Re: [ActiveDir] Seperate forest migration notes

2006-09-11 Thread Hans Halbmayr
The most simple way is to migate the computers with the admin of the source domain (should be admin on all computers). This admin should be admin in the target domain, or at least you should delegate the appropriate rights in the target domain (add computers). cheers Hans --- Danny [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Williams
Have you actually seen this behaviour? As it was my understanding that this particular policy is processed by SCE outside of normal policy application (by the PDCe - I can't remember how often, 60 minutes comes to mind but I don't know why). I've tried to document this here: --

[ActiveDir] Seized the roles of a failed DC

2006-09-11 Thread Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA
Hey all, I have a little question here, just a sanity check for the most part. We had a DC that got its registry ripped to shreds by some hardware folks, the end result was the OS no longer recognized TCP/IP interfaces, even after a system state restore of the registry component. This

RE: [ActiveDir] Seized the roles of a failed DC

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Nate- You can use the old name again, you just need to clean the broken DC up in AD rebuild the box. Either search the KB for metadata cleanup or below is the steps off the top of my head: Ntdsutil Metadata cleanup Connections Connect to server SomeDC Exit Sel op tar Lis dom

RE: [ActiveDir] Seized the roles of a failed DC

2006-09-11 Thread Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA
Yeah that was done, everything is clean. Just used a different name when I rebuilt the server to be on the safe side and to keep things clean. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian DesmondSent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:33 AMTo:

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-11 Thread support
My understanding was that the Password Policies are applied similarly to any other Group Policy. I do recall doing some testing some time ago where by using various security filtering on Group PoliciesI was able to set up two DC's with two different effective policies and so two different

RE: [ActiveDir] Seized the roles of a failed DC

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Ah ok, well, that wasnt necessary. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:48 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] Seperate forest migration notes

2006-09-11 Thread Al Mulnick
Yep, that would be one of the easiest ways. Put the source migration account into the source domain admins (domain admins is in the workstation administrators by default) and into the target domain built-in\administrators group. If you've modified the group membership of the source domain local

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-11 Thread Al Mulnick
Can you re-enable the source and see if it allows you to logon with the blank password? Based on the description, I doubt it, but it would be interesting to see. Since the user logged on with the old password for a month prior to having this happen, then something else outside the process(?)

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: admin account in Vista

2006-09-11 Thread Al Mulnick
Yes Ken, I believe it is a departure to write down the admin password for every single workstation out there. Those defcon envelopes mentioned earlier in thread are usually intended for critical systems vs. your user community desktops. In a company such as the one I'm at now that would be a huge

Re: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Williams
The only way that I'm aware of where you can have different lengths (without your own filters, etc.) is if you deny the domain controllers from reading the necessary attributes on the NC head. By doing this, and then having multiple policies, I believe you can achieve what you are talking

[ActiveDir] OT: Management Solutions

2006-09-11 Thread Alan J. Gendron
I would love some feedback from those that actually use some of these products. We initially started looking at a Helpdesk solution. It has now evolved into an asset management, OS deployment, patch management and license compliance package. I cant tell you whether its evolved to this

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Management Solutions

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Desmond
I have a lot of experience using Ghost for all of that but helpdesk. Helpdesk I have worked with Peregrine (will empty your check book very complex), TrackIt (kind of basic but folks seem to like it), and customized free open source package called Liberum (so far my favorite).

[ActiveDir] Citrix (OT)

2006-09-11 Thread Tom Kern
Anyone know of issues with Citrix Secure Access Manager in a 2 Forest set up(2-way external trust)? I have the Citrix SAM in a source forest and I'm having issues trying to give access to log to the Presentation Server to a user from the target forest. Here's my setup- The user is given access

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Management Solutions

2006-09-11 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Alan- I ran one of these evalutions a while back for a 25,000 desktop environment. I would highly advise putting together a spreadsheet of your *real* requirements prior to narrowing the vendor list. Don't let the vendor tell you what you need or the choice will become obvious. Apart from

[ActiveDir] Restore left Info store in an inconsistant state.

2006-09-11 Thread John Strongosky
Title: Message Tried moving my dying ex 5.5 server to new hardware this weekendand it failed because the restore did not bring over a log file and left the dbase in an inconsistent state. Lucky for me I has a recovery plan and was able to bring the old server back online. Has any one had

RE: [ActiveDir] Restore left Info store in an inconsistant state.

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Title: Message Hi John, You can get it to start with eseutil and roll forward to the last log available. What youre going to need to do with your method is restore the backup and then copy the logs over (which shouldnt be many). You can just copy the database and logs over the wire

RE: [ActiveDir] Restore left Info store in an inconsistant state.

2006-09-11 Thread John Strongosky
Title: Message Hey Brian, thanks for the response, we in the process of moving to ex 2003 but in the AD migration part and this server external disk array is dying and sorry Ed, they don't trust the move server method as we have to move roles so sinceI've done a restore to a new serverwith

[ActiveDir] Windows Mobile enabled user

2006-09-11 Thread Manjeet Singh
Hi, What is the best to query the number of windows mobile messaging enabled user in an exchange 2003 server? I need to run a remote query for this.

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Restore left Info store in an inconsistant s tate.

2006-09-11 Thread John Strongosky
Title: Message Diane, thanks for the response tried to convince my manages that this is the way to go but since this is the first server in the site and has all the roles assigned to it, and I submitted a plan using Ed's move server method (thanks Ed ) my mangers are reluctant to do this

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS Entries --Laptop Users--

2006-09-11 Thread Ravi Dogra
yes its correct. No we have mobile users.. On 9/11/06, Al Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides the obvious of telling Sophos to adjust their management to deal with this, here's what I understand of your problem to date. VPN clients that are also trusted network clients (i.e. mobile users

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: admin account in Vista

2006-09-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
--- Original Message --- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick : Sent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:47 AM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: admin account in Vista : : Yes Ken, I believe it is a departure to write down the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Management Solutions

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Desmond
I use WSUS for patching in some decent size places. My strategy has been to combine a variety of free products into a single system Ive gotten good at it and Ive also written glue when I need to. My overall feeling is that I get more flexibility just gluing things together than with a

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Management Solutions

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Never used/heard of Kace. Looks like a kind of limited use appliance? Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Paul Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:47 PM To: