[ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread Tony Murray
The ActiveDir.org discussion forum is 3 years old today! The list membership has grown somewhat since the January 13th 2001 (when it consisted of me, various friends, family, acquaintances and anyone else I could cajole, coerce or bribe) to over 1000 today. I might be ever-so-slightly biased,

Re: [ActiveDir] store password using reversible encryption ?

2004-01-13 Thread Tony Murray
There is a little more information here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/505.asp The bottom line is that some apps require it. It would scare me to implement it too, the implication being that the encryption

Re: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread jacqui . hurst
Many Happy Returns. I agree. I find this the most useful forum I have ever subscribed to. I only wish I was as helpful as some of your regulars. Many thanks to all that give so much to this group. Jacqui from:Tony Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] date:Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:32:24 to:

RE: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread Jerry Welch
Tony, Congratulations ! Jerry Jerry Welch CPS Systems US/Canada: 888-666-0277 International: +1 703 827 0919 (-5 GMT) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread David, Andy
Congrats my friend. Please, no birthday suits. -Original Message- From: Tony Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner] The ActiveDir.org discussion forum is 3 years old today! The

RE: [ActiveDir] Lab Refresh Process

2004-01-13 Thread mahocraf
The last time I recreated our test bed environment, I used VMWare and it worked great, just as expected. It was relatively quick and painless. We have a multiple domain forest but really only cared about recreating our empty root and our largest production domains. We had earlier implemented

RE: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread Bridges, Samantha
Happy B-Day! :) This forum has saved me many times. Thanks for a great forum. -Original Message- From: David, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner] Congrats my friend.

RE: [ActiveDir] SidHistory migration

2004-01-13 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
NT4 doesn't know about this, so nothing to configure here. It's turned off by default in 2000 (so you don't have to turn it off, if you didn't turn it on...). So there's only 2003 where you may want to turn it off... Also, to further understand your problem: am I correct in assuming, that

RE: [ActiveDir] store password using reversible encryption ?

2004-01-13 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
it basically means: store the password in such an unsafe way, that it can be read by other sources... unless you have a really important requirement for this, it's nothing that you'd want to do. -Original Message- From: Fugleberg, David A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 12.

[ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster

2004-01-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
Does anyone know a GPO setting that will allow me to prevent users from accessing the Recover Deleted Items addin in Outlook ? Someone on an exchange mailing list said that there is a GP setting to prevent this addin being loaded. Olly List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster

2004-01-13 Thread Roger Seielstad
It strikes me that it might be part of the Office Administration Templates, which can be distributed via GPOs, but aren't actually part of the GPO settings. http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/five/ch18/MntA04.htm There are similar templates for Office XP and Office 2000 that might do the

[ActiveDir] GPO not being applied

2004-01-13 Thread Bruce Clingaman
I have a simple problem. One GPO is not being applied. I have a GPO with desktop settings being applied for students and faculty. It works. Another GPO for proxy settings and special home page is assigned to the library lab computers. The proxy settings are appearing but the home page setting is

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread Celone, Mike
You mean this? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828930Product=win2000 Mike From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:06 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K I've successfully slipstreamed

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread Network Administrator
Unfortunately, you cant slipstream most (any?) hotfixes into installation media, though I seem to remember reading somewhere that Microsoft intends to make all critical updates slipstreamable. In the meantime, though, you can use a workaround to install hotfixes in an unattended

RE: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread Mark Caldwell
Nice work Tony and ditto on the thanks to all the folks who take time to contribute! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not being applied

2004-01-13 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
you'll want to apply your GPOs for the library computers in loopback mode (depends on other requirements if you choose to go for merge or replace) - this way you can use the settings of the library computer to override the same IE settings that come from other User related GPOs. /Guido

