Re: [ActiveDir] OT: How to find non-primary SMTP addresses?

2007-01-25 Thread Alex Fontana
LMAO...I thought my Outlook rule was broken for a second... On 1/25/07 5:12 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing you didn't like the answers you got on the exchange list? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stu Packett Sent: Thursday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Health Check tool - where can it run from?

2006-11-01 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: Active Directory Health Check tool - where can it run from? Ahhthe good ol days of being a premier customer. I miss those days From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Washington, Booker Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:09 AM To:

[ActiveDir] How are folks setting hidden user attribs?

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Fontana
Hey guys, I'm curious how people are populating attributes such as employeeid, employeetype, etc, specifically when creating\modifying accounts using the GUI (ADUC)? Besides me writing something to populate the fields what other resources do I have to allow other selected users (account

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

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Fontana
. The latter is done by displayspecifiers. More info found here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/activedirectory/howto/adschema.mspx /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Thursday, September 21

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

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Fontana
. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:04 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: How are folks setting hidden user attribs? Hey

RE: [ActiveDir] NTFS ( 16 Exabyte's )

2006-06-28 Thread Alex Fontana
Correct me if Im over simplifying things herebut doesnt 2047GB = 1.99TB (not 2.47TB) since 1024GB = 1TBright? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Medeiros, Jose Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Where's that account being used?

2006-06-27 Thread Alex Fontana
Check out service explorer. The trial version will do exactly what you want...for services anyway. http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/serviceexplorer/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:32 PM

[ActiveDir] OT?: Need to NIS-enable a crap load of users...

2006-06-20 Thread Alex Fontana
Anyone familiar with SFU out there? At least half of my users do not have SFU attributes. I now have the need to create NIS accounts for all of them. Besides hitting the properties of each user and enabling them for NIS what other options do I have? I do happen to have the means to

RE: [ActiveDir] Dynamic Groups

2006-04-02 Thread Alex Fontana
Hahaha While reading the very first sentence in the last paragraph I was thinking to myself, what was that app that our Engineers used to use (prior company) that wanted all of the users to have this_special_group as primary Clearcase...they are notorious. From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Quiet? DEC? Related?

2006-03-31 Thread Alex Fontana
Definitely a huge thanks to everyone for making this an awesome first DEC for me! It was great matching up faces to the email addresses I see daily. The DR, Security and Interopt sessions were a couple of my favorites. The DJ show was awesome! For those not able to attend this year, make it a

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS question

2006-03-18 Thread Alex Fontana
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 11:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DNS question You can remove the A records with out any impact (if I remember they were for legacy LDAP clients) but this requires

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS question

2006-03-17 Thread Alex Fontana
You can remove the A records with out any impact (if I remember they were for legacy LDAP clients) but this requires more work than just removing the records. You will have to change the registry entry below to 0 to disable the registration of ALL A records, this includes some important DNS

[ActiveDir] Windows Server mailing lists

2006-03-02 Thread Alex Fontana
Anyone know of any good Windows 2003 mailing lists? TIA -Alex

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Extension

2006-02-09 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: Message And now I can honestly say that I can follow this thread and not be completely lostthanks chapter 3 of the book in the signature for a great schema refresh! ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:32

RE: [ActiveDir] Logon issue

2006-01-27 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: Logon issue Funny I just (5 minutes ago) sent an FYI to our End User Support team regarding this issue. Heres the KB: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=244474 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:21 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] 3rd party DNS and windows DDNS updates

2006-01-20 Thread Alex Fontana
there's no accounting for production. Be ready with a contingency plan in case it all comes crashing down around your ears. Wook From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] 3rd party DNS and windows DDNS updates

2006-01-19 Thread Alex Fontana
As I understand it; the client machine queries its primary DNS server for the SOA of the zone that matches the clients primary DNS Suffix. It then attempts to register its A/PTR records with primary for that zone. That said, as long as the clients primary dns server knows who the SOA for

[ActiveDir] WMF Patch Released Early!!

