Re: RE : Re: [ActiveDir] remove orphan DC from the domain

2007-01-26 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Just what it says... it first attempts to transfer the FSMO roles from the one to the other...and it if can't find the proper DC.. it merely seizes the roles. It tries to negotiate politely with the role holder.. and if there is none for it to argue with it says fine... I'm taking the roles.

Re: [ActiveDir] Disable CD ROM through GP

2007-01-26 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Why not setting up a test network/machine in VirtualPC/Vmware? Haritwal, Dhiraj wrote: Hi All, I want to disable CD ROM on all client machines through GP. I found the KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555324 created the attached test.adm file. Actually I don’t have any testing machine

[ActiveDir] WMI and Vista

2007-01-21 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
If one wanted to build a WMI query that would capture Vista and any other workstation OS after Vista... how would one build that query? I know that this will capture Vista: Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version = 6.0.6000 But will this catch any version of Vista after XP if, on the

Re: [ActiveDir] WMI and Vista

2007-01-21 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:00 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] WMI and Vista If one wanted to build a WMI query that would capture Vista and any other workstation OS after Vista... how would one build

Re: [ActiveDir] WMI and Vista

2007-01-21 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
the reasoning or issue behind this specific weird question? :) /Alain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:24 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir

Re: OT RE: [ActiveDir] Unsubing

2007-01-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Funny... because one of our SBS MVPs is our Mac expert and we are relying on him more and more as Mac are in our SBS networks. I think it's somewhat religious thinking to think that just because you are running a Mac you suddenly don't need to be AD aware. We certainly do in our Running

Re: [ActiveDir] 1054 Error (Windows cannot contact DC - Group Policy)

2007-01-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
the change in the registry on the problem server apparently as making the switch in the GPO itself seems to not have any effect. Donavon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent

[ActiveDir] OT: (only sort of as they will yet all you when the calendars are all messed up) Recorded webcast on Daylight savings patching

2007-01-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://blogs.msdn.com/mthree/archive/2007/01/19/now-available-webcast-on-windows-2000-updates-for-daylight-saving-time.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: (only sort of as they will yet all you when the calendars are all messed up) Recorded webcast on Daylight savings patching

2007-01-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
...that should read yell at you not yet all you (Mountain Dew wearing off...) Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/mthree/archive/2007/01/19/now-available-webcast-on-windows-2000-updates-for-daylight-saving-time.aspx List info : http

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] E-Mail Template

2007-01-18 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Redearthsoftware PolicyPatrol. but (wince) Exchange 5.5? Man I feel for ya... Tony Murray wrote: Hi Milton In future, please use the [OT] prefix in the subject line for off-topic posts such as this. Have a look at the Exchange 5.5. FAQ here for recommendations for adding disclaimers to

[ActiveDir] Test of daylight patch

2007-01-17 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
So I patched the workstations, the server, the exchange and did a 'fake' appointment for everyone at 4/1/2007 at 1 a.m. My Windows Mobile 3/sync to the server phones sync'd to the server and said the appointment was 12 a.m. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923953 Oh boy are we going to have

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Who needs that much ram anyway?

2007-01-16 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
(it was a joke) I'm just surprised it needs a fix already. Martin Tuip wrote: I can think of quite a few situations. RAM is cheap aswell compared to the early days. Martin Tuip Exchange MVP - Original Message - From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Who needs that much ram anyway?

2007-01-16 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:47 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Who needs that much ram anyway? Personally I was surprised that a Windows 2003 server and Exchange 2007

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange daylight savings patch

2007-01-16 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c16aea4a-ed33-4cd9-a7c3-8b5df5471b7adisplaylang=entm http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c16aea4a-ed33-4cd9-a7c3-8b5df5471b7adisplaylang=entm Update for Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007 for Exchange Server 2003

Re: [ActiveDir] 1054 Error (Windows cannot contact DC - Group Policy)

2007-01-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
These aren't broadcom nics are they? (Broadcoms are evil) Darren Mar-Elia wrote: Does this server have the same NIC driver as other servers? Or, have you tried updating this server's NIC driver? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donavon

Re: [ActiveDir] 1054 Error (Windows cannot contact DC - Group Policy)

2007-01-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:39 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] 1054 Error (Windows cannot contact DC - Group Policy) These aren't broadcom nics are they? (Broadcoms

