can you do a live demo when you do the rename? I'd love to be part of it...
This is seriously a major undertaking, and you should obviously check the
dependency of all your applications leveraging the netbios name of your
domain within them (e.g. SMS is still a friend of the NetBios domain
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How
are they planning on doing those tests? If they just want to test the password
complexity/strength it isn't required to give them a whole DC, only a hash dump
of the password in the DIT which can be done via pwdump3. Then they can use
lc3/4 to go through the text file
Also note that there is another D.O.S. capable bug that SP4 fixes if I
recall correctly. It was something with referrals.
Note that there are several things that can be done to W2K AD by a
bright programmer with internal access who has had a chance to sit back
and think about it that can hurt AD.
Guido,
Thanks for the reply - always appreciate hearing from you.
I agree completely that the complexity of a domain rename is not a light
undertaking (understatement of the year) given that the Microsoft White
Paper detailing the process wheighs in at a whopping 100 pages.
(Clearing the
Joe,
Unfortunately, one of the biggest issues with AD can't be addressed with an
upgrade, and that's the Security vulnerability from cross-domain admins.
Looking to NetPro's monitoring tool to aid in this as a 'burglar alarm'.
Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
Microsoft MVP - Active Directory