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread Rich Milburn
Thats right, you have to use qchain and put them in a subdirectory under i386 and so on I had the procedures once upon a time and decided it wasnt worth it, but if you need them I could probably find them again. Rich From: Creamer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread Rich Milburn
Title: Message Just saw the link below still I think itd be easier to set up SUS for post-imaging pre-deployment use than to follow all that for each patch Dang! What a lot of work. Okay so prior to 11/11/03 I think what I said was true ;-) Havent looked at the susserver.com site yet

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Nope. I mean this: http://www.nextwish.org/geek.php?page=susutil Its an exe that sets the correct registry settings and restarts the update service, and the system gets the updates in about 10 minutes, then following the reboot it sets the settings back (which would be done

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster

2004-01-13 Thread Michael B. Smith
Or other capabilities available in Outlook/Exchange, such as journaling, message tracking, etc. etc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David, Andy Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster

2004-01-13 Thread David, Andy
I would argue then that you need to look at 3rd party archival tools! -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster Because while the Recover

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: slipstreaming Win2K

2004-01-13 Thread james . blair
Title: Message Mark, Easily done, maybe the rep meantthat you couldn't roll the hotfixes directly into the i386 dir like the service packs, they have to be added as an "after thought"we usean unattendedbootable CD for our more remote locations and roll all the available hotfixes into

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster

2004-01-13 Thread Mulnick, Al
Aren't we neglecting the idea of a big stick to adjust user behavior? ;) Seriously, the only way I've heard of adjusting the dumpster behavior is to either set it on for all items (dumpsteralwayson) and not storing the data on the server. The original intent was to empower users to be able to

RE: [ActiveDir] DC's on VMWare

2004-01-13 Thread Mike Baudino
Thanks and understood. We have multiple datacenters and each datacenter will have one or more new 8-way boxes with 32gb or 64gb ram as the ESX consolidation platform. When/where we need more than one DC in a datacenter we'll distribute the VMs across multiple physical boxes. I believe that

[ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-13 Thread Jake Connor
I have a schedule backup that just copies everything on my hard drive to a drive on my firewire drive. If my active hard drive crashes, how do I restore it with the data on my firewire drive so I can just boot up the new hard drive and it will have all the active directory users and all that

RE: [ActiveDir] DC's on VMWare

2004-01-13 Thread joe
Well right off the bat... MS doesn't support Windows on VMWARE; it is best effort unless Microsoft can determine that the issue can be reproduced on physical hardware. VMWARE claims this is because of competitive reasons but MS never supported it even before they bought the Connectix product.

Re: [ActiveDir] Remotely Boot into DS Restore Mode?

2004-01-13 Thread Guy Teverovsky
Use /SAFEBOOT:DSREPAIR /SOS switches in boot.ini: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=256588 Guy On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 03:26, David Adner wrote: Without using a lights-out type adapter or something else that will allow me to remotely view the bootup process, is there a way to reboot a server

RE: [ActiveDir] AD DR (was Remotely Boot into DS Restore Mode?)

2004-01-13 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
Wow thanks that is perfect. Didnt even know about that. Much appreicated. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Adner Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] AD DR (was Remotely Boot into DS

RE: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread George Arezina
Tony, Congrats. This is one of the most useful sites I have subscribed to in the last 3 years. The info has been more than helpful on many occasions throughout my IT career. Keep up the good work, and thanks to creating such a tech site with so many technical savvy subscribers. George

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO and the Outlook Dumpster

2004-01-13 Thread deji Agba
your protection against this "CYA" type of deletion is backup. If you maintain a diligent backup of your Exchange Server, you can always do a restore to your offline server whenever you need to "prove" something. Disabling access to the "Recover Deleted Items" folder will not buy you much with

RE: [ActiveDir] Happy Birthday [list owner]

2004-01-13 Thread deji Agba
Congrats, Tony. And to everyone who have been filling my head with so much "techie" stuffs since I joined this list, I say thank you for your selfless contributions. I know I have personally benefitted from your contributions. Sincerely,Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA