RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Scripting question

2002-10-29 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
n (ES: \\srvprinter01\HPLASERJ3) or IP / Netbios resolution (ES: \\172.16.16.1\HPLASERJ3) I hope that is useful >From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [Act

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Scripting question

2002-10-30 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
TNG, SYmantec, packet to run on every machine. If you need of a creator of MSI look at your Win2k CD in support and search for winstle product. Is very easier to use. Good Luke >From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To:

[ActiveDir] OT(sort of): Aelita questions

2002-10-31 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Can one of the resident Aelita gurus please contact me off list? I have some questions resulting from a few test migrations in our production environments that we would like to ask before the "go-live" date, which is almost upon us. Thanks! John A. Bjelke Unisys 5

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Display Name for User logged into computer

2002-11-08 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Last logon is kept in the registry on the local machine, unless your policies prevent that being kept, as DefaultUserName. Take a look @ HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName. You could write it to a log as part of the login script, along with current time and c

RE: [ActiveDir] Switching Mixed mode to Native mode

2002-11-08 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
If you do have a lot of BDC's, you might want to look at Upromote... http://www.algintech.com/UTools/UPromote.asp -Original Message- From: Jimmy Andersson [mailto:jimmy@;mvps.org] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Switching Mixed mode t

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Display Name for User logged into computer

2002-11-08 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
BTW, you can also pull the last domain name logged into from the DefaultDomainName under that same reg key. You might need to do this, judging from your description of what you're trying to do. Otherwise, you may drive yourself nuts trying to match local account logins with non-existant DC records

[ActiveDir] Script for publishing printers?

2002-11-19 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Script for publishing printers? Hey folks!     quick question, and one I hope there is a relatively easy answer to: Print servers migrated to AD via Aelita tools. Need to publish all of the printers on the server. Is there a way to script this, or do I need to manually go through

RE: [ActiveDir] Script for publishing printers?

2002-11-19 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
al Message ------ From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:26:31 - Hey folks! quick question, and one I hope there is a relatively easy answer to: Print servers migrated to AD via Aelit

RE: [ActiveDir] Script for publishing printers?

2002-11-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
uot; setting from scriptso on to next bit :)   You can also use a group policy setting on the print server to force publishing of printers in AD:   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;234270   HTH   Glenn   - Original Message - From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Script for publishing printers?

2002-11-21 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
ox pq.Name & " is a " & pq.Model > Next P > > Unfortunately havent figured out how to set the "Publish in AD" > setting from scriptso on to next bit :) > > > You can also use a group policy setting on the print server to force publishing of pr

RE: [ActiveDir] Outlook XP makes me want to throw it out the window!

2002-12-10 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Chris, create a new email profile in Outlook. I have seen this behaviour when the user profile is corrupted and will not establish a proper authentication token. Out of curiousity, do the multiple logon failures in outlook trigger your account lockout policy against her domain account? If it doesn'

RE: [ActiveDir] Moving users between domains within same forest VIA SCRIPTING

2002-12-10 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message UserAdmin.pl from the resource kit... export from one, delete, create and import to the other?   -Original Message-From: Salandra, Justin A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:18 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Moving user

RE: [ActiveDir] Gathering Computer Account Info via script

2002-12-17 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Chris, you may want to create an ldap query in your vb script to what ever container you are trying to enumerate and run through each object in that container, write that to a csv (or text, whatever you need), and then move on to the next container. Nested "for" loops would probably be the

RE: [ActiveDir] Little Questions

2002-12-17 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
I second that. Antigen is very good. I would suggest keeping different vendor's AV solutions on your SMTP Gateway vs. your Exchange servers... If one of them doesn't catch it, the heuristics of the other AV engine (or the newer defs that one vendor releases before the other) might, increasing your

RE: [ActiveDir] Hardening Active Directory

2002-12-27 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Really? Do they have a ritual for server cleansing and consecration? Maybe a psalm to ward off PHB's?  :^)  -Original Message-From: Leney, Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 9:25 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [ActiveD

