RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Servers in Branch Offices

2005-10-20 Thread deji
Other than to set up the Virtual instances themselves, you will not ordinarily use the admin site to do much. After they are up and running, you will bring out either RDP or VMRC for doing all administration of the guest OS, and at that point the performance is very much independent of where the

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Servers in Branch Offices

2005-10-20 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Title: Message Hi Al, you don't need IIS running on the machine where Virtual Server is running. IIS supports the admin website, and you can put this on any other server, and have couple servers managed from one machine. Since we are talking about VS in BOs I'd recommend putting the virtual

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Servers in Branch Offices

2005-10-20 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
I have to second that - I don't see much performance issues when admininterface and the vs-host are seperated. The mgmt traffic should be pretty low, the higher traffic is when connecting onto a machine via RDP, VSRC or the webbased VSRC. Either or they will cause the traffic between the VS-host

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft password notification service

2005-10-20 Thread TIROA YANN
Title: Message Hi, Before continuing, Is your first problem resolved ? Yann De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Antonio ArandaEnvoyé: jeudi 20 octobre 2005 01:15À: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgObjet: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft password notification service

[ActiveDir] OT: Performance Counters

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Parris
Hello all, I have an issue where all the performance counters on a Windows Server 2003 SP1 server all appear as numbers, no descriptions or clues are detailed to as why this is occuring. The server also has SQL installed. Does anyone have any notions? Mark List info :

[ActiveDir] Default Web browser

2005-10-20 Thread Shane De Jager
Hi, I wander if anyone could help. We have many users running terminal server sessions on one server. When set the default browser for one user it changes it for all the users. Is the there a way to set the default browser for certain groups via a group policy? -- Shane De Jager Technical

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Web browser

2005-10-20 Thread Arlo Clizer
Shane De Jager wrote: Hi, I wander if anyone could help. We have many users running terminal server sessions on one server. When set the default browser for one user it changes it for all the users. Is the there a way to set the default browser for certain groups via a group policy? I

Re: [ActiveDir] OT? Remote Assistance.

2005-10-20 Thread jpsalemi
Not sure if you ever got this going? If not, do you have either of these policy settings set? computer configuratin/windows settings/security settings/local policies/user rights assignment/deny access to this computer from the network or access this computer from the network? For sure, the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Insider articles

2005-10-20 Thread Hutchins, Mike
That link send me to an OWA login for MS... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil RenoufSent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:07 PMTo: activedir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Insider articles Since Exchange seems to come up here fairly

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Insider articles

2005-10-20 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Stop that crazy link stuff.. If you copy/paste the link it works. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/insider/default.mspx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil RenoufSent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:07 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-20 Thread Smith, Brad
All, Just thought a quick update might save a bit of pain for those of you that ever want to use the CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf and CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf scripts from GPMC. I found a snag where CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf can't import user accounts where the name contains a comma (and

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Insider articles

2005-10-20 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
Hutchins, Mike wrote: That link send me to an OWA login for MS... Just use the diplayed link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/insider/default.mspx -- Tomasz Onyszko http://www.w2k.pl List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ:

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Insider articles

2005-10-20 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Ah, the MS cut and paste from OWA bug that leaves the OWA tag in the html :-) https://mail.microsoft.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/insider/default.mspx Try this:

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Servers in Branch Offices

2005-10-20 Thread Al Mulnick
That's good to know. I did not know you could install VS without the IIS components. I should point out that putting a GC in a remote site does often imply that local resources (even if just opposable thumb types) will have the ability to physically access the machine. You'll have some risk,

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Servers in Branch Offices

2005-10-20 Thread Al Mulnick
That's good to know. I did not know you could install VS without the IIS components. I should point out that putting a GC in a remote site does often imply that local resources (even if just opposable thumb types) will have the ability to physically access the machine. You'll have some risk,

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange Insider articles

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Renouf
Damn, this Gmail switching to rich text editing is messing with me! Sorry folks. Phil On 10/20/05, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the MS cut and paste from OWA bugthat leaves the OWA tag in thehtml:-)

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Monitoring

2005-10-20 Thread James Eaton-Lee
On this note, for another (slightly late) free software plug, pandoramon (http://pandoramon.sourceforge.net) is quite a nice web-based open source monitoring platform, and operates with agents running on target hosts (with an agent for linux, windows, and several flavours of unix) that talks to

[ActiveDir] Sudhir Kaushal/GIS/CSC is out of the office.

2005-10-20 Thread Sudhir Kaushal
I will be out of the office starting 10/20/2005 and will not return until 10/24/2005. I will respond to your message when I return. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive:

[ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread Jitendra Kalyankar
I am looking for some example script and/or help for the script I am writing for my company. What I want to achieve is if I run the script against the machine list which will be in the text file, it should give me the output in the text file saying which machine account is enabled, disabled or not

RE: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread Creamer, Mark
Before you do this, see oldcmp at www.joeware.net http://www.joeware.net/win/free/index.htm mc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jitendra Kalyankar Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:14 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject:

Re: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread Jitendra Kalyankar
I know about the Oldcmp.exe, but the thing is the tool is really powerful and I don't want Jr. Sys. Admins doing something or deleting something that they are not suppose to. And again I will have to go through the security department route to use it. Too much hassel Hope that explains my

RE: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread Creamer, Mark
Yes, but oldcmp does have significant levels of are you sure built in. Anyway, there is a nice perl solution you might want to look at on Robbie Allen's site, at http://rallenhome.com/books/adcookbook/src/08.08-find_inactive_computers.pls.txt In the book, Robbie explains why one would use Perl

RE: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread joe
Just as an FYI, scripts are just as dangerous or more so. It is why I wrote oldcmp in the first place. Too many people biting themselves in the ass. I don't know how I could put more rubber bumpers on that tool unless I started asking questions to gauge levels of intelligence and whether or not

RE: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Hi Jitendra, As a frequent user of joeware smile, I hope I can pipe in and comment that joe's adfind.exe is strictly a querying tool and you can achieve your quest with: adfind -default -f ((objectcategory=computer)(useraccountcontrol:1.2.840.113556. 1.4.803:=2)) (watch the line wrap) Mike

Re: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread Jitendra Kalyankar
Wow! Thanks Joe for your reply also thanks Mark too. I tried my best to explain to my manager but in vein so I am back to square one. If my own manager is not comfy with it what will I tell the Security! I know the scripts are as dangerous as your util or even more so but those who know how to

RE: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread joe
Well if you have a list of DNs, you will then create a loop in the script that loops through connecting to those DNs and then grab the UAC attribute and check to see if the account is disabled (bit 1 is lit, aka value 2) sort of like set o=getobject(LDAP://cn=someuser,cn=users,dc=joe,dc=com)

RE: [ActiveDir] Need ADSI Scripting help.

2005-10-20 Thread Alain Lissoir
You can find more ADSI script samples (kinda of library) at http://www.lissware.net Go to the White Paper section and download the scripts and WP for free. WHITE PAPERS: October 2000 (Compaq Active Answers): Part 1 - Introduction to the use of Exchange 2000 with Windows Script Host (Script Kit)