OK. Now, I have to go and bury my head in the sand for a while :( The previous message was meant to be private. I profusely apologize. Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Wed 10/5/2005 4:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Most common cause of Active Directory "failures"? Greetings fellow travellers, Here's a quick, informal, non-scientific survey. Please reply to me directly at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so we don't spam the list with responses. I've got a some swell gifts to give away at random to a couple of lucky respondants (nothing too fancy). I'll post the summary in a few days. Question: *In your experience*, which are the most common causes of Active Directory "failure" (where failure is defined as failure to authenticate, authorize, replicate, or apply GPOs as expected). List as many as you care to, in order from most common to least common. Note that I am not considering the consequences of the failure, just how frequent they are. Just send me a response like B, A, F or some such, along with any commentary you might have. A. Inadvertant data deletion (fat-fingering a user object or, God-forbid, an OU) B. Inadvertant misconfiguration of AD (for instance screwing up a connection object, or changing the wrong registry setting, or making an inappropriate GPO change) C. Inadvertant misconfiguration of MSFT DNS. D. Inadvertant misconfiguration of non-MSFT DNS. E. Inadvertant misconfiguration of networking devices F. Hardware failure of a DC G. Hardware failure of a networking device (including DNS servers, if they are not also DCs) H. Physical disaster (fire, flood, power failure, etc) I. Malicious attack by a service admin J. Malicious attack by a data admin K. Malicious attack by an authenticated user L. Malicious attack by an unauthenticated user M. Other (please specify) Thanks for your feedback. -gil Gil Kirkpatrick CTO, NetPro Don''t miss the Directory Experts Conference 2006. More information at www.dec2006.com <file://www.dec2006.com> . List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
