=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCHWIN2000.COM | Active Directory Tip June 11, 2002
Essential tools and advice for AD management and migration. More Tips: http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tips/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FROM OUR SPONSORS: - FREE ACTIVE DIRECTORY TOOL http://searchWin2000.com/r/0,,3852,00.htm?FreeADTool - Quest Software: Is your Active Directory data secure? http://searchWin2000.com/r/0,,3853,00.htm?FreeWhitepaper =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= IN THIS ISSUE | Table of Contents 1. ACTIVE DIRECTORY TIPS - More on troubleshooting GPOs - Ask the Expert: Seeing Win2k servers - Exchange Migration: Why and why not? 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - New Site Feature: Active Directory white papers - Win2000Talk: Countdown to new Microsoft licensing - Online Event: Internet e-mail with OWA - Tip Hall of Fame: Welcome Michael Corkery ____________________________________________________________________ ************************ SPONSORED BY: NetIQ *********************** FREE ACTIVE DIRECTORY TOOL Get essential, real-time diagnostics for Microsoft Active Directory with NetIQ's ADcheck - your powerful, free diagnostic tool. With ADcheck, you can quickly check domain controllers, domains and replication. After the first test, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Download your FREE copy now at: http://searchWin2000.com/r/0,,3852,00.htm?FreeADTool ____________________________________________________________________ MORE ON TROUBLESHOOTING GPOS | by James Michael Stewart In the course of running your Active Directory network, at some point you'll discover a GPO file that is giving you a problem. A corrupted GPO must be deleted and re-built. A valid GPO that still results in an unwanted effect on a client must be inspected on a setting-by-setting basis. In this case, the error is human-introduced mis-configuration rather than a programmatical or corruption error. >> CLICK for the full tip... http://www.searchWin2000.com/tip/1,289483,sid1_gci832112,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEEING WIN2K SERVERS | Ask the Expert Dear Expert, If we set up Active Directory in a mixed Windows NT/2000 server environment, can the WinNT servers "see" the Win2k servers? >>Click here for migration expert Paul Hinsberg's response... http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid1_cid464364_tax285115,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EXCHANGE MIGRATION: WHY AND WHY NOT? | SearchWindowsManageability Exchange migrations are tricky for many reasons, not the least of which is due to its required integration with Active Directory. Quest Software's Doug Davis has been a helpmate on a number of Exchange migrations and offers these observations. >> CLICK here for the full article... http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid33_gci793603,00.html ____________________________________________________________________ ******************** SPONSORED BY: Quest Software ****************** DO YOU WANT TO LOCK DOWN YOUR NETWORK and spend less time on manual tasks? Quest and Hewlett-Packard have teamed up to offer "Advanced Security Management of Active Directory in Windows 2000," a free white paper discussing key challenges that AD shops face. Learn how you can improve network security across the enterprise and make Active Directory work for YOU. Download the WHITE PAPER today! http://searchWin2000.com/r/0,,3853,00.htm?FreeWhitepaper ___________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ACTIVE DIRECTORY WHITE PAPERS | New Site Feature Check out the 19 white papers in our latest site feature. Categories include: Administration and Management, Design and Migration, Group Policy and Planning and Replication. >> CLICK to view the white papers... http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/whitepapersByCategory/0,293837,sid1_tax289223_idx0_off10,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= COUNTDOWN TO NEW MICROSOFT LICENSING | Win2000Talk Radio Microsoft's Licensing 6.0 Program launches on August 1, promising cost savings for some business but fee hikes for most. Win2000Talk Radio offers last-minute advice on whether and how to move to the new licensing plan. Guests include Microsoft's Rebecca LaBrunerie and Julie Giera, a vice president at Giga Information Group, who specializes in Microsoft licensing and contract negotiations. >> Click to listen... http://win2000talk.techtarget.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= INTERNET E-MAIL WITH OWA | Online event Who: Scott Schnoll, MCSE, MCT, Microsoft MVP and author When: Thursday, June 13 at 01:00 PM EDT (17:00 GMT) Next Thursday, join author and SearchWin2000 resident Exchange expert Scott Schnoll for this Live Expert Webcast. Scott will show you how to set up Outlook Web Access, offer some helpful maintenance and troubleshooting techniques and field your OWA questions in a post-presentation audience Q&A. >> CLICK to pre-register... http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid1,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WELCOME MICHAEL CORKERY | Tip Hall of Fame Check out member Michael Corkery's prize-winning tip on stopping logon scripts from treating servers as clients. Then, enter your own Active Directory trick for the June contest! You could receive a Boston Acoustics 5-piece multimedia computer speaker set. >> Check last month's tip winners and submit your own... http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/tipsHallOfFame/0,289489,sid1_prz827457_cts827458,00.html ___________________________________________________________________ ********************* SEARCHWIN2000 CONTACTS ********************** TIP MAILBOX, (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send feedback on tips and ideas for new tip content. ____________________________________________________________________ MARILYN COHODAS, Site Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send me your original articles and best practices. ____________________________________________________________________ CHRISTINE POLEWARCZYK, Assistant Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send me your ideas for online event and discussion day topics. ____________________________________________________________________ DAVID PYE, Assistant Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send me your tips, white papers and favorite Web sites. ____________________________________________________________________ DAVID GABEL, Executive Tech Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send me your technical tips and tip ideas. ____________________________________________________________________ MARGIE SEMILOF, Senior News Writer (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send me your news and story ideas. ____________________________________________________________________ MIKE KELLY (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter. ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ********************* ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER ************************ Created by TechTarget (http://www.techtarget.com) TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved. 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