RE: [ActiveDir] HP teaming

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
OK, new machine (AMD64... oh yeah!) is up and running. I'm not going to go back and catch up on everything, but this one caught my eye. We used NIC teaming for years. We had multitudes of problems, more associated with either our setup team not setting the NICs to 100/Full consistently, or the N

RE: [ActiveDir] Latest MS patch KB899588

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
Are you wondering if restarting the server is mandatory?  I suspect that it is, unless you really don’t want to be protected.  Often times, the components being replaced are only read on system startup.   Given that the bulletin specifically says:   Restart Requirement You must restart

RE: [ActiveDir] Latest MS patch KB899588

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
Are you wondering if restarting the server is mandatory?  I suspect that it is, unless you really don’t want to be protected.  Often times, the components being replaced are only read on system startup.   Given that the bulletin specifically says:   Restart Requirement You must restart

RE: [ActiveDir] Latest MS patch KB899588

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
Juan –   Apparently you didn’t read MY message – YES it’s mandatory to apply the patch…..   If you DO NOT REBOOT you’re going to get slapped by the worm.   Rick   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ibarra, Juan Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:

RE: [ActiveDir] cloning DC's

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom - Regardless of the scenario and how it's done - you never, never, never, clone DCs. This will lead to very bad things - possibly including the appearance of the Anti-Christ, opening of Black Holes, ABBA coming back to prominence. Do NOT do this. Do NOT allow IBM to do it. Period. Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] Problem at remote site

2005-08-18 Thread Rick Kingslan
Jennifer, Thanks for the update and the resolution. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer Fountain Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:45 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Problem at remote site Hi all:

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: AD MMC Snap ins

2005-08-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
If the AdminPak has never been installed on a given system, the snap-ins that are the Administrative Tools – say, ADUC, should not be available.   Are you saying that you have the snap-ins on a Win2k3 system with SP1 that you are certain the AdminPak was not installed on?  I’m unclear as

RE: [ActiveDir] User SIDs...

2005-08-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
Having read through most of the replies on this, it's interesting that there was an internal (to Microsoft - just to clarify) discussion on this same topic yesterday. Seems that a customer was having problems with a function calling APIs for SID creation when the SID exceeded 68 bytes. I'll let y

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: AD MMC Snap ins

2005-08-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
ins I have checked at work today, systems that have never seen the admin pak, have the mmc snapins installed. Vanilla 2003 this is the case too. They are Just not visable under admin tools, but are available as mmc snapins, even without the adminpak installed. Mark -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] User SIDs...

2005-08-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
riginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 12:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] User SIDs... Having read through most of the replies on this, it's interesting that there was an in

RE: [ActiveDir] User SIDs...

2005-08-19 Thread Rick Kingslan
ber of RIDs, so that is basically 15 (since 0 RIDs doesn't do much for you). Where do these giant SIDs come from? Most AD SIDs I've seen are 24 or 28 bytes (4 or 5 RIDs respectively). Joe K. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] hide an attribute

2005-08-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
Hide it from them viewing it... from where? And with what tool? I suppose that you would most likely go into AD and change the permissions on the attribute in question. Remove Read, I suppose. However, remember that Administrator and Domain Admins are all Auth Users, too. Rick -Original M

RE: [ActiveDir] hide an attribute

2005-08-21 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tom Kern said: " Say i use one of the custom attribute fields that Exchange creates and put a value in there and hide it from Domain users. what would break? how would i go about hiding that? just as an example" [RTK] Hey, joe Just a suggestion. If someone asks you what time it is - don

RE: [ActiveDir] Ports during authentication/logons...

2005-08-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
David,   If you really, really want to use the absolute minimum ports through a firewall, use IPSec tunnel mode.  However, your Network Engineers (or whoever manages your Firewalls) may not like it.  Reason?  Likely the same reason that I got when I suggested this at a previous employer:

RE: [ActiveDir] Ports during authentication/logons...

2005-08-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
You’ve likely seen this, but it does describe ports needed for REPLICATION……  However, Steve does talk about the benefits of using IPSec through a firewall……   Rick   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:3

RE: [ActiveDir] Ports during authentication/logons...

