RE: [ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help

2007-01-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
on language though. And you will want to do this in passes most likely so you can ensure that the department group is created when it comes time to add an object to it. It's helpful to do it that way... Does that help, or ?? Al On 1/22/07, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys

RE: [ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help

2007-01-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
and populate the group structures as needed. Al On 1/23/07, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the response Al. To answer your ultimate question, which was Does that help, or ??, then I would have to lean more towards ?? in my case. Not to say you didn't give some excellent

RE: [ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help

2007-01-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:46 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help Thank you for the response Al. To answer your ultimate question, which was Does that help, or ??, then I

RE: [ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help

2007-01-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
, but as was mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it's not a question of the code, but the logic. Which you know already. Bonus question: Do you know what you call somebody who gets a dev to do this kind of coding work? :) -ajm On 1/23/07, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a software

[ActiveDir] Adfind + Admod help

2007-01-22 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hey guys, I'm trying to wrap my brain around how best to accomplish this and need a little help. I need to create a security group for each department in our company, and then a security group for each section. At our company sections fall underneath departments. So we may have a

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

2007-01-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
Noah, I initially thought that as well in regards to the video emulation performance. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll bet that you were using virtualized Windows Server 2003 operating systems. The default setting in Windows Server 2003 is that your display hardware acceleration is

RE: [ActiveDir] Client time sync

2007-01-10 Thread WATSON, BEN
Try the command... w32tm /resync /rediscover See if that helps the client figure out where it should look for time. ~Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:12 PM To:

[ActiveDir] Shares with Computer Account Permissions

2007-01-09 Thread WATSON, BEN
I was asked today whether it was possible to allow or deny access to shares not just based on user accounts, but also upon computer accounts. My immediate response was that I didn't think so. So I tested it by simply creating a folder up on our file server, and added the computer account for

RE: [ActiveDir] Shares with Computer Account Permissions

2007-01-09 Thread WATSON, BEN
@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Shares with Computer Account Permissions Sure. IPsec. Laura From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:09 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Decode the msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor attribute.

2007-01-08 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hi Yann, I was reading this over the weekend, and perhaps this might provide enough relevant info for you to find what you are looking for. http://blog.joeware.net/2007/01/06/756/ ~Ben From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yann Sent: Monday, January 08,

[ActiveDir] OT: Hello?

2007-01-04 Thread WATSON, BEN
I haven't seen a single e-mail from the mailing list since yesterday morning. Is anyone else seeing this e-mail? Has anyone else received e-mails since then? Just curious if the list has just been dead for the past day, or if something might not be working properly. ~Ben

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-22 Thread WATSON, BEN
Personally, I see the Account Operators group as going far beyond the principle of least privilege. I simply have not run across a helpdesk that actually requires the privileges on a scale that the built-in Account Operators group provides. Most helpdesk personnel will do the majority of their

RE: [ActiveDir] Built in Security groups

2006-12-22 Thread WATSON, BEN
I'm a bit confused on what you mean by removing the built-in security groups? Could you elaborate a little bit for me? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 8:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-22 Thread WATSON, BEN
working throwing what appear to be .net errors. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 12:38 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets In our

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-22 Thread WATSON, BEN
would need to change the PW on their own account - and by default it's granted to the Everyone well-known-secprin. This is NOT a security issue since if you know a user's password, you _are_ the user. /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-21 Thread WATSON, BEN
In our case, I simply modified the security permissions on the OU containing our user accounts to provide a granular delegation of rights so the members of this security group can go into ADUC and unlock user accounts or reset/change passwords only. I modified various read/write property

RE: [ActiveDir] AdminSDHolder orphans

2006-12-19 Thread WATSON, BEN
Paul, On a side note, this part of your response caught my eye... ...and then retriggered SDPROP. Is there a way to manually trigger SDPROP? There have been times when I have wanted to do this but didn't know how or if it was possible. Thanks, ~Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange Lock Out Issue

2006-12-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
I meant to also include the link. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7AF2E69C-91F3-4 E63-8629-B999ADDE0B9Edisplaylang=en ~Ben From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:35 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange Lock Out Issue

2006-12-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
Download the Account Lockout and Management Tools from Microsoft. More specifically, from the downloaded EXE, extract the LockoutStatus.EXE file and use it to query for the user account that is having issues. It will tell you how many bad password attempts have been made, what time/date the

RE: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO

2006-12-14 Thread WATSON, BEN
Maybe he may be referring to the location of any possible new ADM files included with Vista. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:34 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

[ActiveDir] Lockdown CD-ROM access for some

2006-12-13 Thread WATSON, BEN
I have been given a task for our secured environments (by secured, I mean government clearances required) to develop a means to lock down access to the CDROM drive at a user based level. They want most users to be restricted from using the CDROM drives in anyway, but allow a certain security

RE: [ActiveDir] Lockdown CD-ROM access for some

2006-12-13 Thread WATSON, BEN
altogether. This would be on a per computer basis though-not per user. See the following KB for details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555324 Darren From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:36 AM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Lockdown CD-ROM access for some

2006-12-13 Thread WATSON, BEN
://joeelway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2095EAC3772C41DB!293.entry From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:36 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Lockdown CD-ROM access for some I have been given a task for our secured

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate join computer to domain

2006-12-08 Thread WATSON, BEN
computers, even when dropping the workstation quota to 0). --James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:45 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Delegate join computer

RE: [ActiveDir] running scripts via group policy using alternate accounts

2006-12-08 Thread WATSON, BEN
My memory is a bit fuzzy on this as I read about this awhile ago, but essentially when you run a logon script as you are, you are running it under the credentials of the user logging in. So if you are attempting to install some software, and the user logging in has only limited privileges,

[ActiveDir] Delegate join computer to domain

2006-12-07 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hello everyone, Our desktop support group are all a part of a security group called IT. I delegated the Create and Delete Computer ACEs to the security group over the OU that I want them to add computer accounts into when a machine is joined to the domain. After I adjusted the security

[ActiveDir] Delegate join computer to domain

2006-12-07 Thread WATSON, BEN
as intended. Thanks, ~Ben -Original Message- From: WATSON, BEN Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Delegate join computer to domain Hello everyone, Our desktop support group are all a part of a security group called IT. I delegated

RE: [ActiveDir] Split pagefile

2006-11-30 Thread WATSON, BEN
It really shouldn't matter whether or not the page file resides on the boot partition or not. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Wahlers Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:09 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

[ActiveDir] Delegate VPN rights

2006-11-30 Thread WATSON, BEN
I'm attempting to delegate out the permissions to adjust the Remote Access Permissions under the Dial-In tab in Active Directory for user accounts. When performing an LDAP query, I notice that changes to this setting are recorded in the msNPAllowDialin attribute. Set to False when Deny Access is

RE: [ActiveDir] Split pagefile

2006-11-30 Thread WATSON, BEN
Ah, that's a nice clarification. I actually wasn't aware of the 16MB limitation for page file size on the boot partition, especially since I had done just what you said. Set the boot partition to no paging file and just set it manually on an alternative disk. Very good to know, thanks for the

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate VPN rights

2006-11-30 Thread WATSON, BEN
, November 30, 2006 11:50 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Delegate VPN rights You will need to modify dssec.dat to expose the property. http://www.activedir.org/article.aspx?aid=24#11 Tony -- Original Message -- From: WATSON, BEN

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegate VPN rights

2006-11-30 Thread WATSON, BEN
. http://www.activedir.org/article.aspx?aid=24#11 Tony -- Original Message -- From: WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:34:39 -0800 I'm attempting to delegate out the permissions to adjust

[ActiveDir] [OT] Vista Admin Tools Pack

2006-11-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
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 Vista. Anyone have any information on when a Vista compatible Adminpak will be available? I would've run Vista Beta 2

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Replication Problem

2006-11-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
It looks to me like this domain controller has not replicated for a very long time and has passed the tombstone lifetime. You will probably never get this DC to function properly in it's current state and you would probably be best served by simply demoting and repromoting the domain

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

2006-11-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
@mail.activedir.org Sent: 11/18/06 6:25 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Vista Admin Tools Pack 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

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

2006-11-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Vista Admin Tools Pack http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=437266SiteID=17PageID=1 Try the RTM .. it appears to work (98% complete on my Vista download so I can't confirm yet) WATSON, BEN wrote: Yeah, I found that page when beta 2 came out. While

RE: [ActiveDir] [Semi-OT] AD Integrated DNS entries

2006-11-08 Thread WATSON, BEN
exactly the kb, but take a look and see if you can't modify the dsacls command to report the ownership of the records. Al On 11/7/06, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, Simple question I hope. I was looking for a way to determine a couple things about DNS

[ActiveDir] [Semi-OT] AD Integrated DNS entries

2006-11-07 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hey guys, Simple question I hope. I was looking for a way to determine a couple things about DNS (A PTR records) entries in an Active Directory Integrated DNS environment 1) Is there a way to determine whether the entry has been manually defined (and thus is never scavenged) or

RE: [ActiveDir] DC crashed

2006-11-03 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hi Bruce, First, youll probably want to seize the FSMO roles held by the crashed domain controller. Its probably not a good idea to bring up another domain controller with the same name as the previous one that used to hold the FSMO roles until youve moved those roles to another DC. You

RE: [ActiveDir] Need some advices....

