RE: [ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help

2007-01-23 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I agree with Al in that I don't see an obvious way to do this from a single command line. The key, as he mentioned, is going to be getting a list of unique department numbers and section numbers. I'd probably separate those out into two distinct lists, one for departments and one for sections.

RE: [ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help

2007-01-23 Thread Coleman, Hunter
don't know how to do scripting like this yet. And I'll certainly holler if I run out of options. Thanks again, ~Ben From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:12 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote DC's on Virtual Server

2007-01-18 Thread Coleman, Hunter
IMHO, ESX/VM Infrastructure and Virtual Server are like apples and oranges. Yes, they are both virtualization environments, but have vastly different capabilities. VM Infrastructure has a much broader and deeper feature set that does come with added cost and complexity. Regardless, in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Remote DC's on Virtual Server

2007-01-18 Thread Coleman, Hunter
- Directory Services www.akomolafe.com x-excid://3277/uri:http://www.akomolafe.com - we know IT -5.75, -3.23 Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon _ From: Coleman, Hunter Sent: Thu 1/18/2007 1:24 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 Schema

2007-01-12 Thread Coleman, Hunter
No, you will still need to extend the schema to support DFS: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/84445c1b-a418-4a0 9-a50c-5f3258cfc5b51033.mspx?mfr=true -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinnie Cardona Sent: Friday,

RE: [ActiveDir] quota issues

2006-10-25 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclientie=UTF-8rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-22,GGLD:enq=windows+alternate+data+stream http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814594/en-us From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antonio ArandaSent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:17 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Switching distibution lists to security groups

2006-10-24 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Rob- This came up just the other day. Check http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/msg47273.htmland see if the responses there help. Hunter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huber, Rob (HNI Corp)Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:10 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] nslookup. AD beginer question

2006-08-28 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You may be running into this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825675/en-us From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon LinanSent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:15 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] nslookup. AD beginer question Hi Everyone,

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication from ASP

2006-08-04 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Can't you code your ASP so that it points to the same DC when it creates the user account that PeopleSoft is using for authentication? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucas, BryanSent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:05 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access

2006-08-03 Thread Coleman, Hunter
A different approach is for the Exch Full Admin to simply grant him/herself Full Mailbox Access-Allow on an individual,as-needed basis. I prefer this because it requires a conscious effort on the admin's part to access someone else's mailbox, regardless of what your corporate use policies

RE: [ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access

2006-08-03 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Check to see if someone removed the explicit Deny for the individual account on Send-As/Receive-As at the Exchange Org level, and if not whether it's getting overridden by an explicit Allow further down the hierarchy. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON,

RE: [ActiveDir] Types of network Card in AD forest like Intel, 3-COM..

2006-07-31 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You can start with this http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/network/client/list/nwlsvb05.mspx?mfr=trueand add in some logic to query AD for DCs and Exchange servers and then run the scriptcenter code against those particular servers. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Question

2006-06-30 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I'm wondering why you would want to do that. You can tell if a person is using the defaults by checking mDBUseDefaults, and if she is not you can pull actual limits from mDBStorageQuota, mDBOverQuotaLimit, and mDBOverHardQuotaLimit. Hunter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Question regarding compacting AD DB.

2006-06-27 Thread Coleman, Hunter
If each 2k3DC is newly promoted, as opposed to an in-place upgrade, then the .dit on those DCs will essentially be compacted with minimal whitespace. Were you planning on rebuilding your DCs as part of the migration, or doing in-place upgrades? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain gets Blacklisted

2006-06-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You'll probably have better luck if you post this in one of the Exchange newsgroups (microsoft.public.exchange*) or lists (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exchange-2003/) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ajay KumarSent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:43 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange mailnickname

2006-06-09 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Empirical evidence suggests that he shouldn't be insisting so much. Very few of our users have a proxy address of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and we have no problems getting to subfolders via OWA. I'm sure you could take a test user account in your environment and duplicate this. From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange mailnickname

2006-06-09 Thread Coleman, Hunter
On 6/9/06, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Empirical evidence suggests that he shouldn't be insisting so much. Very few of our users have a proxy address of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and we have no problems getting to subfolders via OWA. I'm sure you could take a test user

RE: [ActiveDir] AD lag sites and replication

2006-05-30 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: AD lag sites and replication This may be further out on the unsupported limb than you want to crawl, but IIRC Deanreferenced an alternative to lag sites in his part of the joe and Dean show at DEC. You could schedule a script that toggles the replication epoch value and during

RE: [ActiveDir] Permission to modify description

2006-04-19 Thread Coleman, Hunter
What happens when you run the script interactively, as opposed to within the login script? You can (should?) tighten the security on this...granting Self allow on Write Description should be sufficient. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] automatic account disable

2006-04-19 Thread Coleman, Hunter
What criteria are you using to determine that a user is inactive? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myke Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] automatic account disable hi guys, it's

RE: [ActiveDir] Lingering Objects

2006-03-30 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Have you looked at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314282and http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/4a1f420d-25d6-417c-9d8b-6e22f472ef3c1033.mspx? And are you sure that the lingering objects are the root cause of the replication problems, and not vice-versa? From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Disaster Recovery

2006-03-21 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Using virtual disk file backups or images for AD disaster recovery has USN-rollback perils that have been discussed several times here. It's worth a visit to the archives to check those out before staking your disaster recovery abilities on this strategy. On the other hand, using AD-aware

RE: [ActiveDir] Export AD user list in hirerarchy

2006-03-21 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237677/en-ushasinstructionsonexportingtheOUstructure From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Michael TyersSent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:13 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Export AD user list in

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring DC's

2006-03-10 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Never used Tivoli. From an RFP that an IBM vendor presented usa couple of years ago, I thought it was excessively complex, at least for our environment. Regardless of the product, if it installs an agent on your DCs and you don't control the monitoring framework, then you're creating an

RE: [ActiveDir] R2 and W2K3 SP1

2006-02-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You're just upset that ADAM has gone Mormon :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] R2 and W2K3 SP1 A couple of reasons 1. As people keep

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication traffic monitoring accounting

2006-02-15 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: Replication traffic monitoring & accounting You can look at the NTDS perfmon counters, which include some replication traffic metrics. You might also want to look at your SYSVOL for recent large (relatively speaking) files that someone may have inserted via group policy objects.

RE: [ActiveDir] permon access

2006-02-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Are you wanting them to run perfmon against your domain controllers, or against member servers/workstations? Locally, or remotely? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:14 AMTo: activedirectorySubject: [ActiveDir] permon

RE: [ActiveDir] permon access

2006-02-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=300702if you have 2k3 members From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:04 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] permon access Sorry, member servers. remotely. Thanks

RE: [ActiveDir] permon access

2006-02-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
says to allow the Performance Logs and Alerts service on the local boxto use an account that has the "logon as service" right on the remote server. Is this my only solution? Thanks On 2/13/06, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=300702 if yo

RE: [ActiveDir] ldap error during search. Paging related?

2006-02-10 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Try it with a capital "Z" adfind -b dc=mydomain,dc=com -f "((objectcategory=computer)(whencreated=2005111200.0Z))" From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:53 PMTo: activedirectorySubject: [ActiveDir] ldap error during

RE: [ActiveDir] ds* or joeware to get DN from email address

2006-02-10 Thread Coleman, Hunter
adfind -default -f "(objectCategory=person)([EMAIL PROTECTED])" dn You can change your search base as necessary. This also assumes that you want to check the primary SMTP address, and not match on a secondary address. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Teo De

RE: [ActiveDir] DSQUERY filter for space character only

2006-02-07 Thread Coleman, Hunter
(objectCategory=user)(displayName=\20)) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sitton Glen ESent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:17 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] DSQUERY filter for space character only I need to run an obscure DSQUERY with

RE: [ActiveDir] Automagic Security groups.

