Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Paul Williams
I can't see how you can get a duplicate NDNC as the creation of such objects is targetted at the DN master. The DN master will check the existing crossRefs and stop this happening, as we can't rely on the DS stopping it as the RDN is different for each NDNC (unless they've used well-known GUIDs

Re: [ActiveDir] ADSIEdit, Exchange and Assistants

2006-07-14 Thread AdamT
Just looking further in to this, it seems telephoneAssistant and secretary are the fields that appear in outlook - both of which are free text input. It begs the question of what the DN field of 'assistant' actually does. Surely if it is expecting a distinguished name, it must be used for

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trust - domain drop down list

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yes Tony, this is standard behaviour - you'll only see domains that are directly trusted. Trust type doesn't matter. Even though a forest trust will be transitive to all child domains by default, you'll have to use UPN to authenticate to a child domain. Which is another reason why empty

[ActiveDir] ADAM pwdLastSet

2006-07-14 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
Title: ADAM pwdLastSet We need to delegate an ADAM Group the ability to change any other ADAM Users pwdLastSet to 0 under a certain OU. This way we can force ADAM Users to change their password if they meet specific criteria. So we add an ACE to the parent OU where the ADAM Users live for

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trust - domain drop down list

2006-07-14 Thread Laura A. Robinson
Or you could just get users accustomed to using UPNs for logon and avoid the problem. :-) Laura -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:42 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM pwdLastSet

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Kaplan
ADAM pwdLastSetAre you sure you want to do this? My experience with setting pwdLastSet to 0 in AD is that doing that will break the ability to do an LDAP bind for the user, so they can't do an LDAP change password operation. This would be a problem for ADAM users if the same behavior applies

Re: [ActiveDir] ADSIEdit, Exchange and Assistants

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Kaplan
This is an interesting question. I'm going to posit a guess that the assistant field comes from a standard schema definition and is included in AD as a result of that. The DN field has many advantages, in that it is rename/move-safe, etc. One other interesting point about this attribute is

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest trust - domain drop down list

2006-07-14 Thread Steve Linehan
If the client is modern, Windows XP SP1 or later then you can type domain\username in the username field and it will crack it as well just in case your users do not want to type their UPN or it is to long. :-) Thanks, -Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
I'd have to do some more digging as to *why* the duplicate app-partitions were created, but I've had to troubleshoot this prior to SP1. This was during a global Win2003 DC rollout - we used the IFM feature to rollout the DCs. But prior to SP1 you couldn't add the application partitions to the

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread WATSON, BEN
Here is the output file cert-ds.txt as requested. To me, everything appears proper, but perhaps you might be able to glean more information from it than I can. Thanks Steve. ~Ben From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of steve patrickSent: Thu 7/13/2006 4:41 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problem After DC Demotion

2006-07-14 Thread Abouelnasr, Jerry
Title: Replication Problem After DC Demotion Thats good to know Brian. The information that we came across and thought might be relevant is posted below for anyone who may find it of value.

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problem After DC Demotion

2006-07-14 Thread Jason_Centenni
Return Receipt Your RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problem After DC Demotion document:

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread Laura A. Robinson
 I've not looked at the log, but you can't just move a CA to another machine with the same name. You have to back up the old CA's keys anddatabase and install Certificate Services on the new machine, performing an advanced setup and telling it that you have an existing key to use for the

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM pwdLastSet

2006-07-14 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
I don't want to do this. One of the directories we are moving in is coming from iPlanet and you can do whatever you want there. That team has asked us to look into ramifications using pwdLastSet and from testing and your input, it's a bad idea. Basically we just need to expire someones password,

Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Al Mulnick
Guido, have you checked this lately? I know there were several changes to that behavior in several revs IIRC. The problems you describe were better than a challenge, as I recall. they had a tenedancy to wreak havoc with integrated dns zones when a dc would come up and create a new zone and then

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread Laura A. Robinson
 Ah, gotcha. Quick question, then- have you tried backing up the keys and certs again, then uninstalling and reinstalling certificate services on the machine? Laura From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BENSent: Friday, July 14, 2006 1:30

