[ActiveDir] Limitations and issues with domain local groups and GC replicated data

2006-01-23 Thread neil.ruston
Title: Limitations and issues with domain local groups and GC replicated data I really appreciate the response, Guido :) Many thanks! Put it this way - if I had £1 for each time I tried to persuade an org to go with a single domain and then see a multi regional/political forest be

RE: [ActiveDir] CPU/Memory usage .vbs?

2006-01-23 Thread Alain Lissoir
Have a look at http://www.lissware.net, Volume 1 Sample 5.18 to 5.19 - WatchInstanceStateWithRefreshMethod.wsf Sample 5.20 - WatchInstanceCollectionStateWithRefresher.wsf Volume 2 Sample 3.77 to 3.78 - WMICounterMonitor.wsf Sample 3.79 - PerfMonProv.mof Sample 3.80 -

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Rich Milburn
Joe I have one question for you on this book before mine arrives... am I going to read it, and then start bugging you again about compiling a book of AD and server best practices based off of all the good novels you have posted on this list?? :) In fact... come to think of it... maybe there is

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Al Lilianstrom
I lost track of which book Joe was writing about below. Can someone refresh my memory? As for Joe writing a book about how he does things - what would be cool. al Rich Milburn wrote: Joe I have one question for you on this book before mine arrives... am I going to read it, and then

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Lilianstrom Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books... I lost track of which book

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Al Lilianstrom
Coleman, Hunter wrote: http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm Thanks. I had the right title but the 3rd edition wasn't coming up in my search. al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Lilianstrom Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Rocky Habeeb
Dear people, I would appreciate it it you would prioritize the following for me; [A] [ ] Work 60 hours a week managing (with only one other person) 250 PCs in 4 states and 40 Servers. [B] [ ] Live at the only bookmark in my browser when at home www.microsoft.com looking for solutions, etc.

[ActiveDir] FW: Stopping accidental folder moves by users

2006-01-23 Thread Crawford, Scott
Title: Re: Stopping accidental folder moves by users This topic was mentioned a few months ago. I just got this from another list. Seems like a pretty cool idea to me. From: Windows NT/2000 Discussion List on behalf of Scott BrooksSent: Mon 1/23/2006 7:55 AMTo: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Fuller, Stuart
C) Hunter and I were TRs and I would highly recommend it. Joe Robbie have made significant changes and have cleared up a couple of my pet peeves in the scripts and security bits from the 2E book. It also still has the best introduction and explanation of VB scripting for AD. As to the BP

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread joe
Yep, The second edition keeps popping up when I search myself. I don't know what is up with that which is one reason why I set up that page. I also did it because I am an Amazon associate so anyone who buys from Amazon through that link I have gets me some small amount towards a gift certificate.

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Brian Desmond
Those DRAC cards from dell are a POS if you've used a ILO or RILOE from HPQ not to mention the fact that those DRAC cards from Dell are a POS when you try to do disk imaging on a PowerEdge with one. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Rich Milburn
A further note on a BP book, RE the it depends response: It's true that is often the answer for it depends. But often there is a recommended way to do something (def. for best practice) and if you are following best practices then it really doesn't depend, because the unknowns are taken care of.

RE: [ActiveDir] CPU/Memory usage .vbs?

2006-01-23 Thread Harding, Devon
This is great! What I need is to use this code to output the current usage percentage to a text file. Can this be done? strComputer = .Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts: _ {impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ strComputer \root\cimv2)set objRefresher =

RE: [ActiveDir] CPU/Memory usage .vbs?

2006-01-23 Thread Derek Harris
Very easily; just put the following lines near the top: oFileName = Inputbox("Enter the path and filename to save the info.","CPU Usage","CPUuse.txt")Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")Set oFile = FSO.CreateTextFile(oFileName, True) and put an oFile.WriteLine, with

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Don't search for the book - search for yourself: Joe Richards Active Directory ... gets you straight to your book. Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner MVP-Book Windows XP - Die Expertentipps: http://tinyurl.com/44zcz Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner Website:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread joe
Yeah I read your posts and I think it depends is the standard but good answer. Everything else is kind of hard. I don't expect there are many occasions where you get to build from scratch, you are usually building from some form of infrastructure that you have to keep in mind. Would I be willing

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread joe
The thing that always bothered me about the DRACs were that they kept changing the software so you never knew from month to month what software you would use to work with them and what you could do in it. Overall though, they made life a bunch easier for us several times than it necessarily would

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread joe
Hey I didn't see Robbie sitting next to me typing away He was kicking me in the butt right along though going, hey how's it coming, do we need to bring in some more authors More authors!!! The nerve!!! Slave driver I tell you. I still have strap marks on my flanks. Not sure how new that

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Brian Desmond
Oh yeah they save our ass here too all the time. Compared to the ILO stuff from Compaq though they suck. They do some weird stuff with the drivers and the way the virtual floppy/cd shows up to the OS and when you boot. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread joe
1. Purchase a copy of joe's book for self and everyone at work and everyone you know. To be serious though, in your shoes, my choice would be to work 70-80 hours a week and spend the extra 10-20 hours for a while trying to identify anything that could be automated or handled in some other safe

RE: [ActiveDir] Limitations and issues with domain local groups and GC replicated data

2006-01-23 Thread joe
Title: Limitations and issues with domain local groups and GC replicated data As Guido mentioned Domain Local groups are generally fine to apply to ADassuming 1. You are not trying to blockREAD for something thatgets into the GC. Generally I don't recommend DENY ACEs anyway, they tend to

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Gauging AD experience

2006-01-23 Thread joe
Oh great Gil thanks... now I have to clean Coca-cola off my monitors. :o) Good to see you back Todd. You working for Ringling Bros now? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil KirkpatrickSent: Friday, January 20, 2006 2:16 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Permissions vanishing

2006-01-23 Thread joe
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Token Bloat Sorry for the delay, just catching back up. Had to step out and review some chapters of the 2E version of the AD Cookbook. The code is really basic, it simply sleeps until something breaks or the security is changed. You can get help on the changenotify

RE: [ActiveDir] Accout policy

2006-01-23 Thread joe
I believe I read on one of the blogs or various computer news sites (is there a difference anymore) that this was one of hundreds of new features they were looking at possibly implementing. Don't count the feature until we hit RC2 and then still don't bet the house on it. :) From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Net localgroup limitation?

2006-01-23 Thread joe
According to the schema the sAMAccountName must be 0-256, however, this is one of the famous SAM Attributes, the rules of the schema are not necessarily the rules that apply to the SAM Attributes see http://blog.joeware.net/2006/01/21/222/ - which is a blog article titled But the schema says