RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Malachi Burke
Ok, I was under the impression from reading that DFS could be arranged to always point to a root1, and clients would only failover to root2 if root1 could not be found - sounds to me like that isn't going on after all Mal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] PTR records - why?

2004-06-03 Thread Steve Rochford
If you ever need to connect to a Unix machine then it will try to do a reverse look up which needs the Ptr records. Steve -Original Message- From: Rutherford, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01/06/04 09:50:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] MACS

2004-06-03 Thread Rutherford, Robert
Thanks Guys. -Original Message- From: Eric Fleischman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2004 17:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] MACS I just checked with the PM to see if it aligns with my understanding. At this point no decision has been made. It's still TBD.

RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts between NT4 and AD

2004-06-03 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I know the lingo is different between NT4 and AD, what are the words in NT and AD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Passo, Larry Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts between NT4 and AD

RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts between NT4 and AD

2004-06-03 Thread Roger Seielstad
The terminoligy hasn't changed. Think of it this way - thINGS trust ED. So, the trustING domain is the resource side of the equation, while the trustED side is the person[1] side of the equation. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Ayers, Diane
It seems that outside of the FRS / replication issues, using DFS would be a good way of virtualizing the storage location of the profiles. If you used a DFS root to designate your storage location and you needed to migrate/replace this location, you could update the DFS root without having to

RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts between NT4 and AD

2004-06-03 Thread Passo, Larry
Actually, it's spelled security principal. Just remember that the princiPAL is your pal. grin -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 7:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts between NT4 and AD The

[ActiveDir] In search for duplícate accounts

2004-06-03 Thread Sanz de León, Juan Carlos
Greetings gurus, Does anyone know of a tool or script that will search the FOREST for duplicate W2k ACCOUNTS ? We have a forest with about 45 W2K domains... And duplicates are becoming a problem. Has anyone ever try to search for duplicates at the forest Level rather than domain level? Any

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Roger Seielstad
I'm in the process of drawing a DFS tree for just that reason - eliminate the server name dependencies for shares. The only thing I see myself replicating is a small set of apps that are installed via GPO. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Jason Benway
I thought about using DFS for my apps installed by GPO, also. But I have almost a Gig of applications and I was under the impression that DFS did not replicate large amounts of data very well, even if it doesn't change often? jb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Rutherford, Robert
I heard that you can copy the bulk over, i.e. CD or something and the replication will work it out. Anyone know if this is true? -Original Message- From: Jason Benway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 June 2004 16:22 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming

Re: [ActiveDir] In search for duplícate accounts

2004-06-03 Thread Brent Westmoreland
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] In search for duplcate accounts You will need to know what values you are trying to find. For example, people with duplicate surnames and givenNames or duplicate sAMAccountNames in a forest can be determined by using ldifde. The syntax can be a little tricky to the

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Robert Toole
I am not 100% sure, but I think what you are talking about is what MS calls Pre-staging, see this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266679Product=win2000 Robert Toole Systems Engineer KN Logistics / Calgary robert(dot)toole(at)kuehne-nagel(dot)com Rutherford,

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Roger Seielstad
I think there's a continuum between data size and the rate of change of that data. The lower the rate of change, the more data it can handle. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original

[ActiveDir] adding PCs

2004-06-03 Thread Creamer, Mark
Folks, have you removed the default ability that allows users on your domains to add up to 10 PCs to your domains? If so, did you remove the ability completely or just limit to a lower number? Mark Creamer Systems Engineer Cintas Corporation Honesty and Integrity in Everything We Do

RE: [ActiveDir] adding PCs

2004-06-03 Thread Free, Bob
Yes, (removed the ability completely) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Creamer, Mark Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] adding PCs Folks, have you removed the default ability that

[ActiveDir] Replication Monitor error

2004-06-03 Thread Nathan Casey
I am getting an error when trying to add a "monitored Server" to Active Directory Replication Monitor.AD config:Empty ROOT with 2 Dc'sProduction domain with 3 DC'scurrently all DC’s are in same site.I installed a new DC in a new site in the production domain. I can monitorthe new server

RE: [ActiveDir] adding PCs

2004-06-03 Thread jpsalemi
We removed it completely also.. |-+-- | | Free, Bob| | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |

RE: [ActiveDir] PTR records - why?

2004-06-03 Thread Douglas M. Long
Reverse lookups are sometimes performed in an attempt to minimize spoofing also. Reverse lookup can be very useful and/or necessary. -Original Message- From: Steve Rochford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Rochford Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] In search for duplícate accounts

2004-06-03 Thread Sanz de León, Juan Carlos
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] In search for duplícate accounts Wow!! Thanks very much for your help Brent. After your response, some coments that come to mind... maybe you or other LDIFDE experts out there could give me some experiences.. How could I have LDFDE OUTPUT the (for example,

RE: [ActiveDir] adding PCs

2004-06-03 Thread Craig Cerino
Here too -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] adding PCs We removed it completely also..

