Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs

2005-10-13 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
There are white papers regarding the peformance boosts you get on 64 especially in AD that I saw somewhere linked off a blog but I can't find it now [probably on Brett's blog is where I spotted them] in the meantime.. Benefits of 64-Bit Computing: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsservers

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs

2005-10-13 Thread Steve Linehan
Title: Domain Controller Consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs In my opinion the biggest bang for the buck is consolidation of servers to the 64bit platform assuming of course that you have a large enough database, greater than 3 GB, and put enough memory in the servers to cache the entir

[ActiveDir] Domain Controller Consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs

2005-10-13 Thread Mauricio F. Funes
Title: Domain Controller Consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs Gentleman, Does anyone has any information regarding Domain Controller consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs? I have not seen anything reports from microsoft indicating the performance boost gained by utilizing Dual Core tec

Re: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Kevin Gent
We are all "Grasshoppers" compared to the Masters Joe, Dean, Rick, Deji, Tony, Brett, etc on and on and on ... If I couldn't lurk I'd be forced to learn some other form of knowledge retrieval.. - Original Message - From: Derek Harris To: Act

RE: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Tony Murray
Think of the list software as a cow that chews randomly on the space/time continuum cud. Tony PS. I only opened the original thread because LegalNoticeText looked like an attribute I'd never heard of. :-( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of L

Re: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Laura E. Hunter
Ah, that's the one. The link I found wasn't the KB itself, though, but another site that had partially quoted it (without the ever-critical "Applies to the following operating systems" part.) Thanks for clearing up some momentary confusion, Tony. (And what's up with the list-serv, man? I'm seei

RE: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Tony Murray
This one perhaps? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=225087 It's more NT-ish. Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura E. Hunter Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 3:32 p.m. To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [Active

Re: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Laura E. Hunter
Thanks all...I did find that KB, but thought I'd seen another reference that quoted "255". I can't find it now, though, so will assume that I was hallucinating. :-) - L On 10/13/05, Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Webster
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value > > Laura, you probably found this anyway, but here is specifies 512. > > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310430 And from the b

RE: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Webster
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Laura E. Hunter > Subject: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value > > Forgive me if this is an obvious thing and my Google-fu is just > failing me, but can someone remind me of the maximum string

RE: [ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Tony Murray
Laura, you probably found this anyway, but here is specifies 512. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310430 Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura E. Hunter Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 2:00 p.m. To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sub

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Derek Harris
Don't take it personally, and don't stop asking questions: if you ask some good ones, the resulting discussions could help many of us.  I'm 39, been around computers my whole life, and I don't know 10% what some of these guys know about AD. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] finding computer objects

2005-10-13 Thread Marcus.Oh
Maybe not a csv... but dsquery * w/ a filter will certainly supply the information you require. By default, it'll generate the information in a table format. :m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom

RE: [ActiveDir] Subinacl print queue

2005-10-13 Thread Marcus.Oh
Probably because it tends to grant more than print queue rights. We're kind of torn on this too, granting this right to admins... because of the ability to remove printers... :m:dsm:cci:mvp marcusoh.blogspot.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

[ActiveDir] LegalNoticeText maximum value

2005-10-13 Thread Laura E. Hunter
Forgive me if this is an obvious thing and my Google-fu is just failing me, but can someone remind me of the maximum string length on this when running 2003? I'm finding conflicting references between 255 and 512 characters. Thanks all. - Laura -- --- Laura E. Hunter Microso

Re: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
...at the same time has the questions asked been of benefit to others on the list? Yes? I find that when I turn into the 'teacher role' in my own SBS community I learn a lot more. It makes me stretch when I have to document 'why' I do the things I do and recommend. I have to google [oh sorr

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Tony Murray
Well, if I told you we have around 1500 people subscribed in standard mode and a couple of hundred subscribed in digest mode, would you be surprised? :-) I could post the lurker list, but I don't really want spammers to get hold of it. Personally, I have no problem with lurkers. And, hey, it's

Re: [ActiveDir] Design Question

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Renouf
I think I need to start proof reading my posts before sending them :)   I completely agree that by using a multi-domain forest example they are passively recommending it's use to some people. I think in the next iteration it might be useful to use another example, or perhaps multiple examples to tr

RE: [ActiveDir] Design Question

2005-10-13 Thread joe
Don't sweat it, I spelled Laimbeer wrong in one of the posts and I live in the Detroit metro area. If any of my local friends see that they may come string me up from a tree.   I agree multiple examples would be good though.   Agreed on the big companies. In one large deployment there were 5

