RE: [ActiveDir] OT: A short and sweet KB

2006-10-12 Thread Rich Milburn
Sometimes saying it won't be supported comes across as an argument to be won. Or sometimes as a challenge, as in, so, who needs support? Im smarter than them, Ill prove it by doing it anyway because I can, and by supporting the unsupportable myself - anonymous, from the book of

RE: [ActiveDir] Groups membership question

2006-10-12 Thread Aaron Steele
Joe, you are a god among men. Thank you a ton for explaining this to me in such a clear and concise way. /aaron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:46 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange 2007 Schema

2006-10-12 Thread Laura E. Hunter
Oh come on, just go ahead and stick the changes in. It's a Microsoft product, how bad could it -possibly- be? :-) On 10/6/06, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are definitely funny Brett, some would just argue whether it is in the ways you think. =) I find you quite funny, I am waiting for

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange in environment - reboot necessary after a DC has been made a GC

2006-10-12 Thread Victor W.
Thanks for that, nice. In the mean time I got RPCDump working, I send the output to the list a week ago or so. Still hoping somebody can have quick look at it :-) Cheers, Victor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: donderdag 12

[ActiveDir] How do I print out users and home folders

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Comeau
Anyone have a good script/utility to print out all users (login names) as well as home folder? Thank you. Steve Comeau IT Manager Rutgers Athletics 83 Rockefeller Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 732-445-7802 732-445-4623 (fax) www.scarletknights.com *** This message

RE: [ActiveDir] How do I print out users and home folders

2006-10-12 Thread Ryan Conrad
Joes (www.joeware.net) ADFind adfind -default -f samaccountname=administrator samaccountname homedirectory AdFind V01.31.00cpp Joe Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) March 2006 Using server: microsof-gm3fbo.one.test:389 Directory: Windows Server 2003 Base DN: DC=one,DC=test

RE: [ActiveDir] How do I print out users and home folders

2006-10-12 Thread Tim Onsomu
Use And LDAP Browser (eg. LDAP Softerras free product at: http://www.ldapbrowser.com/download/index.php) Search for attributed asAMAccountName,homedirectory. Set you filter to exclude computers and you are set. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] How do I print out users and home folders

2006-10-12 Thread David Cliffe
I like to add that placeholder in case an object does not have one of those properties set... so... adfind -b baseDN -f samaccounttype=805306368 -nodn -csv NULL samaccountname homedirectory etc... -DaveC From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida

[ActiveDir] Attribute for Name Component of userPrincipalName?

2006-10-12 Thread Michael B Allen
Does anyone know of an object class that defines an attribute like userPrincipalName but just the name component and not the realm? For example, if an object had a userPrincipalName of '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' the desired attribute would be guaranteed to be 'Managers'. I'm caching group objectSids in

RE: [ActiveDir] Attribute for Name Component of userPrincipalName?

2006-10-12 Thread Laura A. Robinson
There's a problem with this idea- the UPN (or, more specifically, the portion before the @) does not necessarily match the CN component of a DN, so there would be no reliability in your approach. Why are you unable to retrieve DNs? Laura -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ActiveDir] Reading Security Descriptors

2006-10-12 Thread Santiago, Felderi \(F.\)
Title: Reading Security Descriptors Hello, I am trying to list all the ACEs for a particular object in Active Directory. To help me do this (since I am a bit of a newbie to Directory programing), I am reading the book The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Service Programming. I took

RE: [ActiveDir] Attribute for Name Component of userPrincipalName?

2006-10-12 Thread joe
Let me start with I am confused by what you are doing. But let me mention thoughts based on what you have written... The userPrincipalName uniqueness is based on the ENTIRE UPN, not just the first component. Unless you are POSITIVE that the UPNs will be unique up to the realm then you may want

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange in environment - reboot necessary after a DC has been made a GC

2006-10-12 Thread joe
Yep there should have been a resonse on the list near to this previous one from me on that. Basically I don't know of any docs outlining what exactly you should see and it will vary based on the services the DC is running so the best thing to do is compare two DCs running the same service set. If

RE: [ActiveDir] Groups membership question

2006-10-12 Thread joe
LOL. Glad I could help out. joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron SteeleSent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:52 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir]

Re: [ActiveDir] Attribute for Name Component of userPrincipalName?

2006-10-12 Thread Joe Kaplan
There is an API that converts UPN to DN (DsCrackNames, also wrapped by IADsNameTranslate in ADSI). I'm not sure if that helps or not. Like Laura said, you do need to look something up though. Joe K. - Original Message - From: Laura A. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [ActiveDir] recover a file server in Windows 2003

2006-10-12 Thread Philobatheer Guirgis
thanks a lot Bob. That was all what I needed to know. Philo"Free, Bob" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares Saving and restoring existing Windows shares:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125996 From: [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] Attribute for Name Component of userPrincipalName?

2006-10-12 Thread Michael B Allen
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:36:24 -0400 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The userPrincipalName uniqueness is based on the ENTIRE UPN, not just the first component. Unless you are POSITIVE that the UPNs will be unique up to the realm then you may want to find something else for your key. In ADAM you

[ActiveDir] OT:Exchange/outlook auth question

2006-10-12 Thread Tom Kern
This isn't really an issue but more of an request for an explanation of how things work under the hood. I have a mutli domain forest. A user who is an Exchange full admin in one domain logs in and opens Outlook to an mailbox that is owned by a user account in another domain(same forest). This

Re: [ActiveDir] Reading Security Descriptors

2006-10-12 Thread Joe Kaplan
Reading Security DescriptorsHi Felderi, First, thanks for buying our book! I'm not sure if you knew, but we have a website for the book, www.directoryprogramming.net, where Ryan and I host a support forum for questions just like this. However, I'm happy to try to answer your question here.

Re: [ActiveDir] Attribute for Name Component of userPrincipalName?

2006-10-12 Thread Joe Kaplan
UPN is arbitrary, so you can't assume the alias part will be the same as sAMAccountName (although we do that in our org by convention). There is no such attribute representing what you want. Joe K. - Original Message - From: Michael B Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:Exchange/outlook auth question

2006-10-12 Thread joe
The work is done as the logged on user, so in this case, as the Exchange admin. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Thursday, October 12,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: File Server Permissions Design Question

2006-10-12 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
ABE won't necessarily reduce the number of groups you need to control access, although it certainly controls the visibility for those that don't have any rights to specific data in your shares. Your approach is a very common approach and certainly nothing unusual. Not sure how you get from 15