RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers

2005-11-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Forgot to mention earlier... Yes, it is also correct the article mentions to disable the DLT server service while it still will do the cleanup. That is not correct. My apologies for not bringing that up earlier Jorge From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alm

RE: [ActiveDir] When is a domain Admin not a domain Admin?

2005-11-29 Thread TIROA YANN
understood :) Yann  De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de joeEnvoyé : lundi 28 novembre 2005 23:29À : ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgObjet : RE: [ActiveDir] When is a domain Admin not a domain Admin? Base assumption that I took and I expect Hunter took is that FC w

RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts.....

2005-11-29 Thread Smith, Brad
Yep, that was one one of the 1st things I tried. It works, as does changing focus of AD tools and eventvwr to point to the other domain. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, Aric Sent: 28 November 2005 17:56 To: ActiveDir@mail.actived

RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts.....

2005-11-29 Thread Smith, Brad
Got it. I dumbed down all the signing, encrypting and NTLM prerequisites (ie, LM and NTLM, not NTLM2) and it worked. Now I need to slowly beef it up again and see what I can get away with before things start to fail. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] Trusts.....

2005-11-29 Thread Smith, Brad
.and it only seems to work with a net use connection to C$ in place at the same time. I have to apologise if this thread is useless for others, this is probably related more to our Server build than anything else. Thanks for all the pointers though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] authentication problem

2005-11-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, Do not change any more values without an understanding of the root cause of the issue. Do not uncheck that checkbox, and do not change the security zone that the site is in. a) What do your IIS logfiles say for the requests in question? b) What do your event logs say as far as failed logon a

RE: [ActiveDir] authentication problem

2005-11-29 Thread Katrin Wilhelm
Hi Ken, Thanks heaps for your respond. Currently I can give the following answers: A) the IIS log files say nothing in particular they all look the same as before the incident B) I get no log entry in the security that authentication is failing - seems to not get through at all so it keeps aski

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-29 Thread joe
Yep I think that has been discussed here before. Maybe not. Even more fun is that it isn't configured by default to be available on any objects. There are quite a few items like that, I think you will find Sakari pointed out a few in his book as well. joe -Original Message- From: [EM

RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers

2005-11-29 Thread ActiveDirectory
Thanks!   I'm not as bad off as I thought.  I do most of that.  Just need to look further into the filelinks, lost and found and a couple of others.   Bob From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joePosted At: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:45 PMPosted To: ActiveDirecto

RE: [ActiveDir] Your Trust creation process

2005-11-29 Thread Smith, Brad
No Prob. On both the domains, I turned off all digital signing and enrcypting that can be found under Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options. I also set LAN Manager Authentication level to LM & NTLM only I also set restrict anonymous access to Na

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread Frank Abagnale
Unfortunately the service manager used to be a former techie who did my role and therefore is quite difficult to reason with as he sees it as the 'only way'   We have a project board, so I aim to put forward the reasons against his idea and let the business decide.   thanks for everyones sugges

[ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Amy Hunter
Hi guys,   We have two DC's, one which holds the Forest FSMO roles, the other which holds the domain FSMO roles.   I plan to take each server down at different times so that one of the two servers can provide authentication etc while the other gets maintained.    Initially, I was planning

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Craig Cerino
Amy,   If it’s what you need to hear (for peace of mind – or reassurance) leave the FSMO roles where they are  - you’ll be fine. You don’t need to transfer the rolls if your talking about a timeframe of 2 hours - - -when you bring it back on line - -I would just leave the other DC online

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Travis.Weeks
If they are only going to be down for 2 hours at a time I would leave the roles where they are.   Travis   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amy Hunter Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:28 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] FS

[ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Amy Hunter
Hi guys,   We have two DC's, one which holds the Forest FSMO roles, the other which holds the domain FSMO roles.   I plan to take each server down at different times so that one of the two servers can provide authentication etc while the other gets maintained.    Initially, I was planning on