Re: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Kern
Am I capable? Who knows?   I've only been in IT for less than 4 years and I never owned a computer until 6 years ago. Everything i learned, i learned from screwing around at home,books,websites, and most of all, lists like this. I haven't lied or fluffed up my resume or past in anyway to employers,

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread joe
Oh just a joke, I don't think Tony would do it. Though I wouldn't mind Tony occasionally posting the lurker list, I am curious as to how many people I am getting mad at me any given day. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Gilbert

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Gilbert
Not to hijack this thread but, I hope lurking remains free. Dan > Original Message > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT) > From: "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, October 13, 2005 2:50 pm > To: > > > I have found that shooting for your contract salary is as good a t

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Desmond
Just a thought for you – Are you really capable of being the lead engineer in the situation your client and potential employer is in? This list has been a major question sink for you, and I think several of us have worked very hard answering all these questions. One thing you might find fro

RE: [ActiveDir] finding computer objects

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Desmond
Yes you need to use a bitwise filter. You can further filter on the operatingSystem attribute. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 4:44

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread joe
Its still cool and appreciated. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:55 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD I shot this off w/o much forethought, the /d

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates

2005-10-13 Thread joe
Yes I am quite an objectionable person. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Harris Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:08 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Updates At the risk of getting flamed, I

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread joe
Jorge, we need to introduce you to objectcategory. ;o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:16 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [Active

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread joe
I have found that shooting for your contract salary is as good a target as any, but expect to miss unless you didn't get a very good contract rate. I have only seen one case where a company was willing to pay contract level fees to a FTE and that was back when I first got back into the indus

RE: [ActiveDir] Design Question

2005-10-13 Thread joe
I think the problem is that by showing the multi-domain forest example it is a tacit recommendation of its use to some people. I don't necessarily agree that people should read it that way but I can see where people would. Plus many people don't want to start from scratch, they will take what

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread joe
This has been discussed a few times on the list. You want to use the memberof feature of group policy. I think it was about 18-24 months ago that there was a rather long drawn out discussion of this new capability.      joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sa

[ActiveDir] finding computer objects

2005-10-13 Thread Kern, Tom
Whats the best utility to find computer objects of a certain OS type(server as opposed to workstation) AND are NOT disabled and spit them to a csv file? Do i have to use a bitwise filter on the userAccountControl attrib or is there a utlitly with a more user friendly way to find non disabled acco

Re: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
You have to dig into LDAP specification for CN, RDN, DN, Canonical name and their relevance. As you know, AD is multipurpose database, so different application put different requirement on same object. Say you kept only CN (as it is requirement for LDAP) and nothing else,  so in case of authentica

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread Free, Bob
I don't know about generally available but Steve Lineham of MS made it temporarily available a few months ago to list members based on a similar thread here , maybe he will do so again if he sees this. There was also the following suggestion from David Adner- "If you're a Premier customer ask your

RE: [ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mapping via .vbs

2005-10-13 Thread David Cliffe
Hi Devon,       Assuming that the client machine is a 2000/XP domain member, it should sync time on its own [with a local DC] via the w32time service.  Apologies if not a domain member...will have to defer that one to the VBers then :-)   -DaveC From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mapping via .vbs

2005-10-13 Thread Harding, Devon
Quotes work.  Now I just need to be able to sync time with my local DC via .vbs.   In my batch file, I have the standard:   net time /domain:mydomain /set /yes > nul   How would this work in _vbscript_?   -Devon   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

Re: [ActiveDir] Design Question

2005-10-13 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Jesper's Blog : Should you worry about password cracking?: http://blogs.technet.com/jesper_johansson/archive/2005/10/13/410470.aspx Frequently Asked Questions About Passwords -- TechNet Column - Security Management - October 2005: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm1

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Migration

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Renouf
I would migrate the users and desktops. That way the users keep their passwords, the users desktop profiles stay the same etc. Using ADMT isn't all that complex and the helpfile provides you with step by step instructions for how to get things configured to allow for migration. Once that is done th

Re: [ActiveDir] Design Question

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Renouf
Just to re-iterate this: the BO Guide does not specifically recommend a multi domain forest even for larger organisations. It uses the multi domain forest as an example and specifically states that configuration is just an example and not a recommendation. There is a section in the document on desi

RE: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Kern, Tom
I think you misunderstand me. i know the diff between the lDAPDisplayName and the display name that you see in the gui and that ldap,adsi,and all apps use the former. i was just wondering what the relationship is between how the display name gets built, its relationship to the name displayed

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-13 Thread Free, Bob
We had one last year and it was a rather extraordinary experience IMHO. We learned a lot and picked up a lot of tips and tools from the MCS guys (Well they were ROSS guys actually) They also did an Exchange Health Check. One of the things they leave behind in the tool set besides all the other goo

Re: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
whenever I want to map the GUI of ADUC with actual attribute on user, I just create a test user, and set the specific property on user to something like X and open the adsiedit.msc for that user and check the attribute list with value X voila.. you got the mapping. you can do reverse also,

[ActiveDir] 64 Bit clustering with HP RX8620 Hardware clarification needed

2005-10-13 Thread CHIANESE, DAVID
Title: 64 Bit clustering with HP RX8620 Hardware clarification needed I have a failed scenario in using a software mirror clustering a Windows 2003 64 bit (ia64) Enterprise Edition server.  The RX8620 hardware is on the HCL for clustering, however I cannot tell in what configuration.  Our HP

Re: [ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mapping via .vbs

2005-10-13 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
username and password both are of datatype STRING, so you will have to put doublequotes around them, try this one, Set objNet = CreateObject("Wscript.Network") strUser = "IPCUSER" strPasswd = "Password" strMapDrive = "I:" strNetPath = "\\10.1.0.103\DESKTOP_CFG" bIsPersistent = False  MsgBox "M

RE: [ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mapping via .vbs

2005-10-13 Thread Crawford, Scott
Sorry, username and password need to be in quotes.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:04 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mapping via .vbs   I seem

RE: [ActiveDir] Reverse DNS

2005-10-13 Thread Derek Harris
Me neither -- that's why I put it in quotes. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP]Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:48 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Reverse DNS I can't fathom why any organization would "have to".

RE: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Dean Wells
Note that my response was directed to the original post Tom.   ... and I'm confused, if you knew the answer already why didn't you simply provide it?   In reference to your questions; have you researched this yourself?  This information is readily available.  In the time it would take me t

[ActiveDir] Different Versions of Internet Explorer

2005-10-13 Thread brad . w . johnson
Return Receipt Your document: [ActiveDir] Different Versions of Internet Explorer was received by: Brad W Johnson/CORP/GSK at: 10/13/2005 01:19:01 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Dean Wells
Title: Message Heh, no references needed ... the Queen's English is sufficiently documented ... --Dean WellsMSEtechnology* Email: dwells@msetechnology.comhttp://msetechnology.com   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al MulnickSent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:2

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-13 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Title: Adding users to local Admin group I am concerned about the local PC’s not the Servers   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes, Michael M. Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:51 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Title: Message That does not accomplish what I wanted to do.  I want to helpdesk group to be a member of the local administrators group on a local PC and I want to do it without having to go to each PC.   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

RE: [ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mapping via .vbs

2005-10-13 Thread Harding, Devon
I seem to getting a syntax error on the comma or space after the username.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, Scott Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:49 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mappi

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread deji
What's the purpose of doing this? Restricted Group is a computer-side policy. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -an

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread deji
I posted something about this a week or so ago. Please check the archive. You want to be sure that you use the new "memberof" option in the new "Restricted Group" policy. That way, nothing is deleted. See my example in the archive. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP -

RE: [ActiveDir] Subinacl print queue

2005-10-13 Thread deji
And you don't want to add the group to the "Print Operators" group on the Print Server because .. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worri

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
What do the SMTP conversation and network traces look like from their side? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:03 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT) I disabled ehlo on t

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Michael B. Smith
can you send a manual message?   something really doesn't make sense here.   i'm not a cisco/ipsec/vpn expert. it's a common issue to see mismatched mtu's, with "large" packets, causing packet drops. mtu can be set on either side. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

RE: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Al Mulnick
Title: Message I have to ask.  What Dean shows will change the way that new names will get created.  But I'm curious if the original postor knows that by default you're looking at the users cn vs. the displayname?   Otherwise, I'm confused about the difference between a property sheet and A

RE: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Kern, Tom
I know that. Thanks Dean Just wondering what affects what. Does changing that affect the creation of the name displayed(not to be confused with displayName) in ADUC ? Or just the GAL? How 'bout the CN? The CN is created from given name and surname so i assume it is affected by changing

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: Message That won't work, since the restricted groups setting is under the Computer Config part of the GPO.   Hunter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHIANESE, DAVIDSent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:49 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [Act

