RE: [ActiveDir] I'm Baaaaaaack!

2006-09-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
i do.. ;-) See anything "random" here: Dèjì RANDOM Akómöláfé? Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, Ing. Jorge de Almeida Pinto Senior Infrastructure Consultant MVP Windows Server- Directory Services LogicaCMG Nederland B.V. (BU RTINC Eindhoven) (Tel : +31-(0)40-29.57.777 (Mobile:

RE: [ActiveDir] Urgent DFS Configuration

2006-09-22 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
a stand alone root cannot have more than 1 root server (unless on a cluster). only a domain based root can have more than one root server that is why I ask the Q below Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, Ing. Jorge de Almeida Pinto Senior Infrastructure Consultant MVP

RE: [ActiveDir] SID History.

2006-09-22 Thread neil.ruston
Matt, When you logon, you are 'given' a token which includes a list of groups (group SIDs actually) to which you have membership. This list includes groups you are directly a member of, groups you have membership of via nesting but also groups you have membership of via SIDhistory. When

[ActiveDir] LDAP query assistance

2006-09-22 Thread Amanda Rose
Hello! I work in a small company where we have need of some LDAP query assistance to identify a group of users out of AD. We only have basic LDAP knowledge in house and our query is not finding what we need. I would really appreciate any assistance you could lend to the following: We

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP query assistance

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Williams
Something like this, against a GC: (|((objectCategory=person)(memberOf=dn of group 01))((objectCategory=person)(memberOf=dn of group 02))((objectCategory=person)(memberOf=dn of group 03))) You can also do it the way you want using ASQ if you don't mind DN as the output. Here's an

RE: [ActiveDir] How are folks setting hidden user attribs?

2006-09-22 Thread Krum, Eric L.
Alex, The AF is using NetIQ's DRAas the GUI tocreate and maintain accounts in AD. Have created custom screens that expose those attributes and several others used to support CAC login. Eric From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alex FontanaSent: Thu 9/21/2006 3:03 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Urgent DFS Configuration

2006-09-22 Thread Steve Rochford
Slighlty hijacking the thread, if I have a 2003 DFS with replication running and would like to make it 2003 R2 DFSR can I: Upgrade to 2003 R2 Magically convert from DFS to DFSR If so, is there a guide anywhere to what to do? Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIFP GAL Sync: X.500 Addresses

2006-09-22 Thread Al Mulnick
There's an additional reason you would want those addresses: replies to email will work with that address stamped on there. There was a blog entry last year related to x.500 addresses and their usage on you had me at ehlo or something like that. I haven't used the IIFP, but I would expect to have

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIFP GAL Sync: X.500 Addresses

2006-09-22 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
Al Mulnick wrote: There's an additional reason you would want those addresses: replies to email will work with that address stamped on there. There was a blog entry last year related to x.500 addresses and their usage on you had me at ehlo or something like that. Yes, that's the case - if

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIFP GAL Sync: X.500 Addresses

2006-09-22 Thread Al Mulnick
That's it. Wow, how time fliesOn 9/22/06, Tomasz Onyszko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Mulnick wrote: There's an additional reason you would want those addresses: replies to email will work with that address stamped on there.There was a blog entry last year related to x.500 addresses and their

Re: [ActiveDir] Assign User rights overs computers with AD

2006-09-22 Thread Al Mulnick
Separate Trees? That seems a little excessive. Or are we just mixing terms? On 9/21/06, Dave Wade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I prefer to keep them in seperate trees. In fact we are just doing that at present... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alberto OviedoSent:

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange in environment - reboot necessary after a DC has been made a GC

2006-09-22 Thread victor-w
A question came up wether or not a reboot is really necessary after a DC has been made GC and Exchange would need to use this GC. I have worked in a pretty large environment (at least to my standards :- )). Where DC's did not get rebooted afther having been made GC's. The AD admins simply

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange in environment - reboot necessary after a DC has been made a GC

2006-09-22 Thread joe
This is no longer necessary with current revs of AD. It was necessary previously to get the NSPI functionality to fire up. Now it does that automagically. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] Search Mailbox

2006-09-22 Thread Albert Duro
chiming in late here, but just want to second Larry's Exmerge motion. As far as I know it's the only native way to find a message, but by subject only. I think it may also be possible to turn on full SMTP logging and do a text search of the logs, but I'm not sure about that, and it would be

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP query assistance

2006-09-22 Thread joe
This unfortunately isn't going towork... 1. Global group membership is not maintained in the GC. Depending on the domain the GC you query hosts, your results will vary. If you hit a parent DC GC then you will see memberships for the parent (and Unis). If you hit a child DC GC, then you

Re: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange in environment - reboot necessary after a DC has been made a GC

2006-09-22 Thread victor-w
Yeah, I thought so, thanks for the info. The damn thing is that Exchange still throws event 9176: Event ID 9176 from MSExchangeSA occurred 1 times (NSPI Proxy can contact Global Catalog servername but it does not support the NSPI service. After a Domain Controller is promoted to a Global