RE: [ActiveDir] recovering a computer

2002-12-31 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
We have used the Winternals Linux-based pwd recovery disks with much success. Another alternative, but one of last resort IMHO, is to boot to either a *nix cd or diskette with NTFS support (there are numerous *nix distros out there that can be burned to cd and booted to for forensics and other disa

RE: [ActiveDir] Reverting to Basic Disk

2002-12-31 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Thom, I've never heard of such a tool, but if one does exist it will probably not save you time in this scenario... you will still have to back up this large amount of data prior to using any disk editor tool that purports to do this or risk losing it entirely. I would strongly suggest going with t

RE: [ActiveDir] file jdbgmgr.exe

2003-01-08 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Java debug manager/registrar. Little teddy bear icon, right? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322993 -Original Message-From: bobo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:22 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveD

RE: [ActiveDir] Protocols Required

2003-01-09 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Greg is correct... If the mail store that the outlook profile is pointing to no longer exists or is no longer contactable by the client, outlook will never get repointed to the new location. In this case, you would have to manually repoint the outlook profile to the new mail store to resolve the ma

RE: [ActiveDir] ADSI and RAS

2003-01-15 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Their Mini-Remote Control program is pretty handy as well. -Original Message-From: Weston Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:40 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADSI and RAS woh, dameware is pretty sweet

RE: [ActiveDir] User's Account Locked out Every morning

2003-01-15 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Manual drive mappings with old passwords.. -Original Message-From: John F. Hann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:05 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User's Account Locked out Every morning Logged in another PC

RE: [ActiveDir] VNC and Terminal Services

2003-01-23 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message John, FWIW, I have heard from a few "white hats" that VNC is easy to hack because it stores passwords in known encryption algorythms in the regsitry. http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/854/discussion  and http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/197477 show some more detail on this

RE: [ActiveDir] Question

2003-01-31 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Justin, while I have not heard that either, if MS stops selling 2K to OEM's, which would be the most likely scenario in the case of any moratorium on 2K, my understanding is that the licensing agreement should allow you to legally install 2K on a box under the XP or 2K3 OEM license. That i

RE: [ActiveDir] Question

2003-01-31 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Jimmy, great link. I hadn't seen this. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Jimmy Andersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Question See the License Availability Roadmap at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/li

RE: [ActiveDir] password checking software recommendation?

2003-01-31 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
http://www.quakenbush.com/ Password Appraiser is good. Anaxis Password Policy Enforcer is useful as well: http://www.tpis.com.au/products/ppe/default.htm -Original Message- From: Thommes, Michael M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:02 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

RE: [ActiveDir] Decrypt Files from a no longer existing domain

2003-02-03 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
One possible solution would be to disconnect the network cable and try logging on as the user who encrypted them, assuming that their are credentials cached on the machine. -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:14 AM To: '[E

RE: [ActiveDir] Group membership

2003-02-10 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Can you use Group.vbs from the Resource Kit? You can use the /S to specify remote servers, and perhaps you could wrap this in another script to loop through all of your servers. -Original Message-From: Brad Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, Februa

RE: [ActiveDir] Group membership

2003-02-10 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Or perhaps the "Global Groups" from res kit?   Displays members of global groups on remote servers or domains. GLOBAL group_name domain_name | \\server   group_name    The name of the global group to list the members of.  domain_name   The name of a network domain.  \\server

RE: [ActiveDir] Expiring passwords?

2003-02-12 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Mike, Now, this peaks my interest. Can you elaborate on how RestrictAnonymous of 2 would effect changing of passwords? John A. Bjelke Unisys [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Thommes, Michael M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Single user problem in AD

2003-02-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Rob, Does this same behavior exhibit if she logs on to another system? Does it exhibit if you log on to her system as yourself? -Original Message- From: Rob Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Sin

RE: [ActiveDir] Single user problem in AD

2003-02-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Yes, it exists on different machines that she logs onto within the domain. Yes, if I log into her machine, I can run the task manager and the batch file. - Original Message - From: "Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Th

RE: [ActiveDir] Determining when a user account was disabled.

2003-02-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Clyde, Can you parse security logs on the DC's forEvent ID: 629 Type: Success Audit Description: User Account Disabled? -Original Message- From: Burns, Clyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Dete

RE: [ActiveDir] Single user problem in AD

2003-02-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
r the user. Is GPResults.exe on the Resource kit? Thanks Rob - Original Message - From: "Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Single user problem in AD &g

RE: [ActiveDir] Single user problem in AD

2003-02-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
D] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Single user problem in AD Yes, it exists on different machines that she logs onto within the domain. Yes, if I log into her machine, I can run the task manager and the batch file. - Original Message ----- From: "Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO" <[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Determining when a user account was disabled.

2003-02-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
hen a user account was disabled. Unfortunately the event logs dont go back that far. And something else is touching the accounts and updating the whenchanged value. -Original Message----- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:57 PM T

RE: [ActiveDir] Policy Inheritance

2003-02-25 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
If certain OU's need to not get the domain policies pushed down upon them, you would want to block inheritance. Perhaps your domain policies aren't as strict as the Finance folks want their security to be. Put them in their own OU and block inheritance, then set up a policy on that OU specifically.

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove the ability to create computer accounts inthe computer container

2003-02-26 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Greg, If you restrict it so that no one except the user your web script runs as can create accts and are specifying the container in your script, then they will still be able to create accts, they will just be forced to use your web script to do so. This would achive your stated goal, woul

RE: [ActiveDir] Remove the ability to create computer accounts inthe computer container

2003-02-27 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:40 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remove the ability to create computer accounts in the computer container Greg,

[ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain

2003-03-07 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: OT: Identifying laptops on domain Perhaps someone here might know:     Is there any machine attribute or registry value that can be queried to differentiate workstations and laptops on a domain? We have a circumstance that requires laptops to be addressed differently from worksta

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain

2003-03-07 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
in You can do this with segmentation on a DHCP network. Martial -Message d'origine----- De: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: vendredi 7 mars 2003 16:04 À: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain Perhaps someone

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain

2003-03-07 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
process to break them out. R/Bill -Original Message- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain Existing IP scheme is st

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain

2003-03-07 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
24 possible values. Seems like this might be the magic bullet, but I definately need to test. Thanks for the suggestion! Regards, John A. Bjelke -Original Message- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 20

[ActiveDir] Anybody see Gil's article?

2003-03-18 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Anybody see Gil's article? March issue of Windows & .NET magazine has an article by Gil Kirkpatrick on AD Authentication Topology that is definitely worth a read. http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=37935 is the article online. Good stuff Gil! John A. Bjel

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain

2003-03-19 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
-Original Message- From: PERRIN Martial (EURIWARE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:16 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Identifying laptops on domain You can do this with segmentation on a DHCP network. Martial -Message d'or

RE: [ActiveDir] Removing sites and servers from AD

2003-03-31 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Mike,     I would transfer any roles to servers in the site that will be retained, then demote all of the dc's in the sites to be excised from AD to member servers. Then remove the site links. If your email site is exchange 5.5, you should remove any mail servers th

RE: [ActiveDir] Additional drivers for W2K printing

2003-04-03 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Mark, I have seen that happen after making security policy changes, specifically "Prevent users from installing printer drivers". Are you trying this as yourself, or as the local administrator account? -Original Message- From: Abbiss, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursda

RE: [ActiveDir] Authentication Problems.

2003-06-09 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Another possibility is that manual mappings to shared drives were done under an old password, and the system stored that in the registry. Disconnect the network drives and then reconnect. We do our standard mappings in the login script, and strongly discourage manual mappings t

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Sounds like you have a "ghosted" adapter that was setup running a private IP address at some point and still exists in the registry. Try this: Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER. Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and the

[ActiveDir] OT: Tivoli

2003-07-15 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: OT: Tivoli Thanks Larry! That'll do nicely. As for not furthering the cause, I'm with ya brother. Not my choice, but I can only salute and move on. Eric, thanks as well. I just wish we were using framework 4.1 instead of 3.7. *sigh* John A. Bjelke   Unisys   

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-05 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
was driving him crazy. Scratch the chicken off the list of how to win friends and influence people. -gil -Original Message----- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:01 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WOT