2006-02-07 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Two options come to mind, I'm sure there are others... 1) Build a set of scripts and put a web front-end on them, which would allow others to move the user account and as part of the move, the OUone groups would get stripped and the OUtwo groups would get added. 2) Directly delegate the

RE: [ActiveDir] Script to determine a machine's site

2006-02-06 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You can pull it with WMI (not sure about the PE scenario) http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_tasks__networking.asp (watch the wrap) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles

2006-02-06 Thread Coleman, Hunter
"can't" and "unsupported" are two different things From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navroz ShariffSent: Monday, February 06, 2006 2:12 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Roaming Profiles That's interesting...I have been doing

RE: [ActiveDir] Script to change owner?

2006-02-01 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You can only take ownership of an object, not push it onto another security principal. Look at dsacls and the "wo" flag, running in the security context of the 3rd party. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crawford, ScottSent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:46

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM msds-UserPasswordExpired

2006-01-31 Thread Coleman, Hunter
IIRC, some of the userAccountControl flags got pulled out into discrete attributes in ADAM. I think that UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD is now represented by ms-DS-User-Dont-Expire-Password. However, even with ms-DS-User-Dont-Expire-Password set to False and pwdLastSet set to 0, I'm still not seeing

RE: [ActiveDir] ADAM msds-UserPasswordExpired

2006-01-31 Thread Coleman, Hunter
What is strange, though, is that a bind attempt using an account with pwdLastSet of 0 fails, and a subsequent query (using a different account) of msds-UserPasswordExpired on the original account still doesn't show it as true. I would have expected the construction to occur on the later query.

RE: [ActiveDir] CPU/Memory usage .vbs?

2006-01-24 Thread Coleman, Hunter
The error message is pretty accurate :-) Try it this way oFileName = Inputbox("c:\cpuuse.txt","CPU Usage","CPUuse.txt") Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oFile = FSO.CreateTextFile(oFileName, True) strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\"

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books...

2006-01-23 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Lilianstrom Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: speaking of AD books... I lost track of which book

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Script Request - Restart Remote Service

2006-01-20 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Here is part of a script that I poached from somewhere. It's only set to stop a list of services, but you could include a second step in the For...Next loop that calls the oInstance.ExecMethod_(StartService) after you've stopped the service. Watch for line wraps and such... sComputer = 'enter

RE: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed

2006-01-18 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Look at netdom.exe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AdamT Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:03 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD computer accounts being removed On 1/18/06, Crawford, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] adfind question

2006-01-18 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Try it as adfind -h DC1 -b "cn=schema,cn=configuration,dc=myco,dc=private" -s base objectVersion From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah EigerSent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:27 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] adfind question Hi

RE: [ActiveDir] ADUC updates - Was Expired Accounts

2006-01-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Maybe the ability to change the security context for certain operations within a session? Like a task-specific run-as. I haven't thought this all the way through in terms of security implications, but usually when I fire up ADUC it's with a non-privileged account, and then I have to go back with a

RE: [ActiveDir] Find date Computer object was deleted and created

2006-01-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Turn up auditing and then parse the Security event logs on your domain controllers. There are a variety of ways to partially or fully automate this, including EventComb and scripting. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel Glasgow Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] NT and AD Permissions

2006-01-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Where are the C$/D$ shares? On the PDC, BDC, member server? What happens when you put the migrated account directly in the NT4 Local Administrators group and bypass the nested group config? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chandra BurraSent: Wednesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange deleted object issue

2006-01-10 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Try adfind with the -showdel flag From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:11 AMTo: activedirectorySubject: [ActiveDir] Strange deleted object issue I have this weird issue- A user object is missing from my win2k native

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange deleted object issue

2006-01-10 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Create a user account, then delete it. Note which DC you're connected to for the delete, then check the security log on that DC. Look at all of the events around the time you deleted the account so that you'll know what is actually getting logged. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

2006-01-07 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Oh no, there was no mention of civility anywhere :-) From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian DesmondSent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:39 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006 Oh you mean you witnessed them being civil to each

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange store size

2006-01-06 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Check the application event logs on the exchange servers for ESE 220. Text of those should show the size of each store as the backup of the store begins. Given a list of your Exchange servers, you could script that up to check them all and dump out the results to a file. From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

