RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Yes, a redeploy triggers re-creation of the .AAS file. I came across this when I was trying to manually modify properties of a deployment within the GPC. The problem with a redeploy, which you may have discovered, is that if you have deployed the app to any existing workstations, redeploying it wil

RE: [ActiveDir] User export

2003-12-18 Thread Joe
Oh my... That is priceless. I never knew that but of course it makes sense when you follow the creation logic Also does it from the command line via net user /add if you are interested... joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRIL

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread deji
Just a little thing observation here. msNPAllowDialin is NOT populated if you are using RAS Policies (or RADIUS) to set the Dialin access. This code will return only users who have their Dialin properties manually set to either "Allow" or "Deny" on their accounts. In my environment, we set Di

[ActiveDir] ADUC view preferences

2003-12-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
Can you clear something up for me? In ADUC, the default first column is labeled “Name.” I would like that to always display as LastName, FirstName (sn, givenName)   I thought this was controlled by DisplayName, but apparently not. What attribute would I edit to fix the ones that don’t mee

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
Thanks Coleman - I feel good - my solution looks a lot like that! (logic-wise, anyway) -Original Message- From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 3:04 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access I should hav

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I should have just sent the whole script the first time. Anyway, here you go (watch for line wraps) = Option Explicit Const adStateOpen = 1 Dim agencyOU Dim RootDSE Dim SearchRoot Dim ldapPath Dim adoConnection Dim adoRecordset Dim

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I checked the AAS file modification date and it is today at the time I re-deployed the package with the new MST file that I saved as the same name It must recreate that each time you redeploy -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Decemb

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Not sure but I don't think so, because of that AAS file, which doesn't get re-created except at initial deployment, or re-deployment. I guess there's no harm in trying (on a test environment that is :-)) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sa

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
What if I modify the existing MST and save it as the same name and then set the policy to redeploy, would that work? -Original Message- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread Creamer, Mark
Thanks guys - that made things a heck of a lot easier! -Original Message- From: Fuller, Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access Looking at this attrib via ADSI Edit shows that

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Justin- Because of the way software installation works in Group Policy, adding MSTs is a one time operation. I believe this is because, as a function of initial deployment of an application, an application advertisement script (.aas) file is created in SYSVOL that includes the definitions of the .m

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread Fuller, Stuart
Looking at this attrib via ADSI Edit shows that msNPAllowDialin set to "True" is equiv. to "allow". "False" is equiv to "deny" and "" is "Control access through Remote Access Policy". -Stuart -Original Message- From: Coleman, Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18,

RE: [ActiveDir] attribute for remote access

2003-12-18 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Mark- Here's a snippit of a script we use to check that: userADsPath = adoRecordset.Fields.Item("ADsPath").Value set objUser = GetObject(userADsPath) dialInEnabled = objUser.msNPAllowDialin Hunter From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursda

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Software Distribution

2003-12-18 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
When I created the Software Package I did click on Advanced and was able to put in a MST File, but now I have created a new MST file and want to add that one to the list and remove the other and I can't do it -Original Message- From: Steve Shaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursd

RE: AD as a possible target of attack? RE: [ActiveDir] Virus soft wareon DC

2003-12-18 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
Don't forget that applications could often live with less privileges, especially in WinServ2003. 2003 tries to improve on the local system account issue and has introduced two new low privilege service accounts that would likely be enough for many applications to work with - Local service (NT Aut

RE: [ActiveDir] User export

2003-12-18 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
an interesting fact to this is, if you create accounts with the new account wizard in ADUC and you specify a PW that doesn't match the domain's PW policy, the account is created and the deleted right away. So if you then correct the PW, another new account is created => i.e. if you've failed to ent

Re: [ActiveDir] Event Log monitoring tools

2003-12-18 Thread Eric_Jones
Using WMI to write scripts to monitor servers, specifically event logs works extremely well.  I did just that with WMI at our company.  I went as far as to script out the permanent monitoring of processes, processor, memory, disk, various eventlog combinations, and various filesystem details.  You

[ActiveDir] ADMTv2 Question/Issue?

2003-12-18 Thread rrutherford
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RE: [ActiveDir] DC IP Address

2003-12-18 Thread Roger Seielstad
Its more or less scriptable with netsh, too... -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -Original Message- > From: Ben Schorr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003

RE: AD as a possible target of attack? RE: [ActiveDir] Virus soft wareon DC

2003-12-18 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
sorry, one slight correction: I just checked again on the Local Service account in 2003: is doesn't have administrative permissions on the machine, as mentioned below - instead, it has the same low privileges as the network service account, except that it doesn't even use the machine's credentials

RE: [ActiveDir] User export

2003-12-18 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] User export Be careful with this; make sure that your target schema is the same as your base schema, i.e. if you have extended your schema (i.e. added a new attribute to your User class) that this change is reflected in your test environments schema. If you haven't exte

RE: [ActiveDir] DC IP Address

2003-12-18 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
if this is a DC of your root domain (or only domain in a forest), you should be aware of the "island" issue that you may cause when changing the IP address of a Win2k DC - most importantly, you should ensure that a root DC (if it's also a DNS server) doesn't use itself as a DNS server in it's IP co

[ActiveDir] ADMTv2 Question/Issue?

2003-12-18 Thread Rakes, Brandon A. NMIMC Contractor
I was wondering if anyone has seen this on any of there migrations? I have used ADMTv2 to migrate a computer into an OU. The computer is migrated fine and functions fine, but when you look at the properties of the computer and click on "Member Of" tab it says member of Domain Users. The Primary gro