Re: [ActiveDir] 1054 Error (Windows cannot contact DC - Group Policy)

2007-01-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
to make the change in the registry on the problem server apparently as making the switch in the GPO itself seems to not have any effect. Donavon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Monday

Re: [ActiveDir] 1054 Error (Windows cannot contact DC - Group Policy)

2007-01-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 3:09 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] 1054 Error (Windows cannot contact DC - Group Policy) Dump the broadcoms and get Intel. http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley

Re: [ActiveDir] R2 Schema

2007-01-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] R2 Schema (for those on the off chance interested in the SBS impact) While SBS's "r2" release does not give you the functionality of the real R2 bits, to have DFSRv2 on member servers you have to bump the schema on the SBS DC. The only parts of the real "r2" that SBS

Re: [ActiveDir] R2 Schema

2007-01-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:13 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] R2 Schema (for those on the off

[ActiveDir] OT: DTS webcast (this link works)

2007-01-11 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://blogs.technet.com/james/archive/2007/01/11/daylight-saving-partner-webcast.aspx Further to my recent post about Daylight Saving updates to Microsoft products, partners are encouraged to join the webcast on this very subject. You can sign up for the webcast here:

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Is anyone having trouble with Vista and ISA authentication?

2007-01-10 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Which ISA firewall client do you have? The new one that supports ISA? Rich Milburn wrote: Ive been having an issue for some time where Vista (w2k3 domain member) will work fine for a while, then suddenly start asking for proxy authentication for browsing and wont accept what

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Is anyone having trouble with Vista and ISA authentication?

2007-01-10 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
(and these days I can't assume) 64 or 32? 64 there's a needed hotfix for Vista 64 to work with ISA. Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: Which ISA firewall client do you have? The new one that supports ISA? Rich Milburn wrote: I’ve been having an issue for some time where

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Is anyone having trouble with Vista and ISA authentication?

2007-01-10 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
KB917902 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917902/en-us on second thought ... that might/prob not applicable...we only need it as ISA is on our DC and Vista 64 doesn't play nice with that setup. Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: Which ISA firewall client do you have? The new

Re: [ActiveDir] client time sync

2007-01-10 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws0306.htm Fixing Time Synchronization Problems My XP desktop stopped synchronizing its time with the domain. The Event Log kept showing that the desktop hadn't time-synced with any of my DCs in weeks. That worried me because if my workstation's

[ActiveDir] OT: Time change support webcast

2007-01-09 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://blogs.technet.com/beatrice/archive/2007/01/09/preparing-for-dst-changes-in-2007.aspx In August of 2005 the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST) from 2007. While the change in daylight saving

Re: [ActiveDir] WSUS 3.0 beta 2

2007-01-08 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
There is a WSUS beta newsgroup specifically for such questions. .. and BTW it's just about to shut down as they are nearing RC and I'm assuming that as this is a beta you've installed this in a test network only? Haritwal, Dhiraj wrote: Hi, Does anyone knowing about WSUS 3.0 beta

Re: [ActiveDir] Risks of exposure of machine account passwords

2007-01-08 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Assuming you have LC3 still around... now you have to use other tools. However, the cracking ease is dependent upon the lanman hash settings. If you have 98/NT, other alternative OSs and have to have lanman enabled.it's trivial if you are on the lan to crack the passwords using (and I

Re: [ActiveDir] AD Auditing and Change Control

2007-01-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Last I checked the public info on ACS is/has/will be in beta forever and won't be in a product until the System Center line of products hits the streets (they are still in beta). These days ACS isn't a solution for anyone other than the folks that got the beta bits eons ago. I'm still

[ActiveDir] I thought we weren't supposed to be doing GP editing stuff on DCs in the first place?