2006-10-25 Thread WATSON, BEN
There shouldnt be any reason why this would cause any issues. ~Ben From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yann Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:23 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Need some advices Hello all ;)

[ActiveDir] LastlogonTimestamp Missing

2006-10-25 Thread WATSON, BEN
I have a Windows 2003 R2 single domain/forest. This domain/forest was built upon Windows 2003 R2 so it has never had to go through any upgrades. I wanted to query for the true last logon time/date for various users and noticed that the LastlogonTimestamp is not an available attribute for the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Jabber and AD authentication

2006-09-28 Thread WATSON, BEN
Jabber supports the use of SRV records and works beautifully against AD for authentication. I got a Jabber server up and running for my company as a test about a year ago, however I was extremely let down by the quality of the clients. Each client seemed to have its own quirk, bug, or

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-25 Thread WATSON, BEN
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Linehan Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:47 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects Yes. Thanks, -Steve -Original Message- From: WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-25 Thread WATSON, BEN
Message- From: WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: 9/25/06 11:12 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects Well, I just attempted to add group and groupOfNames into the groupofURLs objectclass

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-24 Thread WATSON, BEN
a hypothesis as I do not have the details on exactly what changes were made when to the schema. Thanks, -Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 5:07 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-24 Thread WATSON, BEN
. If you were on Windows Server 2003 and in Forest Functional Level 2, i.e. Windows 2003 Forest Functional Level, you could have defunct the schema change. Thanks, -Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Sunday

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects Correction, 10 domain controllers in 9 sites. From: WATSON, BEN Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 10:58 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
/ decimal 8372 : ERROR_DS_OBJ_CLASS_NOT_SUBCLASS winerror.h # The specified class is not a subclass. # 1 matches found for 20b4 Thanks, -Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 1:03 AM To: ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:28 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects Hi Steve, First off, thanks for all your help, you are always incredibly helpful. Here's the output you requested from

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:28 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects Hi Steve, First off, thanks for all your help, you are always incredibly helpful. Here's the output you requested from

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:28 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects Hi Steve, First off, thanks for all your help, you are always incredibly helpful. HereĆ¢EUR(tm)s the output you requested from

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

2006-09-23 Thread WATSON, BEN
to be collected. Al On 9/23/06, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I keep re-reading the e-mail and realize there was information I failed to give you. From what I understand of how the schema extension was added, it was added manually simply through adsiedit

[ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

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

RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects

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

[ActiveDir] Block Inheritance on DC OU

2006-09-13 Thread WATSON, BEN
The company I am currently working for has block inheritance enabled for the Domain Controllers OU and apparently whoever enabled this setting is no longer with the company (or they wont fess up to why they did this). Although I am curious, what sort of ramifications does enabling block

RE: [ActiveDir] Strange password issue

2006-09-07 Thread WATSON, BEN
Yep, your e-mail definitely hit the list. I'm confused as to why the 512 UAC flag is making anybody think that passwd_notreqd is set. A setting of 512 indicates a normal account. 544 would indicate a normal account with passwd_notreqd set. Laura If that is the e-mail you

RE: [ActiveDir] deleting subdomain

2006-08-30 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hi Rezuma, You would want to perform a metadata cleanup through NTDSUTIL to remove the child domain. ~Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Linan Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI - You cannot perform a system state backup on a domain controller that is running Windows Server 2003 SP1

2006-08-28 Thread WATSON, BEN
I ran into this a few weeks ago. I have a domain running on an old crappy box with two hard drives, and put the log files on the 2nd hard drive. When all my system state backups were failing, I ended up finding this KB article and found that the workaround in my case was to move the log files

[ActiveDir] [OT] Longhorn Beta

2006-08-17 Thread WATSON, BEN
Outside of my MSDN account is there a preferred way to obtain Longhorn Betas for testing? ~Ben

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Longhorn Beta

2006-08-17 Thread WATSON, BEN
- From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:35 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] Longhorn Beta Outside of my MSDN account is there a preferred way to obtain Longhorn Betas for testing? ~Ben

