[ActiveDir] Way OT: Shared Folders snap-in columns

2007-01-11 Thread Michael Miller
I can't find an explanation and thought some of this august body might know or can point me to some resource... When viewing sessions in the Shared Folders MMC snap-in for an AD member file server, there is a column labeled Idle Time. What events reset this timer? I sometimes see very

Re: [ActiveDir] Delegate Password Resets

2006-12-22 Thread Michael Miller
I put the user accounts of the helpdesk personnel in the built in group, Account Operators. This is precisely why I think that group exists. -mjm Salandra, Justin A. wrote: I wanted to find out from all of you what ways you have delegated password reset functions to your helpdesks. We

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Quota Software

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Miller
We use a 3rd party app SpaceGuard SRM from www.tools4ever.com on our file servers to implement directory level (rather than user level) disk quotas, monitor usage, send email to users when they get close or hit the quota, etc. I can monitor and manage quotas from a single client workstation

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: M$

2006-11-17 Thread Michael Miller
no oops needed, IMHO I think we crossed a line here and would like to see this thread stopped before Tony gets back. ;-) -mjm Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: (oops) ;-) and :-) of course Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: ... it must be everyone

[ActiveDir] OT: Can't sign up for MS security alert email

2006-10-10 Thread Michael Miller
I tried to sign up for MS email security alerts. But I get an error: The portion of your e-mail address that follows the @ symbol is part of a reserved domain such as live.com, hotmail.com, msn.com or passport.com. Please type a different e-mail address. I tried my general work address

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Can't sign up for MS security alert email

2006-10-10 Thread Michael Miller
. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Miller Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:15 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Can't sign up

[ActiveDir] OT: recent MS updates changed Exchange SMTP servers?

2006-10-05 Thread Michael Miller
We use Exchange 2003 running on Win2k3 server Standard Edition strictly for distribution groups where all user objects have external SMTP addresses - no Exchange mailboxes, etc. We have a simple single forest, single site AD Win2k R2 domain. A message addressed to one of our AD distribution

[ActiveDir] OT: Jabber and AD authentication

2006-09-28 Thread Michael Miller
The powers that be at my site want to implement IM using Jabber and would like to leverage our AD for authentication. We are just starting to think about this. It's not yet decided if the Jabber server will be running on Linux or Windows. I would imagine several people in this august body

Re: [ActiveDir] adm file management

2006-09-06 Thread Michael Miller
ADM files are silently updated by whatever host machine you use. The recommendation is to use the latest and greatest OS on a dedicated GPO machine so that the latest ADM files are available for use. -mjm Michael J. Miller Computing Services College of Veterinary Medicine, UIUC

[ActiveDir] LDAP queries and FERPA

2006-08-22 Thread Michael Miller
The recent discussion of LDAP queries from the outside brings to mind a question regarding FERPA for those of us working in the education arena. See http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html How do you deal with hiding directory data for individuals who have elected to not have

Re: [ActiveDir] Find last logon for ID

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Miller
It strikes me that y'all are trying to cobble together a bicycle. Why not use a car? AD Toolkit from Javelina Software has last logon as one of many pre-configured reports. You run it against and OU or entire domain and it returns last logon info as well as which DC handled it. Saving a

Re: [ActiveDir] Find last logon for ID

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Miller
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Miller Sent: 16 August 2006 15:55 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Find last logon for ID It strikes me that y'all are trying to cobble together a bicycle. Why not use a car? AD Toolkit from Javelina Software has last logon as one of many pre

Re: [ActiveDir] Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-041 Vulnerability in DNS Resolution Could Allow Remote Code Execution

2006-08-11 Thread Michael Miller
Maybe you wouldn't exactly call it a utility tool, but WSUS can generate reports with all kinds of info regarding the status of patches for all machines in the domain. It's free and has minimal hardware requirements. You can service all your machines via a GPO and, if you're the cautious