Wow sounds like something is telling you to stay away from computers. :o)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Chopp Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Programmatic auditing of AD changes similar to what Quest/NetPro use joe wrote: Sorry about the delay in replying... my laptop's harddrive died and then the next day my house got struck by lightning and a bunch of equipment got fried via the CAT5 wiring and the coax cable coming in from the satellite dish. It seems that a direct strike to the DirecTV dish resulted in a nice surge going through the coax to a wall plate that is shared with a telephone line and a CAT5 jack. The surge then arc'd over into the CAT5 line in the wall and proceeded to fry my 10/100 switch as well as damaging several pieces of equipment attached to the switch. As all of this happened, the A/C power didn't even vary enough to cause a flicker in the lights and not one of my UPS units so much as chirped even once during the whole event. Anyway, I'm continuing to research the event monitoring to see if there's more details available to be found about how to use it and whether or not there's any AD-related events that can be monitored. I'm actually not interested in competing with audting tools in what I'm trying to do. This is for some near real-time provisioning work and workflow management that needs to be done based on changes to objects & their attributes in AD. I understand the support issues associated with LSASS code injection and how it is possible to take down a DC or even a whole tree as a result of a bug in the code. Quest Software actually sends out their own technical staff to do the installation of their audting & lock-down product "Change Manager for Active Directory", so there's definitely some liability issues involved when the software is improperly installed & configured. -- Chuck Chopp ChuckChopp (at) rtfmcsi (dot) com http://www.rtfmcsi.com RTFM Consulting Services Inc. 864 801 2795 voice & voicemail 103 Autumn Hill Road 864 801 2774 fax Greer, SC 29651 Do not send me unsolicited commercial email. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