2006-01-05 Thread Alex Fontana
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx Synch WSUS and get to patchn -Alex

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-02 Thread Alex Fontana
off done on production deployable hardware? Im a big advocate of VM testing, just to set the record straight. Rick From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 2:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-01 Thread Alex Fontana
I would have to agree;-) At work I run completely on VMs using ESX. All my testing is done on a Dell PE1800 with about 8VMs including AD, Exchange (clustered), SQL, etc. For those looking to do simple testing of apps check out VM Player http://www.vmware.com/vmplayer You cant

[ActiveDir] Any SFU users out there?

2005-12-09 Thread Alex Fontana
Our main file/print server was set up to run the SFU NFS server and is a Domain Controller. Having this box as a DC has been stressing me out since I got here since anyone who creates home directories and needs to modify permissions (standard practice when creating new users) needs to have

RE: [ActiveDir] Modifying Domain Admins Administrators Group

2005-10-08 Thread Alex Fontana
. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 12:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Modifying Domain Admins Administrators Group Call my method crude and archaic...but I have a box

RE: [ActiveDir] Modifying Domain Admins Administrators Group

2005-10-07 Thread Alex Fontana
Call my method crude and archaic...but I have a box that just runs scripts...all day...nothing else. One of them is to do a simple dump of the domain, enterprise, and schema admins group once every 30 seconds or something and diff it against the previous run. If there's a difference I get an

RE: [ActiveDir] Change AD Passwords

2005-10-04 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: Change AD Passwords If youre willing to spend money and have a solution that scales, i.e. does more than just AD passwords look into P-Synch from MTech. http://www.psynch.com/ Ive used them here and at a prior company for password changes, password expiry notifications, password

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS resolution - prioritization

2005-09-06 Thread Alex Fontana
DFS is site aware, but what about non-dfs? \\example.com will always resolve to some domain controller, dfs or no dfs, using round-robin dns, right? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 8:59 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Database Corruption

2005-08-26 Thread Alex Fontana
of hardware, especially for a smaller DIT. That's just my preference though. Good luck, Al From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alex Fontana Sent: Mon 8/22/2005 9:30 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Database Corruption ECC

[ActiveDir] LDAP Referrals

2005-08-26 Thread Alex Fontana
For what ever reason all of our users are still in the cn=users container. Of course after years of being like this everything ldap refers to cn=users. Part of my master plan is to change this to an OU structure, but Im looking for a less intrusive method of changing this than having to

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Referrals

2005-08-26 Thread Alex Fontana
Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alex Fontana Sent: Fri 8

RE: [ActiveDir] Database Corruption

2005-08-22 Thread Alex Fontana
and this was the approach we used with good success. Diane _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 3:29 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Database Corruption Started getting

[ActiveDir] Database Corruption

2005-08-19 Thread Alex Fontana
Started getting the error below a few weeks ago on one of our DCs. My first reaction is to run a non-auth restore from a day before this started happening and let replication take care of everything else. Any reason NOT to do this? Im concerned that this may happen again and wasnt able to

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC Extremely Slow

2005-07-12 Thread Alex Fontana
Oddly enough, one admin here had a ridiculously slow running ADUC, he updated his display driver and it started responding as it should From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Eiger Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:15 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC?

2005-07-09 Thread Alex Fontana
and machines all day long. I deploy hundreds of servers (inc DCs), believe me, I dont use the CD in every one of them. :) Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:37 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC?

2005-07-09 Thread Alex Fontana
:55 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC? I always avoid using images on servers and instead opt for automated builds. If I was pushed I might use an image for a server, but never for a DC. Phil On 7/9/05, Alex Fontana [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC?

2005-07-09 Thread Alex Fontana
, I dont use the CD in every one of them. :) Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers

[ActiveDir] Sysprep Win2k3 Servers...maybe a DC?