[ActiveDir] FileSharing Issue

2006-09-22 Thread Za Vue
Got a strange issue this morning: Env: Windows 2003 AD Clients: All XP w/sp 2 1) Machine A maps fine to all local wkstn and servers on its domain (Domain A) (firewall service disabled) 2) Other machines (diff subnet but same domain) mapped fine to machine A 3) Machine A cannot map to server

[ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-22 Thread Ramon Linan
Hi, I have an application that uses LDAP to authenticate (authenticates against AD). In my AD I have a domain and subdomain or child domain. I assume that both domain and subdomain uses the same LDAP, right? Also, if the application is using a user from the subdomain to query the LDAP, what

Re: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-22 Thread Al Mulnick
sub-domain query base: dc=subdomain,dc=domain,dc=comdomain query base: dc=domain,dc=comWhen the search is initiated, it will start looking at the query base and, if so configured, everything below it (subtree search). In your case, that won't likely happen depending on how you configured it. If

Re: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-22 Thread Joe Kaplan
You might have them try to work with the GC. You should be able to authenticate and find users from any domain via the GC. I think Joe Richards might also suggest that the vendor learn what they are doing and either integrate with AD the right way or don't claim they can. I'll bet they need

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIFP GAL Sync: X.500 Addresses

2006-09-22 Thread Tony Murray
Thanks both of you. I understand the concept of X.500 addresses being useful for maintaining the ability to reply to senders whose mailbox has moved elswhere. It doesn't explain why: A) they are required for the IIFP. At a basic level I can manually emulate the GAL sync behaviour by creating a

[ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-22 Thread WATSON, BEN
Our forest is currently experiencing some replication issues. The common error we have been receiving has revolved around a single object. To summarize, how do you permanently delete Active Directory objects? More specifically, how do you remove an object that is already tombstoned? Here is why

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIFP GAL Sync: X.500 Addresses

2006-09-22 Thread Al Mulnick
Of course you know that stuff with addressing. I'm certainly interested in hearing what you hear from them, but I have to admit I completely expected the IIFP to do that work. It's intended purpose is to join Exchange orgs in the first place and I'd totally expect to have the addresses put in by

RE: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange in environment - reboot necessary after a DC has been made a GC

2006-09-22 Thread joe
What is the rev of the DC? Using RPC Dump do you see MS NT Directory NSP Interface interfaces listed? joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-22 Thread Al Mulnick
I won't put words in his mouth either, but I'll certainly say the same thing. I had to hold back a shudder when I responded earlier 'cause ldap and authentication might be ok in the same paragraph, but never in the same sentence (except to point out that it should not be in the same sentence :)

Re: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-22 Thread Al Mulnick
After you fix the domain controller problem what do you see? You should not remove the item manually at this point because you seem to have a problem with that domain controller. Check the logs and correct what you see. If that doesn't help, then have a look at dcdiag /v output. Repadmin should

RE: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-22 Thread joe
The first thing I would say and I am shocked Al didn't say is LDAP IS NOT AN AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL For the the managers and vendors let me repeat ;o) LDAP IS NOT AN AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL LDAP has to authenticate as a part of giving secure access to data but that doesn't

RE: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-22 Thread joe
LOL. You should have sent this before I started typing. ;o) Why wasn't it in your first answer, you always take that one right out in the first paragraph and when I read your response I was like hey who the heck are you? -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-22 Thread Vinnie Cardona
What event id are you seeing associate with this error? Vinnie Cardona Systems Administrator Ernest Health, Inc Information Technology Dept 505.798.6472 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 6:18 PM

[ActiveDir] Conditional Forward to a Reverse Zone - Acceptable?

2006-09-22 Thread RM
Title: Conditional Forward to a Reverse Zone - Acceptable? The GUI will let me add a conditional forward to a 10.in-addr-arpa zone on another box and it changes the name to 10.x.x.x subnet.  However, it won't let me edit the forward later. Is this a hack, or is it supported? Thx,RM

Re: [ActiveDir] Conditional Forward to a Reverse Zone - Acceptable?

2006-09-22 Thread RM
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] Conditional Forward to a Reverse Zone - Acceptable? I meant to type 10.in-addr.arpa, but you get the idea On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:23:57 -0700, RM [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The GUI will let me add a conditional forward to a 10.in-addr-arpa zone on another box

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-22 Thread Steve Linehan
You could also turn up additional logging which would give more details as to what the internal error is. I would suggest starting with the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics 1. Locate the 5 Replication Events value under the above key. 2. On the

Re: [ActiveDir]SUBDOMAIN AND LDAP

2006-09-22 Thread Joe Kaplan
Although a do tend to agree that LDAP does not define a good authentication protocol at all, it is definitely the case that LDAP is used as an authentication mechanism all over the place. I also don't thing there is really anything wrong with using it for that per say, as long as it is used

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-22 Thread WATSON, BEN
Basic info and troubleshooting I've done to gather symptom information... We are running a single forest, single domain Windows 2000 environment (I know, I know, I'm in the process of getting this ugpraded to Win2k3 R2) with 9 domain controllers and 8 sites. Three of the sites are hub sites,