2006-01-05 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You're saying you don't take your laptop bag to the gym? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Parris Sent: Thu 1/5/2006 3:56 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: DEC 2006

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP(ot)

2005-12-19 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Ask your company what problem they hope to solve, or what added functionality they hope to get, by going with a 3rd party product. Then ask them if that problem/functionality is worth the purchase and implementation cost. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom

RE: [ActiveDir] Fully Own a User

2005-12-15 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You've hit the masterAccountSID problem that crops up when a mailbox-enabled account gets disabled. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278966 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah EigerSent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:45 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request

2005-12-12 Thread Coleman, Hunter
It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the

RE: [ActiveDir] Found bug in Active Directory DNS (integrated)

2005-12-07 Thread Coleman, Hunter
You're sure that it wasn't your client cache returning the value after the initial query? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ADSent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:36 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Found bug in Active Directory DNS

RE: [ActiveDir] Exporting Mailbox rights

2005-12-05 Thread Coleman, Hunter
The reference is on line 155 of the script. Go to Alain's site (www.lissware.net) and scroll down to the link for "Script Kit of Volume 2". Download that and extract the whole thing...you should get a directory structure, and themain script is in \Volume_2_ScriptKits\Chapter_04\Sample 4.02

RE: [ActiveDir] Exporting Mailbox rights

2005-12-04 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">(watch the URL wrap) There's a section in there that covers the mailbox permissions. Hunter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amy HunterSent: Friday, December 02, 2005 3:17 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] When is a domain Admin not a domain Admin?

2005-11-28 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Well, if they truly have full control over all objects, then they could add themselves into the Domain Admins group. Moot point... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morley, ScottSent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:59 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Renaming AD accounts en masse

2005-11-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Probably the easiest thing to do is save the spreadsheet into a delimitted text file (tab-delimitted in the code below), then open the file and read each line: Const ForReading = 1 strSourceFile = "yourFile.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")Set objSourceFile =

RE: [ActiveDir] Recommendations for a DOD wipe of a RAID Array?

2005-11-16 Thread Coleman, Hunter
We've used Boot and Nuke, which has several options for number of 0/1 write passes. http://dban.sourceforge.net/ I'm not sure what Joe's -safe option would be on something like this :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] strGrooup?

2005-11-15 Thread Coleman, Hunter
with the original If,Then statements (without the 0). Thanks All... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Mon 11/14/2005 6:36 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] strGrooup? OK, looking at this a bit closer than my first reply

RE: [ActiveDir] strGrooup?

2005-11-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Comment out your "on error resume next" line and run the script. What errors show up? Hunter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, DevonSent: Monday, November 14, 2005 4:05 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] strGrooup? I cannot

RE: [ActiveDir] strGrooup?

2005-11-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
OK, looking at this a bit closer than my first reply, if the user is in Windows_Group and/or any of the other groups, what are the odds that that group will happen to be first in the strGroup string? InStr will return the position of the first occurrance, so unless it happens to be the

RE: [ActiveDir] scripting file move issue(OT)

2005-11-09 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Yes, this is scriptable. Perl vs VBS? Either will work, so I'd go with whatever you are most comfortable with. How quickly are your source directories going to refill, and how quickly are is your destination directory going to get cleaned up by the different process? From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] scripting file move issue(OT)

2005-11-09 Thread Coleman, Hunter
s about 4gig a batch. The destination dir empties in about 10-15secs. also the destinantion dir can only handle 1000 files at a time before being emptied. thanks On 11/9/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this is scriptable. P

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware

2005-10-28 Thread Coleman, Hunter
"It depends..." We're running some production Exchange front-end servers on ESX and they perform as well as others that we have on physical hardware. Connector servers are also good candidates. Heavily loaded mailbox servers...I agree with you there. Hunter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware

2005-10-28 Thread Coleman, Hunter
What's your sizing of mail stores and mailboxes there -- Chuck -Original Message-From: Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSent: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:35:27 -0600Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware "It depends...&qu

