RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Security Policy Thoughts

2006-06-08 Thread Noah Eiger
Thanks, Brian. Dont you sleep? Its late in Chicago ;-) 802.1x is the direction they are heading. Right now, it is cost-prohibitive. So the question is less can I control this access but should I? Is that over-reacting? Again with the VPN. My thoughts were to push it with an MSI, so I

[ActiveDir] Jan-Andre Tiedemann ist außer Haus. : [ActiveDir Digest]

2006-06-08 Thread jan-andre . tiedemann
Ich werde ab 08.06.2006 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 26.06.2006. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. In dringenden Fällen zum Thema Active Directory bitte meinen Kollegen Herrn Joerg Reichel ansprechen. Ursprüngliches Thema: [ActiveDir Digest]

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Uninstalling Exchange - how does this modify AD, what alters in AD

2006-06-08 Thread victor-w
I agree with that. Besides that, my description of the situation is probably not as clear as it should be. What I am trying to say is that you can only uninstall Exchange by choosing 'remove components' when you have the necessary rights at the AG. That implies that it then does something to

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Uninstalling Exchange - how does this modify AD, what alters in AD

2006-06-08 Thread victor-w
Slight correction, it should say UNinstalling instead of installing in this section: What I am now trying to get clear is how this differs from not installing Exchange but simply only removing the server object from ESM without uninstalling Exchange from that server. - Oorspronkelijk

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

2006-06-08 Thread Freddy HARTONO
I think now I have around 3500+ groups that has way long CN and displayname mostly created by ADC, so in the samaccountname its only taking the first 20 characters... Personally i prefer shortnames as exchange only uses displayname for address book so it doesnt matter whats the

[ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread Contreras, Robert
Hello everyone, Simple question - just want to verify: Single forest\single domain comprised on 2 domain controllers physically in one location. We would like tophysically move one of the domain controllers (the 2nd onepromoted)toa new location (eventually both - during the complete data

Re: [ActiveDir] New DC can't find the machine account

2006-06-08 Thread Al Mulnick
They've apparently renamed it http://www.lucent.com/products/solution/0,,CTID+2020-STID+10439-SOID+1456-LOCL+1,00.html You probably own a copy of somewhere ;) On 6/8/06, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WTF is QIP anyway? I've heard of BIND and Windows DNS. Thanks, Brian Desmond

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Uninstalling Exchange - how does this modify AD, what alters in AD

2006-06-08 Thread Al Mulnick
No, you are correct in your assumptions. There are changes on the local server, yes. Many many changes. But you also must make changes in the directory from name res to the directory itself. Exchange relies on Active Directory for it's directory services. It has none (well.. mostly not one of

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual DCs

2006-06-08 Thread Lucas, Bryan
Title: Virtual DCs Along these lines, has anyone seen an actual best practices whitepaper for MS Virtual Server? How to configure disk arrays, controller cache, how many VHDs per volume, memory allocation, etc. Bryan Lucas Server Administrator Texas Christian University (817)

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

2006-06-08 Thread Al Mulnick
Actually, I would consider it a good idea unless you have a specific reason not to. What really uses the group samaccountname? Users won't typically see it, so it's relegated to backroom work. Making the cn and samaccountname would, in my opinion, be a best practice. In the case of Exchange, I

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread beads
Robert; One thing that immediately comes to mind would be external DNS structures that may or may not change. Likewise, depending on the location your time servers may also require some tweaking - depending on the distance. If this is a short move then theres probably little to worry

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Security Policy Thoughts

2006-06-08 Thread Al Mulnick
thoughts in-line -ajm On 6/8/06, Noah Eiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Brian. Don't you sleep? It's late in Chicago ;-) Sleep? That's something he can catch up on later on in life ;) 802.1x is the direction they are heading. Right now, it is cost-prohibitive. So the question is less

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread Laura E. Hunter
A good place to start is the following checklist that Jorge posted awhile back: How to move a DC to another site?: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2005/11/25/165.aspx There have also been a number of discussions that you can find in the list archives:

[ActiveDir] Client Side Group Policy / fixing secedit.sdb

2006-06-08 Thread Lucas, Bryan
We have discovered several machines that were spitting out SceCli 1202 warnings (Security policies were propagated with warning. 0x4b8) in the Event Log. We found that our secedit.sdb on one of our sysprepd image was corrupted. On the problematic PCs, we did a esentutl /p

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Security Policy Thoughts

2006-06-08 Thread Laura E. Hunter
The thing I'm not wild about with third-party clients (OSX etc.) is that they often don't play well with security features like SMB signing - if the Macs are hitting a Windows file server, most of the Apple documentation will tell you to turn it off entirely. Similar things can also happen if

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread Robert Rutherford
You shouldnt have any issues, except the subnet/site. Robert Rutherford QuoStar Solutions Limited The Enterprise Pavilion Fern Barrow Wallisdown Poole Dorset BH12 5HH T: +44 (0)

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread Robert Rutherford
Of course, just note that youll need to ensure DNS records are correct for the servers to find each other for repl. Robert Rutherford QuoStar Solutions Limited The Enterprise Pavilion Fern Barrow Wallisdown Poole Dorset BH12

Re: [ActiveDir] AD LDAP Logging.