2005-07-08 Thread Alex Fontana
I know imaging and ghosting has been talked about before, especially in regards to backing up DCs and the conclusion is dont. I totally understand this and agree, but what about a base image of a win2k3 server, non-domain member, that has had sysprep run for all servers, including maybe a

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange and disabling accounts

2005-06-07 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: Exchange and disabling accounts I wrote a batch file used during terminations that included granting the SELF account the associate external account permission. I used a tool called admodcmd. I believe this is the site:

[ActiveDir] Permissions needed to modify UNIX attributes SFU 3.5

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Fontana
Trying to delegate control to a group of admins for user account creation, simple enough However at this point I can not get past the UNIX attributes tab with out the following error message: Unable to modify the property object values: Check credentials There could be network

RE: [ActiveDir] Permissions needed to modify UNIX attributes SFU 3.5

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Fontana
PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Permissions needed to modify UNIX attributes SFU 3.5 Trying to delegate control to a group of admins for user account creation, simple enough However at this point I can

RE: [ActiveDir] Permissions needed to modify UNIX attributes SFU 3.5

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Fontana
problem and havent noticed it. I just make sure that I start it manually. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 8:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Permissions needed to modify UNIX attributes SFU

RE: [ActiveDir] Deleting an Exchange Database

2005-06-03 Thread Alex Fontana
If the DB is dismounted and only the system mbxs are left (no user mbxs) you can right-click the db and delete, you'll most likely get a message that it's been removed from ESM, but that you have to manually delete the edb and stm files. Then you can go to explorer and delete those two files.

RE: [ActiveDir] SFU and ADUC

2005-05-27 Thread Alex Fontana
Attributes tab when viewing a user's properties in the AD Users and Computers tool. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] SFU and ADUC Anyone know what I

RE: [ActiveDir] Joining workstation to domain over vpn(again)

2005-05-26 Thread Alex Fontana
While vpn'd in can you browse/access file shares? I remember having a similar issue and the fix being the following: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;244474 -Alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent:

[ActiveDir] SFU and ADUC

2005-05-25 Thread Alex Fontana
Anyone know what I need to install on an XP workstation to manage the Unix attributes of a user? SFU 3.5, AD2003. -Alex

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication failures - lingering objects

2005-05-22 Thread Alex Fontana
that to Eric or someone who has actually played with this and seen it though. Either way, I think it is good you are shooting it. joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:52 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication failures - lingering objects

2005-05-21 Thread Alex Fontana
that, I agree with Rick, mow the DC down and start over. joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Replication failures - lingering objects I have a DC

RE: [ActiveDir] The at /interacive command

2005-05-21 Thread Alex Fontana
that the resolution is 1 minute so you need to schedule something for the following minute. joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] The at /interacive command

RE: [ActiveDir] The at /interacive command

2005-05-20 Thread Alex Fontana
Try: at 10:29:00 /interactive ldp.exe not sure on how to get around the time? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TIROA YANN Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 10:06 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] The at /interacive command

[ActiveDir] Replication failures - lingering objects

2005-05-17 Thread Alex Fontana
I have a DC that appears to have had some time synch problems before I got here Subsequently, all other DCs have discontinued replication for the cn=configuration (per repadmin) with this DC. My question is; the first event I can see showing replication problems with this DC is on April

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication failures - lingering objects

2005-05-17 Thread Alex Fontana
Woops, 60day tombstone lifetime, not garbage collection. From: Alex Fontana Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:53 PM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: Replication failures - lingering objects I have a DC that appears to have had some time synch problems before I

RE: [ActiveDir] *Securely* setting local admin passwd (was: GPO not applied - thinks it is empty)

2005-05-12 Thread Alex Fontana
So what are some clever methods yall use to not expose the password in a script? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 9:52 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GPO not applied - thinks it

RE: [ActiveDir] Shutdown script not working.

2005-05-10 Thread Alex Fontana
I dont think youre ever gonna get SYSTEM to shutdown any system but its local one it has no authority on any system but itself. Only thing I can think of is throwing some credentials into the script your writing that does have the authority over other machines, but then your askin for it

RE: [ActiveDir] best practice?