2007-01-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Morphed folders appear in the SYSVOL Group Policy folder after you use Group Policy Object Editor to view a GPO on a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929266 Perform GPO management tasks on a certain domain controller. For example, perform GPO

Re: [ActiveDir] NTP Client Software

2007-01-03 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
I'm assuming you have a mixed environment... granted I'm small...but I've not found the built in time sync to not sync once the DC has been properly pointed and the ports are open on the firewall properly. I've read somewhere (need to google this) that some of the military time servers that

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 Copy Outgoing Messages

2007-01-03 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Inbound is a piece of cake. Outbound needs journaling http://support.microsoft.com/?id=281926 (not sure if 2007 makes this easier?) Aaron Steele wrote: Dan, I did some quick searching and found a white-paper from MS on Outbound Journaling and how one might set that up. That might be

Re: [ActiveDir] NTP Client Software

2007-01-03 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:25 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] NTP Client Software

[ActiveDir] OT: Admin pack KB now out

2006-12-23 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Error message when you install the Windows Server 2003 management tools on a Windows Vista-based computer: MMC could not create the snap-in: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/930056

Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-20 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
(see Subject line as to why you cannot edit the policy on a DC) Because for Vista you need to be on a Vista box for the Group policies in Vista to make sense. The firewall rules alone grab a virtual set up ..set up a DC and a Vista box and fire up the group policy settings for Vista's

Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO (as a bystander here .. I personally like the point/counterpoints.. just sometimes we need to realize that we lose ...what? About 60

Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
in the morning - anonymous -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO Depends on what you define

[ActiveDir] OT:TechNet Magazine Active Directory Component Jigsaw Poster:

2006-12-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Download details: TechNet Magazine Active Directory Component Jigsaw Poster: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c236336d-ab43-44b1-ad6f-a2f668fb8c02displaylang=en -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer

[ActiveDir] OT: Let's see how many wrong things are in this web site

2006-12-19 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://utools.com/help/MovingSBS.asp SBS is limited to 5-20 users -- try 75 users or devices Because SBS does not allow a second domain controller, there is no supported way to back up Active Directory to protect against failure of the SBS computer. --- Firstly, SBS supports additional

Re: [ActiveDir] SMB Problems

2006-12-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
SMB signing enabled? If it's not a newer one, they can't communicate over SMB with the require SMB signing on. In August of this year there was a patch that came down that adjusted the default SMB signing behavior and it was in the optional section and on WSUS. Was that installed perhaps?

Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Yup. I think it finally WU'd down didn't it? Brian Desmond wrote: There was a hotfix for that - they lengthened some string or something in the adm file format if I remember right. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Bad for whom? Down here where the bar is low for best practices in the first place the var/vap comes in and has to kick the owner off of his shiny new OEM Vista box and borrow it to set up the group policy firewall settings for it, or other settings that the managed services partner may

Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
And SBS's version of "fill in the blank" always lags behind the big guys (we let you bleed first so we don't have to :-) We're 64bit only or bust in the Longhorn era. That means for us to have a Longhorn GP'er... we're migratin' the Kitchen sink to run on faster hardware (the water will run

Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
(as a bystander here .. I personally like the point/counterpoints.. just sometimes we need to realize that we lose ...what? About 60% of communication via email? And adjust accordingly okay? Can we hug and make up?) Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog:

Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days

2006-12-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
As a generalization if the Microsoft O/S event logs are blank the issue tends to be hardware related (and those are the hardest ones to nail down at times) Eric Fleischman wrote: Can you give us some data? Like, when it dies, what do you see? Is death a blue screen? Or something else?

Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days

2006-12-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
[I don't mean really blank.. I just mean that they don't point to anything useful blank] Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: As a generalization if the Microsoft O/S event logs are blank the issue tends to be hardware related (and those are the hardest ones to nail down

Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days

2006-12-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
- From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:17 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days [I don't mean really blank.. I just mean that they don't point to anything useful

[ActiveDir] OT: Daylight savings time patches

2006-12-13 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
WSUS Product Team Blog : DST Timezone KB929120 KB928338 updates explanation for WSUS admins: http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2006/12/13/dst-timezone-updates-why-do-i-have-2-when-i-synch-wsus-today.aspx (for the record I saw two updates as well) While this update is being offered as

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Daylight savings time patches

2006-12-13 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
(okay that posted way too fast...what's wrong with the servers?) ;-) Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: WSUS Product Team Blog : DST Timezone KB929120 KB928338 updates explanation for WSUS admins: http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2006/12/13/dst-timezone-updates-why-do

Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days

2006-12-13 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Microsoft partners have a service called Server down. If you are merely a registered Microsoft partner (which since you say clients and you are touching a SBS box.. you should be) you can log into your www.microsoft.com/partner profile (need passport) go to the support section, find the

