RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question

2002-07-16 Thread Thornley, Dave H
Hi Todd, We use ADC like this - creating accounts in AD, and allowing ADC to manage the creation of 5.5 mailboxes across four Exchange servers. You can specify the Exchange server to use by setting msExchHomeServerName on the AD account. ADC then uses this to place the mailbox in Exchange. We

[ActiveDir] browse AD with XP client

2002-07-16 Thread SEYBOLDT,VOLKER (HP-Germany,ex1)
Hi there, I've a question regarding browsing the Active Directory with clients. On a W2K client there's a folder in "My Network Places" where I can browse through the AD structur in order to find objects in AD. I did not found this option on a XP client. Can someone tell me where this

Re: [ActiveDir] browse AD with XP client

2002-07-16 Thread Andy Grafton
Volker I don't know if there is the browse equivalent, but the XP search has the option to look specifically in AD. If you find out the answer to this let me know. All the best, Andy - Original Message - From: SEYBOLDT,VOLKER (HP-Germany,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] browse AD with XP client

2002-07-16 Thread Tony Murray
Here's an answer to this question posted by a Microsoft employee in the Microsoft AD newsgroup yesterday. It includes an (unsupported) method to get the functionality into XP. * This has been discussed at length in this forum already. It was removed from the Windows XP client.

[ActiveDir] Site Login

2002-07-16 Thread Rene Chakraborty
Hello Everyone I was at Comdex in Toronto last week and got talking to a Microsoft Techie about how I want to eliminate the domain requirement when a student logs into the network. He said you can do this by making the desktops sign into the site they are apart of rather then the domain,

RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Dave I would be interested in knowing how you solved that problem. Eventually I may have multiple servers that run exchange. Thanks Justin A. Salandra, MCSE Senior Network Engineer Catholic Healthcare System 914.681.8117 office 646.483.3325 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Login

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I think you do that by setting subnets to sites and making sure that there is a Global Catalog server in each site. However, all down-level clients can only login to the PDC Emulator, there is no other way for down-level clients, unless someone has figured out a way. -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Login

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
AD can hold millions of objects, there is however a limit to the OU structure you can have, I think the OU Structure can only be 62 levels deep and I believe after 40 levels the GPO's no longer travel down the levels. I heard this from a consultant that taught AD as a MCT. He showed me the

RE: [ActiveDir] Site Login

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Interesting, I have not heard of that, does anyone else here able to shed some light on this? -Original Message- From: Rene Chakraborty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [ActiveDir] Site Login Well a

[ActiveDir] Software Distribution

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
One of my network administrators assigns Office XP Pro to all his users. This is working, but now he is implementing a Terminal Server, and when users login to Terminal Services, the GPO is not installing the App? Any Ideas? Does he have to Publish it to the terminal server instead of depending

RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question

2002-07-16 Thread Thornley, Dave H
More details then :-) We've got four Exchange servers, and use a utility I wrote to generate Domain accounts and mailboxes for new users. It's been through several revisions, orginally creating NT4 domain accounts and 5.5 mailboxes, but all it does now is to create the AD account, and set

RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
What I want to eventually do is have my server running 5.5, upgrading to 2000 and then implementing several exchange 2000 servers at locations that have more then 150 users, which ends up being three sites. I will be making all the domains at all facilities as child domains of my domain tree

Re: [ActiveDir] Site Login

2002-07-16 Thread Rene Chakraborty
Well, I have done some testing between NDS and AD and one thing I find is for certain. When you are dealing with a large number of users, NDS handles rights allocation faster and with less problems. Rene - Original Message - From: Salandra, Justin A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Distribution

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
What is loopback policy processing? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Software Distribution Is loopback policy processing enabled? Ben Please respond

RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question

2002-07-16 Thread Thornley, Dave H
Justin, You can do this via ADUC. If you've installed the Exchange 2000 System Manager then when you choose to mailbox enable an account you should see your Exchange 5.5 servers in the list you can use. If you use a script you need to set (at least) msExchHomeServerName when you create the

Re: [ActiveDir] Site Login

2002-07-16 Thread Paul Sobey
Hi Rene, I have a friend who administers a directory for a large university with approximately double the number of users you mention and quite a few more servers, across 15 sites. There are no scalability problems with doing this, but its worth noting that your life will be easier the better

RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
All of my exchange servers will be in the same organization but in different domains and different AD Sites. -Original Message- From: Thornley, Dave H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:23 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: [ActiveDir] ADC

RE: [ActiveDir] ADC Question

2002-07-16 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Should I install the Exchange 2000 System manager in my current environment of Exchange 5.5 and the Exchange 2000 ADC? -Original Message- From: Thornley, Dave H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:23 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE:

[ActiveDir] Educating users on proper AD use ;-)

2002-07-16 Thread Ken Rinehart
Title: Educating users on proper AD use ;-) Hello I understand that Microsoft wants users to get away from Network Neighborhood and start using features of Active Directory. In most of the books that I have there is mention of this and that eventually you won't have to use Network

[ActiveDir] OU Security

2002-07-16 Thread Rene Chakraborty
Title: Message OK, so if I collapse the Child-domains into the parent and go with 1 domain with OUs seperating the users. Is there any way to contain the users and make 99% sure they cannot attack a server? Rene

[ActiveDir] unable to query a newly created attribute

2002-07-16 Thread pio eqbal
I just created a new attribute in AD and set a while using ADSI Edit for the user class. But I am unable to query it using VBScript. I get the following error: Error Type: Provider (0x80004005) Unspecified error /ADSQuery.asp, line 52 I am using windows integrated authentication. Can anyone

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Update Services:

2002-07-16 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Dennis, My apologies I must have been on a rant I stand corrected. James -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2002 3:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Software Update Services:

RE: [ActiveDir] OU Security

2002-07-16 Thread Ayers, Diane
I'm not sure what you mean by attack. If you mean attack in the hacking sense of the word, then IMHO, child domains and OUs won't make any difference. Once you are on the wire, most traditional techniques are independent of how you logon to what ever network. Diane -Original