2005-05-04 Thread Alex Fontana
It sounds like the question is: What is the proper method for adding a new machine (new image, reimage, whatever) to the domain using a NetBIOS name that already exists in the domain? Reset the machine account and then add the new machine (what Jorge said). In a single site you

[ActiveDir] Querying for all users

2005-02-28 Thread Alex Fontana
Is there any attribute that is unique to real user accounts only (mail enabled and non-mail enabled)? We tried teaming up objectclass=user and givenname=*, but of course not all users have to have a given name. Then tried teaming up the objectclass with useraccountcontrol=5*, then we found

RE: [ActiveDir] Querying for all users

2005-02-28 Thread Alex Fontana
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:48 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Querying for all users Is there any attribute that is unique to real user accounts only (mail enabled and non-mail enabled)? We tried teaming up objectclass

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:winsock

2005-01-10 Thread Alex Fontana
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318584 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:39 AM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] OT:winsock I keep getting an error on a win2k pro

RE: [ActiveDir] virus/worm

2004-11-22 Thread Alex Fontana
We've seen this, unfortunately there are thousands of variants of this worm. First things first... Make absolute sure you are completely cleaning a machine!!! No matter how much patching is done if the machine has already been compromised it WILL get reinfected. We found that Mcafee, even

[ActiveDir] Juniper Netscreens and AD Replication

2004-11-18 Thread Alex Fontana
Interesting issue with Netscreen 204 Firmware v5; on three occasions we have had AD replication break between sites connected by VPN. As of now we have reverted back to our v4 box which has worked fine for the past year. The problem seems to be in LDAP queries, no response when using

RE: [ActiveDir] Corrupt profiles after w2k3 upgrade?

2004-09-20 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: Message Thanks all for your replies. My concern isn't so much with the Event 1000s, or with the folks that this has already happened to as much as it ispreventing this, possibly by using "uphclean.exe", or understanding why all of a sudden folks are having this happen. Anyone have

[ActiveDir] Corrupt profiles after w2k3 upgrade?

2004-09-16 Thread Alex Fontana
Hello all, we've had a few calls this week (more this week than last) about folks' profiles being corrupt, i.e: they are having a new profile created when they log on. User bob now has bob.domain or in some instances even bob.domain.00, etc. I've looked at a few machines and notice no

[ActiveDir] Suggestions on group deployment

2004-09-07 Thread Alex Fontana
In an effort to improve file server security and group management as a wholeI find myself curious about what other folks do in similar situations. The environment: 1 File Server, 1 Win2k3 Forest, 3 domains, Exchange 2k Current config: A bunch of global security groups that are pretty much

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO Question

2004-09-02 Thread Alex Fontana
My GPO is as follows: Activate Screen Saver: Enabled Screen Saver EXE Name: NOT CONFIGURED Password Protect Screen Saver: Enabled Screen Saver Timeout: Enabled (1200 sec) That config will allow the user to choose their own screen saver but not allow them to change the lock screensaver feature or

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange and AD E-mails

2004-07-30 Thread Alex Fontana
The two responses make good points; can you send an email to the address, do you get an NDR?And has the RUS stamped the mailbox with the addresses? I've had the RUS stop stamping addresses, which caused the mailbox not to be created (can't log in) and have had to run a rebuild, you may want

[ActiveDir] AutoDL

2004-07-30 Thread Alex Fontana
Doesn't the subject say it all??? Has anyone gotten AutoDL to work? I have it all setup but when I load the webpage the two bottom panes don't display; "Page Not Found". I'm thinking there is some sort of security misconfig or something, but documentation is so scarce that I have no clue

RE: [ActiveDir] AutoDL

2004-07-30 Thread Alex Fontana
www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alex Fontana Sent: Fri 7/30/2004 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] AutoDL

2004-07-30 Thread Alex Fontana
: [ActiveDir] AutoDL Why can't they use the OS search/admin baked-in tools? Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Fontana Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AutoDL I'll look at cconnect

RE: [ActiveDir] Any way out of this mess?

2004-07-26 Thread Alex Fontana
First question is: Do you have ANY access to the box? You can't log on locally, but can you netsvc and start the telnet service? Can you use psexec and run psexec \\hostname cmd to get a shell? (www.sysinternals.com look at pstools in the utilities section, great tools and free!) Can you get to

RE: [ActiveDir] DC GPO not applying event log settings

2004-07-21 Thread Alex Fontana
Title: DC GPO not applying event log settings Sorry, Win2k/SP4 all current patches applied. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric FleischmanSent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:06 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] DC GPO not applying event log