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-08 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
ar in the hearts of dogs, cats, and small children. Are you coming to DEC Ottawa? I can give it to you there, along with your free beer. Otherwise, send me your shipping info offlist, and no beer for you. -gil -----Original Message- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-09 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
prints a table of primes, formatting it into columns. What's my prize :^) John A. Bjelke Unisys 505.853.6774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's as difficult as pulling teeth through an elephants rump, then the approach needs to be reevaluated. -Original Message---

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP & LastLogin for Computers

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message One way to go about it would be to turn up the auditing and query the event log on the machine for login success/failure events.   John A. Bjelke   Unisys 505.853.6774   [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize

RE: [ActiveDir] The Truth Is Out There:

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
James, I had similar issues on my home network from my desktop firewall blocking on netbios resolution. The other possibility is that who ever is the browse master has gone stupid and needs a reboot :^) John A. Bjelke Unisys 505.853.6774 [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/techinfo/productdoc/gpss.asp John A. Bjelke Unisys 505.853.6774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell -Original Message- From: Ellis, Debbie [mai

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
"When I spoke at the 2002 AFITC, a general from ACC (I've forgotten his name) told me that someone in his office had received one and the noise was driving him crazy. Scratch the chicken off the list of how to win friends and influence people." LOL! That's great Gil! Thanks! John A. Bj

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String) prints a table of primes, formatting it into columns.

RE: [ActiveDir] Settign password Expiration date

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Dennis, He's not looking to set this through policy, methinks. Erick, try this link for how to do this through script: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/adsi /winnt_account_expiration.asp Watch the word wrap, and good luck! John A.

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-14 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
c 'them' versus specifically 'her' as indicated by the gender of the pronoun... :o) joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:21 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-19 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
(I've forgotten his name) told me that someone in his office had received one and the noise was driving him crazy. Scratch the chicken off the list of how to win friends and influence people. -gil -Original Message- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] WOT Unreadable code (was Connection String)

2003-08-20 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
efore. I think I've created a monster. Tony -- Original Message ---------- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:  Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:34:43 +0100 Gil,     received one screamin rub

RE: [ActiveDir] SP4

2003-08-22 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Man, I must be havin a ball.     John A. Bjelke   Unisys 505.853.6774   [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison    

RE: [ActiveDir] printing prb

2003-09-03 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Probaby a bad driver... Download new one and reinstall the printer.  Also, there are some viruses that cause things like this... either macro viruses that replace the Normal.dot to corrupt your office settings, or ones that actually corrupt the printer driver. Rename your norma

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller with GC sizing?

2001-07-24 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Cindy, here's the link to the sizer tool. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/sizer/default.asp John A. Bjelke AFRL\VSIO Business Support Analyst UNISYS Supporting AFRL Kirtland AFB, NM 505.853.6087 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rittenhouse, Ci

RE: [ActiveDir] Time Clock

2001-08-15 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
ntp2.usno.navy.mil at 192.5.41.209 tock.usno.navy.mil at 192.5.41.41  John A. Bjelke AFRL\VSIO  Business Support Analyst     UNISYS     Supporting AFRL     Kirtland AFB, NM 505.853.6087 [EMAIL PROTECTED] === "Oh, you hate you

RE: [ActiveDir] Time Clock

2001-08-15 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Here is a page with a pretty up to date list of public primary NTP servers:   http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1.htm   -Original Message-From: Joe Baird [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:05 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ActiveDir] Time Clock C

RE: [ActiveDir] Please....

2001-10-30 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
For general list information including unsubscribe procedure see: http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm -Original Message- From: Mark Abbiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Please I want to unsubscribe

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange SP2 out today

2001-11-29 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
*hoists another pint of Guiness and smiles beatifically at the ringing email support lines* -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange SP2 out today /me marvels

RE: [ActiveDir] Account Lockouts in mixed mode

2001-10-17 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Actually, we have seen similar issues in our mixed mode domain. Sometimes, it seems that there is a sync problem between pdc and bdc's. Other times, we have no clue why it is occuring to an individual over and over again. We have even gone so far as to delete and recreate accounts in AD for users

RE: [ActiveDir] Software Deployment:

2001-12-11 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
James,     unfortunately, the bulk of our experince has been in using SMS to push patches and updates. I really don't think building a new .msi file is the way you want to go. Slip-streaming the patches into the original installs has worked very well for us, and has allowed us to k

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Policy Logon Error

2002-01-08 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
I have seen incorrect path statements in the environment settings cause vbs login scripts to bomb out. Compare the path statements on the ones that work to the ones that don't. This would especially be indicative if it is a "it used to work and now it doesn't" situation. Software installs often ad

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Application monitor/Internet tracking?

