RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-12 Thread Rich Milburn
I got an answer about KMS. I hesitated about posting here but I think this just clears up the misconceptions expressed in the thread, it doesn't really disclose any new information... There are 2 issues here, and a bit of a misunderstanding. Windows Server codenamed Longhorn is still in beta.

[ActiveDir] DFS-R Issue - 2nd try

2006-12-12 Thread Steve Comeau
First post had no takers??? All, We have some issues where folders with DFS-R implemented have what I call relapse. Here are some symptoms. We can add files and folders, no problem. We can change file names, no problem. When we rename folders, we have a problem - many times, the folder name

[ActiveDir] BTS Documentation

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Parris
All, Can anyone please tell me if they have seen any BTS (Beta Training Content) documentation for Longhorn Server? Regards, Mark Parris Base IT Ltd Active Directory Consultancy Tel +44(0)7801 690596 List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ:

Re: [ActiveDir] Join a Domain

2006-12-12 Thread John
Thanks guys it was working pretty good. - Original Message From: Al Mulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:52:45 AM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Join a Domain Sounds like this is a carry over from another thread then? On 12/11/06,

[ActiveDir] big problem with dns and AD

2006-12-12 Thread adriaoramos
I have a problem here, and it seams to be very big. In one of our domains we had 2 DC´s. one of them a GC, Now one of them is down, and in the other, the Forwards lookup zone is empty. How can recreate the forwards zone? Is my subdomain lost? How can I recover the dns configuration? I can see

RE: [ActiveDir] big problem with dns and AD

2006-12-12 Thread Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF NASIC/SCNA
What type of zone was it? Was it just a Standard Primary or AD Integrated? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:41 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: ActiveDir.org; [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] group policy object

2006-12-12 Thread John
I am trying to create a GPO however I can not find the group policy tab under my domain. Is there something to be fix. Thanks. John Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-12 Thread Harvey Kamangwitz
If a Vista KMS client contacts a beta KMS host, the client will receive an invalid version error and will proceed to try another KMS from the list provided by DNS. This is good information, Rich; I hadn't seen this before. It means that beta and production KMS infrastructures can coexist. Thanks

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-12 Thread Harvey Kamangwitz
Oops. I forgot a few words: ...can coexist *using autodiscovery.* ** -H On 12/12/06, Harvey Kamangwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a Vista KMS client contacts a beta KMS host, the client will receive an invalid version error and will proceed to try another KMS from the list provided by DNS.

[ActiveDir] big problem with dns and AD

2006-12-12 Thread Steve Szwejbka
Return Receipt Your [ActiveDir] big problem with dns and AD document:

RE: [ActiveDir] group policy object

2006-12-12 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
If you have GPMC installed, then the GP tab is removed from ADUC and you'll need to manage GP from the GPMC. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:16 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] group policy object

[ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread beads
All; This may be slightly off topic. Does anyone remember how fast Exchange needs the line speed to be for remote access? I am working with a client that is having time out issues with a 248ms (average) packet time. With some static routing I might be able to get this number down to say

Re: [ActiveDir] group policy object

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Parris
John, The native way to create a GPO is to right click on an OU and select properites and then select the Group Policy Tab, the easiest way to create and manage GPO's is to use the GPMC which you can download from www.microsoft.com Regards, Mark Parris Base IT Ltd Active Directory

[ActiveDir] big problem with dns and AD

2006-12-12 Thread Jason_Centenni
Return Receipt Your [ActiveDir] big problem with dns and AD document:

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread Robert Rutherford
What element are you remotely accessing? I take it you mean a client at a remote site? Which version of Exchange? I'm taking it that you mean an outlook client accessing an Exch2003 svr, if so then an outlook over SSL connection will be fine, especially if you cache locally... I've got

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
I tell my customers 200 ms or better. In cached mode, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 work just fine with that latency (depending, of course, on how much data you are moving, but “in general”). If you are “live” and no cached, you really want 80 ms or better, but I don’t recommend it.

[ActiveDir] Moving an AD 2003 Domain Controller to a new server

2006-12-12 Thread Tech QnA
Are there any potential issues when moving a backup Domain Controller off of one server and onto a new server (both Windows 2003 at the same location)? I was going to build and promote the new server, transfer the FSMO roles from the old to the new DC and then demote the old server both in

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Quota Software

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Miller
We use a 3rd party app SpaceGuard SRM from www.tools4ever.com on our file servers to implement directory level (rather than user level) disk quotas, monitor usage, send email to users when they get close or hit the quota, etc. I can monitor and manage quotas from a single client workstation

[ActiveDir] Possibility of writing to ntSecurityDescriptor with LDAP and Unix

2006-12-12 Thread Santiago, Felderi \(F.\)
I know this may sounds crazy, but I need to write to the ntSecurityDescriptor attribute on a computer account from Unix via LDAP. Any clues? Essentially, what I am trying to do is query the ntsecuritydescriptor attribute of an object already in AD to see the value and would like to moving

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread beads
Exchange 2003 using a soft client. Seems that the Web based Outlook works fine. The client software is very slow when updating In/Outbox and eventually looses connectivity. Not sure about the SSL side of things. Will check. Bear with me, here. So some of my terminology may be a bit off. I am a

