RE: [ActiveDir] Changing Logon server authentication !!

2007-01-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Have you configured your AD Sites properly in AD Sites and Services MMC? Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of senthil Kumar Sent: Sun 28/01/2007 9:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Changing Logon server authentication !!

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing Logon server authentication !!

2007-01-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Sorry - that should be AD Sites and Subnets... Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Sunday, 28 January 2007 10:20 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Changing Logon server authentication !! Have you

RE: [ActiveDir] OT DNS forwarders..

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
DNS only maps names to IP addresses. It doesn't do anything with respect to paths. You could point the hostname webi to the same IP address as the host nzine33svr and configure your web server software to accept requests for either HTTP host header. Then, to redirect the user to the correct

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Schaefer
Yes - I have a Dell Precision that has 4GB RAM, and which has had both Vista x86 and x64 on it and it doesn't BSOD. The issue in the KB seems to be with devices that use DMA and you have more than 4GB of RAM. That used to cause issues on XP as well (which is why I believe SP2 for XP limited the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Schaefer
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista BSOD with more than 2GB of RAM I didnt configure the memory dumps for this machine. I assume a kernel dump is preferred over minidump? Either way I will check and let you know. Thanks for the reply. On 1/11/07, Ken Schaefer

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

2007-01-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
talking about transitioning the protocol as well? e.g. Client -- HTTP -- Your Website/PC -- RPC -- Domain Controller Cheers Ken From: Michael B Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 9/01/2007 5:24 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Ken Schaefer Subject

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

2007-01-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'm not sure what NTLM SSO Pass-Through is, but NTLM is not natively delegatable, so you can't (in the normal course of events) use this to create an account anywhere except on the local machine. There may be easier ways to create accounts on local machines. Cheers Ken

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation

2007-01-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
token for UserA : : In this scenario - constrained delegation will work ok. : : Perhaps Joe was thinking of the docs which state you have to have the : IIS : Server and the AppServer in the same forest and domain? : : steve : : : : - Original Message - : From: Ken Schaefer

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation

2006-12-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:37 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Ken Schaefer Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation If I understand your

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation

2006-12-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
the : plaintext credentials around between the tiers using basic auth/SSL and : such. : : Joe : : - Original Message - : From: Ken Schaefer : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:29 PM : Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation : : : Hi

[ActiveDir] Cross-Forest Kerberos Delegation

2006-12-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi all, I am looking at a slightly tricky situation, at least for me - I'm sure you guys would find this a walk in the park :-) I have a situation where there are two forests (2003 Forest Functional Level). Each contains a single domain. One domain is a resource domain (DomainB), and the other

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Issue with remote assistance offers

2006-10-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
Interesting that the client would be failing on that port. In a normal RA session, where the novice asks an expert to provide assistance (e.g. via Messenger or file etc), the novice's computer attempts to open a connection to the expert's computer on a high-order port. If the expert's computer

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

2006-10-10 Thread Ken Schaefer
Comic Book Man Best KB Article Ever /Comic Book Man -- My Blog: www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dmitri Gavrilov Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2006 7:59 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE:

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Bare Metal restore

2006-10-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
Why do you need one sysprep image of all you DCs? Can't you just make one sysprep image in total (and just add all the necessary drivers for each model?). Alternatively there is an ADS image mounting tool you can use if you need to make slight modifications to a captured image to cater for

RE: [ActiveDir] Problem with Active Sync

2006-09-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
Seems to indicate that the FE Exchange server is returning HTTP 400 (Bad Request) in response to whatever is being sent from the client PC. The httperr.log file on the Exchange FE server may have some further details on why the HTTP request is invalid. What you can do is enable logging on both

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: admin account in Vista

2006-09-11 Thread Ken Schaefer
--- Original Message --- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick : Sent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:47 AM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: admin account in Vista : : Yes Ken, I believe it is a departure to write down the

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: admin account in Vista

2006-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Is it a departure really? I’m always pretty sure that the advice has been to avoid writing down your username/password and storing it in an *insecure* location (i.e. taped to your monitor at work) On the other hand, if you write down the details and store it in a