2002-01-18 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
There are a number of internet tracking applications out there that will track the ammount of time connected to a given URL. I believe some proxies can be configured to do this as well. Have fun parsing those logs... I wouldn't want to do it. Sessionwall from SSi will do this and much much more...

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Data Recovery

2002-01-22 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: OT: Data Recovery Lost&Found is a pretty good recovery tool from PowerQuest software. The time frame doesn't matter, what matters is subsequent drive activity since the deleteion. If those sectors have been written to, write off the data as a loss.  John A. Bjelke AFRL\VSIO  Business

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Data Recovery

2002-01-22 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
You mean made by Execusoft, who also makes Diskeeper :^) -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Data Recovery sorry, I said Diskeeper; I meant Undelete(tm) which is made b

RE: [ActiveDir] RIS and RipRep

2002-01-24 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Did you slip-stream the service pack and hot fixes prior to the ris, or after you have pushed the image to the system? I belive that if you apply SP2 AFTER the install through ris, the image will NOt match the install. -Original Message- From: Morgan, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sen

RE: [ActiveDir] RIS and RipRep

2002-01-24 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
471-9938 512-619-9016 -Original Message----- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] RIS and RipRep Did you slip-stream the service pack and hot fixes p

RE: [ActiveDir] Weird Domain Error

2002-01-24 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
This is the only things I can find on this issue. Q179483. Hope it helps! Error Msg: No More Connections Can Be Made At This Time -- The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows 2000 , Professional Mi

RE: [ActiveDir] VPN W2K Cannot See Other Computers Except the Server

2002-02-15 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Is the computer browser service started? -Original Message-From: Dipowarga Wirawan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:47 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] VPN W2K Cannot See Other Computers Except the Server I just found out tha

RE: [ActiveDir] Two Domains, One Subnet

2002-02-21 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
DHCP is going to work on a "first available" basis.. i.e., the first DHCP server that a system can contact when it looks for a lease will issue an IP and register the connection in dynamic DNS. This could cause managing computer domain accounts to get ugly, unless you are willing to keep all compu

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Network bandwidth usage

2002-03-05 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
dsniff can sniff a switched network... runs on Uni* systems... I'm sure you will find it on insecure.org or really any 'security' site out on the web . Good luck! -JB  John A. Bjelke AFRL\VSIO  Business Support Analyst    UNISYS   Supporting AFRL   Kirtland AFB, NM 505.853

RE: [ActiveDir] Rolling SRP1 into a RIS Install:

2002-03-06 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
James, The rough instructions are in Q296723, but the specific outline is something like this: 1. Copy the Windows 2000 CD-ROM onto the HD 2. Slipstream SP2 into it (update -s:path) 3. Extract the SRP1 files somewhere (sp2srp1 -x:path) From this point, what you have to do is remove matchin

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS

2002-03-19 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Another thing to note on HP jetdirect.. there are servers turned on by default with blank passwords that could allow a malicious user to change things, such as IP config. Imagine the havoc caused by someone setting the IP on an unsecured HP printer to the same as the gateway on that subnet... -

RE: [ActiveDir] AD on XP

2002-03-22 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Well, the XP version of 2KAdvancedServer is .Net Server, which I don't believe has been fully released yet. XP workstations should integrate nicely in a 2K AD environment. Good luck! -JB John A. Bjelke AFRL\VSIO Business Support Analyst UNISYS Supporting AFRL Kirtland AFB,

RE: [ActiveDir] Group Policy Object and registry keys

2002-03-22 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Well, I would use a registry snap-shot tool and take a snap before change an compare it to after. Keep in mind that not all of the registry entries may be captured, however... We just had an instance where we were trying to programatically set a check in a box in the file and print sharing under