2005-08-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
beros is used.  Not sure how they feel about certs.  Shared keys just wouldn't be an option.   Specifically, though, they have their backs up with 135.  Do you know what's using it during a logon/GPO process/??   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Question on WSUS implementation and GPO's...

2005-08-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
It's not likely due to GPO processing. GPOs themselves are typically very quick to process, unless there is either Software Install that is taking place through the GPO or complex WMI filtering that would slow it down. Otherwise, GPO is very fast. I've done testing with 1 GPO and with 50 GPOs...

RE: [ActiveDir] Microsoft MIIS: Server 2003 AD and MSSQL 2000 integration?

2005-08-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
And, given that Science has proven cockroaches will survive a nuclear war, it's even a worse choice than originally thought :o) Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:34 AM To: ActiveD

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Questions about hotfix 903235 (MS05-037)

2005-08-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
Inline…….   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cliffe Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:34 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Questions about hotfix 903235 (MS05-037)   Hi -       I've posted this elsewhe

RE: FW: [Fwd: RE: [ActiveDir] Password policy change]

2005-08-28 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yep - I've been through this just of late. If the Change at next logon is set, IIS doesn't have that level of function to allow this to take palce through the current functions. Rick -- Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep

2005-08-28 Thread Rick Kingslan
Heavy German accent? I suspect that it was Andreas Luther (and looks nothing like Guido) And - it might have been DEC as Andreas was there for the Identity Management (read:MIIS) portion of the conference. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] 2003AD - 2000AD Trust with LMHOST?

2005-08-28 Thread Rick Kingslan
Are you talking about external trusts? If so, then yes. You would follow the same procedures as you would for a win2x to Nt 4.0. You'll need to specify the #DOM, #PRE to get the 1B, 1C records loaded. As we discussed a few weeks ago, this is the rather archaic method to do it, but if you don't

RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep

2005-08-29 Thread Rick Kingslan
veDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep Yep, that was him. Drat, dunno why I had Luther in my head as being his first name. - L > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan

RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep

2005-08-29 Thread Rick Kingslan
, Laura > E. > Sent: Montag, 29. August 2005 12:36 > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Infrastucture Master and adprep /domainprep > > Yep, that was him. Drat, dunno why I had Luther in my head as being > his first name. > > > - L > &

RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Permissions

2005-09-03 Thread Rick Kingslan
blanks and dupes here   -r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joeSent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:35 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Permissions Michael Smith's last post with this title showed up as blank f

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Restore Problem

2005-10-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
However, as we have discussed her MANY, MANY times - it might not be SUPPORTED. That simply means that PSS is only going to give best effort. They are NOT going to tell you: "Sorry - not supported." If they do - let me know. I'll love taking that one to the brass. As we know - DCs work quite

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD

2005-10-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Interesting question - and as to the 'implode point' for ESE/Jet Blue, Brettsh can answer that one. I'm pretty sure that we have a good idea on where the point of diminishing returns is, but it likely FAR exceeds what anyone might practically do today - even with added classes and attributes. As

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD

2005-10-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 10:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD Interesting question - and as to the 'implode point' for ESE/Jet Blue, Brettsh can answer that one. I'm pretty su

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD

2005-10-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
[ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD Yeah, GPOs aren't AD. GPOs are an application that use AD. I hate GPOs. DNS too. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:19 AM To: ActiveDir@mai

RE: [ActiveDir] Adding custom fields to AD

2005-10-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
x27;ll bite. GPO's, i understand but whats there to hate about DNS? its better than WINS. I've never had a corrputed dns database.   thanks  On 10/8/05, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, GPOs aren't AD. GPOs are an application that use AD. I hate GPOs.