RE: [ActiveDir] ADFind Query

2006-08-15 Thread WATSON, BEN
that you were able to get it from the web site, let me know if otherwise. -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology t Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8

[ActiveDir] ADFind Query

2006-08-14 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hey guys, Simple question. Im trying to perform a search to locate all the schema extensions that have been added in by our company. I thought some simple syntax like this would work to find all schema attributes with an attrbituteID prefixed with our OID. adfind -schema -f

RE: [ActiveDir] ADFind Query

2006-08-14 Thread WATSON, BEN
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] ADFind Query Have a look at Dean's SchemaDiff on the download page: http://www.activedir.org/Downloads/Downloads.aspx Tony -- Original Message -- From: WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply

RE: [ActiveDir] ADFind Query

2006-08-14 Thread WATSON, BEN
* ldapdisplayname -sl or the shortcut adfind -sc sl:joeware* -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Monday

RE: [ActiveDir] ADFind Query

2006-08-14 Thread WATSON, BEN
-schema -f name=joeware* ldapdisplayname -sl or the shortcut adfind -sc sl:joeware* -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Monday, August 14

RE: [ActiveDir] Weak AD passwords

2006-08-09 Thread WATSON, BEN
Title: Message It seems that Cain Able development has picked up greatly since LC5 was discontinued and seems to offer all the features of LC5 and more. Check out the list of network security tools that the creator of NMAP has developed. Cain Able is #9. http://sectools.org/ And

RE: [ActiveDir] Weak AD passwords

2006-08-09 Thread WATSON, BEN
Title: Message I think you might mean the storing of LM hashes for compatibility with extremely old operating systems. When using LM Hash your password at most will consist of 14 characters, while thats a good length, the worst part is it is broken up into two 7 character strings. (At

RE: [ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access

2006-08-03 Thread WATSON, BEN
] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:46 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access In an effort to cut down on service account abuse, Ive been removing and reducing privileges left and right. I have delegated Exchange Full

RE: [ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access

2006-08-03 Thread WATSON, BEN
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:46 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access In an effort to cut down on service account abuse, Ive been removing and reducing privileges left and right. I have

RE: [ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access

2006-08-03 Thread WATSON, BEN
-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, BEN Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:17 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

[ActiveDir] Granting Exchange Mailbox Access

2006-08-02 Thread WATSON, BEN
In an effort to cut down on service account abuse, Ive been removing and reducing privileges left and right. I have delegated Exchange Full Administrator rights to a few users who had previously been using the service account we originally installed Exchange 2003. Sometimes, the

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove Defunct domains..

2006-08-02 Thread WATSON, BEN
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove Defunct domains.. You can remove the orphaned domains through NTDSUTIL. Doing a metadata cleanup. From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: XP exploit

2006-08-01 Thread WATSON, BEN
Interesting exploit. Although I think this might not be new. I fired up a somewhat old Windows XP VM I had to test it, and despite the fact that standard users had permissions to readexecute AT.EXE, they were still denied access. Same deal on my company workstation which is absolutely up to

RE: [ActiveDir] W2K3 Upgrade Domain Controller or Exchange Servers?

2006-07-31 Thread WATSON, BEN
Hi Nate, Just in case you hadnt seen this before, you might want to keep your eye on this KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314649 Good luck with your upgrade! ~Ben From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta, Nathaniel V CTR USAF

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on restricted group policy.

2006-07-27 Thread WATSON, BEN
Is there a way to set a restricted group membership, yet allow for additional members to not be removed when the group policy is refreshed? We have a number of engineers that we grant local administrator privileges on a case by case basis, and the initial reason I dismissed the use of

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on restricted group policy.

2006-07-26 Thread WATSON, BEN
When I wanted to do this with my domain workstations, I simply used a group policy object to deploy a startup script that added the proper security groups to the local administrators group. If I wanted to then remove these groups, I would simply edit the script and switch the /add to a

[ActiveDir] Test Environments

2006-07-25 Thread WATSON, BEN
I was hoping to get some input from some of you to better understand how you handle the design of test environments for application testing. For example, I built a so-called Offnet which is a duplicate of our production domain. We have a couple domain controllers restored from tape backup,

RE: [ActiveDir] Test Environments

2006-07-25 Thread WATSON, BEN
and other items which can affect multiple tests that are ongoing occur, the relevant persons can be notified so if they need to reschedule their testing or adjust their testing schedule, they can. On 7/25/06, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping to get some input from some of you

RE: [ActiveDir] Enumerating Group type and Mebership...