Re: [ActiveDir] SBS Dies Twice in Four Days

2006-12-13 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Other ideas: UPS good? Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: Microsoft partners have a service called Server down. If you are merely a registered Microsoft partner (which since you say clients and you are touching a SBS box.. you should be) you can log into your

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 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

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Benefits of SBS2003 R2 over SBS2000

2006-12-11 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Over SBS 2000 or over SBS 2003? 'cause if you are asking about 2000 to 2003 ...besides security...besides community support... Remote Web workplace and the daily email are two killer killer apps of SBS.. wizard to set up Outlook over http automagically.how long do you need for me to

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Benefits of SBS2003 R2 over SBS2000

2006-12-11 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Small Business Server 2003 R2 Release - ITP WebBlog: http://blog.itprosusa.com/?p=23 A smidge more of the difference between SBS 2003 sp1 and SBS 2003 R2. Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: Over SBS 2000 or over SBS 2003? 'cause if you are asking about 2000 to 2003

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-09 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:21 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS I

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-09 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Some questions: - * In order to help provide our services, we occasionally provide information to other companies that work on our behalf. These companies are required to keep this information confidential and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-09 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
BTW that first part was a bit blonde ('tis a Saturday and the dew hasn't kicked in)..what I meant was...there isn't any special flag that needs to be kicked on the Vista's like there is on XP sp2 to get that Dcom thing working? Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: Some

[ActiveDir] OT: Silly me.. I thought it already had RTM'd

2006-12-08 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://blogs.technet.com/brettjo/archive/2006/12/08/exchange-server-2007-rtm.aspx Good Morning all, just wanted to bring the following to your attention..!!! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/12/07/431782.aspx Okay so where's the Exchange 2007 listserves? -- Letting your vendors set your

Re: [ActiveDir] What is Websence

2006-12-08 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Please be advised that your time to learn, update, get up to speed on something is not free so while the "fill in the blank" may not have licensing fees, nothing in life is for "free"... everything has some sort of cost value to it. For me to learn it means I'd be expending my time to get up

Re: [ActiveDir] Maybe OT: Shared Calendars w/o using Exchange? Tips/Suggestions/Recommedations?

2006-12-07 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
providers you'd make my life considerably easier ;) In any case, thanks again for reading this far and bearing with my ramblings. Happy Christmas for all ;) Javier Jarava On 05/12/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hosted SBS with Outlook 2003

Re: [ActiveDir] Delegate join computer to domain

2006-12-07 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
In the default domain set up ... a domain user can set up 10 computers as was pointed out After I adjusted the security settings, I reduced the default number of computers an authenticated user can join to the domain down to zero. Why not just change the group to have that right again? As

[ActiveDir] OT: But THANK YOU WSUS/Exchange

2006-12-06 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2006/12/06/intelligent-message-filter-for-exchange-server-2003-supersedence-release-model.aspx Starting today, the WSUS administrator will notice that the IMF Filters now supersede each other instead of direct expiration of every update. A review of the

Re: [ActiveDir] _msdcs not propagated in AXFR

2006-12-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
too? Mike On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:28:42 -0800 Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2005/07/27/59808.aspx http://www.sbslinks.com/images/wp5z50vd.gif Joe? Deji? Got some forks? Laura A. Robinson wrote: Please

Re: [ActiveDir] Maybe OT: Shared Calendars w/o using Exchange? Tips/Suggestions/Recommedations?

2006-12-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Hosted SBS with Outlook 2003 Office Live http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA100809831033.aspx Not 2003 without a SBS box on the backend but 2007 uses Office Live to share calendars. 40 people and you don't have a server... wow.the control freak in me is freaking out. We put

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:12 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS Nope, I've done it web based. At the present time

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-04 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Nope, I've done it web based. At the present time there are two kinds of keycodes up on MVLS.. one that wants a KMS, the other that will phone home to Redmond automatically. Have your MVLS folks request the other type of key is my understanding how this will work for now. The KMS type won't

Re: [ActiveDir] _msdcs not propagated in AXFR

2006-12-04 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
(the red flag of SBS brings out you know who) SBS does the best when it is the DNSer... and when it is the DNSer... it does all that you need when it's installed. SBS does the necessary DNS zones when it's set up to be the main cheese of the network. how did you set up this box? Ask a

[ActiveDir] OT (sorta):Group Policy Log View

2006-12-04 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Download details: Group Policy Log View: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bcfb1955-ca1d-4f00-9cff-6f541bad4563displaylang=en -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS

2006-12-04 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
But the MVLS admin has to request the MAK keys... on mine the KMS were default and I had to request MAK (like Brian said) Tim Vander Kooi wrote: You need to go to Control Panel System then at the bottom select Change Product Key. This will allow you to enter your VL key which will result

Re: [ActiveDir] _msdcs not propagated in AXFR

2006-12-04 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
We install the Kitchen Sink service too don't forget ;-) (wait until we start talking about the My Business OU...that's usually good for another freak out or two) Laura A. Robinson wrote: Small point- dcpromo creates those zones as mentioned in the original question *if* you have not

Re: [ActiveDir] 100% CPU utilization when querying Win32_Account on DC

2006-12-01 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=9048 http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=9284 Rod's been tracking that on myitforum and the Patch management listserve for a while now. Guy Teverovsky wrote: Hi all, Recently I had a case where we experiences high CPU utilization

Re: [ActiveDir] 100% CPU utilization when querying Win32_Account on DC

2006-12-01 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
is caused by WMI not using paging in the query or very inefficient processing when using both LocalAccout=True and SidType=1 keys. Guy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:12 PM

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Stuck on Completing Upgrade

2006-11-30 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Never seen that on ones I've upgraded. Harding, Devon wrote: Anyone? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, Devon Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:52 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Stuck on

Re: OT: RE: [ActiveDir] Split pagefile

2006-11-30 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Heck even us SBSers know how to that :-) E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS Diva : Hey Peter! That was pretty easy!: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/04/25/92594.aspx E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS Diva : Debugging 101:

Re: [ActiveDir] OT - BES 4.1.2 server on a SBS 2003 box

2006-11-28 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
I'll find you contacts with folks that have done this. In general it's wise to get off of the popconnector anyway IMF has no ability to filter spam in a pop connector setup. Popconnector will also not route bcc'd email... so in general it's wise to move off of pop. Bart Van den

Re: [ActiveDir] OT - BES 4.1.2 server on a SBS 2003 box

2006-11-28 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
don't like people that tell strange technical things that seem kinda strange to me. In that case I want to know every little detail so I understand it and if correct, no objection to do so. Call me annoying ;-) Thanks Bart On 11/28/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Quickbooks really and truly will run without Admin rights

2006-11-27 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
actually made negative progress in that regard. Thanks, Andrew Fidel "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] " [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/23/2006 01:33 AM

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Quickbooks really and truly will run without Admin rights

2006-11-23 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:34 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Quickbooks really and truly will run without Admin rights http://www.quickbooks.com/Helpcenter/DoSearch.aspx?docType=DT_APPROVEDCO NTENTq=QuickBooks

[ActiveDir] OT: Are governments insane? (WA time change in 11 days)

2006-11-22 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
The AU's have passed a daylight savings change http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20795690-5007222,00.html Word is that MS will release a patch http://blogs.technet.com/mkleef/archive/2006/11/22/wa-daylight-savings-update-its-approved.aspx But here's another way to do this:

Re: [ActiveDir] computer policy processing -retry behaviour

2006-11-22 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Man if it were me I'd try to get up to XP sp2. Vista is a bit bleeding edge and many of my LOB stuff isn't ready yet...but 2000... most of the zero day stuff works very nicely on that platform. Graham Turner wrote: Darren, thanks as ever 4 post reply this confirms my thoughts / fears !!

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Are governments insane? (WA time change in 11 days)

2006-11-22 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
/ On 11/22/06, *Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The AU's have passed a daylight savings change http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20795690-5007222,00.html Word is that MS will release a patch http

[ActiveDir] OT: Security checklists - [Fwd: IASE Postings (UNCLASSIFIED)]

2006-11-22 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Original Message Subject:IASE Postings (UNCLASSIFIED) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:47:18 -0500 From: IASE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE DISA FSO has released the following updated Security Checklists, Security Readiness Review

Re: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 Admin Password

2006-11-22 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclientie=UTF-8rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-36,GGLG:enq=reset+administrator+password Start with Google. Law 3 of computer security.. if you have physical access... it's YOURS to own. Haritwal, Dhiraj wrote: I forgot the password of one of my windows 2000

[ActiveDir] OT: Quickbooks really and truly will run without Admin rights

2006-11-22 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://www.quickbooks.com/Helpcenter/DoSearch.aspx?docType=DT_APPROVEDCONTENTq=QuickBooks+2007+will+not+run+if+the+Windows+user+is+a+Restricted+-+Standard+Userp=SG_QuickBooksPremier2007 KnowledgeBase Support Title: QuickBooks 2007 will not run if the Windows user is a Restricted -

Re: [ActiveDir] Enterprise Domain Controllers group missing...