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 R2 Issue

2006-08-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
In line with Brians question how is the OP reading the secret, and what are the differences between the two servers (and DCs if there are different DCs involved)? If you hook the functions that generate the passwords and convey them to the DC, it would be possible to get this value (in

RE: [ActiveDir] ldp in ADAM-SP1

2006-07-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi Al, I’m going to have to disagree here.  I’d wager that the average programmer has a better understanding of writing code that has: a) proper specifications and design b) robust error handling c) strong typing d) etc Of course, there are always

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

2006-07-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, Try these (if you dont get any better answers from the gurus): For just groups and their membership (batch file) dsquery group all-groups.txt for /f tokens=1* delims=} %a in (all-groups.txt) do @(echo GROUP:%a dsget group %a -members) group-members.txt For groups, type

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Interview Techniques

2006-07-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
I suppose there are several roles that senior people could hold: some are managerial, some are architectural, and some are deeply technical (i.e. high level support). Architects, in that taxonomy, would do design work. Whereas a PSS engineer would probably spend more time with a debugger

RE: [ActiveDir] Multihomed Domain Controllers

2006-07-13 Thread Ken Schaefer
Can't your spyware just change/delete the host entries again? Or use an IP address (or do you configure static routes for the subnets that the IP addresses reside in that those host entries point to?) Has this tactic ever helped anyone in a spyware-on-the-server situation? (except possibly in a

RE: [ActiveDir] NTFS ( 16 Exabyte's )

2006-06-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
TRUNCATE TABLE table will be faster, especially for big tables. But this is going OT :-) Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 3:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] Event ID 20 :: KDC Certificate Error ::

2006-06-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
: -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravi Dogra : Subject: [ActiveDir] Event ID 20 :: KDC Certificate Error :: : : I am getting Event ID 20 :: KDC Error :: The currently selected KDC : certificate was once valid, but now is

RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6

2006-05-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
: -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Eaton-Lee : Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6 : : On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:59 +1000, Ken Schaefer wrote: : : -Original Message- : : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6

2006-05-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
. : The main site is registered with the external DNS(BIND), but the other : sites are registered with internal DNS(AD) server. No forwarding. : When : in production all sites will use port 80 on the same server and : register : with ext. DNS server. : : -Z.V. : : : Ken Schaefer wrote

RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6

2006-05-22 Thread Ken Schaefer
: -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Za Vue : Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2006 10:54 AM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Subject: [ActiveDir] IIS 6 : : I have a web server running IIS6 hosting 3 websites-using host

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM

2006-05-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
and was walking behind me turning off : that specific computer for delegation. Grr. : : -Brandon : : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer : Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:41 PM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM

2006-05-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
problem. Cheers Ken : : -Brandon : : : : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer : Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:45 PM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM

2006-05-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
! : : -Brandon : : : : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer : Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:45 PM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] IIS6 - Kerb/NTLM : : : : There's lots

RE: [ActiveDir] DHCP migration(OT)

2006-05-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
Tom, I dont want to seem rude, but this is something that would take you 5 minutes to test yourself (e.g. in a VM). You could even report your results back to the list. Cheers Ken -- My IIS Blog: www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken Tech.Ed Boston 2006 See you there: Everything

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists???

2006-05-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
I've seen this happen occasionally on other lists, but I don't know if it's the same underlying cause. The original post is encoded in some way, and then the addition of the list footer means that the post isn't properly encoded anymore. Some email clients then display this as a blank post. If

RE: [ActiveDir] internet explorer is frozen

2006-03-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
, : : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer : Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:55 AM : To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org : Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] internet explorer is frozen : : --- Original Message --- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto

RE: [ActiveDir] Folder redirection exceptions?

2006-03-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, For My Documents redirection, if you look at the second tab, there is an option to not redirect the My Pictures folder I know that doesn't help with My Music Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arnold Arce Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] internet explorer is frozen

2006-03-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
--- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharif Naser Subject: [ActiveDir] internet explorer is frozen Internal explorer is frozen, I' m trying to access an internal site but it shows connecting to site and frozen. DNS is working fine, what

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Netlogon Service

2006-03-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
Title: [ActiveDir] OT: Netlogon Service For allwe know, someone did exactly what you did (connect remotely using administrative credentials) and disabled the services. Do you have logon auditing enabled? If so, have you checked to see who's logged onto the machine? Cheers Ken From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange ActiveSync (OT)

2006-02-16 Thread Ken Schaefer
If this was working at some stage, then it's unlikely to be a certificate issue. I'm not familiar with this particular device, but since it's a Pocket PC Phone device, there should be an option to turn on verbose ActiveSync logging (via the ActiveSync applet). Turn that on, and look in

RE: [ActiveDir] Getting better control over DHCP

2006-02-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] Getting better control over DHCP I was under the impression it was 802.1x. Your certificate is stored on the smartcard. Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]Sent: Sat 2/4/2006 2:25 PMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] IIS 6 Urgent Help

2006-01-31 Thread Ken Schaefer
You have entered the command incorrectly. From the screenshot you have entered ISSuba (there is a missing I). The actual command you need to run is: rundll %windir%\system32\iissuba.dll, RegisterIISSUBA Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: WMF issue - patch on the 10th

2006-01-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Microsoft's stated that out-of-band releases will occur if a patch is ready enough, and there's reason to release the patch (e.g. an exploit circulating in the wild). From what I heard today, regression testing is still being performed on the patch they are intending to release. Cheers Ken

RE: [ActiveDir] Enable Windows Integrated Authentication through GPO

2006-01-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
--- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Subject: [ActiveDir] Enable Windows Integrated Authentication through GPO : How does someone enable Windows Integrated Authentication : through a Group Policy.  You will find this on the

RE: [ActiveDir] VBScript help(OT)

2005-12-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
wonder why that is? On 12/7/05, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment you have this line which does the copy: if lcase(fso.getextensionname) = eml then file.move target So, instead of doing the copy, check to see if the file exists at the target, and if not do the copy

RE: [ActiveDir] VBScript help(OT)

2005-12-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Call Randomize() to initialize the random number generation algorithm somewhere in your script, prior to the first call to Rnd() Could I suggest you get the Windows Script Host 5.6 documentation:

RE: [ActiveDir] Help with VB script to map printers

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
--- Original Message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Milburn Sent: Thursday, 8 December 2005 7:17 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Help with VB script to map printers : my WSH doesn't seem to like the double quotes I see some

RE: [ActiveDir] VBScript help(OT)

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
At the moment you have this line which does the copy: if lcase(fso.getextensionname) = eml then file.move target So, instead of doing the copy, check to see if the file exists at the target, and if not do the copy. If it does exist, rename the file at the source, then do the copy. If

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Traffic Replay

2005-12-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
10.13 has an expression builder for building your filters. And ip.src==10.10.10.1 isn't that complex a syntax :-) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2005 3:45 PM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] authentication problem

2005-11-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, Do not change any more values without an understanding of the root cause of the issue. Do not uncheck that checkbox, and do not change the security zone that the site is in. a) What do your IIS logfiles say for the requests in question? b) What do your event logs say as far as failed logon

RE: [ActiveDir] authentication problem

2005-11-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
) thanks for the auditing information - I turned it instantly on. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Kat -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Disappeared

2005-11-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
Did you say that you can ping the internal NIC by IP address or name from a workstation? If so, it would appear that you have TCP/IP running just fine, and you have some other issue. What you mean by Internally, using normal network protocols, I see nothing of the server, AD, or anything. I'm

RE: [ActiveDir] OT:[DenyUrlSequences] Outlook Web Access.

2005-11-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'm confused here. First you say that allowing .. and % is a risk. But you also say to tell the client to remove URLScan. Which do you recommend? Personally the actual code in URLScan that protects you against canonicalization attacks is built into IIS6 now - it's pretty much the same code

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsofts Exchange Server 12 64 bit announcement

2005-11-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Microsofts Exchange Server 12 64 bit announcement One thing I find interesting is, who are these MANY of companies that are currently running 64 bit and getting great

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: In Servers how much tweaking are you doing?

