [NTSysADM] OK here's a weird one (GPO access denied)

2014-05-30 Thread Free, Bob
Sounds more like the ticket expired for the elevated process but it's hard to reconstruct the sequence from the info given. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lum Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 12:14 PM To:

[NTSysADM] RE: Expiring Passwords

2014-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
One pretty comprehensive option. Read the intro for supported features. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2012/01/17/sending-an-email-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire-a-powershell-rewrite.aspx From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [NTSysADM] KeePass to all users?

2014-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
What is your overall goal? Just end user passwords or a more comprehensive solution? If the latter, look up privileged account management or privileged identity management. A LOT can be done in that space if you have the wherewithal. We are deploying a comprehensive solution for PAM and have a

RE: [NTSysADM] KeePass to all users?

2014-05-27 Thread Free, Bob
want to free up my staff the first 60 minutes every Monday or day after holiday of expired password troubleshooting. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:51 PM To: ntsysadm

Re: [NTSysADM] Chrome update and EMET.

2014-05-23 Thread Free, Bob
It's still turning into a long-dash Friggin MS Office (akin to friggin Lyris) That one has bitten us a number of times when copy\pasting from requests or documentation into backend apps, ADUC etc. Had to send a blast to our help desk and other support folks about it and sometimes it still

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-22 Thread Free, Bob
...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:37 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window Nope, I wouldn't. I understand completely. We get that all the time. We have a self-service web

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-22 Thread Free, Bob
the word I was trying to think of. Thanks. :) -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 4:53 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-20 Thread Free, Bob
I think many (most?) folks' approach is , just don't change samaccountname... If they want a cosmetic name change, there are plenty of name attributes to make them look nice in the GAL and other systems. Personnel numbers have changed here depending on which HR system was in place. Names

[NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window

2014-05-20 Thread Free, Bob
of that every time you logged in? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:20 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property

Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom

2014-04-25 Thread Free, Bob
Didn't Byte win the weight war? Bet the mailman really hated that one From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 1:28 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows IT Pro

2014-04-17 Thread Free, Bob
Same here, in all the various formats including the newsletters, VIP etc. I have to agreed content is much thinner than it used to be. For you WJR- http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/welcome-windows-nt-magazine From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On

RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns

2014-04-04 Thread Free, Bob
I've had that for quite some time as well. Still good for another year at this juncture. Subscription level: MSDN Operating Systems From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 5:35 AM To:

Re: [NTSysADM] Rejoin Computer to Domain Without Removing

2014-03-18 Thread Free, Bob
Similar discussion on activedir a couple years ago. Bonnie may have been involved, don't recall. I had this in my notes from one of the Brians Login to the afflicted computer as a local admin, disjoin the domain--but enter bogus domain credentials, so the computer's domain account doesn't get

RE: [NTSysADM] unable to join domain

2014-03-11 Thread Free, Bob
Have you looked at C:\Windows\debug\NetSetup.LOG? IME, it's often very illuminating with domain join issues. Useful for other purposes WRT the system's history with the domain(s) as well. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent:

RE: [NTSysADM] who and when an AD user account disabled

2014-03-04 Thread Free, Bob
...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:40 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] who and when an AD user account disabled Collecting metadata may be more illuminating. You should

RE: [NTSysADM] who and when an AD user account disabled

2014-02-20 Thread Free, Bob
Collecting metadata may be more illuminating. You should be able to reconstruct at least some part of the changes to the object by looking at various attributes. Piece of cake with repadmin /showobjmeta From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: Western drought

2014-02-14 Thread Free, Bob
Kind of ironic that what is essentially a desert is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. I'll have to check out that book. I worked in our hydroelectric division for a lot of years and really gone into the history of it and much of what California has grown into is

RE: [NTSysADM] OT: NE snow

2014-02-14 Thread Free, Bob
The fight has never stopped. They just don't shoot people with revolvers in water disputes like they used to, well , at least not AS much as they used to The grab is even always on for some of the smaller stuff. Every few years some of the munis get together some consultants to do a study to

[NTSysADM] RE: Microsoft Surface Pro 2

2014-02-07 Thread Free, Bob
How can Microsoft have so totally misjudged the Surface Pro 2 sales Hmmm, I can think of about $900M worth of reasons for them to be a bit conservative. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Jafs Sent: Friday, February 07,

RE: [NTSysADM] Microsoft Surface Pro 2

2014-02-07 Thread Free, Bob
For my newer Lenovo I use one the plugables too. The other offerings seemed like too much money and not as well received. I'm glad I didn't go with one of the others in hindsight. I neglected to consider it when I did the WIN8 - 8.1 upgrade and I had no external display, loaded the latest

RE: [NTSysADM] Security and Risk in Virtualized systems, questions for the list

2014-01-29 Thread Free, Bob
Thanks Ken. Great resource. Totally timely for some homework as I’m taking a trip to Redmond next month to absorb more of the “cloudy goodness” from MS IT. If you have Premier or SA you can sign up for that class and others with vouchers, kind of a cool program.

