RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:38:39 -0800

Well we knew he wasn’t a good techie. How to you think he became your boss. You can’t get rid of him, so promote him. J

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

 

Yes, he was a techie, not a very good one. This is the guy who made over 100 helpdesk staff Domain Admins during a shoddy AD upgrade to 2003.

"Almeida Pinto, Jorge de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Well, if he was a techie.. he should understand why outlook should not be installed on the DC

 

Jorge

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 16:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

Unfortunately the service manager used to be a former techie who did my role and therefore is quite difficult to reason with as he sees it as the 'only way'

 

We have a project board, so I aim to put forward the reasons against his idea and let the business decide.

 

thanks for everyones suggestion

 

frank

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Frank,

 

The manager should really be asking for “a notification” and let you figure out the best way to make that happen—not specify the “how” which this list roundly trounced (while I was trouncing turkey on Thursday.)

 

I’ve used blat on a member server (not a dc, though).  There were several other simple suggestions.  The tricky bit is to get the manager to focus on the “end” and not the “means.”

Al Maurer
Service Manager, Naming and Authentication Services
IT | Information Technology
Agilent Technologies
(719) 590-2639; Telnet 590-2639
http://activedirectory.it.agilent.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 8:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

 

Your manager is a soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organ.

 

Every new piece of software added to any machine is new possible threat vector. DCs are the bastion of your Windows network security. You run the absolute minimum on a DC that you can run (yes SBS makes me squeamish but that isn't a surprise to Susan). I don't think it is ever a good idea to run Outlook on any server except maybe a TS and the admins better not ever launch it. Outlook is not an email server, it is a client app, when someone tells me they need it for their server app, I laugh and tell them to find a better app or another way.

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 11:39 AM
To: Active
Subject: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

Hi all,

 

I have a problem whereby our I've been asked by a manager to install outlook on our DC's to allow us to email back the services team when backups have failed.

 

I am dead against this, I have just managed to split the DC & File and Print roles and reduce the number of domain admins.

 

My gut feeling is against this, though I have no technical reason why this is bad?

 

Does anyone have any views or advice on this matter?

Any scenerio's that could occur would be nice...

 

thanks

Frank                  

 

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