2005-11-10 Thread Ken Schaefer
There are any number of additional tweaks that may be implemented depending on the environment. This may involve revoking rights from specific groups or users. Setting startup parameters for services etc. Sometimes one of the pre-existing MS templates fits the bill. Other times you need a custom

RE: [ActiveDir] Certificate Services AD

2005-11-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Not a web resources, but I've found this MS Press book to be a reasonably good primer. It covers hardware (to some extent), multiple levels of hierarchy, developing your certificate policies etc. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735620210/ Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003 PKI and

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
Frankly my expectation from a file system that's marked as being robust and enterprise ready is that you should lose nothing if the drive is almost full, and the file system should shut down gracefully if the drive is full, especially in normal situations. Sysadmins should not have to worry that

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Web Servers

2005-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Um, doesnt work that way (or Im not understanding what you are saying to do). DNS does name - ip address resolution only. Nothing about ports. If you want wsus.domain.com to just work (no ports included in the URL) then in IIS you need to configure a website to listen on port 80 and

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware [okay so now we're getting a bit OT]

2005-10-31 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think what Susan's trying to say is that: The POP3 connector is just a transition tool that allows your SBS box to collect mail for your employees up until you start hosting your own SMTP server and receive mail directly (rather than collecting it via the POP3 connector from your ISP's

RE: [ActiveDir] NTP response for peer ERROR

2005-10-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
Susan - this looks like the NTP server (the DC) is rejecting the time request from a client. I don't think anything needs to be configured on the server Ravi - the IP address in your original message (that you blanked out). Does it belong to a Windows 2000/XP client in your domain? Or something

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy Object for Windows Firewall

2005-10-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
If the machine detects domain controllers on the network, it'll use the domain profile. Otherwise it uses the standard profile. You could have a more relaxed policy when the machine is on the local LAN, and a tighter policy when the machine (presumably a laptop) is roaming on non-managed networks.

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy Object for Windows Firewall

2005-10-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Itll be just like any other group policy setting. If they conflict, group policy settings over-ride local settings. But you can either allow something to be not configured, or you can enable those settings like allow local exceptions, which allows users on the machine to make further

RE: [ActiveDir] Geographic Domain Setup

2005-10-24 Thread Ken Schaefer
You have multiple DCs for redundancy. If one goes down, the others are still available. And your domain (usually) keeps functioning without you having to do a restore. I'm not sure having FE/BE Exchange servers accomplishes the same goal. Most FE Exchange servers do not have a copy the store in

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Delegation

2005-09-22 Thread Ken Schaefer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: 21 September 2005 03:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Delegation Odd. If you use WFetch (its in the IIS6 Res Kit) or just plain telnet, and request a page, what WWW-Authenticate headers are coming back

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Delegation

2005-09-22 Thread Ken Schaefer
it within the context of the NetworkService account, which means its going to present the server's domain credentials. Roger Seielstad E-mail Geek From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:45 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Delegation

2005-09-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
Odd. If you use WFetch (its in the IIS6 Res Kit) or just plain telnet, and request a page, what WWW-Authenticate headers are coming back? You should see: WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate WWW-Authenticate: NTLM (basically the webserver sends back a list of the auth mechanisms it

RE: [ActiveDir] disabling users

2005-09-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
I would also add that _vbscript_ itself is (a) quite simple and (b) quite limited. Theres not much to learn, and what there is to learn is quite simple. The power comes from being able to use COM objects. But using COM objects (their methods and properties) is exactly the same from within

RE: [ActiveDir] disabling users

2005-09-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
anymore... thanks. thats my story and i'm sticking to it :) On 9/2/05, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also add that _vbscript_ itself is (a) quite simple and (b) quite limited. There's not much to learn, and what there is to learn is quite simple. The power

RE: [ActiveDir] disabling users

2005-09-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
into dsmod or admod. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:37 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] disabling users