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
then nothing- no quit or rset or anything. thanks alot On 10/12/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Network trace is probably the way to go, but lacking that...if you telnet to port 25 on the remote corp's mail host, and issue an ehlo command, do you get back a

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding users to local Admin group

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: Adding users to local Admin group The restricted groups setting falls under the Computer Config section of the GPO, so it's not going to apply to all machines they log into. It's only going to apply to the computers that receive the GPO. Put the computers that are going to be used in

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding Helpdesk Group to Local Admin Group

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: Message That won't work, since the restricted groups setting is under the Computer Config part of the GPO. Hunter From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHIANESE, DAVIDSent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:49 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-13 Thread Coleman, Hunter
th first", then my server issues a bdat, then nothing- no quit or rset or anything. thanks alot On 10/12/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Network trace is probably the

RE: [ActiveDir] Design Question

2005-10-12 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Unless there are different requirements at various branches for domain-wide settings, like password policies, or there are political obstacles, I would go with as few domains as possible. Start with a single domain, and then increase that number only if you run into circumstances that

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange confusion(OT)

2005-10-12 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Network trace is probably the way to go, but lacking that...if you telnet to port 25 on the remote corp's mail host, and issue an ehlo command, do you get back a list of supported verbs? What are they, or if not, what do you get back? Do that from your workstation and also from the Exchange

RE: [ActiveDir] Forest prep/domain prep in a MT root Domain

2005-10-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Title: RE: [MVP-Directory Services] October MVP Awards John- Some more details please... What do you have in place now, in terms of Active Directory and Exchange (versions, layout, etc)? Or is this a brand new install of everything? Are you talking about Exchange forestprep/domainprep, or

RE: [ActiveDir] Question about Delegation Object Owner.

2005-10-06 Thread Coleman, Hunter
If you create an object, you are the owner of the object and have full control over it. Seems like your options include removing their create/delete OU rights and making them go through you, or setting up a proxied system (e.g. web page) that will do the creation for them. You could run a

RE: [ActiveDir] Maximum distinguished name length?

2005-09-30 Thread Coleman, Hunter
From AD's perspective, the RDN is Some User (or cn=Some User). It does not include anything beyond that, such as OU or container paths. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Chopp Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:54 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] 2 exchange public folder questions

2005-09-30 Thread Coleman, Hunter
If you have a folder and subfolders that need to maintain the same set of permissions, grant the permissions to a group at the top foler and propagate them down; then manage the group membership to grant/revoke permissions. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft MOM Mailing list?

2005-09-30 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://www.listleague.com/ Go to "View Hosted Lists by Interest", then Microsoft Management, then MOM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, DevonSent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:46 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft

RE: [ActiveDir] 2 exchange public folder questions

2005-09-29 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Don't know on 1, but for 2 get PFDavAdmin which is either in the Exchange Resource Kit or downloadable from Microsoft. It will let you set permissions on a folder and then propagate them down to subfolders. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO filtering by properties of User Object

2005-09-27 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I think the way I'd approach it is to build a script that checks users for roaming profiles, and puts them in a security group if they do. Schedule the script to run on a regular basis. Then use the security group for GPO filtering. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)

2005-09-26 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Why should Exchange not think that servername.domain.tld is a domain? Can you resolve servername.domain.tld from the Exchange server? How about from the smarthost? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Monday, September 26, 2005 5:32 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange one more time(ot)

2005-09-24 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Does "servername.domain.tld" have MX and A records in DNS? Is this one of your servers, or does domain.tld belong to someone else? What happens when you try to telnet on port 25 from your Exchange server to servername.domain.tld? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Applications that extend the schema...