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-13 Thread Dean Wells
The tool I spoke about in confidence with Tony (just teasing ;o) is an offering from MCS known as the ADHC or AD Health Check ... it is a nicely shrink-wrapped series of powerful interrogation scripts/tools that, when compiled by someone sufficiently trained, produces a very detailed configuration

Re: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread Gideon Ashcraft
Be very wary of this one, I removed Domain Admin from the local admin group on every computer (including servers) in my domain, fortunately I had changed the local admin password on all my servers before I did this and I only lost one PC that didn't have our default PC admin password. I highly a

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Migration

2005-10-13 Thread DeStefano, Dan
The problem is that the company name will remain the same as it is now. Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Kaiser Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:04 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Migra

Re: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Kern
I disabled ehlo on the smtp connector and i still get a full unreachable queue- "connection was dropped by remote host"   In ethereal, i get "tcp retransmission" and "tcp zero window" during the conversation between my mail server and theirs.   does this point to the IPsec tunnel and mtu? My side?

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread Narkinsky, Brian
The easiest way I’ve found  to do it is have a GPO that runs a batch file on startup.    net localgroup Administrators /ADD helpdesk   We’ve also written some _vbscript_s that adds a local account and makes it a member of the administrators group.   We feed the password as a parameter f

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-13 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Title: Adding users to local Admin group One of the processes we use for servers is to create a global security group in AD that identifies accounts to be used for administering a particular computer, say “ServerName_admins”.  That group is then added to the local “ServerName\administrator

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread CHIANESE, DAVID
Title: Message Open up the GPO properties and in the security tab add the Helpdesk group.  Give them read and apply group policy for that policy.  remove apply group policy from any other group you do not want to get the policy, I.E. Authenticated Users.     Regards,     David Chianese    

RE: [ActiveDir] Display in ADUC

2005-10-13 Thread Dean Wells
1. Run ADSIEDIT.MSC (or equiv.) from the Support Tools (located on the Windows CD) 2. Expand the Configuration container 3. Expand cn=DisplaySpecifiers then cn=409 (assuming this is for US English ... whatever that is ;o) 4. Locate cn=user-Display and bring up its properties. 5. Locate and e

Re: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Kern
mismatched on my side or theirs?   I was wrong, its an IPsec tunnel NOT a gre tunnel.   The mtu size on my side is the default for a cisco 2600 router(i think thats the setting of the media being used in the router- etherenet=1500,etc).   Thanks  On 10/13/05, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

[ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
How would I utilize Restriced Groups in a GPO to add in a Helpdesk Group that I have for my helpdesk staff to have administrative rights on a local PC with out having to touch each PC and without screwing up the local admin group?   Justin A. Salandra MCSE Windows 2000 & 2003 Network an

[ActiveDir] Authenticated drive mapping via .vbs

2005-10-13 Thread Harding, Devon
What would be the correct way to convert this batch file to a .vbs?   Echo Mapping Drive letter for IPCC Access if exist i:\ net use i: /delete net use i: \\10.1.0.103\DESKTOP_CFG password  /user:ipccuser /PERSISTENT:NO   Devon Harding Windows Systems E

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Migration

2005-10-13 Thread Charlie Kaiser
What we've done successfully in regards to MX records is as follows... Let's assume you're creating a new company name, so instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED], you will now be accepting mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once the mail server is set up and the MX record created, you will be receiving mail into the

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread Brett Shirley
I shot this off w/o much forethought, the /d is fairly AD replication oriented, and clearly not a complete picture. People have pointed out lots of other stuff, schema, trusts, etc ... good thread. Cheers, -BrettSh [msft] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Michael B. Smith
Honestly, that looks like a mismatched MTU to me. It's worth checking.   If you turn off EHLO, as someone else suggested, that should limit the maximum size of the TCP packet rather dramatically... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Thursday, Oct

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: Adding users to local Admin group The restricted groups setting falls under the Computer Config section of the GPO, so it's not going to apply to all machines they log into. It's only going to apply to the computers that receive the GPO.   Put the computers that are going to be used in

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-13 Thread Sullivan Tim
Hi Jake, You could use security groups to filter who the GPO can apply to. Create a Security Group called restricted admins, and place the computers you need the special rights on. Then only give that security groups rights to process the GPO. Hope that helps, Tim

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread Brett Shirley
There is an undocumented switch "/d" in dcdiag that spills out a bunch of quasi formated output for the forest. Useful for collecting most of the forest info at once, I've had PSS send me the output, when diagnosing customer issues. This is basically debugging (/d) information off the internal v

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread Tim Sutton
Gotcha. Now I follow, can't believe it's taken an explanation of the obvious too. :) Sorry for being blonde but I'm still catching up from a week off. Boy can a lot go wrong in a week if you're not there to watch it! If you've got standard templates you could make a killing selling them ..