2006-07-25 Thread WATSON, BEN
Ugh, this sounds exactly like the SOX audit our company is currently going through. People asking for reports and screenshots of things they simply dont understand. Its a joy. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Hargraves Sent: Tuesday, July 25,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Interview Techniques

2006-07-24 Thread WATSON, BEN
Byron, I thought you might find this a good read. Its an e-mail from Joe Richards (author of the Active Directory OReilly book). Hes talking about why a tech lead (architect here at AppSig) should definitely be a separate role from an actual manager. Much like I would rather hit

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Interview Techniques

2006-07-24 Thread WATSON, BEN
Well, that was a forwarded e-mail gone wrong. Just ignore my inability to properly replace the TO field with the appropriate e-mail address. L From: WATSON, BEN Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:43 AM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Interview

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-19 Thread WATSON, BEN
adfind -sc scontainsl:uid is the easiest. Or use dsquery or ldp with the base set to the schema and pass the following filter. ((objectcategory=classschema)(maycontain=uid)) The above tries to do a search for classes where the maycontain attribute contains uid. HTH M@ On 7/19/06, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-19 Thread WATSON, BEN
have offered. It's been invaluable for my first time domain upgrade. ~Ben -Original Message- From: WATSON, BEN Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:28 AM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure Thank you to both Matheesha and Steve, this worked very

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
or issues arise and fully testing before doing any of this in production. Thanks, -Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:34 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; Mathieu CHATEAU Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
for classes where the maycontain attribute contains uid. HTH M@ On 7/19/06, WATSON, BEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am at the point where I now have a smooth running Windows 2003 forest and domain with the one exception of the UID attribute which I bypassed thanks to the hidden

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-18 Thread WATSON, BEN
are finished and of course as always test your procedure in a test environment to ensure success in production. Thanks, -Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-14 Thread WATSON, BEN
@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority Please run "certutil -ds cert-ds.txt" and sendus ( or me ) the text file. steve - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:42 PM S

RE: [ActiveDir] Log On To...

2006-07-13 Thread WATSON, BEN
I cant think of a group policy that would override this. Is it possible that when you checked the user account after you had made the changes that you hadnt waited for the replication to take place? You may have made the changes on DC1, and when the user account attempted to log in, it may

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-13 Thread WATSON, BEN
. my .02 steve - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:08 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority As part of my on-going journey into upgrading a 2000 domain to 2003, Iv

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-12 Thread WATSON, BEN
just wanted to make sure you knew this. So, in the future ,you dont have to worry about removing\moving the CA in order to upgrade DC's steve - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, July

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-12 Thread WATSON, BEN
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority And will it ever be a slooow 2k3 machine indeed. After continuing to do some reading and researching, it does appear

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Free Virtual PC

2006-07-12 Thread WATSON, BEN
Thanks for the heads up on this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:22 AM To: ActiveDir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Free Virtual PC If anyone cares,

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-12 Thread WATSON, BEN
or something terrible like that. Then if you want you could move it from that 2003 server to another 2003 server, or you could just leave it where it is. Kevin Brunson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:05 PM

[ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-11 Thread WATSON, BEN
As part of my on-going journey into upgrading a 2000 domain to 2003, Ive run into the issue of moving the Certificate Authority on one of the original domain controllers to a new Windows 2003 domain controller. I have found a couple KB articles that seem to put me down a good path, but

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority

2006-07-11 Thread WATSON, BEN
. my .02 steve - Original Message - From: WATSON, BEN To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:08 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Moving a Certificate Authority As part of my on-going journey into upgrading a 2000 domain to 2003

[ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
I am working to perform a domain upgrade from 2000 to 2003 R2 and I am running into problems right from the start when attempting an ADPREP /FORESTPREP. The domain also has Exchange 2003 running as well. Also, we have never extended the schema with Services for Unix 2.0 which I know can

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
SMS 2003 in our environment with the schema extended of course. ~Ben From: Mathieu CHATEAU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:21 AM To: WATSON, BEN Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure Hello BEN, are you

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
installed? Do you run Schema Admins Empty? Mark From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: 06 July 2006 21:13 To: Mathieu CHATEAU Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure Hello Mathieu, Yes, we run a fairly simple

RE: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure

2006-07-06 Thread WATSON, BEN
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] Forestprep Failure Outstanding response Steve! That was far more than I could have ever expected. I "almost" wish I had not taken a vacation day tomorrow just to see if your instructions will work! I'll certainly work on this Monday morning and let you know if I