2006-11-21 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
View Advanced Features Look in Foreign Security Principles that I recall? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - We recently upgraded the schema in one forest from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003. - We now receive the following error when trying to access group policies, The Enterprise Domain Controllers

Re: [ActiveDir] Enterprise Domain Controllers group missing...

2006-11-21 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Now granted my picture is worth a thousand words may not be accurate since I also have the Kitchen sink service running... fwiw that's what mine looks like... http://www.sbslinks.com/aduc.htm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then correct it so people can learn rather than simply point out that its

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Vista Admin Tools Pack

2006-11-18 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/nick/archive/2006/07/11/3235.aspx Try installing it like that WATSON, BEN wrote: With the release of Vista to MSDN as well as the Microsoft Licensing site for download, I would assume that an Administration Tools Pack should be quickly on the way soon for

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Vista Admin Tools Pack

2006-11-18 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
found that page when beta 2 came out. While it did allow the tools to install, several critical snap-ins wouldn't function such as ADUC. -Original Message- From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Vista Admin Tools Pack

2006-11-18 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
critical snap-ins wouldn't function such as ADUC. -Original Message- From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: 11/18/06 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Vista Admin Tools Pack http

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: M$

2006-11-17 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
... it must be everyone weirding out waiting for their Vista downloads on MSDN... at least I'm hoping that's the reasonotherwise...can we go back to when Deji was insulting the wrong Laura? At least near my dinnertime? Laura A. Robinson wrote: I am so grossed out now.

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: M$

2006-11-17 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
(oops) ;-) and :-) of course Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: ... it must be everyone weirding out waiting for their Vista downloads on MSDN... at least I'm hoping that's the reasonotherwise...can we go back to when Deji was insulting the wrong Laura? At least near

[ActiveDir] OT: The lite ISA appliance (now I get what you were talking about)

2006-11-17 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/11/17/the-real-truth-about-the-fresno-version.aspx Omygosh...that just made my night... -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Sonicwall vs ISA (was M$)

2006-11-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
-967-2819 -- I love the smell of red herrings in the morning - anonymous -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Wednesday

Re: [ActiveDir] Restrict VPN Access By Computer Name

2006-11-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
http://home.comcast.net/~clearviewtc/ This is about wireless setup ... but it might help with some of the basic concepts of setup *Configuring Secure Wireless Network Access with Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2003* These documents provide prescriptive guidance to implement

Re: [ActiveDir] Restrict VPN Access By Computer Name

2006-11-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Expensive ISA appliances... let's qualify that Akomolafe, Deji wrote: Yes, you will need a CA for EAP. Ideally, you'd do a machine cert, because machines are what you want to filter. Are you providing hosted services to your clients, or what? Yes, there are ISA appliances. There have been

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Sonicwall vs ISA (was M$)

2006-11-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
vs ISA (was M$) Sonicwall vs. ISA? That's a new one on me. I'm not a SBSer, but I do have a Sonicwall. Would you care to expand? thank you - Original Message - From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir

Re: [ActiveDir] Is it 2000 or 2003?

2006-11-15 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Were these clean installs or inplace? Bart Van den Wyngaert wrote: Well I also have a strange thing... It concerns 2 SBS 2003 systems. Some months ago I raised both domain and forrest functional level on those boxes. By reading this thread I decided to have a look... Both tools report the

Re: [ActiveDir] Restrict VPN Access By Computer Name

2006-11-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
PROTECTED] http://www.info-lution.com Office: 727 546-9143 FAX: 727 541-5888 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:53 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re

Re: [ActiveDir] Restrict VPN Access By Computer Name

2006-11-14 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
I can ping you up with Amy Babinchak ... she's the best ISA/Small business guru (and ISA MVP) around if you want to ask more about ISA? Dan DeStefano wrote: Thank you for your response. I thought the Calling-Station-Id was used for phone numbers (that is what the description

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