Yeah! LOL! That's waaaaaay too good.
Glad
you could make it. You will certainly be a worthy addition to the
characters that wander in here.....
-rtk
Everyone kept saying, join activedir join activedir, so I
stumbled in fashionably late and three sheets to the wind... The only way to
make an entrance. ;o)
So
where were we, I believe we were discussing slapping MIT Kerberos and OpenLDAP
on a Linux box and calling it OverActive Directory?
Mr. Richards..... welcome to the party.
;-)
Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
Microsoft MVP -
Active Directory
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
I agree with Rick completely. I work for a very large
organization and policy is policy. Not only will we not let you put them
into our Active Directory, I have a script that will find them and throw the
machine objects into an Enterprise Admin Access only OU and disable and
smack the ACL of the offending object if you someone sneak one in. So not
only do they not get to use the server anymore, they can't even use that
server name again. We catch more than a couple of occurrances of this and we
take away their ability to add anything and let their managers know that we
did it and why.
While I understand why people want to put them in (I in fact want to
as well), we want a centralized controlled IT structure and the best way to
maintain or reduce costs is to have a handle on what is in production. We do
not have an official company load for W2K3 yet 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
Justifying it technically is going to be a problem, as there are no
real 'downfalls'.
However - if they don't want them - stick to your guns.
Policy says NO. If there are any questions, refer to latter
statement.
Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
Microsoft MVP -
Active Directory
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Has
anyone come across any problems with installing the new windows 2003
servers to the Windows 2000 site.
Running
W2K with SP3 and Exchange 2000 all in native modes. Our company is having a storm of
interns coming in and wanting to run projects on a W2k3 server. Other than it is against
company policy not to allow users to install servers, or even there own
systems. Management is trying to come up
with some negatives to this, other than just saying it is against company
policy.
Ron
Pennell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