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread Laura A. Robinson
 Also, one last item- you said that this is a standalone CA, correct? (sorry for missing your first e-mails; I didn't read far enough down. I blame ADD.) Standalone CAs don't use or store information in AD; enterprise CAs do. If you're trying to obtain certificates from a standalone CA via

Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM pwdLastSet

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Kaplan
This is sort of a hard problem. If our investigations regarding the behavior of pwdLastSet are true in ADAM, then you don't really have a reasonable way of forcing a password change or expiring it outside of the defined policy. I still haven't had a chance to test it today. :) What you

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread Laura A. Robinson
 Okay, skimming back to your original mail, I suspect that you did not have a standalone CA in the first place, which may be the cause of your problem. You probably should try reinstalling the CA as an enterprise CA and see if your problems clear up. Sorry for the multiple responses; I'm

Re: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread steve patrick
 - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:29 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority Hi Laura, Indeed, I have moved the CA to a new server of the same name using

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
there was no need to check on this issue again - with SP1 it doesn't happen ;-) I'm sure there were several pre-SP1 fixes targeted at this issue and were then integrated into SP1. but rgd. the startup behaviour of DNS in SP1, I'm rather sure that's unchanged at this point. Would be happy

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Steve Linehan
I believe I covered most of this on a previous posting to ActiveDir but here are all of the details into what change was made and why: First of all the change that was made requires that an Initial Sync is completed before DNS will load the zones. This change was made after a customer

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
just found the description of the error and the pre-SP1 hotfix to the duplicate DNS app-partitions issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836534/en-us From: Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 20:34To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC

Re: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Al Mulnick
Yeah, that looks a lot more familiar now. I recall working with several of the hotfixes for a similar issue. Thanks Guido and Steve for taking the time and Steve for suggesting to the owners that recommendations get updated. As I've mentioned before, the thinking changes but I'd still prefer

RE: [ActiveDir] Always point a DC with DNS installed to itself as the preferred DNS server...always?

2006-07-14 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
thanks for the additional information Steve - I would also be interested to hear the official recommendation rgd. DNS configuration on DCs in Win2003 SP1/SP2 and Longhorn. /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve LinehanSent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:41

[ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Stu Packett
Title: Group Policy won't rerun I'm new to group policy and this is my first group policy with software installation. I have successfully created 2 msi files and placed them in a group policy. Earlier in the week, I was able to install the msi files via group policy on a test laptop. I then

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Kevin Brunson
Title: Group Policy won't rerun Are you seeing any errors in the event log? If you right-click on the Software Package, there is an option to Redeploy the application. You may want to try that. Kevin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stu Packett

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Kevin Brunson
Title: Group Policy won't rerun By the way, the errors would be in the Application log on the client, not the server. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stu Packett Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 5:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Group Policy won't rerun Stu- When you uninstalled, did you do it through GP or by removing from Add/Remove Programs? If the latter, than that is your problem. Doing that leaves metadata in the registry related to the GP-deployed app that the Software Installation CSE is probably

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Stu Packett
Title: Group Policy won't rerun I uninstalled via Add/Remove Programs. I thought that doing it that way would lead to problems, so I have ghosted the laptop and kept the same computer name. Is there anything lingering in AD that could be causing the same effect? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Title: Group Policy won't rerun Nope. Its all client side stuff. Nothing is tracked in AD or SYSVOL as far as which machines got which apps. Darren Darren Mar-Elia For comprehensive Windows Group Policy Information, check out www.gpoguy.com-- the best source for GPO tips, video training,

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Laura A. Robinson
Title: Group Policy won't rerun No, but if you ghosted the laptop after you uninstalled via Add/Remove programs, you ghosted the registry entries that are keeping it from reinstalling. Laura From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stu PackettSent:

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread Stu Packett
Title: Group Policy won't rerun Is there anything else I should try to get this going? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-EliaSent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:22 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun Nope.

Re: [ActiveDir] Group Policy won't rerun

2006-07-14 Thread steve patrick
Title: Group Policy won't rerun a few random ideas - not having any idea where the problem really lies... You can gather some basic app deployment extensionlogs - see q249621 You can make sure you check the event logs for any related userenv \ related errors You can enable MSI logging ( if