2005-09-23 Thread Coleman, Hunter
My preference would be that the application vendor include a set of LDIF files. That way all of the schema mods are in plain view and AD service owners (domain admins, schema admins) can see what is getting changed. Unless the schema mods were well documented by the vendor, I wouldn't run an

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Security

2005-09-21 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Fred- This is not possible. While you can make it more difficult for the user to do things you don't want him to, if you give him either physical access to the DC or the ability to log on to the DC, he is in a position to elevate his permissions to the point of owning your forest. If you

RE: [ActiveDir] disabling users

2005-09-21 Thread Coleman, Hunter
http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/sysadmin/ch06_05.htmwould be a good start From: Kern, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, TomSent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:30 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] disabling users I only have time to learn one

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: SAN Assessment

2005-09-21 Thread Coleman, Hunter
If you have the time, pick up a copy of Pierre Bijaoui's Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000. I don't think it's been updated for Exchange 2003, but most everything he covers in there carries forward. It's very good information on building storage infrastructure for Exchange, including SANs. It may

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO on XP 2000 Pro

2005-08-24 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I'd create the Workstations OU and the Servers OU. Then write a script that looks at each of the machines in the computers container, and based on what you find in the operatingSystem attribute have the script move the object to the appropriate OU. I'd also not leave new computer objects in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Database Corruption

2005-08-20 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I'd also look at running hardware diagnostics, particularly on the disk subsystem and controller. No point in restoring or repromoting if there is an unresolved hardware problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steve Linehan Sent: Fri

RE: [ActiveDir] HP teaming

2005-08-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
What problem do you have (or are trying to prevent) that makes you want to set up teaming? I only ask because you will be adding complexity to your environment that may not be justified by the perceived benefit. On the other hand, maybe it will... Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange weirdeness

2005-08-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
No. You're running into the msExchMasterAccountSID problem. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555410 has information, and points to the NoMAS tool. You can also handle this by setting the attributes manually or via script. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange weirdeness

2005-08-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
and their mailboxes? Should you just expire the account to a date in the past and then you can access their box? or can you give Self full mailbox access to a disabled account and then access the box? which way works? thanks alot On 8/17/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. You're running

RE: [ActiveDir] exchange weirdeness

2005-08-17 Thread Coleman, Hunter
in the past and then you can access their box? or can you give Self full mailbox access to a disabled account and then access the box? which way works? thanks alot On 8/17/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. You're running into the msExchMasterAccountSID problem. http

RE: [ActiveDir] ok, last one really

2005-08-12 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Watch for line wraps; you'll want to put your code between a While/Wend loop. Dim fso, ts Const ForReading = 1 Set fso = CreateObject(Scripting. FileSystemObject) Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile(c:\test.txt, ForReading, True) While NOT ts.AtEndOfStream strComputer = ts.ReadLine() rest of your code

RE: [ActiveDir] user dump

2005-08-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
. Phil On 8/10/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ADFind: http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/adfind.htm Example 6 from the command line help (adfind.exe /?) should be a good starting point for you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] account operators

2005-08-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
I expect they lack Exchange View Only Admin permissions (or higher). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:27 AM To: activedirectory Subject: [ActiveDir] account operators is there any reason an

RE: [ActiveDir] account operators

2005-08-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] account operators I thought AO had complete rights to the user object which would include exchange attribs. i guess they still need rights to the store? is that it? thanks On 8/11/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I expect

RE: [ActiveDir] one more silly question(OT exchange)

2005-08-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
Yes, but you will also need to grant Reviewer rights on your mailbox to the user, and they will have to open it as a secondary mailbox or create a shortcut to it instead of File-Open other user's folder-(Calendar from drop-down list) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] one more silly question(OT exchange)

2005-08-11 Thread Coleman, Hunter
that work? thanks On 8/11/05, Coleman, Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but you will also need to grant Reviewer rights on your mailbox to the user, and they will have to open it as a secondary mailbox or create a shortcut to it instead of File-Open other user's folder-(Calendar from drop

RE: [ActiveDir] user dump

2005-08-10 Thread Coleman, Hunter
ADFind: http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/adfind.htm Example 6 from the command line help (adfind.exe /?) should be a good starting point for you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Freddie Coleman III Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD

2005-08-09 Thread Coleman, Hunter
...or ADAM. These kinds of requests have a tendency to creep beyond the original scope, which can have unintended consequences if the upfront planning falls short. Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tuesday,

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