[NTSysADM] RE: Active Directory auditing software

2013-12-03 Thread Free, Bob
Quest..ummm, Dell Change Auditor is pretty awesome but not for the fiscally faint of heart. It can go into excruciating detail independent of native auditing. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Wednesday,

[NTSysADM] RE: Account Utility

2013-10-03 Thread Free, Bob
The first two I get, the third is really hard to comprehend. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 8:09 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Account Utility MBS’ script works like

Re: [NTSysADM] Is this domain change, or just DNS play?

2013-09-20 Thread Free, Bob
I'll lose my membership in the DNS Weenie Club. Can you have concurrent membership in the DNSWC and DNRC? That would be cool :-] -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013

RE: [NTSysADM] I see MMS is no more...

2013-09-17 Thread Free, Bob
And, I'll just throw this out there for thought: What does a Devices and Services company need with a user conference? Makes me wonder what Dell was thinking when they cancelled TEC. That left a huge gap. Where else could you see most of the strategists, product team, relevant vendors and

Re: [NTSysADM] Wireless Bridge Equip / Vendor Recommendations

2013-09-06 Thread Free, Bob
Wrap your WAP[1] and it will shield it from that pesky lightning and other infiltrators[2]. Tinfoil hats are also making a resurgence. Buy Alcoa stock End of PSA [1] with aluminum foil [2] It also affords protection from the TLA agencies because the foil encrypts all that data, I saw it

Re: [NTSysADM] I'm sure you have all seen today's news

2013-09-06 Thread Free, Bob
Interesting comments from him here- Undermining the Very Fabric of the Internet: Bruce Schneier on NSA's Secret Online Spying http://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/6/undermining_the_very_fabric_of_the From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [NTSysADM] AD forest environment

2013-08-21 Thread Free, Bob
We have a dev forest that mimics the trusts and entire config of our primary production forest. We just prefixed everything with an x so it's clearly delimited. There was a onetime synch of identities many moons ago and we create additional accounts there as required. The basic skeleton of the

RE: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-08-02 Thread Free, Bob
people engaged in communications and sharing of documents and strategies? Seems like it hit its target market successfully. :) Steven -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2013 3

RE: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync

2013-08-01 Thread Free, Bob
I guess I'm so old-fashioned that I really don't get the POINT of it all, if you know what I mean Me either. It slithered in the door here through HR as a 'pilot' before the MS acquisition IIRC. Once it got a foothold, it couldn't be gotten rid of and was rolled out system wide to anyone who

[NTSysADM] RE: LDAP lookups

2013-07-31 Thread Free, Bob
NO NO NO Just say NO From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David Lum Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:24 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: LDAP lookups Thanks everyone! That was my assumption after looking at _ldap

RE: [NTSysADM] Outage?

2013-07-30 Thread Free, Bob
only for you lol From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:07 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Outage? I have not gotten a message all day is the list down? PGE is committed to

RE: [NTSysADM] Outage?

2013-07-30 Thread Free, Bob
me either till yours From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jon Harris Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:21 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Outage? Funny is mine the only one that has been sent and received today? I

RE: [NTSysADM] IE 9 and Flash issue with Yahoo mail

2013-07-25 Thread Free, Bob
Seemed like a no-brainer to redo the contact so I assumed Chris had already tried that...hmmm :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L. Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 5:32 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE:

RE: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia

2013-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
let's not forget Banyan Vines Indeed Some of us who worked on the real NOS back in the day (or heaven forbid, both) were prone to calling Novell the Red Virus :) From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Senter, John Sent: Wednesday, July 17,

[NTSysADM] RE: 3 million dollar malware cleanup

2013-07-10 Thread Free, Bob
microscope, you may be able to recreate every motion the mouse had ever taken. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:15 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.commailto:ntsysadm

Re: [NTSysADM] RE: 3 million dollar malware cleanup

2013-07-10 Thread Free, Bob
cleanup Did they decode the mouse ball's encryption? On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.commailto:michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Surely, they have seen too much! -- Espi On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote

RE: [NTSysADM] General Windows 8 question

2013-06-27 Thread Free, Bob
@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] General Windows 8 question I don't think you're seeing the potential. It could bring back the flea circus. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday

Re: [NTSysADM] Seucuring PDF Files

2013-06-07 Thread Free, Bob
all we need is the cynicalone to complete the week and kick off the weekend festivities From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 4:07 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [spam] [dkim-failure] Re:

RE: [NTSysADM] Seucuring PDF Files

2013-06-07 Thread Free, Bob
rugburn From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 3:32 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Seucuring PDF Files Beat me to it! snaps fingers Curses! Foiled again! From: Don

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: password change notification to users not physically connected to domain

2013-06-05 Thread Free, Bob
and testing on a separate box. Hasn’t need to be a physical box since, uh, 2004? A long time anyway. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 1:51 PM To: ntsysadm

RE: [NTSysADM] RE: password change notification to users not physically connected to domain

2013-06-05 Thread Free, Bob
:00 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: password change notification to users not physically connected to domain Don is The Man! From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent

[NTSysADM] RE: Anyone know about password synchronization between AD and AIX Unix

2013-05-23 Thread Free, Bob
by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. [Description: Description: Lifespan] From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:44 AM

RE: [NTSysADM] Well...

2013-05-21 Thread Free, Bob
Was pretty cool. Indeed(tm) Did you guys have fun Friday? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 11:44 AM To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: