RE: [ActiveDir] DC and ADC replication prob.

2006-06-05 Thread Molkentin, Steve
Never miss a chance, do you Susan? ;) For those interested, I am in China at the moment, doing a meet and greet/reccy on our sister companies there and preparing for connecting them to our regional domain - then our region will be migrated to the corporate global domain as a part of the

[ActiveDir] Resizing issue

2006-06-05 Thread Boris Demirov
Hello everybody, I got this problem: I am trying to resize a partition on fileserver running on Windows 2003 Enterprise . I got 1TB in raid 5, and my system partition is 40GB and I have 500 GB for storage. So is there a way to resize this 500 GB partition and extend it with the rest

RE: [ActiveDir] Resizing issue

2006-06-05 Thread Freddy HARTONO
Diskpart.exe Thank you and have a splendid day! Kind Regards, Freddy Hartono Group Support Engineer InternationalSOS Pte Ltd mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (+65) 6330-9785 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boris Demirov Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] FW: Assigning Software Via GPO

2006-06-05 Thread Navroz Shariff
Christine, John does have a fix but do realize that once users given elevated privileges, their boxes will become the source for malware entry points. In my firm, we install the apps that needed admin attention and specifically modify the ACLs/DACLs so that user will not encounter launching the

RE: [ActiveDir] PCs hang at Applying computer settings after upgradingDCs to 2K3 SP1

2006-06-05 Thread Clay, Justin \(ITS\)
I knew there was a firewall between some of the clients at remote sites and the DCs, but what I didnt realize is that the clients at the same physical site as the DCs were also going through the firewall. I assumed (incorrectly) that they were on the same layer-2 network and that there

RE: [ActiveDir] PCs hang at Applying computer settings after upgradingDCs to 2K3 SP1

2006-06-05 Thread Clay, Justin \(ITS\)
Darren, RPC connects initially on 135 and then the DC tells the client to establish a new connection on one of the free high ports. They start at 1024 and move up from there, so if there are already 2 clients connected starting at 1024, then the next client would be told to connect to

Re: [ActiveDir] PCs hang at Applying computer settings after upgradingDCsto 2K3 SP1

2006-06-05 Thread Za Vue
If you have to open high ports than what are the reasons of having a firewall in the first place? -Z.V. Clay, Justin (ITS) wrote: Darren, RPC connects initially on 135 and then the DC tells the client to establish a new connection on one of the free high ports. They start

RE: [ActiveDir] Change private IP on a cluster

2006-06-05 Thread Mike Newell
Thanks Jose, This is just going to affect the private IPs in the cluster so no name resolution issues will come into play. This helped a lot. It lead me to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241828/ which is pretty clear. Im looking at some downtime on the cluster and thats what I needed

RE: [ActiveDir] PCs hang at Applying computer settings after upgradingDCsto 2K3 SP1

2006-06-05 Thread Navroz Shariff
Z, I think the firewall was supposedly between the clients and the DC which invalidated the machine accounts after updates. There might be more than a single firewall (internal and external). -Shariff From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Za VueSent: Monday,

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samaccountname attribute (20 char limit) not applicable to gr oups?

2006-06-05 Thread Al Mulnick
I wonder if they do work? or if some of them don't because only the first 20 chars are being looked at/returned by the api's that consume them? Interesting. That variable is a 20 char variable so I don't see why a loophole of 64 is allowed? Any thoughts? On 6/4/06, Joe Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] Change private IP on a cluster

2006-06-05 Thread Medeiros, Jose
Hi Mike, I am not sure what your project involves and you fail to mention why you are doing this. Are you moving the cluster to a new switch? Replacing the Router? Why are you making this change? It will take several minutes for your ARP table on the router or routers to be updated

RE: [ActiveDir] PCs hang at Applying computer settings after upgradingDCs to 2K3 SP1

2006-06-05 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Thanks Justin. I know how RPC works. I was asking where you had the firewall and what RPC services were identified as using those. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clay, Justin (ITS)Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:21 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Samaccountname attribute (20 char limit) not applicable to gr oups?

2006-06-05 Thread Freddy HARTONO
How do I test that? I'd love to change all of these to match the samaccountname to the objectcn = as its showing half complete on the samaccountname for those adc created objects and is not neat... Thank you and have a splendid day! Kind Regards, Freddy Hartono Group Support Engineer

RE: [ActiveDir] PCs hang at Applying computer settings after upgradingDCs to 2K3 SP1

2006-06-05 Thread Richard Kline
I may be missing something basic during this discussion. Please help me with understanding. Generally, it makes sense that an inability to access domain resources will cause a lengthy and error-filled login process. Question 1: Why doesnt it happen all of the time to off-site

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 R2

2006-06-05 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
Thanks this helps Justin A. Salandra MCSE Windows 2000 2003 Network and Technology Services Manager Catholic Healthcare System 646.505.3681 - office 917.455.0110 - cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 R2

2006-06-05 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
I meant active directory itself. Justin A. Salandra MCSE Windows 2000 2003 Network and Technology Services Manager Catholic Healthcare System 646.505.3681 - office 917.455.0110 - cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] DC and ADC replication prob.

2006-06-05 Thread Sivarajan, Santhosh
What is your ADC configuraiton? Santhosh Sivarajan | MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA Houston, TX From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ajay Kumar Sent: Sun 6/4/2006 10:00 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] DC and ADC

RE: [ActiveDir] Change private IP on a cluster

2006-06-05 Thread Mike Newell
Hey Jose, I need to change the IP on the two network cards that the servers use to monitor the heartbeat between them. Each server in the cluster has two NICs in them, one for monitoring the heartbeat between them (private), and one for the internal LAN. We have just added an office

[ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I'm receiving this error on subtree searches of the Config NC, on a French version of Windows 2003 SP1. Anyone have any ideas? (From LDP) ldap_search_s(ld, "CN=Configuration,DC=francais,DC=local", 2, "(objectclass=*)", attrList, 0, msg)Error: Search: Erreur d'opération. 1Server error:

[ActiveDir] User Logon Hour

2006-06-05 Thread Atila Firmino
Title: User Logon Hour Hi everybody. How can I change user logon hours making bind directly to user object. Is this possible? I know that is possible using another object user as template. Thank´s Atila Firmino Essa mensagem é destinada exclusivamente ao seu destinatário e pode

Re: [ActiveDir] PCs hang at Applying computer settings after upgradingDCs to 2K3 SP1

2006-06-05 Thread Al Mulnick
Answers in-line On 6/5/06, Richard Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be missing something basic during this discussion. Please help me with understanding. Generally, it makes sense that an inability to access domain resources will cause a lengthy and error-filled login process. Question

[ActiveDir] Change private IP on a cluster

2006-06-05 Thread Medeiros, Jose
I am reposting this reply. I do not recall receiving the email back from the list server the first time I posted it. My apologies if you are receiving this a second time. Jose From: Medeiros, Jose Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 7:58 AM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Cc:

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samaccountname attribute (20 char limit) not applicable to gr oups?

2006-06-05 Thread Al Mulnick
That's a good question. Ambiguity is what I'd be concerned about in this case so I think that most of the noticeable errors would occur in messaging (Exchange DG's) and administration efforts. Since everything relies on sid's, it wouldn't be in the form of logging on, but rather when you search

[ActiveDir] Change private IP on a cluster- reply

2006-06-05 Thread Medeiros, Jose
Hi Mike, My apologies, I did not realize that you were only changing the heartbeat IP ( I should have caught that when you stated private ). Here at Intel, we run Microsoft Network Load Balancing, NLBS. The NLBS interface is called private ( How the clients connect ), and the internal

Re: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Brett Shirley
This means there is a physical corruption in the AD database. Does this domain have replicas? If yes, just repromote another replica and then demote this guy. If no, sometimes a offline defrag can save the database. Otherwise, what is the backup situation for this domain? Don't be tempted to

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2k3 info on IMF

2006-06-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b1218d8c-e8b3-48fb-9208-6f75707870c2displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b1218d8c-e8b3-48fb-9208-6f75707870c2displaylang=en This guide explains how to deploy and configure Intelligent Message Filter in

Re: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
Whats the version of ldp? Are there any issues using ADAM sp1's ldp from the english version? I assume other ldap cliients are fine? other than this ldp? Wire traces show anything weird?Just my $0.02M@ On 6/5/06, Gil Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm receiving this error on subtree

Re: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Who knew he spoke French... I'm impressed. (feel free to throw something at me.. ) Susan Brett Shirley wrote: This means there is a physical corruption in the AD database. Does this domain have replicas? If yes, just repromote another replica and then demote this guy. If no, sometimes a

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread deji
Start your own thread :) Joe blogged about this DSID thingy a while back, and it was a very informative piece. I suggest you start from there. This may require you peeking into the source code. Sincerely, _ (, / | /) /) /)

Re: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
Man I regret trying to even answer that. I didnt look at the name of the poster for crying out loud! Note to self a fool is not known until he opens his mouth /Note to self Sorry Gil. Wont happen again. M@ On 6/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start your own thread :) Joe

Re: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Mark Parris
With 3 major exceptions. - every word that ends tion and sion in French is the same in English. So only Erreur to translate and that's not rocket science. Not taking anything away from Brett though. M. -Original Message- From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Single DC, single member, running under VS 2005 R2, 32-bit. DCPROMO and other activities all seemed to work normally, so the corruption thing is a surprise. Hey Brett, if I consider the hardware suspect, does that mean I have to file a bug with the VS team? I'll kill it and rebuild and see

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread joe
Just read and followBrett's response... That error is being thrown by a fairly low-level part of AD (from the DSID)anda low value negative number like thatis almost always an ESE error. The combination of those pieces of info aligned with Brett responding saying it is physical corruption

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Eric Fleischman
Very interesting. Can we see the VHD before you blow it away? I can set up a place for you to upload it to. Please let me now how large it isjust ping me offline and we can coordinate. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread joe
Note that in that DSID message, the ESE error is the one in DATA section. Here is the ESE error decode... http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> JET_errReadVerifyFailure -1018 There is a checksum error on a database page. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] max password age where else to look?

2006-06-05 Thread Steve
Okay. I'll ask the question that everyone else is afraid to why 91 and not 90? Cheers On 5/31/06, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :o) I can imagine Something I like to recommend to folks is to monitor password changes. Depending on how big you are you may even want to do it daily. It

RE: [ActiveDir] DSID-020A06F3 error from French platform AD

2006-06-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I've blown the image away already, but I have a backup. I'll check to see if the backup exhibits the same behavior. Send me an email with the upload particulars. It's a differencing disk, and the total will be in the 3-4GB range, uncompressed. It may be that throughput over the FedEx network

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samaccountname attribute (20 char limit) not applicable to gr oups?

2006-06-05 Thread Joe Kaplan
The schema defines rangeUpper for sAMAccountName at 64. Where are you getting a field size of 20? All I can say is that they do seem to work fine in our environment and the DS does not reject them, although I am pretty sure the DS rejects requests to create users with sAMAccountName 20

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samaccountname attribute (20 char limit) not applicable to gr oups?

2006-06-05 Thread Al Mulnick
Interesting. The online version I see says rangeupper is 256. Not sure how important that is, but... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="" Given the purpose of samaccountname I have a hard time believing something doesn't rely on that being 20 chars. Not to say that they haven't

Re: [ActiveDir] max password age where else to look?

2006-06-05 Thread Al Mulnick
Nah, I think joe's just lazy and doesn't want to type it again. And again. And again. And ag. http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory/browse_thread/thread/639b5262e419fac8/0bbc9401b9d8a473?lnk=stq=joe+91+days+policyrnum=1hl=en#0bbc9401b9d8a473 On 6/5/06,

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Samaccountname attribute (20 char limit) not applicable to gr oups?

2006-06-05 Thread Joe Kaplan
Sure enough, rangeUpper is 256. I'm not sure where I got that 64 thing, but I'm guessing it was from memory and that was not up to the task again. Anyone else? Is it safe or not for groups to have a sAMAccountName 20 characters but = 64? I'm going to assume that users definitely need to be

[ActiveDir] OT: Move Enterprise CA

2006-06-05 Thread Tony Murray
Hi all I have to move an Enterprise CA from one DC to another. The following article appears to show the required steps. How to move a certification authority to another server http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=298138 For those of you that have done this, is the process as

[ActiveDir] PSS Active Directory Security Blog (uh no NOT OT)

2006-06-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Guard Dog: http://blogs.technet.com/guarddog/default.aspx Test 1… 2… 3 … Hello Cleveland! Welcome to Guard Dog! GD is a blog run by Microsoft Support Engineers. It covers authentication, authorization, account lockouts, auditing, interactive logon, Kerberos, NTLM, and just about anything

[ActiveDir] Change private IP on a cluster- Reply

2006-06-05 Thread Jose Medeiros
Hi Jim, Looks like your post never made it to the Active Dir list. If I recall Exchange 2000 clustered still had dependencies on Wins, and I was told at a Microsoft Technet event that Exchange 2003 clustered no longer had this requirement, until I saw the Microsoft article that I pointed out

[ActiveDir] Speaking of SamAccountName...

2006-06-05 Thread RM
Title: Speaking of SamAccountName... Guys, I have a dumb question..  A 3rd party app that uses LDAP for authentication...  What attribute should be utilized for username?  SamAccountName is the pre-Windows 2000 name.  DistinguishedName is the long form OU/CN gobbledygook.  So what is

[ActiveDir] Change private IP on a cluster- Reply-Reply

2006-06-05 Thread Jose Medeiros
Hi Jim, Are you sure that holds true on a clustered Exchange 2000 server? I recall from my Microsoft 2000 server clustering class at Quickstart Intelligence back in 2001, http://www.quickstart.com/courses/course.asp?cat=Windowstype=88course=2087 that the instructor stated that both Exchange