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Delegation

2005-09-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
One addition: IE will not attempt to negotiate Kerberos Auth if is the site is in the Internet Security Zone (which sites accessed by FQDN are by default). Add the site to the local Intranet zone. Some other thoughts: If NTLM is not desired (i.e. Kerberos only), then you can set the

RE: [ActiveDir] Connecting to IIS

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, Are you using the IIS6 Manager from the Win2003 AdminPak MSI? If so, then try downloading and using this instead: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9c1fb79-c903-4842-9 f6c-9db93643fdb7displaylang=en Cheers Ken : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Fwd: RE: [ActiveDir] Password policy change]

2005-08-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
The original Password Change functionality used HTRs, and there was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ISAPI Extension that handled HTRs (ism.dll). There's a download on the MS Downloads page that substitutes ASP pages: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=331834 Change password functionality

RE: [ActiveDir] Kinda OT: Advice welcomed

2005-08-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
Additionally, document the business costs/issues that arise later down the track (if any). This will allow you to be prepared in case: a) you need to push back against a similar suggestion down the track b) this decision ever comes up for discussion again Cheers Ken : -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] Integrating IIS and AD

2005-08-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MeWe Subject: [ActiveDir] Integrating IIS and AD : I have 4 servers.. : And 2 of them are running the domain. and the last 2 : is ment for IIS So here is my question, how do i : integrade the

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos Delegation

2005-08-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
You may want to have Kerberos authentication all the way through, rather than using Protocol Transition. At least in the IIS world, protocol transition involves running your worker processes as LocalSystem rather than any other account, which is yet another security issue you need to manage.

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 sp1 security agent

2005-07-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
SCW does more than just configure the Windows firewall. It can change service startup settings, configure registry keys around what auth types are used, configure your local security policy settings (SMB signing, auditing etc), and do an IIS lockdown. And it supports roll-back, so it's worth

RE: [ActiveDir] Win2k3 server issue

2005-07-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
Anything being logged in the SUALB-EXCH2 event logs? Cheers Ken www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/ : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom : Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:09 PM : To: ActiveDir (E-mail) : Subject:

RE: [ActiveDir] Change password web interface

2005-06-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
You may wish to read this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331834/ Change password functionality replaced with Active Server Pages which provides a set of ASP pages (even though they still have the .htr extension) that implement the change password functionality, rather than relying

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Logon attempts

2005-06-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
What do you mean by a consolidated report? Just a listing of users and last logon times? This is untested (written straight into Outlook) so probably has a few bugs. You could use something like this to get the DNs of all users in the directory, and then (within a loop) use the code on the MSDN

[ActiveDir] Q about Site Link Bridging

2005-06-06 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi guys, When, in AD Sites and Services MMC Snapin, one unchecks the bridge all site links checkbox, what gets updated in the directory? From what I can tell, this is stored in the Options attribute of: cn=NTDS Settings,cn=site name,cn=sites,cn=configuration,dc=domain name and we do an: existing

RE: [ActiveDir] Question on IIS management via AD...

2005-05-31 Thread Ken Schaefer
: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven L Dunn : Subject: [ActiveDir] Question on IIS management via AD... : : I want to allow one of our users to manage our : website services (IIS, Indexing Service) without

RE: [ActiveDir] All - OT (and drifting further away)

2005-05-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe : Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] All - OT (and drifting further away) : : I think as MS gets more and more complicated products : deeper in the field (SMS, MIIS, MOM, Active

RE: [ActiveDir] All - OT (and drifting further away)

2005-05-09 Thread Ken Schaefer
: [ActiveDir] All - OT (and drifting further away) : : Oh wow, I never heard of them and they are the leading global : technology integrator... : : : : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer : Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:54 PM

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 SP1 RTM

2005-03-31 Thread Ken Schaefer
~~ : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave A. Marquis : Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] 2003 SP1 RTM : : Also the Network Access Quarantine Control components : are new... Sounds like a mess if for some reason it

RE: [ActiveDir] Very OT: Please Settle a Bet

2005-02-13 Thread Ken Schaefer
Whats the definition of a 32 bit OS? I only ask because Mark Russinovichs book says that Win95 contained oodles of 16 bit code. So the absence of 16bit code isnt a requirement for having a 32bit OS. Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: SUS WXPSP2