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread beads
That definitely gives me something to zero in on. Now to find this caching mechanism. At one time I thought (maybe Exchange 5.5) the magic number was somewhere around 50ms. Thanks! Brent Eads Employee Technology Solutions, Inc. Office: (312) 762-9224 Fax: (312) 762-9275 The contents

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Exchange Access and Timing

2006-12-12 Thread Michael B. Smith
Exchange 2003 and above with Outlook 2003 and above put a heck of a lot more data in each buffer and they compress it. Thus, due to a more efficient use of bandwidth, the latency can increase and still have reasonable performance. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] DFS-R Issue - 2nd try

2006-12-12 Thread Molkentin, Steve
Steve, I'll weigh in - I'm no DFSR legend, but I like to think I am learning more about it every day, and things like this only help me learn more... You say you have no replication of your DFS topology, except for one folder - what is the replication topology (you know, full mesh, etc)? What

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving an AD 2003 Domain Controller to a new server

2006-12-12 Thread Molkentin, Steve
Dear whoever you are, It's going to depend on the size and scope of your domain - how many DC's, how often replication is set to occur, link speed, etc, etc. What you say sounds plausible, but what of these other environmental factors? themolk.

[ActiveDir] Strange DNS problem. How to troubleshoot

2006-12-12 Thread Ramon Linan
Hi, I am having a problem with the DNS. I have a few users that connects to computers at NASA. Every none and them our DNS server here stop resolving certain machines in the domains machine.subdomain.nasa.gov I have run nslookups asking for those machines to different DNS servers, my DNS

RE: [ActiveDir] Possibility of writing to ntSecurityDescriptor with LDAP and Unix

2006-12-12 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Its certainly doable... there are two gotchas though. One, you need to use the 1.2.840.113556.1.4.801 (#defined as LDAP_SERVER_SD_FLAGS_OID in ntldap.h) control on the search and modify operations. This lets you set and retrieve portions of the nTSecurityDescriptor attribute. The paramter in an

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Quota Software

2006-12-12 Thread Steve Linehan
Windows Server 2003 R2 not only improved on the quota management built into the product, allowing granularity down to the user, but also added reporting and file screening. You can find more information on these new features at the following links:

[ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life

2006-12-12 Thread Noah Eiger
Hi – When I travel with my standard issue Dell D600 (1.5GB RAM), I get maybe two hours out of a fully charged battery while doing standard Word, Excel, Outlook stuff. Throw in Visio or (ugh) Quickbooks and cut that time in half. Sometimes, I try to disable services that I know I will not need

RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life

2006-12-12 Thread Brian Desmond
I have this model too. Kill the Wifi and Bluetooth for starters. Wifi is Fn+F2 I think. Next, get a media bay battery from Dell - it can give you several (up to 4) more hours in my experience. I go through batteries pretty quickly - I think I killed the media bay battery (or at met its

RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life

2006-12-12 Thread Jackson Shaw
Even removing the CD/DVD ROM drive during flight helps. I had the media bay battery that Brian mentions below and it made a huge difference. Subsequently, I have moved to an IBM X60 and with the standard battery in maximize battery life mode I usual get 9 hours. Also, don't forget to turn

Re: [ActiveDir] Possibility of writing to ntSecurityDescriptor with LDAP and Unix

2006-12-12 Thread Michael B Allen
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:49:46 -0500 Santiago, Felderi (F.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this may sounds crazy, but I need to write to the ntSecurityDescriptor attribute on a computer account from Unix via LDAP. Any clues? Essentially, what I am trying to do is query the

RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life

2006-12-12 Thread Molkentin, Steve
I find not using mine gives me almost unlimited hours use. themolk. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jackson Shaw Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 1:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life

2006-12-12 Thread Akomolafe, Deji
Lithium batteries are resilient to the charge/discharge issues associated with earlier batteries. Generally, you want to replace batteries after about 18 months, because that's when depreciation sets in. Sincerely, _ (, / | /) /) /)

RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life

2006-12-12 Thread Brian Desmond
Whatever they give me must not be Lithium then. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Akomolafe, Deji Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:36 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

[ActiveDir] FRS and DNS problem

2006-12-12 Thread Craig A. Bumpstead
Hi, I moved all FSMO roles from my old server to my new server. But now I seem to have a FRS issue. When I run netdiag /test:dns I get the following: Domain membership test . . . . . . : Failed [WARNING] The system volume has not been completely replicated to the local machine. This

Re: [ActiveDir] FRS and DNS problem

2006-12-12 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=13562eventno=662source=NtFrsphase=1 Reviewed that? You've checked that it truly holds the FSMO roles? (ntdsutil) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255504 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234790 Craig A. Bumpstead wrote: Hi, I moved all FSMO roles

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Quota Software

2006-12-12 Thread Mark Parris
Steve, Many thanks, will investigate later today. Regards, Mark Parris Base IT Ltd Active Directory Consultancy Tel +44(0)7801 690596 -Original Message- From: Steve Linehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:42:53 To:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Quota Software

2006-12-12 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
FSRM is even in SBS 2003 R2 ;-) Steve Linehan wrote: Windows Server 2003 R2 not only improved on the quota management built into the product, allowing granularity down to the user, but also added reporting and file screening. You can find more information on these new features at the