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
>> Tony Murray Said: >> Joe, I've had no complaints about you to date. Good. I'll start. Here's your first. He's an over-bearing know-it-all looking for his first and second million. Plus, he uses more bandwidth than everyone combined. If someone asks, he - "Could I stand a second domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Virtual Servers in Branch Offices

2005-10-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
"Does placing the DC inside a virtual machine add any security? Would it be harder for someone with physical access to compromise the DC?"   Hmmm  interesting.  Yes, and no.  Physical access is always an issue, but the NTDS.DIT is not out there in the open on a disk as it might be in a

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe said: "Again, the reviewers did a fantastic job." Of which, you will all notice when the book comes out, I am _NOT_ one of those reviewers. joe said: "They kept me honest" Which is one of the reason _WHY_ I was not one of those reviewers Rick P.S. Hey, joe :op -Origi

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-14 Thread Rick Kingslan
wanting to spell words wrong. Eventually I just took out all references to the words color, humor, and other or words. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 7:31 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org S

RE: [ActiveDir] Documenting AD - ADMap requests fulfilled

2005-10-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
You have more than just Steve on the list from Microsoft. If you want ADMap - send me an e-mail via little 'r' (meaning - reply to me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I'll respond with a mass e-mail of the latest version of ADMap in two batches - on on Tuesday before I head out of town again, and a

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Controller Consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs

2005-10-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: Domain Controller Consolidation utilizing Dual Core CPUs joe,   Steve may have completely different information that I, but at present I'm not seeing empirical or preferred practice recommendations around 64-bit GCs in relation to Exchange.  So, the recommendation is not changing - aga

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Huh. That doesn't appear to be _US_ I wonder if the Engineering Services group knows that a third party (Partner at that) is advertising these services. Honestly, I didn't think that we farmed those services out Checking. Rick [msft] -- Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no r

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/ Sites & Services

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Simple and most forward answer is to create two site - one for each location, with associated subnets assigned to each site. The longer answer is related to how many users in each site, how fast (in AVAILABLE THROUGHPUT) is the connection between, and are you intending to put at least one DC in ea

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Yes, they (we) do. I'll check into them and give you an overview of what they do If I can, to be more correct. Rick [msft] -- Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ton

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
edge I had to be on for that He kept wanting to spell words wrong. Eventually I just took out all references to the words color, humor, and other or words. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005

RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
hate phones and how much Dean and I can cover in 10 minutes and we had to chop it off at 90 minutes because we both had to be somewhere else. Obviously, I had to change it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, Octobe

RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA?

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
-Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan > Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:05 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD/DNS BPA? > > Huh. That doesn't appear to be _US_ I wonde

RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted.

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
And, as you know that does work well in SBSland. However, when the scale grows, so do the requirements. IN the Medium to Enterprise space, the idea is more along the lines of a system or series of systems pumping this type of information into paging and making intelligent decisions based on the a

RE: [ActiveDir] Reverse DNS

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
Oooof.  ROTFLMAO!   Funny - very funny!   Rick [msft] --Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ...  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil RenoufSent: Friday, October 14, 2005 11:20 PMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re:

RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted.

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
heck is the server trying to tell me? I'm still a fan of www.eventid.net over microsoft.com's click here. Rick Kingslan wrote: >And, as you know that does work well in SBSland. However, when the >scale grows, so do the requirements. IN the Medium to Enterprise >space, the

RE: [ActiveDir] Knowing when users were deleted.

2005-10-16 Thread Rick Kingslan
SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: > Yup information overload 'is' a problem. > > And then after the scale its... okay what the heck is the server > trying to tell me? > > I'm still a fan of www.eventid.net over microsoft.com's click here. > > Rick Kingslan wrote: &

RE: [ActiveDir] BIND on Linux

2005-10-18 Thread Rick Kingslan
Peter, Though it may appear that I have a vested interest in keeping you on our OS, those that know me know that if a reasonable argument is presented - I will assist in the migration for our customers. It's simply good practice and good relations. Typically, when I hear that a customer wants to

RE: [ActiveDir] DC replication

2005-10-18 Thread Rick Kingslan
There are a number of ports with TCP and UDP/TCP required that must be available for full communication from DC to DC to succeed.  Likely one or more of these are blocked and a ping is great for basic connectivity.   From both sides of the VPN, run DCDIAG /v > dcdiag.log and a netdiag /v >ne

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS Problem please help

2005-10-18 Thread Rick Kingslan
If your DNS is not answering for the domain that AD lives in, the yes - your replication will not work.   1.  If you go to the DNS applet, do you have a DNS Forward zone created for your domain? 2.  If the domain is there, what is in the DNS zone?  Are there other 'folder's' inside, or just D

RE: [ActiveDir] BIND on Linux

2005-10-18 Thread Rick Kingslan
OK. It makes more sense. 1. Are you moving away from Active Directory to NIS? If not, keeping DNS on Windows is a zero cost / zero impact issue. If it's AD integrated, then the cost is nil. It's a no cost part of the DC package. 2. DNS on a Windows server as the primary system does invo

[ActiveDir] ADMap request fulfillments...

2005-10-22 Thread Rick Kingslan
All - I want to apologize to all those that have been patiently waiting for the ADMap that I promised. It is going to be sent out today. Let's just say that closing out my current project became more hectic than it first appeared. However, I have a slew of names that wanted the tool, and I'm

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-05 Thread Rick Kingslan
Hmmm. I guess I see this in a different light. In my "new, improved" view of the way that Microsoft communicates things, no - it doesn't seem to be very dumb at all. The statement and the KB, that is. At this moment, I'm watching George Carlin's new HBO special. He relates that he's always int

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
head. At the end of the day... it's my responsibility for my network. I won't be complaining to Microsoft that they didn't warn me that bad things might happen if I don't keep nice breathing room on my drives. Rick Kingslan wrote: >Hmmm. I guess I see this in a differ

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
Ken, I agree completely. What I find very interesting in reading this KB is that it appears that the problem did NOT exist pre-Windows Server 2003 SP1, and that a series of very specific conditions need to be met. The third seems to be the element that makes this more unlikely to occur - "The sc

RE: [ActiveDir] Raid suggestions for DC maybe OT

2005-11-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
Dan - there will likely be as many opinions on this topic on this list as there are knots on joe's head.   Basic rules for a DC are this (IMHO):   Mirrored (or RAID1) for OS Mirrored (or RAID1) for DIT and Logs   You can certainly host a third mirrored pair for the logs, but that will mostly d

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
dge of the full circumstances surrounding the issue. Rick [msft] -- Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9

RE: [ActiveDir] OT (somewhat): Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 DSProxy Referral Process Changes

2005-11-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
How long have you known joe? Short version PLEASE! Rick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 12:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT (somewhat): Exchange Server 2003 S

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
ley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 7:04 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveD

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
elance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 12:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Pot

RE: [ActiveDir] FYI: MS-KBQ909360 - Potential file corruption on NTFS volumes

2005-11-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
ce to discuss Active Directory. Nice to meet you. Who are you? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Unreadable Netlogon.dns file

2005-11-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
07, 2005 9:00 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Unreadable Netlogon.dns file > ~Eric Who ARE you, anyway?(t) (t) - Trademark, Rick Kingslan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Monday, Novem

RE: [ActiveDir] Raid suggestions for DC maybe OT

2005-11-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Jonathan -   275 replication links seems, at least to my tired eyes this AM, to be a lot.  Are you running a branch office environment, or is this a number of remote sites that link back to a single hub?   I'm interested as to why there are so many repl links to your DCs, only if it's one DC.

RE: [ActiveDir] Hardware Suggestions

2005-11-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Add to that - SATA is not for the desktop only. Check out some of the SAN coming out from most vendors, EMC included. Those drives and connections look a lot like SATA to me. Rick [msft] -- Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ... -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 SP1 upgrade...

2005-11-20 Thread Rick Kingslan
True.  But, to monitor services does someone have to log on to the server?  Would a good and SAFE work around - if the said user doesn't need to log on, to create a service account to do the work, but remove the interactive rights?   Seems to me that proxying the access would be the close to

RE: [ActiveDir] exporting group membership

2005-11-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
Excel?   Otherwise, I'm not completely clear as to what you're trying to accomplish.   Rick --Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ...  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank AbagnaleSent: Friday, November 25, 2005 10:02 AMTo: Ac

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Disappeared

2005-11-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
Harald - You have two NICs installed in this box, which is a DC. (Not a suggested / recommended configuration, but beside the point) Do you also have ICS installed, or Routing and Remote Access with natting installed? (Educated guess, given the 192.168.0.1 address) Be extremely verbose on

RE: [ActiveDir] Server Disappeared

2005-11-25 Thread Rick Kingslan
peared Well it depends on who you are :-) We actually highly recommend two nics in our SBS DCs :-) It was binding order. External nic was first. ICS ...ick... what are we workgroup? I'm an RRAS fan :-) [okay the SBSer will go shut up now :-) Rick Kingslan wrote: >Harald - > &g

RE: [ActiveDir] FRSInlog

2005-11-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
Both of the errors deal with journal wrap in the FRS logs A number of issues as to WHY this happens. However, I'd upgrade to UltraSound - the successor to Sonar. It has much better JIT information associated with the errors - and how to fix them. Rick -- Posting is provided "AS IS", and con

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2003 SP1 upgrade...