Re: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Kern
thanks.   i don't think they are running mailguard as when i telnet to the server and issue a ehlo, i get all the esmtp verbs including the MS ones.   when i try to issue an "xexch50", the server replies with a "need to authenticate first". after which i can still happily issue a data or bdat  

[ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-13 Thread Jake Stabl
Title: Adding users to local Admin group I am using Active Directory and I need to know how to add certain people to the local admin group only on certain computers.  I know I can do this under restricted groups but that makes thoses users local admin on all machines they log into.  Specificl

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread neil.ruston
Tim, By 'schema' I was referring to the AD schema. You will need to document the schema and how it has been changed (new classes, attributes etc etc). By 'database' I refer to the database and changes made to it (garbage collection, tombstone lifetime etc) Did you include 'recovery'? [One object

Re: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Kern
Thanks, I'll try that.   Found an MS article about PIX as well-   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q320027&gssnb=1   Thanks again   On 10/13/05, Coleman, Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IIRC, you have a dedicated SMTP connector for servername.journaldomain.com or journald

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Migration

2005-10-13 Thread DeStefano, Dan
Thanks for the suggestion. As a matter of fact, while reading the ADMT help file last night I did think it would be easier to proceed as you suggest - building the new domain and creating the users, then just exmerge the mailbox data into their accounts. Maybe we would cut over the MX record on Fr

Re: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Candee Vaglica
Try searching for the SMTP fixup http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_security_notice09186a0080265e37.html   On 10/13/05, Tom Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks.   I know there were issues with Cisco's Mailguard feature on a PIX but i can't seem to find any articles

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread Tim Sutton
Thanks for the copy of ADMap, Neil. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow and see what it spits out. so far I've I think I'm going to cover following areas: - AD Overview - diagram showing domain and OU structure possibly even basic site and link info - Written details of the domain struc

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
IIRC, you have a dedicated SMTP connector for servername.journaldomain.com or journaldomain.com. You can try going to the Advanced tab of this SMTP connector and checking the box to "Send HELO instead of EHLO," which should drop the extended verb attempts from your side. From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Tom Kern
Thanks.   I know there were issues with Cisco's Mailguard feature on a PIX but i can't seem to find any articles on their website.   Thanks again  On 10/13/05, Al Mulnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, there are some known issues with pix and Exchange.  You should check the cisco support and

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Al Mulnick
Title: Message Actually, there are some known issues with pix and Exchange.  You should check the cisco support and kb articles to see if yours is a match, although I would have thought your journaling company would have figured it out by now. Similar symptoms.     The article I sent you had

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
What could be interesting is just having the information, not how it is presented. For the documentation of the site and replication topology (and of course others like OUs structure, members of powerfll groups, etc.) you could use something like ADFIND. OK, the presentation of it may not be the

RE: [ActiveDir] Subinacl print queue

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Johnson
You should be able to pull a list of the installed queue’s from WMI IIRC. Then plug that data into the script   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale Sent: 13 October 2005 11:38 To: Active Subject: [ActiveDir] Subinacl print queue   Hi

[ActiveDir] Subinacl print queue

2005-10-13 Thread Frank Abagnale
Hi,   I need to grant a security group permissions to every print queue on a Print Server.   I have looked at SUBINACL and I can use this to grant access to each print queue providing I know the name of the queue. e.g,   subinacl /printer \\printsvr1\USATPR001  /grant="WSADMINS"   The issue I have

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD

2005-10-13 Thread Peter Johnson
Also you IP subnets to Site Mappings need to be documented. I.E. a list of all IP subnets and what site in Active Directory Sites and services they belong to. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky Habeeb Sent: 12 October 2005 18:27 To: Act

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Servers in Branch Offices

2005-10-13 Thread neil.ruston
Other important factors in this scenario must be the physical and logical security of the server housing the DC role.   1. Will the server be securely locked away in the branches? If not, do not deploy a DC. 2. Do you trust the file server admins to have physical access to the server hosting

Re: [ActiveDir] Reverse DNS

2005-10-13 Thread rubix cube
I have 2 internal DNS's, one on the DMZ zone which hosts the public IPs of the servers we publish (email, website, systems, etc... around 15 IPs) and the other DNS which resolves only the internal IPs, I wanted to setup the reverse DNS and publish my internal DNS (the one at the DMZ) because am not