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
First, look at each role and see what it does...   Forest FSMOs * Schema Master --> needed when updating the schema * Domain Naming master --> needed when adding or removing domains within the forest   Domain FSMOs * PDC Emulator --> needed for legacy clients (NT4, W9x) when changing passwor

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Well, if he was a techie.. he should understand why outlook should not be installed on the DC   Jorge From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank AbagnaleSent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 16:38To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook instal

Re: [ActiveDir] Quest Migration manager(OT)

2005-11-29 Thread Tom Kern
Just curious, not i'm i want to implement this solution but for my own knowldge, how does expiring accounts get around an audit?   If i expire and then unexpire an account, does the password age go back to 1? is that it?   thanks  On 11/23/05, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah this is firmly out

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread neil.ruston
Sorry, but for peace of mind, I *would* transfer the roles. If there is opportunity to do so, then why not transfer? It's a trivial task and will take no time to replicate (assuming the other DC is in the same site).   More worrying perhaps, is the fact that if clients point to one (or both)

Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Santhosh Sivarajan
You don't have to transfer FSMO role to a different DC if you are not performing activities like Schema modification/update, Exchange installation, Domain update etc..   But here are the best practice recommendations for FSMO role optimization:   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;e

Re[2]: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread gollum123
Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 5:08:52 PM, you wrote: > First, look at each role and see what it does... Forest FSMOs * Schema Master --> needed when updating the schema * Domain Naming master --> needed when adding or removing domains within the forest Domain FSMOs * PDC Emulator --> needed for le

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread Frank Abagnale
Yes, he was a techie, not a very good one. This is the guy who made over 100 helpdesk staff Domain Admins during a shoddy AD upgrade to 2003."Almeida Pinto, Jorge de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, if he was a techie.. he should understand why outlook should not be installed on the DC   Jo

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Douglas M. Long
It probably depends on what you’re doing during those 2 hours. If I were installing SP1 on a DC that had problems rebooting/booting in the past, or has known HW issues, or for some odd reason the machine is not on a UPS when installing a Service Pack, I think it would be easier to move the

RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Migration manager(OT)

2005-11-29 Thread Rich Milburn
Yes, but I believe it is set to 0, not 1.   --- Rich Milburn MCSE, Microsoft MVP - Directory Services Sr Network Analyst, Field Platform Development Applebee's International, Inc. 4551 W. 107th St Overland Park, KS 6620

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Craig Cerino
Going by the “If it aint broke don’t fix it” adage  or the idea of “Don’t mess with the production environment while IN production” I would still say leave the FSMO roles where they are.   If you want to try or tinker with or test – transferring or (actually) seizing FSMO roles – set up a

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
I'd move the FSMOs just in case "something" happens and the DC in fact doesn't come back in 2 hours. How many times have you done PM on a machine only to have it completely f* up and have to restore? It seems like about a 1-in-25 chance that something will go wrong.   -gil  From: [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] OT: Importing multiple CSV files in Access Table

2005-11-29 Thread Jitendra Kalyankar
Hello there! Does anyone have some code snippet and\or script that I can use to import CSV files to import to Access table. I need to import around 200 CSV files with all different names to one particular table.   Thanks in advance guys.Sincerely, Jitendra Kalyankar

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread Craig Cerino
. . . . .  . .and THAT my friend is why he’s management now J   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:49 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC   Yes,

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Amy Hunter
So are these FSMO roles stored in some sort of configuration partition in AD? if not, where are they stored?   I plan to replace my DC hardware next year, as long as I bring the new server up with the same IP/Name etc configuration etc, I won't need to move the FSMO roles to another DC when I rep

Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread ChuckGaff
You can have the servers down for 2 hours with the Forest FSMO roles and/or the Domain FSMO roles for cleanup without concern.  It would become more of an issue if for a day or more.  Also bear in mind what each FSMO roles does since each is unique to a domain or the entire forest so that you

Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread ChuckGaff
If something went wrong you could still seize the FSMO roles as an option rather than doing a transfer.  Of course the procedures for all of these for the 5 FSMOs should be documented just in case needed..    Chuck  

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Rocky Habeeb
OK, I've been witing for this one. If we have yet to move our 2K3 FFL DCs (Both Root Domain and Child Domain) to SP1 because of small concerns like "No one being able to log on", would you move the roles first (ie: Off the Forest Root FSMO and the Child Domain FSMO)?   Is that prudent?   A

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread Douglas M. Long
Well we knew he wasn’t a good techie. How to you think he became your boss. You can’t get rid of him, so promote him. J   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:49 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subjec

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
I'm not a heavyweight by any stretch of the imagination (at least not in the context of this thread) but I would move the roles prior to maintenance, since it takes about two minutes to do, there's a credible up-side and no real down-side.  I'm rather surprised that there's all this agonizin

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread Rich Milburn
There’s a difference between techie and tech… a techie is what non-technical people call geeky people who know just enough to be dangerous, and they spend all their time at home (running Windows Me) surfing for shell replacements, utilities, and warez; and shmooze with managers telling them

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread AD
Amy,   You will not be able to do that. Creating a new machine with the same name and same ip will not automatically add your new server to the domain. You will have two choices:   1. install base os and do a full system restore from the tapes of the old server. or 2. install base os and run dc

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
If you want 100% insurance then yes transfering the FSMO roles prior to the maintenance task could prevent an eventual seize if the particular DC dies for some reason. Maybe dependent on the maintenance task that is performed a decision should be made if the FSMO roles should be transfered or

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-29 Thread Tony Murray
Yeah, I think a lot of it is carry-over from the legacy X.500 schema. I remember the attribute being present in a number of early X.500 implementations as part of the Paradise project (an attempt in the early 90s to pilot a global directory using X.500). The UK English spelling for "favourite" ref

Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Using Ntdsutil.exe to transfer or seize FSMO roles to a domain controller: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255504 And XPs and Outlook 2003 will use cached credentials and cached storage of Outlook so even if the DC is down, Exchange is horked, even in a single DC setting your end users aren't

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread joe
In production I always move the domain roles prior to working on a DC or even rebooting a DC. As you mention, the role move is trivial and if something does dork up you have less to think about and aren't wondering at what point you should be seizing. I am not so worried about the forest role

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread joe
Since you specifically mentioned me. I always move the roles for reboots and maintenance.   Brett don't much care about roles, ESE doesn't care about them.      joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky HabeebSent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:02 PMTo: Activ

RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Migration manager(OT)

2005-11-29 Thread joe
Yep it acts like the password was just changed because it sets the pwdLastSet value to the current date/time. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich MilburnSent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:48 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quest M

[ActiveDir] GC list

2005-11-29 Thread Harding, Devon
What’s the easiest way to get a list of ALL my DC’s and GC’s in my forest along with IP address?   Devon Harding Windows Systems Engineer Southern Wine & Spirits - BSG 954-602-2469   __This message and any

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread joe
I generalize horribly but management tends to fail upward until they get to the point that they get their golden parachute and then leave the company when it is stumbling, only to later come back as a very overpaid consultant when the company has finally corrected itself from the previous mi

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC

2005-11-29 Thread Mike
Simple is good. The only place Outlook belongs is on a workstation.    Regards,     Mike Burns   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:00 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook installed on a DC I

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Rich Milburn
Amy the easiest path for your new hardware comment is Y’s #2 below – new server, dcpromo, AND MOVE FSMOs, and then decom the old one.  Note that if there is DNS involved, and DHCP, and WINS, there’s a bit more to it… computer names etc… you can get around those issues by demoting the old bo