2005-11-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
  Sometimes, I realize that I commented on something, go back and read the thread and come upon a novella.   Occasionally, all I want is a paragraph.  Hopefully, all of this information wasn't meant for me, because all I do day in, day out these days is drink from a fire hose - hence why I'm

RE: [ActiveDir] windows installation question

2005-11-27 Thread Rick Kingslan
You will need to have two things - One:  A separate partition in which to install XP into.  Two: a DOS-bootable network enabled floppy to map to a share (in which an administrative 'dump' of XP has been done) or shared CD drive on another machine.   After mapping to one of these two, you coul

RE: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption

2005-12-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
Replication is at an attribute level and the corruption is usually a bit flip - which isn't replicated.  The data itself (a table or an index) is checked and if found to be invalid, I *believe* (joe, ~Eric, brettsh) is marked as such and is no longer replicated.   -r --Posting is provided "A

RE: [ActiveDir] Ntds.dit file corruption

2005-12-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
I've been informed that I'm wrong on this.  Please ignore, and listen to joe/~Eric/Dean/Brett/Anyone else.   Cheers!   -r --Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ...  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick KingslanSent: Wednesda

RE: [ActiveDir] Domain case

2005-12-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Correct.  Devon, as much pain as there is in the process, AS I UNDERSTAND IT (I do not speak for PSS) the Domain Rename process is the only supported method of doing what you want to do.   Jorge's lab experiment does indicate that you might be able to do it along his described way, but you ne

RE: [ActiveDir] DMZ domains and IPSec - looking for explanation re resource access and authentication

2005-12-08 Thread Rick Kingslan
Title: DMZ domains and IPSec - looking for explanation re resource access and authentication >> I haven't perused the OS source code   Right.  Rub it in, bud.   ;o)   Rick --Posting is provided "AS IS", and confers no rights or warranties ...  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: [ActiveDir] icmp's

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
The real benefit to the GPO method is that you can target scripts to the same _groups_ in which the GPO would affect – and you can target Computer groups, which you can’t do (for obvious reasons) with logon scripts.  This lends itself to some very elegant solutions that I’m sure one could d

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Hehe….  Let me know how that full-out testing of Vista and Aero Glass is going for you in a VPC or a VMWare virtual machine.    I agree, dual-booting is not the optimal method to running different OS’s, but if you want the OS to have the full machine, rather than the limited virtualized

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] icmp's

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
joe stood up and attempted to smack Mark Parris with a large trout, saying:   “I would rather not set domain policy with GPOs. While I am at it, I think we are far beyond the point that we should have the ability to programmatically handle settings in policies.”   Huh?  Can you explain

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
Re: My message to joe. Maybe 50% of the time - I'd agree. However, if you want to test that snazzy new Fibre HBA or would like to see what the impact for the user is going to be with CAD with the newest High End InterGraph workstation video card - VMs aren't going to work. The hardware selection

RE: [ActiveDir] Urgently Yes or No

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
No.   -r   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tareq ttt Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:35 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Urgently Yes or No   Dear All,  i am asking if i can install two windows 2003 server

RE: [ActiveDir] icmp's

2006-01-01 Thread Rick Kingslan
“Note Exchange doesn't take kindly to ICMP echo being disabled either. If Exchange can't ping a DC, DSACCESS does not see that DC unless you have specially configured it.”   Which, I always thought was a pretty funny way of doing things anyway.  As you are well aware, Ping doesn’t mean al

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] icmp's

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
ues based on the specific OU name that the policy is applied to (say it has finance in the name of the OU) how will you do that programmatically without directly hacking the policy files which last I heard wasn't supported?           From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
aspect of the OS is being tested, but in that case, using a totally separate hard drive or some other separation technology will still likely prove to be more viable than dual-booting. -ASB FAST, CHEAP, SECURE: Pick Any TWO http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ On 1/1/06, Rick Kingslan <[EMAIL P