RE: [ActiveDir] Registry setting

2002-04-01 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Scott, I can only assume you are looking to programatically change this setting in your environment. Here is a snippet of the vbs code we use to toggle this off. Best of luck! John A. Bjelke AFRL\VSIO Business Support Analyst UNISYS Supporting AFRL Kirtland A

RE: Antwort: [ActiveDir] Pwdlastset attribute

2002-04-04 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
I always thought UTC in relation to computing was the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970. I find the choice of Jan 01, 1601 to be a little bizarre in this context. Was this a typo? Or is that how UTC is now measured in AD? -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Simple Password reset utility

2002-05-17 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Do you use Outlook Web Access on Exchange? There is a password change applet built-in there that should work for what you need. -John -Original Message-From: Izzy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:46 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: [ActiveDir] Simple Passwor

RE: [ActiveDir] Simple Password reset utility

2002-05-17 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
ot; person can reset another user's password or unlock their account, assuming they forgot their password.   -Original Message-From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:55 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [Active

RE: [ActiveDir] Password Changes Issues

2002-06-04 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Don, Check for policy changes. The "you are not authorized to change your password" error message appears to be the default error message. Our users see this error all the time if they are not meeting the length and complexity requirements. Hope this helps! John A. Bjelke AFRL\VSIO Bus

RE: [ActiveDir] Why Active Directory?

2002-07-11 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
David, the way to best reduce total cost of ownership on any network (and the amount of work you have to put in on it) is to go to a standardized desktop environment where possible. The fewer hardware and software configurations an organization has, the easier, theoretically at least, it

RE: [ActiveDir] Sort of OT: other Protocols

2002-07-18 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
What about using hosts files as a fail over for DNS? Seems like less work to me. John A. Bjelke UNISYS Systems administrator 505.846.5894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Morgan, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 20

RE: [ActiveDir] Netlogon Service

2002-10-08 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Yusuf, we wrestled with the same issue for a while and Microsoft addressed it on Technet http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q301381 ...it was a problem with the version of msgina.dll. SP3 is supposed to correct this, though when we had the issue it was pre-sp3 releas

RE: [ActiveDir] Disable IE via GPO

2002-10-15 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Why not block his web-mail site @ the firewall? He might have legitimate project related need for web access, but if you can point to virus infections from his web-based email you should be able to justify blocking the site for everyone. John A. Bjelke Unisys 505.85

RE: [ActiveDir] Disable IE via GPO

2002-10-16 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Heh. I like it. And of course, thumbcuffs would work wonders to prevent inapropriate surfing... :^) -Original Message- From: Puckett, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disable IE via GPO If you w

RE: [ActiveDir] Disable IE via GPO

2002-10-16 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
go there. But I certainly have considered the idea along with blocking IM traffic. Jim Liddil > -Original Message- > From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 4:22 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subje

RE: [ActiveDir] Disable IE via GPO

2002-10-16 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:12 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disable IE via GPO > > > Well, you *could* write code into his login sc

RE: [ActiveDir] IE 5.5 buttons and AD GPOs

2002-10-18 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
What if you create a less restricted service acct, something like Backflip_service, and a script to allow users to open this site only as this service acct... would that accomplish your goals? John A. Bjelke Unisys 505.853.6774 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The more corrupt

[ActiveDir] OT: Scripting question

2002-10-24 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Hey folks... I need to automate repointing print queues on ~2000 clients to a different print server and retain user settings on each queue... does anyone know how to RENAME a registry key, either in VB, Perl, C++, or WSH? I can pull the value and create a new key to the same printer name

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Scripting question

2002-10-24 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
;s books covers that in detail. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message- > From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO > [mailto:John.Bjelke@;kirtland.af.mil] > Sent: Thursday, Octobe

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Scripting question

2002-10-24 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
ubject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Scripting question I don't think there is a rename. You would just read the old, write the new with that info and then delete the old. -Original Message----- From: Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO [mailto:John.Bjelke@;kirtland.af.mil] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:09

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