2004-12-15 Thread Ken Schaefer
Are the users local admins? That is the most common cause of these types of questions. The SUS deployment whitepaper should have answers to your questions. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/susdeployment.mspx SUS Deployment Whitepaper Other info:

RE: [ActiveDir] Accessing resources when a domain controller is u navailable (sightly OT)

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
Can't the user connect using NTLM authentication (unless that's been turned off)? Cheers Ken : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto : Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 8:31 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

RE: [ActiveDir] How to Enable a Warning Message During Windows Logon Welcome

2004-11-07 Thread Ken Schaefer
The same thing is in the Windows 2003 Deployment Kit: http://tinyurl.com/6qlkh Establishing Group Policy Operational Guidelines quote Do not modify the default domain policy or default domain controller policy unless necessary. Instead, create a new GPO at the domain level and set it to override

Re: [ActiveDir] IIS 6.0 AGAIN...

2004-10-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
: [ActiveDir] IIS 6.0 AGAIN... : NO I forgot to mention in my previous posts that I am only running FTP, port : 21 and the main web site on port 80. : : Thanks, : -Z.V : : : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer : Sent: Wednesday

Re: [ActiveDir] IIS 6.0 AGAIN...

2004-10-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
a) Are you running multiple applications listening on port 80 (eg if you have multiple IP addresses, and are running multiple webservers) b) Check your web site identities - you could have a conflicting set of web site identities (each active website must have it's own, unique, web site

RE: [ActiveDir] IIS and Scripting Question

2004-09-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
Can I get a quick clarification here: a) Provisioning application runs on ServerA (which is part of a domain) b) Webserver (serverB) is standalone (not in the domain) c) Provisioning app (on ServerA) needs to create folders and/or files on ServerB Question: Is the Provisioning App itself running

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: IISadmpwd security vulnerability???

2004-08-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, IIRC the ISAPI extension that was used to provide this functionality originally had various buffer overflow issues. I would check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=331834 Change password functionality replaced with Active Server Pages Also this:

Re: [ActiveDir] Any way out of this mess?

2004-07-27 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hmmm, my MCSE study guide says to login using Safe Mode to get around GPOs that stop interactive logons (I only remember this because it's not something I've heard/seen mentioned before). I assume that's not a goer then? Cheers Ken - Original Message - From: Aaron Visser [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 SP1

2004-05-25 Thread Ken Schaefer
Also continuing the OT note, it seems that the long-awaited server-side spam filtering system (IMF) is available too: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/imf/default.asp Apologies if this has already been posted. Cheers Ken ~~ From:

Re: [ActiveDir] SUS 2.0 Beta

2004-04-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
It is a closed beta at this stage. I spoke to some of the WUS people, and they said that until they had finalised and filed some patent applications, there were legal reasons they couldn't take on more than x people. Cheers Ken ~~ From: Robbie

Re: [ActiveDir] One computer is fine, one has can't find domain controller errors

2003-10-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
A agree with Joe. Bill - you've posted no data that you managed to collect from attempting to troubleshoot this problem, so on what basis can you conclude (or expect us to believe) that it's definitely a bug in WinXP? We've got plenty of WinXP machines that we've either Ghosted, or Syspreped,

Re: [ActiveDir] Way OT: SSL to SQL over the i-net

2003-10-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
According to Books Online - you need two certs - one for the app server, and one for the SQL Server. People from the MS SQL Server security team (Richard Waymire etc) are on: news://microsoft.public.sqlserver.security Cheers Ken ~~ From: Mark Nold

Re: [ActiveDir] SUS

2003-09-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think Carlos is talking about the SUS Server's settings, not the client settings. However, I don't know where they're stored either. Cheers Ken - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:23 AM Subject: RE:

Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Rename

2003-07-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
~~ From: Jan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Domain Rename : Our MS rep says it is supported in W3K - however as : you note BEFORE a E2K deployment. ~~ Windows3000 is out