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
at as well...   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003 Hehe….  Let me know how that full-out testing of Vista and Aero Glass is going for you in

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
orkstation does that as well...   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 1:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003 Hehe….  Let me know how that full-out testing of Vista and Aer

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Request for Test AD Poplulation Data

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
Tomasz, I think that Mark is looking to populate his metabase with data other than User 1, User 2, User 3, etc. with simple or blank attributes. So, he's looking for stuff like Homer Simpson, with all of the user data, then Marge, etc. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
e VM comments you made and I'm hoping to learn something here.       Cheers,   Al   On 1/2/06, Rick Kingslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One question – is all of your validation testing done on VM's or is the final sign off done on 'produ

RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003

2006-01-02 Thread Rick Kingslan
64-bit guests….   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:40 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] WinXP and Win2003   “If you want to test 64 bit you are kind of screwed too, oh wait vmware

[ActiveDir] I'm Baaaaaaack!

2006-09-21 Thread Rick Kingslan
Be afraid Be very afraid! :-) Rick _ Be seen and heard with Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft LifeCams http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme002001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunicat

Re: [ActiveDir] I'm Baaaaaaack!

2006-09-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Halloween yet? Sincerely, _ (, / | /) /) /) /---| (/_ __ ___// _ // _ ) /|_/(__(_) // (_(_)(/_(_(_/(__(/_ (_/ /) (/ Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.akomolafe.com - we know IT -5.75, -3.23 Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ____ From: Rick Kingslan Sent: Thu 9/21/2006 11:00 AM To: A

Re: [ActiveDir] ADFS and certs

2006-09-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
Joe, Tomasz - Yep, you're right that it may tend to show a bad precedent for people to follow. I haven't taken a look at these particular labs (and having just come back from a long hiatus, I didn't see the referenced lab) but is the guidance there as to what Best or Preferred Practices SHOUL

RE: [ActiveDir]

2003-12-04 Thread Rick Kingslan
way to easy for someone to make mistakes that I ultimately will be responsible for, and it's also too easy to make sure that those that need to do a particular job have the permissions to do so.  Two examples to cite - the script above and the AD Delegation White Paper.   Rick K

RE: [ActiveDir] Delegation of control for WINS

2003-12-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
So, is that what you've been doing in this last 'Joe has gone missing' period? Putting the final touches on CPAU? Good to hear from you and your butt generated sarcasm. ;P Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - ww

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Question

2003-12-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
see what policies are applied and verify each of them. This may also occur due to a lack of time synchronization - see also Q285923" Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/wil

RE: [ActiveDir] How large are your security logs on your DC's?

2003-12-24 Thread Rick Kingslan
right now either, seems that your audit settings are the same as what I'm using at present. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] How large are your security logs on your DC's?

2003-12-26 Thread Rick Kingslan
called Snare Agent for Windows, put out under GNU license, and is free for the using. Can report to as I'm doing - a syslog server. http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/BackLogNT/ Enjoy! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www

RE: [ActiveDir] Upgrading computers and computer objects

2003-12-28 Thread Rick Kingslan
result, and will often cause unpredicatble results. I might not be reading the options correctly, but I see option one and three as the same. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com

RE: [ActiveDir] SMB Connections to a DC; How many is normal?

2003-12-29 Thread Rick Kingslan
near a machine right now that I can take a sniff off of - but I think (now that I'm intrigued) I will take an Ethereal trace of our DC to DC traffic and see if that's what it is.  Nothing like the sense of discovery (and Pissing off folks at eEye Digital..;o)   Rick Kingslan  MCS

RE: [ActiveDir] Administrators group

2003-12-31 Thread Rick Kingslan
il you can design and implement your own group strategy. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [ActiveDir] Wierd issue with security descriptor reverting on replication

2004-01-06 Thread Rick Kingslan
ating many of us [self included] on SDholder :o) Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: [ActiveDir] Changing domain name/joining a forest or parent d omain

2004-01-07 Thread Rick Kingslan
hope this helps, Bruce. It's fairly easy, but can be a bit tense as you literally eviscerate your current domain. Good luck! Let us know how this works out! Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/exper

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