2006-06-08 Thread Al Lilianstrom
Tony Murray wrote: Hi Yann One option would be to enable logging of all LDAP searches against the DC. http://www.activedir.org/article.aspx?aid=97 This is useful information. Wish I would have had it on Monday when our MIT KDC/KCA was having problems getting info out of AD. Ended

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread Contreras, Robert
Thanks for the responses - I wonder if it would just be easier to create a new DC at the new location (within the new AD site). From: Laura E. HunterSent: Thu 6/8/2006 9:38 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move A good place to start is

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread neil.ruston
Given that you only have 2 DCs in the whole forest, your below solution may prove to be prudent. I would hate to have an issue whilst the org was reliant upon just 1 DC! Do clients use the DCs for DNS name resolution too, for example? If so, how will you cater for the IP change and the

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Directory Server Path

2006-06-08 Thread HBooGz
Thanks Joe and Al.In all honesty, I'm far from a programmer and i wouldn't go so far as to say I'm an Active Directory expert like most on this list. I'm going to pass your information to my developers who are working on a web app in .Net with the hopes of authenticating users against our AD. I've

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller - Location Move

2006-06-08 Thread Robert Rutherford
If you can then yes. Robert Rutherford QuoStar Solutions Limited The Enterprise Pavilion Fern Barrow Wallisdown Poole Dorset BH12 5HH T: +44 (0) 8456 440 331

[ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates

2006-06-08 Thread Shawn Hayes
Title: High CPU utilization during GPO updates Anybody out there seen the issue in the subject and if so what did you do to alleviate the issue. Thanks, Shawn

Re: [ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates

2006-06-08 Thread ChuckGaff
Are you running Windows 2000 or 2003 DCs? Chuck

RE: [ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates

2006-06-08 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: High CPU utilization during GPO updates I have seen this happen on clients processing GP when "expensive" policy operations were occurring such as setting file or registry permissions on large trees. Where is this happening? Server or Client? Is this during foreground or background

RE: [ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates

2006-06-08 Thread Shawn Hayes
Title: High CPU utilization during GPO updates Processor utilization issues have only been noticed by clients. I would say background processing because it is not an issue during logon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Thursday,

RE: [ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates

2006-06-08 Thread Shawn Hayes
All DCs are 2003 SP1 with R2 installed From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates Are you running

RE: [ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates

2006-06-08 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: High CPU utilization during GPO updates Ok. If you can note the time when this is occurring, you can correlate it with a timestamp in a verbose userenv log and see which part of processing is doing this. Darren Darren Mar-Elia For comprehensive Windows Group Policy Information,

Re: [ActiveDir] High CPU utilization during GPO updates

2006-06-08 Thread ChuckGaff
Ok - thanks -- that's better than what you would see on Windows 2000 -- Darren can give you good info... Chuck

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-06-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
After this thread (I believe Dean asked what the error was at one point, but I can't find that tip of the thread right now), I decided to go ahead and test this. http://blogs.technet.com/efleis/archive/2006/06/08/434255.aspx I'll blog some more on other things we found along the way over the next

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-06-08 Thread Tony Murray
Great info ~Eric! The link to the start of the thread is: http://www.activedir.org/ml/msg08620.aspx We've just moved the archive onto the ActiveDir.org web site and we're having one or two teething problems with the search feature. :-) Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-06-08 Thread Eric Fleischman
You could build the archive on ADAM, and enable the indexes to allow for efficient medial substring indexes. :) ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Directory Server Path

2006-06-08 Thread Joe Kaplan
It is hard to provide any additional information that would be useful without some specifics about the actual problems they are facing/what isn't working/what code they are trying. From a firewall perspective, at a bare minimum you need LDAP ports open to your DC, depending on whether you want

[ActiveDir] Infamous slow logon

2006-06-08 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://blogs.technet.com/guarddog/archive/2006/06/08/434188.aspx Nothing beats coming into the office on a Monday morning and finding out that one of your VP’s is complaining about how long it takes to get logged into his desktop. They usually won’t even give you a chance to grab some coffee.

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] User Accounts

2006-06-08 Thread joe
I don't know, some of my posts might invoke the dreaded Admin Limit Exceeded in ADAM... You know the one... The one you were going to write a blog entry about when there were too many entries in a non-linked multivalue attribute... :) -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -

RE: [ActiveDir] New DC can't find the machine account

2006-06-08 Thread joe
QIP is Lucent's implementation of DNS and DHCP. I think one of their main claims to fame is their delegation model, I don't know though, I didn't run it, I was a consumer. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Security Policy Thoughts

2006-06-08 Thread Brian Desmond
Theyre keeping me a little busy down at the fun factory, so Im up pretty late. Actually I just flew back in yesterday from a client so I was handling backlog. How is .1x cost prohibitive. Have you looked at the NAC products most major VPN providers have to handle your fears about

RE: [ActiveDir] New DC can't find the machine account

2006-06-08 Thread Brian Desmond
Oh I’ve heard of this thing. I got a client that could use it if they were smart. Muchos pesos. Miami Pesos, that is. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Thursday, June 08,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Security Policy Thoughts

2006-06-08 Thread Brian Desmond
You set it to request not require - never had an issue. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura E. Hunter Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:48 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] User Accounts

2006-06-08 Thread Brian Desmond
It looks corrupted in IE7B2 on k3dp1. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:38 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Security Policy Thoughts

2006-06-08 Thread Noah Eiger
Thanks all for the thoughts. I think that the thing I will need to communicate to these folks is simply the tradeoffs and the risks. They run many apps that force full admin rights on the workstations and have concluded that this is an acceptable risk. Well see what they say. In the end, I