Suggestions as to how to make this more effective (I don't
have any money to spend on this, so large cash-value prizes are right out
:) How about an all expenses paid trip to DEC
in Vegas, entry to the NDA lunch and of course the obligatory book – Active
Directory Programming, ISBN: 0672315874? From: Here's the summary of the results from last weeks informal
survey. By far the most popular cause of AD failure is the inadvertant
misconfiguration of MSFT DNS, which is interesting, because that was true 2
years ago as well. I guess some things never change. (45 pts) C. Inadvertant misconfiguration of MSFT DNS. (28 pts) A. Inadvertant data deletion (fat-fingering a user
object or, God-forbid, an OU) (14 pts) F. Hardware failure of a DC (2 pts) K. Malicious attack by an authenticated user I ignored anything that was ranked lower than 5th... A little surprising is that the there were two votes for
malicious attacks by an internal source. Some of the other failure reasons cited (no overlap, so I
must have listed all the important reasons...) Incomplete load of an IPSec filter list Impact of a 3rd party agent or application on a
DC e.g. Antivirus software Issues with FW config that hindered replication over
tombstone livetime (may belong to E) Corrupt AD DC database / required metadata cleanup and
repromotion of DC Misconfiguration by a previous admin, and shutting down a DC
with out dcpromo, or cleaning up metadata afterwards. Inadvertantly double-clicking a _vbscript_ when someone meant
to right-click > edit it :) The two winners of the "nothing too fancy" prize
are Hunter Coleman and Stuart Fuller (wait for applause to die down...) Please
email your shipping particulars to me at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], and I
will get your gifts sent out ASAP. I only received about 20 responses... I was expecting maybe
40 or 50. Any suggestions as to how to make this more effective (I don't have
any money to spend on this, so large cash-value prizes are right out :) -gil From: Greetings
fellow travellers, Here's
a quick, informal, non-scientific survey. Please reply to me directly at 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)
C.
Inadvertant misconfiguration of MSFT DNS. Thanks
for your feedback. -gil
Gil
Kirkpatrick Don''t miss the Directory Experts Conference 2006. More
information at www.dec2006.com.
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Title: Most common cause of Active Directory "failures"?
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause of A... Mark Parris
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause... Rich Milburn
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause... Creamer, Mark
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause... Gil Kirkpatrick
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common caus... al_maurer
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause... joe
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause... Gil Kirkpatrick
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause... Gil Kirkpatrick
- RE: [ActiveDir] Results of survey - Most common cause... Gil Kirkpatrick