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Rich Milburn
Yeah but having “seize the FSMOs instead of moving them” as your fallback plan is like making sure you have a current backup in case “yanking the power cord instead of Start > Shutdown > Restart” causes file system corruption J   -

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread David Adner
If the insurance is guarding against apps/services/etc that may need the FSMO holders while they're offline, then I can agree with this.  If it's out of fear that something unexpected will happen that takes out the FSMO holders completely, then I don't think it's worth the effort.  If the la

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Hi David, I’m with you on this one!   Mike Thommes   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:27 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer   If

RE: [ActiveDir] GC list

2005-11-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
to view all DCs in the forest * repadmin /viewlist * to view all DCs in the domain * run nslookup and configure set type=srv and query for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.. (per domain) * NLTEST /DCLIST: * netdom query dc * run replmon and ask for "show domain controllers in domain" to view all DCs tha

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
By definition, the impact of a maintenance task is expected to be low. But the behavior of a server isn't always predictable after you change the software and/or configuration and reboot it. Sometimes just the power or temperature fluctuation is enough to kick a marginal component over the edge.

Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread ChuckGaff
I've not worried about transferring the FSMO roles for general maintenance such as defragmentation or updating SPs, etc.  It's up to how flaky or solid  the DCs are -- if they are that flaky then maybe it's time to buy some newer hardware ...   Chuck  

Re: [ActiveDir] GC list

2005-11-29 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
Harding, Devon wrote: What’s the easiest way to get a list of ALL my DC’s and GC’s in my forest along with IP address? Quickest way will be to use nslookup: nslookup -q=SRV _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs. - for DCs nslookup -q=SRV _ldap._tcp.gc._msdcs. - for GCs -- Tomasz Onyszko http://www.w2k.pl Lis

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread David Adner
I would only agree if you told me your DC's regularly fail to come back after a reboot.  And if you did tell me that I'd have to say you're doing something wrong.   I suppose I don't consider rebooting a DC to be quite the dangerous act as others do.  To what degree is this taken?  If it hol

RE: [ActiveDir] GC list

2005-11-29 Thread Brett Shirley
Note instead of repadmin /options *, look for GC flag, you can run repadmin /viewlist gc: Gives only all GCs in your forest ... something I thought would probably be useless when I implemented it. Cheers, -BrettSh [msft - ESE - SDE] On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Almeida Pinto, Jorge de wrote: > to view

RE: [ActiveDir] GC list

2005-11-29 Thread David Adner
How about making /options work with /csv...? :) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:11 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] GC list > > Note instead of rep

RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

2005-11-29 Thread joe
Actually I make all DCs that have a possibility of being the forest root PDC synchronize from an external source. I haven't ever run DNS on DCs so I can't say anything to that, however if I did, I might consider it.   There really is nothing to moving FSMO roles. Have you had a FSMO role mo

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-29 Thread Dean Wells
Note that it's multi-valued ... what can I say, we're British and there's [EMAIL PROTECTED] all else to do :o) -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto,

RE: [ActiveDir] authentication problem

2005-11-29 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, A) IIS logfiles must have something. The browser pops-up the credentials dialogue when it receives a 401 HTTP status (Access Denied) back from the server. Can you look in your IIS logfiles please, and post the corresponding logfile entries please? If there is nothing in the IIS logfiles, then

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-29 Thread Brian Desmond
Right, but the good admins have all got it added to the user class and populated appropriately for their accounts. Of course they've also got a tool for whoever handles these things to look up the data. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- Fro

RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Migration manager(OT)

2005-11-29 Thread Brian Desmond
Yes. Expired password is just pwdlastset = 0 or -1 … I forget which.   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:10 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.acti

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Schema Attribute

2005-11-29 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Talking about the Britisch... In the UK pub opening hours are around the clock since a week or so...I think a pub owner could introduce his own AD and use this very interesting attribute for his customers.. ;-) I also looked if it had a sigar(s) attribute, but no luck! ;-) Jorge ___