RE: [ActiveDir] adding PCs

2004-06-03 Thread Frost . David
We removed it completely as well and created a role based on a group that could do it. The right to add computers is by default granted to authenticated users, not just Domain users. The surprise we got that lead to usto this was a user from a Trusted NT4 domain used their NT4 account to

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Account question

2004-06-03 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Open ADUC, open the user properties, click account, click log on to, and select the workstation you want the user to log onto. ** Charlie Kaiser MCSE, CCNA Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 510 595 5083 ** -Original Message- From:

[ActiveDir] Factory monitoring pcs - preventing Account lockout

2004-06-03 Thread Rob Preston
I have a problem that I'm sure the brainpower on this list can help.We're about to refresh the hardware and upgrade from win2k to XP using an automated build process. Vendor will swap out hardware, RIS a new image down, and SMS will take over to install all the applications needed. These pcsauto

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Account question

2004-06-03 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Yep. In ADUC go to your User Account/Properties...Account tab..."Log On To" button...add computer name. Mike Thommes -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:11 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] AD

RE: [ActiveDir] In search for duplícate accounts

2004-06-03 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] In search for duplícate accounts My initial thoughts on this are this: 1) you could do that with a script pretty easily, but that method would be terribly inefficient and cause a lot of traffic (if I understand what you want to do correctly.) 2) a db would be a better

RE: [ActiveDir] Factory monitoring pcs - preventing Account locko ut

2004-06-03 Thread Mulnick, Al
Account lockout is a security measure intended to protect against brute force attacks. The fewer attempts allowed before lockout, the harder it is to actually brute force an account over the network. Too low, and you risk business interruption. Too high, and you increase your attack surface

[ActiveDir] SRV Record registration by Non-DC's

2004-06-03 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
We have seen a number of SRV record registrations for hosts for LDAP that arent DCs. Has anyone experienced this before? Thanks, Todd

RE: [ActiveDir] SRV Record registration by Non-DC's

2004-06-03 Thread Fuller, Stuart
Yes... very occasionally... in the _msdcs\dc\_tcp zone. Have not been able to trace them down to a common issue/application/problem. One possible culprit was the Citrix Management Console on a couple of Citrix admin workstations. We end up looking at the DNS records every week and deleting

RE: [ActiveDir] SRV Record registration by Non-DC's

2004-06-03 Thread tech4steve
There was recent XP bug in this area. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825675 -steve ---BeginMessage--- Yes... very occasionally... in the _msdcs\dc\_tcp zone. Have not been able to trace them down to a common issue/application/problem. One possible culprit was the Citrix

RE: [ActiveDir] SRV Record registration by Non-DC's

2004-06-03 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yep, this is related to the installation of MS04-011 on XP clients - you shouldn't see this bug on other machines. I had mentioned it before when I reported of a related issue, where MS04-011 causes Win2000 DCs to FAIL registration of certain SRV records. have a look at

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving Roaming profiles

2004-06-03 Thread Brian Desmond
It works on a fast link no problemo. Just jack the size of your staging directory up. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the Web! Http://www.wpcp.org v: 773.534.0034 x135 f: 773.534.0035 -Original Message- From: Jason Benway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June

[ActiveDir] event logs

2004-06-03 Thread Kern, Tom
Hi, i'm one admin in charge of about 30 servers(ad,exchange,sql,etc), does anyone know of a good cheap(free) way to monitor eventlogs without having to term or connect to each server? i was thinking of a perl script maybe via ms sql or mysql to send event errors or warnings to a centralized db

Re: [ActiveDir] event logs

2004-06-03 Thread Steve Patrick
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8cde4028-e247-45be-bab9-ac851fc166a4DisplayLang=en or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824209Product=winsvr2003 you may want to look at these.. -steve - Original Message - From: Kern, Tom [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Anybody have experience putting an Apple XServe in a Win2K3 domain?

2004-06-03 Thread Kirk Marple
We have an issue with getting one of these puppies to live in a Win2k3 domain. We can see the Xserve from a win2k3 box, but it's just coming up in it's own workgroup, and I can't set ACLs for domain accts on directories I create on it. I only can set ACLs for the local accts on the

RE: [ActiveDir] event logs

2004-06-03 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I struggled with this dilemma for a long time. I tried numerous event log monitoring tools and didn't really like any of them. I've come up with this solution. I run about 35 servers. Every morning, I execute a batch file that connects to the server and runs dumpevt